I want wild colour in my hair

[teaandakitkat]

My hair is dark brown with grey. I really fancy getting some sort of colour for the summer. Not my usual brown or auburn when I'm feeling adventurous, but like dip dying the ends a colour or something. Or going pink.
What should I do? What should I use? Inspire me please!

If you want to go pink or very bright you will need to bleach it, which can be a nightmare, so consider going to a salon. Having said that I dye my dark hair fun colours at home but I've been at it since 16 so most of my colouring disasters happened then!

Before I colour I use a clarifying or anti dandruff shampoo to get the stripping process going. If I'm going purple or blue (or any strong colour) I use Scott Cornwall Decolour in the blue box. It's a bit of a faff to mix but it takes any fake and natural colour away and leaves me a light yellow. I then use Pravana Vivivds as the colour. It's very long lasting and comes in a tube so it isn't as messy as Manic Panic etc. It's straightforward enough to do the colour - just follow the instructions. I use a tonne of conditioner afterwards to help - but your hair does go a bit dry.

If you want to go for a pastel or pink you need to bleach it very pale - white in essence. The Stargazer Vol 40/ 30 kits are good.

I would still go salon over home at first though. Once the base is bleached professionally, it's a lot easier to colour and change. Coconut oil makes a great hair mask to help repair the damage it's the only reason,!after 20 years of colouring, I still have hair. Just have fun with the colour, it'll look great!

This is me - freshly re-coloured yesterday. Despite going grey I had to firstly have high lift toner on until my hair went platinum then have affinage azure blue applied. I have it redone four weekly.

I have had purple and pink before, they fade fast even on bleach - blues hold much better

Can I jump in? I want to do the same but don't want to bleach my hair - would it be worth it at all to put a bright colour over medium brown hair?

I want to do the same but don't want to bleach my hair - would it be worth it at all to put a bright colour over medium brown hair?

You might get a bit of a coloured sheen on your hair but they tend to wash out really quickly on unbleached hair. I've got dark blonde hair and tried using a Manic Panic red once without bleaching. It actually came out a nice colour but literally every trace of it was gone after the first shower

You'd probably get better results on darker hair with hair chalks, though again they're pretty temporary.

I wanted this, had it done (bleached first) and it lasted 4 washes. I was gutted, I loved it. If you find out what to use I'd love to know.

(Thanks - that's actually helpful for me as I'm on maternity and really it should be a normal colour when I return so the fading may be good!)

I sat behind someone at a show last week who had a smallish section of her hair done in a rainbow effect with strips of all the colours. It looked great.

It was like a My Little Pony, I kept wanting to reach out and brush it!

Has anyone used the Bleach London colours (seen in Boots)? They look like they'd do wild colours temporarily- it says 2-10 washes, which sounds ideal for a bit of hair fun on holiday, but no long term commitment.

Be warned, I used a L'Oréal colorista turquoise dye on the underside of my hair, meant to last 2 weeks, I've still not got it all out after two months. It looked fab for the two weeks then faded and won't quite leave me 😀. Fortunately it was just the underside so with my hair down you can hardly see it.

The Bleach Instagram page has some ideas :) sure they used to do more neon tho (less soft pastels)

www.instagram.com/bleachlondon/?hl=en

If you use the bright unnatural colours keep a tub of colour spare to mix with your normal hair conditioner. It will keep your colour a lot longer and give it a bit of a kick over the next few weeks.

How about this?

Or maybe this?