Hair dying questions

[malkin]

We had a family fling with temporary purple highlights for everyone.

Temporary for the humans but permanant for parts of the bathroom!

[lovelygamer]

I color my own hair at home and have for years. I use sally beauty supply professional products. It just takes a lot of reading the directions and a lot of trial and error. I have also been wearing pink or purple in my hair for almost two years now-permanent. My office hired me with it that way and are really cool about it. Good luck with your hair. I'm going from blonde to red this fall and am nervous.

[Pedal Wench]

We had a family fling with temporary purple highlights for everyone.

Temporary for the humans but permanant for parts of the bathroom!

OMG - I had my hairdresser do a purple streak for me (kinda permanent) and I went on a trip immediately after. First shower in a hotel bathroom (on New Years Eve, no less) and it looked like an alien murder scene - there was purple splattered EVERYWHERE! Spent the next day buying bleach and cleaning supplies...

[jessmarimba]

I always wanted to do this, but was afraid I couldn't pull it off. I love the blue (the pink wouldn't work so well on me). Maybe after I finish paying for my new water line.



(to give credit where it's due, that photo was originally stolen from a Free People photoshoot; I borrowed it from someone's blog)

[Jiffer]

Okay, so apparently there is no such thing as semi-permament BLOND hair color. Went to three stores, suspected after the second and asked someone at the third. Only light browns and darker colors.

I came SO close to trying it, and then came SO close to grabbing a regular box of blond, but just couldn't do it.

Pretty sure I'm going to go to my hairdresser and have her do a solid blond (no highlights) and then possibly try to maintain it myself. That's my latest plan. It'll probably change tomorrow!

I was hoping to have something done before the trip I'm taking to Northern California for hubby's first Ironman this weekend. But that's not gonna happen.

[Blueberry]

Okay, so apparently there is no such thing as semi-permament BLOND hair color. Went to three stores, suspected after the second and asked someone at the third. Only light browns and darker colors.

I suspect that's because bleach is involved in the lighter colors, and that's not really temporary. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[GLC1968]

I suspect that's because bleach is involved in the lighter colors, and that's not really temporary. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

I think that is probably true. Semi-perm colors just deposit color, so they'd only be able to go darker, not lighter. But I'm still kind of surprised there aren't dark blonde colors available though...for people who want to slightly darken light grey or light highlights. Maybe they are possible but no one bothers since places don't want to carry them? I can't imagine it would be a big market.

[Veronica]

I was hoping to have something done before the trip I'm taking to Northern California for hubby's first Ironman this weekend. But that's not gonna happen.

Is he doing the Vineman? What's his race number? I'm doing Barb's Race - the Half. I'm 2137. As I recall your hubby is pretty fast on the bike so I may see him on the run.

Veronica

[gnat23]

OMG - I had my hairdresser do a purple streak for me (kinda permanent) and I went on a trip immediately after. First shower in a hotel bathroom (on New Years Eve, no less) and it looked like an alien murder scene - there was purple splattered EVERYWHERE! Spent the next day buying bleach and cleaning supplies...

Yeah, those colors do stain, erm, everything. Years of apartment living got me pretty good at erasing all the evidence for security deposits.

- Have a dedicated towel and t-shirt for dying days. You might also want a travel towel and/or black pillowcase to take on trips to not mess up the nice million-thread-count snow-white hotel stuff.

- Before starting, put a layer of petroleum jelly around your hairline and ears for easier skin cleanup. Post-dye cleanup works for me with Dr. Bronners and a washcloth, tho I've heard good from cold cream as well.

- For the bathroom: Scrubbing Bubbles with bleach for the porcelain, Magic Erasers for the wall, and Windex for carpet (yeah, it happens)

- To keep the color fresh in your hair, squeeze a little bit (2T?) of the crayola dye into your hair conditioner bottle.

-- gnat! (pink for-evah)