More dip dye!

After seeing my own dip dye my boyfriends wee sister and cousin both wanted me to dip dye their hair too!!

Aimee wasn't sure what colour to do hers but as her hair is light brown / dark blonde either bright pink or purple would look best. We went for manic panics hot hot pink!

Shaunie has been wanting to dye her hair lilac all over for a while but as lilac can be a slightly dull colour I think it would look better dip dyed on her platinum blonde hair.

Anyway, here's the results!

Products used:

Aimee - Manic Panic - Hot Hot Pink
Shaunie - Crazy Color - Lilac (I also mixed a bit of the colour for Shaunie's hair with conditioner to apply at the top of the colour to help blend as her hair is so light)

Sam xx

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different reds i've tried...

ok so i've tried a few different brands / types of red dye.  first of all, live colour XXL is shit.  no pictures of that cos they suck.

semi permanents are the only way to have super bright hair.  just needs to be applied over bleached hair for the best result...

Manic Panic - Vampire Red

Directions - Poppy Red

Crazy Color - Fire (current)

Wella Colour Touch - 77/45



Reviews

• Vampire Red - Quite a pinky red and will stain clothes & skin if you have wet hair (washes off though!).  Overall a nice colour but doesn't stay red long enough for my liking.  3 stars!
• Poppy Red - This one is my favourite.  It's quite cheap (cheaper on glitterstore.co.uk) and gives a nice red colour.  Bad thing is it also seems to go pink when it fades which is frustrating!  4 stars
• Fire - only had this 1 day and haven't washed it yet so we'll see!  I had just bleached my roots before applying and it has made my roots a very bright pink and i'm not too sure how this will last.
• Wella Colour Touch - this was recommended by the woman at sallys.  it was very expensive (£10) and you also have to buy cream peroxide to develop the colour which is about £1 for 100ml.  Very complicated compared to other colours.  You have to mix a certain amount with peroxide (20ml of peroxide for 10ml of colour).  The woman at sallys said i would only need 10ml of colour.  As it is a 60ml bottle i thought this would be good value for money as she also said it would last over 15 washes.  I actually needed 30ml and only just had enough.  It also started to fade after only 3 washes to a gingery red.  Peroxide also damages your hair long term so not good as i would have to use it every week.  Not impressed and will not be using this again!  1 star.

sam :) x

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pinky purpley!

on hairbomb.com they have a gallery full of pictures of lovely bright coloured hair!  (you should have a look they're so pretty - i could look at hair pics all day long!).  i came across this picture and fell in love with the colour

i must have this colour!!!! i hadn't seen any other dye like it so i decided to come up with my own concoction.  that's the great thing about these semi-permanent dyes its like being an artist and you can mix colours together to get the shade you want.  i used: 

• Rusk Scream - Atomic Magenta
• Manic Panic - Vampire red (small amount)
• Directions - Ebony (VERY small amount!)

and this is the result i got........

i was very pleased! it turned out almost identical to the picture.  however, as it faded it was very bright pink which i didn't like too much.  and ended up going back to red after about 3 weeks!

sam x

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