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Apr. 16th, 2005 09:54 amright, so i forgot to update y'all on my blue hair adventures. the results are somewhat disappointing, i'm sorry to say. if i were standing outside in the sun, you'd say, omg! you're hair is blue!!!. if i were standing in some direct indoor lighting, you'd say, hey, wow, is your hair highlighted blue?. if i were in a well lit room, not under direct light, you might think you're eyes were going funny and squint at me to figure out whether there was really a blue sheen to some of my hair or not. and if the room were a little dark, you wouldn't notice a thing.
which is... fine. but not what i was going for. the good news is that now i know how to get what i was going for. and i'll give it a shot in about a month, when my hair hasn't gone the the dye-bleach-dye-dye-dye process quite so recently. what would it take, you ask? the streaks would have to be bleached to white* (no easy feat with my dark, dark brown hair) and then dyed blue with a specific brand of dye**.
rach is off to nyc this weekend with her friend C. so i am left alone to enjoy our lovely, clean apartment. i'm rather excited for a weekend of relative downtime. there's plenty i need to be doing but at least no major, scheduled events to get in the way of me doing those things. and it's lovely and sunny out. ::happy sigh::
*katie previously told me that bleaching to white was a mistake because you need to leave some pigment in your hair for the new color to cling to. but when she called manic panic to say wtf? they told her that the blue dye had combined with the yellow in my hair to make green. hmph.
**i was going to link the brand but i can't find it anywhere and i don't know how to spell it. katie said the name and it's something like pirvana. and it's soooooo much better than manic panic. the shade of blue is gorgeous and she put it right over the streaks that had been manic-panic'ed and it made them a perfectly beautiful (if subtle) shade of blue. clearly, it is a superior product.
which is... fine. but not what i was going for. the good news is that now i know how to get what i was going for. and i'll give it a shot in about a month, when my hair hasn't gone the the dye-bleach-dye-dye-dye process quite so recently. what would it take, you ask? the streaks would have to be bleached to white* (no easy feat with my dark, dark brown hair) and then dyed blue with a specific brand of dye**.
rach is off to nyc this weekend with her friend C. so i am left alone to enjoy our lovely, clean apartment. i'm rather excited for a weekend of relative downtime. there's plenty i need to be doing but at least no major, scheduled events to get in the way of me doing those things. and it's lovely and sunny out. ::happy sigh::
*katie previously told me that bleaching to white was a mistake because you need to leave some pigment in your hair for the new color to cling to. but when she called manic panic to say wtf? they told her that the blue dye had combined with the yellow in my hair to make green. hmph.
**i was going to link the brand but i can't find it anywhere and i don't know how to spell it. katie said the name and it's something like pirvana. and it's soooooo much better than manic panic. the shade of blue is gorgeous and she put it right over the streaks that had been manic-panic'ed and it made them a perfectly beautiful (if subtle) shade of blue. clearly, it is a superior product.