Finally, purple hair!

Hello again, doing a quick update on my current hair. So after I did the Crazy Colour and it faded to pale turquoise, I kept it that way for almost 3 months. Then the roots started growing in, and it started to look really awful.

So my birthday was coming up and my mum and dad said they would take me to the hairdressers to get my hair professionally done. I was thinking about getting some kind of pastel, maybe pale pink, but I wasn't so sure if it was possible as it would have to be bleached several times. 

I asked about it at the hairdressers and they agreed, would need to be bleached a lot to get it light enough to put pink over the left over green, so I needed a plan B, and of course that was purple!

I decided to get a darker purple than what I'd been doing myself, and also asked for a dark blue dip dye. It looks amazing and I love it, but trying to get pictures to all look the same has proven hard haha, keeps changing colour depending on whether I use my phone or my boyfriends, and also depends on the light too. So I'll put a bunch of photos up. 

Bleaching/dyeing my hair part 3

Hello again, sorry for the ridiculous period of absence. So, if you have been following my quest to bleach my hair to the incredibly pale blonde/white needed to then dye your hair pastel, you will see that I have been partly successful. In the last part I managed to get a nearly all over pale blonde, the exception being the stubborn mid section of my hair. I've realised the reason it was probably so stubborn is because I have dyed my hair so many times without stripping it or anything, so it's pretty much soaked in leftover purple and brown dye. ANYWAY, I'm gonna save some time here, I did one more bleach and there was little to no difference, so I got kind of fed up and realised pastel probably would just be a waste of time. So I once again decided on bright purple. This time I went with Crazy Colour Violette, which on the website is described as electric purple. The method I used was the same as the other crazy colours I've used, apply to damp hair. My hair is quite long now so I used two bottles I believe, and then I left it in for about an hour. Once again it took aaaaaaages for it to be washed out but eventually when it had, it was soooo bright.

As with all Crazy Colours I've tried it faded a bit after the few two or three washes, but the weirdest thing was the roots stayed quite a bright purple and the mid lengths and ends faded to a kinda blue, and then after a couple more washes, it had bits of green through it. It was strange but to be honest it looked alright!

Over the next few washes it continued to fade through blue till it got to a pastel turquoise colour, it was actually really nice but eventually the the roots started growing in and it started to look quite trashy haha, really dark roots and super light mid lengths, but if it was that all over I'd be quite happy with it. So a quick review of of the Crazy Colour Violette, turned out a beautiful purple for the first few weeks, stayed purple on the white blonde, and turned turquoise on the pale blonde. Faded fairly quickly too but faded to completely different colours.

Bleaching my hair part 2

Ok so in my last post I'd managed to get my hair to the pale yellow stage. The roots were almost white blonde, with the underside very pale yellow and the mid lengths of the top layer a darker yellow. So very patchy all over. Now when I did this bleaching and toning I'd left it a couple of weeks so I had to re do my roots but they came out fine, same as before. I used all the same bleachibg products and measurements as I did in part 1. After the bleaching the underside was as light as the roots so nearly there, but once again the top mid lengths were just a bit darker, you couldn't tell properly inside but in bright light it was quite obvious so I thought toning might help. I used Loreal Luocolour P01,with 25% developer. And this worked amazingly all over. I think it said to leave it on for 20 minutes, I left it for just a bit longer, maybe half an hour as I'd read from other reviews it can give a lilac hue to your hair as it is a purple based toner. The roots came out a platinum colour with a tiny but of purple, and the mid lengths went pure blonde, no yellow. Once again it was a tiny bit darker but still light blonde. So because I'd got it all very light I thought I'd go ahead and try the all over pastel dye. I had Crazy Colour in Lilac and I diluted it with a looooooot of white conditioner. Too much. I used the full bottle of dye and god knows how much conditioner. The roots once again turned a nice colour but it didn't affect the midsection. Gutted! Here's a picture of my roots, I really liked this.

So the overall conclusion is I think it needs one more bleach and tone, primarily on the dastardly middle part! The Loreal Luocolour is amazing, I would definitely recommend it for completely taking away brassy or yellow tones. I've also been using Provoke Touch of Silver which keeps the roots a great colour. The purple has pretty much all washed out and I've been left with a slight green tinge which is just unfortunately how the purple fades.

Hopefully just one more post to go till I get it a nice white blonde everywhere! Here's how it looks just now.

