Hey guys! I've had a change of hair! It's now a crazy (but awesome) Orange-Ginger Color and I absolutely love it!
I was feeling my black hair as a bit plain Jane, and I felt far too comfortable! Of course Black is the easiest color to dye & Maintain, so it wasn't as though I couldn't return to from where I came!
SO. I'd thought about returning to blonde again, and Then I thought about that awkward ginger phase between bleaches and THEN, I decided to be purposely ginger between bleaching my hair!
And now, for the first part... the inevitable. Getting rid of the Black pigment.
I had read up about Colour B4 thoroughly and I finally felt confident enough to try it to get rid of all of the black. I picked up a box of the extra strength mix at Savers for around £6.99! A total bargain as everywhere else sells it for £12.99.
I was really worried that I would mess up this part, The way the process works is you apply the mixture to you hair and leave it on for 1 Hour, during which it 'Shrinks' the Black pigment of you hair ready to be washed out during the buffering process.
I really had at during that buffering/washing out process and I managed to do it right!
I went from this:
To This:
(Excuse the rough photo!)
Absolutely every bit of Black was washed out of my hair! I am so impressed with this product and will use it again!
So the next step was to take my hair from a Dark Brown to a light brown/Blonde!
In my absolute and honest opinion, I would SKIP this part and straight up bleach.
However, I'll tell you what I did anyway!
I picked up a Box of L'Oreal Paris Perfect Blonde Lighting Cream in Maximum for around £6.99 in Savers, to lighten my hair from a Dark Brown.
After applying this and washing it off, My hair ended up like this.
It was super Red and still quite brown, I think it was a waste of time, You be the Judge! :)
Anyhow, HERE COMES THE BLEACH.
SO, I waited a while after using L'Oreal Maximum Blonde and I went to the Big Guns. I picked up a Box of Jerome Russel BBlonde,My go-to Hair bleach for £3.99-ish. The 40 vol Developer was around £1.69.
Mr.Bleach, Meet Mrs.Hair. You'll be lovely companions.
I mixed up a butt load of bleach in a Mixing bowl and slapped it on my hair. Sounds so angry but I literally sapped it on with the Tinting brush haha. I put a plastic bag over it all (classy) and applied a low heat with a hair dryer for around 5 minutes throughout to speed up the lightening process.
This is how my First Bleach came out :
Somehow, even though I thoroughly distributed the mixture, I ended up with random dark patches that wouldn't budge.
I decided to bleach them again that day,(tut tut slap my wrist I know you should wait a week....)
They slightly lifted to a lighter brown, and the majority of my hair went to a very pale Orange! Which was ok!
From here I thought POO IT! I'm going orange right now!
I have been stockpiling this Live Color XXL Ultra Brights hair dye in Fiery Copper for a while ever since deciding I wanted to go Orange. I saw it in the 99p store and I pounced! It was like £5 everywhere else so of course i'm going to grab it off of the shelf with a vengeance!
SO, I went from a pale ginger with very Blonde roots and slightly Darker orange hues through out... to this:
AND I FLIPPING LOVE IT!
It's still a work in progress... and I've had many a strange look, but Good.let them stare! I feel fabulous and cheeky! I'm a cheeky red head! woohoo!
I hope that this was slightly helpful?
Any how! Feel free to ask me any questions!
LOVE LOVE
xxx
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