This is pretty epic. As some of you may recall I had an intention to have pastel purple hair [checks facebook] Omglob, FB only goes back to 2007, so it was before then. Must have just been early-er in 2007. My lyme brain was so bork that I added Special FX wildflower to my unbleached brown hair & the result was bad. It was like purple-ish poop. Plus worse, cuz I had 2 inches of hair then. That means one bottle of undiluted dye covered all of my hair with that light purply sheen of poop brown easily with half a bottle still left.
Anyway, getting hair light enough to be lavender has been no easay task. Red family (pink, orange) hair dyes go over hair bleached to that ez to get to, piss yellow shade, but not your blues(green, purple) so I've settled on teal, settled on pink, settled on lime green, actualay loved the lighter teal/almost seafoam I had when I had last Thanksgiving. But all I've wanted for yeeeaarrs now is lavender hair( way b4 errybody else was into pastel hair) since in 2005 I got the napalm orange hair I'd wanted since my first 2 years of high school[98](cuz I got a supes long hair mermaid barbie Midge doll-fuck yeah I still bought Barbies in high school~i do me!~and that color against my then flawless porcelain complexion was abso to DIE for) Having pastel purple hair has just become this mountain to climb; one I felt plenty of times like I was never gonna get to the top of, even tho I quite enjoyd the rainbow climb.
Obvi, since I got chem burns at the salon I did all the bleaching & toning here at home with tons of assist from Sean.
This is the color I'm aiming for. Not surprisingly, lol, a little mermaid item I thrifted and repurposed as my toothbrush holder.
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I get my supplies at SallyBeauty. Becuz I dilute with conditioner one container of each color is all I need for months of color.
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This condition-dye may not look like it'd produce lavender/pink results, but it did.
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The dye on my hand reveals how pinky lavender it's gonna be. I added N'Rage bubblegum pink to Ion Purple, then I ran out & used way too old atomic pink that's base jus red at this point. The right &front side of my head is the N'rage pink & Ion purple.
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I mashed dye into my hair with a stiff medium paint brush & I can tell this needs more dye applied cuz white strands are peek-a-boo_ing thru. This is my previously manic panic ultra violet+Ion purple dyed hair next to a piece with my new brew. Preetay faydead huh?
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All of my hair is covered in dye now & it looks very purple right now. Not lavender, but thankfully (cuz we omitted manic panic from the equay) not grey blue or electric blue either.
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Here it is all rinsed out. Tons lighter & no stain in my tub at all. For some reason this lovely image was the only time the canon captured the color accurately...in 50+ tries, so yeah.
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Here it is 3(mayhep) washes later. See how important the addition of pink dye is to the purpink concoction?! W/out it my whole head would be as silver/lav/white as that peek-a_boo bit on the left(ur right) The Ion just does not have great staying power in my hair. Keep in mind my hair is naturally curly so already porous and further processing makes it even more porous. Porosity is a double edged sword when it comes to hair: it'll make hair hold a lot of dye, a lot of water BUT it will also make it harder to keep product, like dye, in there. Not sure why it is that Ion mixed with N'Rage has awesome staying power, but I'm happZ it does*!*
You hair came out really good.
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