Bleaching My Hair part 1

After doing my hair a million times to try and get my desired purple, I decided to maybe try a different colour. Right now, I've still not dyed it after bleaching, but I'm either going to do a pastel lilac or maybe a light pinky purple. Something like these.

So, having incredible dark brown hair, the first thing I had to do was bleach it. I watched a lot of tutorials online on how to do it, and found reviews for the best bleach. I settled on the crazy colour bleaching kit, the reviews were good but it did say there wouldn't be enough bleach for hair past shoulder length, so I bough an extra sachet of powder and developer. The kit was good, it came with a mixing tub and a tinting brush, the tub was tiny so I used a bigger tub I had, but I did like the tint brush. So I mixed up the 50g of powder and 100ml of developer, which is 30 vol (9%), and also mixed the same amount of the extra I bought which was all in all 100g of powder and 200ml of developer. That did my hair length fine, which is about boob length. Now here's the stupid part, I sectioned my hair into 4, bottom and top and respectively left and right, and just went ahead and slathered the dye on, bottom half then top. But I didn't account for my virgin hair, which is about 2ish inches. So after I'd left it on, literally about 15 minutes after the roots were very light, like a banana yellow and the midsection was still dark. I left that on for about an hour, maybe a bit more and went to wash it out. While wet it looked hardly any lighter, but when it was dry, the roots were so light! And not even a weird ginger colour, still quite yellow but if my hair was all that colour it wouldn't be so bad buuuuuuuuuuut, I'd done it stupidly and had half yellow half ginger hair. The midsection was very orange. Oh and the ends were light because I had ombre hair before, so it looked pretty weird.

The annoying pink patch is actually glow from the tv haha, but yeah that was the extent of the difference. But after one bleaching it had lifted a lot of the dark out but made it fairly ginger. So I left it a day and then bleached the midsection. Once again was kinda stupid and started bleaching the underside, which turned out lighter but overall after a second bleaching it once again lifted the darker orange and made it slightly more yellow. This picture doesn't show much of a difference because of the bathroom light but it wasn't too bad.

So that was part one, I'd managed to get it lightened, but I still have a long way to get it blonde enough to pastel over! Gonna do part 2 soon, after another bleaching and also toning, so stay tuned!

Crazy Colour Hot Purple review

So in my quest for nice dark purple hair dye, I came across Crazy Colour. My cousin used it on me about 3ish years ago and I think she used Violette, but I quite like the look of Hot Purple so I thought why not!

There was a deal on at Sallys where I could buy 3 bottles for £12, I only bought 3 of Hot Purple which now I realise is silly, anywho, on we go!

It only comes in one bottle, no having to mix any developer or anything so it was fairly easy to apply. I used the full bottle on my whole head and left it in for about 45 minutes.
It looked quite blue on my head and washing it out, the water was kinda blue but the end result was pretty much what I was looking for. It stained my pillows blue for a few days before I washed it again and it lasted about 8 washes before it started to fade. The picture on the left makes it look a lot more pink that it was, it doesn't look like that on my phone haha.

After washing it good few times, it started to go a bit blue and some bits are a tiny bit green, so I have a turquoise dip dye which doesn't actually look too bad, but I think I might try Violette again and see if that is a bit more true purple. Right now I have my weird blueish hair to sort out.

Anyone got any suggestions on purple dye? I'd like to hear peoples thoughts. 

Barry M Gelly in Passionfruit and Mango!

I love these Gellys! I got these two for my birthday plus a light green which I think is called kiwi, not used it yet.

I was supposed to post this before the last one I did, and now I'm annoyed its not chronological, but here we go!

The red is Passionfruit, the orange is Mango. They're both so shiny, only needed two coats, one would have been alright but it can be a bit streaky, so two it is! 

Quite summery colours but it is nice to have bright nails when the weather is getting crap! 

Barry M Raspberry and Gelly in Guava

Went into Boots the other day and it was buy one get one half price on Barry M, woohoo!

It's getting hard to find colours I don't have, but I found a Gelly in Guava, one of the newer ones I think. And then there was a normal nail paint in Raspberry. I realised the only red I have is a glitter and a new Gelly called Passionfruit.

The Guava is so bright and shiny and the Raspberry is a nice darkish red, subtle and sophisticated both flattering and go quite nicely together!