I started dying my hair noticeably unnatural colours, starting off with a light turquoise, and carried on for about five months.
To get my hair light enough I used L'Oreal Féria Super Platinum Power- though this got my hair light enough, it was really quite yellow-y. Even with the brass correcting chemical solution, it remained yellow. As I already had Bleach London's Blullini, I applied it onto my yellowy hair. It stayed pretty blue, but got progressively a more green after washes.
(All lovely colours used, including Blullini, are semi-permanent.)
To jazz it up, I also tried using Crazy Colours' Candy Floss (which was a very nice pink, though was very weak and didn't last for very long) and Bubblegum Blue (which lasted a lot longer than the pink and was a really rich blue. Though this also faded after a while into a greenie colour, which I rocked for a week or so).
After this, I experimented with Directions, mixing Cerise and Violet together in varying ratios as well as mixing it with white hair conditioner. Melonlady and ScarletSaint where saviours in this department, as mixing your own colour took more brains than applying the bottled colour.
To redo my roots, I used Bleach London Bleach Kit, which was the best - even though I only saw the work it did to my roots, I feel like it would have done a better job than the L'Oreal not-bleach-stuff I used at the beginning of the whole process. My roots weren't at all yellowy or brassy, but a quite brilliant white - which, of course I covered in even more dye.
Being called Ramona Flowers was funny at first, as I did change my hair colour every week or so, but when the same person says "hey, you're like Ramona Flowers" every week, it does feel overdone.
Even after all the dying of purple and pink and blue and purple and pink yet again, the overall remaining colour was a kind of green with cheeky Swedish blonde areas poking through.
Even though a lot of colour was put onto it every week or so for about six months, my hair stayed fairly sturdy and didn't snap off as was feared, and even before I attempted to bleach it it had been dyed several times. Part of this I owe to the fact that to get my desired colour with Directions I mixed it with a lot of conditioner. Another part is the fact that I try to hardly ever, and I mean never use a hair dryer (unless late for lectures) and never straighten my hair. And lastly, to the powers of the Bleach London moisturising, life restoring elixir that came along with the bleach kit.
At the end of my bleaching days, I cut my hair an awful lot and grew my roots to try and regain control of my now fairly dry, battle wary yet still vaguely healthy hair.
That is my bleach story.
To get my hair light enough I used L'Oreal Féria Super Platinum Power- though this got my hair light enough, it was really quite yellow-y. Even with the brass correcting chemical solution, it remained yellow. As I already had Bleach London's Blullini, I applied it onto my yellowy hair. It stayed pretty blue, but got progressively a more green after washes.
(All lovely colours used, including Blullini, are semi-permanent.)
To jazz it up, I also tried using Crazy Colours' Candy Floss (which was a very nice pink, though was very weak and didn't last for very long) and Bubblegum Blue (which lasted a lot longer than the pink and was a really rich blue. Though this also faded after a while into a greenie colour, which I rocked for a week or so).
After this, I experimented with Directions, mixing Cerise and Violet together in varying ratios as well as mixing it with white hair conditioner. Melonlady and ScarletSaint where saviours in this department, as mixing your own colour took more brains than applying the bottled colour.
To redo my roots, I used Bleach London Bleach Kit, which was the best - even though I only saw the work it did to my roots, I feel like it would have done a better job than the L'Oreal not-bleach-stuff I used at the beginning of the whole process. My roots weren't at all yellowy or brassy, but a quite brilliant white - which, of course I covered in even more dye.
Being called Ramona Flowers was funny at first, as I did change my hair colour every week or so, but when the same person says "hey, you're like Ramona Flowers" every week, it does feel overdone.
Even after all the dying of purple and pink and blue and purple and pink yet again, the overall remaining colour was a kind of green with cheeky Swedish blonde areas poking through.
Even though a lot of colour was put onto it every week or so for about six months, my hair stayed fairly sturdy and didn't snap off as was feared, and even before I attempted to bleach it it had been dyed several times. Part of this I owe to the fact that to get my desired colour with Directions I mixed it with a lot of conditioner. Another part is the fact that I try to hardly ever, and I mean never use a hair dryer (unless late for lectures) and never straighten my hair. And lastly, to the powers of the Bleach London moisturising, life restoring elixir that came along with the bleach kit.
At the end of my bleaching days, I cut my hair an awful lot and grew my roots to try and regain control of my now fairly dry, battle wary yet still vaguely healthy hair.
That is my bleach story.
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