Turquoise and Green

So I had to go black for my sisters wedding and I've been itching to do something new to my hair as soon as the reception was over! The black I used was really an extremely dark blue over already different shades of blue hair. I bleached my hair last night and I am actually pretty pleased with the way the bleaching turned out. Since I will be dying with a green and turquoise, I think the colors will come out very pretty. If I was going with a different color, like reds or purples, I would have bleached another time to get to a better blonde color first. 

I used my favorite bleach, Beyond The Zone Radical Bleach Kit over my entire head. I had to use two kits because my hair is getting long. Please refer to my first blog entry on tips and tricks with bleaching. I left it on for a little over an hour. Here is the end result.

I started by separated all of my hair three sections at first. The bangs, most of the back, and the bottom. I then made smaller sections in each to make it easier to color it all. I colored all of my bangs and I got lucky and my sister showed up and dyed the rest of my hair for me. 

I dyed the bangs and bottom with Manic Panic Electric Lizard the rest of the hair was dyed with Manic Panic Atomic Turquoise. As always, I mixed in some of my L'Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Conditioner to the dye before applying. I have it wrapped up in a shower cap and I will leave it on overnight and wash it in the morning. 

I left the dye in a shower cap over night for about 12 hours time. I rinsed my hair with the coldest water I could stand until the water ran clear. I then used my L'Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Shampoo lightly, mostly just scrubbing my scalp to get dye off of it. Then I used a good amount of L'Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Conditioner and worked it through all my hair with a wide toothed comb. I left the conditioner on for about 3-5 minutes. I rinsed my hair with (still cold) water thoroughly until it was all out. 

When styling hair you want to keep it out of heat as much as you can. I cannot go without using heat. So I always dry my hair on regular setting and when its all dry I cool it all down with the cool shot. If you must flat iron your hair (which I have to) you need to find nice alcohol free hair sprays and heat protectants. I use L'Oreal EverStyle Alcohol Free Hair Spray. When finished with straightening cool your hair down again with the cool shot on hair dryer. 

Needless to say, I LOVE the way these colors came out. Next time I will definitely bleach my hair to white before these colors so they can be the brighter colors they could be (like my roots look). Can't wait to see the colors it fades out to! [;

Colors I've Dyed The Last Six Months

Well, I have dyed my hair a few times since my last entry, but I didn't feel like updating.

I didn't use bleach on my hair, so I just had to add color to my hair as it faded.

This is what my hair faded to since the last blog post. 

I went to Sally's and bought two bottles (because my hair is kind of long) of  N Rage Twisted Teal and applied it to my whole head. I always mix my sulfate free conditioner (L'Oreal Everstrong Sulfate Free Conditioner) into the dye (about a dime sized amount) and wrap hair in shower cap and leave in overnight. I may have mixed a little of my left over N Rage Raven Black to make the color a bit darker. The Raven Black is actually an extremely dark blue. After a month it started to fade to a bright beautiful blue and it had many shades of blue since I covered already dyed hair. After about four months it faded a quite a bit.

My little sister got married in June and I was her maid of honor. So I didn't want to have an unnatural color for her ceremony. I took out all my leftover bottles of N Rage Raven Black and covered my whole head. Of course I mixed with conditioner again and left it in overnight. 

I was hoping to be able to just wash and wash and wash my hair a ton of times and get this black to fade back to a dark blue. I could never get it light after four weeks of trying. Every time I washed it though, it ran off a little bit of blue. I was ready to have some fun colors again. I bleached my hair last night and I will be dying it today. I will have a new blog up later this evening. If all goes well!