Finally dyed the ol mop blue (decided on it way before Katy Perry!) It took me ages to actually get around to buying the dye and bleach and then there was the effort of putting time aside some evening to don plastic gloves and have your eyes sting with the peroxide for a few hours!
A lickle bit of inspiration...
I had a look online for some dip dye tutorials, of which there are an endless suplly! There are some very very boring and pointless video "tutorials" out
there. No doubt many of the creators of these videos would have
otherwise been talking to themselves in the mirror, only for the suggestion of a friend that they should SO make a video for YouTube...
But I found this one which I'd reccomend - from Free People
The LIVE Colour (approx. £4) works a treat and the Crazy Colour (approx. £5 from Ebay)is dead easy, and quite messy to apply!(as you can see)
There's
always that scary moment when you dry the ends of your hair to reveal
just HOW bleached it is. This is scary because it is the point of no
return and hopefully it is not a hideous point of no return. Thankfully
even though my dying skills have a lot to be desired, I was covering up
any uneven bleachiness with BLUE!
The first time I did it, the blue wasn't left on for long enough- it says 15-30mins but I left it about an hour for each section and that works so much better- even my mother approved at the resulting depth of colour! However, as it is a semi- permanent dye, the slightest sniff of shampoo and it starts to run out of your hair!
All in all I'd say... it will be an effort to upkeep and my reasonably silky ends are now rather dry and quick to tangle :( But I do love the colour, and at least I've done something to my hair as I was getting pretty bored.
And sure while we're here I'll just show you the rest of this outfit because I LOVE this jumper I found in YMCA the other day :) and I LOVE my Levi's shirt which a friend sent from the sample Sale in her Levi's office, Belgium (thank you!).
jumper...YMCA
denim shirt...Levi's
jeggings...NewLook
Reebok hightops...UrbanOutfitters
How cute is the little fabric bag the shirt came in?!
do mines !! xxx:)
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