For a while now I've wanted to dye my hair red. Crayon red. Rihanna red. So... I visited Phoenix with Kyle because he had training. I thought that it was a good time to dye my hair because I had the luxury of being about to run to the store to get the hair dyes (instead of ordering them online) and I had my mum to help me dye it (instead of putting Kyle through that girly experience). I researched quite a bit and realized I'd have to bleach my hair to get it the red that I wanted. That made me really nervous, but after reading about Kaylah's bleaching experiences over at The Dainty Squid I felt alot better. Therefore my trips to Sally's Beauty Supplies to buy hair dye and bleach began. It turned into a 36 hour project. Here's some pictures so you can better see what I'm talking about. First, the before picture:
Then we bleached... but I apparently have too much hair for just one bottle of bleach. One was only enough for the roots. After spending most of a day with blonde roots and black hair I finally bought two more bottles and bleached the rest of my hair. Here I am in the bleaching process.
Not gonna lie- it burned, but basically by the time we'd got the bleach on all of my hair it was already ready to come off. Here's how it looks after the bleach came out it was blow dried and whatnot.
I really did like it blonde- it was fun. However, it was not me at all and I needed to press on until the end! I was determined to go red!
Then I decided that Wildfire by Manic Panic would be best based on those little hair samples the have by the dyes. Manic Panic is really awesome product. It is semi-permanent butttt they don't really make permanent dyes in bright colors. This dye is vegan (so its basically just a vegetable stain) there's no peroxide or harmful chemicals- it doesn't smell bad and it doesn't burn. It's pretty awesome.
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| (found at: Fishbone) Here I was waiting with the dye in my hair- I look a little silly :) |
This color did not work... no one told me at the store that it would turn out... this color:
I felt like Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Agent Orange. Once again, I really didn't hate this color. It was a little out there but I felt like it didn't fit me. So I pressed on!
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| (found at: Total Film) Love that movie. We went back to Sally's for the third time and talked with a very very very helpful girl that explained that the colors on the sample pieces of hair didn't accurately show what color my hair would be. She showed me two colors that would definitely take me hair from orange to red. I picked the one called Vampire Red!  (found at: Slight Case of Insanity) She is the one that explained to me how awesome Manic Panic really is and that because there is nothing harmful in it that I can keep it in as long as possible. She also explained that the longer I keep it in the longer it would stay in. So I left it in for a couple of hours... with a trash bag on my head. :D  |
After all that waiting... all the time... all the help that mum had given me... all of the hair dye... it was the color I wanted!!!!
I really don't think that all of the yellow lightening in my parent's house does the color justice. You'll all have to see me in person. The salon always told me that they couldn't do this to my hair- I guess what they were really telling me is that they didn't have 36 hours to do this. I love how it turned out! Hope you enjoyed my adventure! i'd like to thank my mum for all of her help!
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