Hello you sexy lot,
I'm having trouble sleeping so I thought I'd write a blog post telling you all how I achieved my blonde and purple hair.
So here is a photo of said hair in it's purple glory:
Now in this photo my hair appears to be more purple than anything, which is true, it was for that particular day as it was my house mate's birthday and I wanted it extra purple.
Now in the next picture you'll see (excuse the weird posing, it's from instagram) that my hair is more blonde and the purple looks much more natural.
You see, the good thing about this colour is that you can control how dark you want it to go. Because I have natural darkish hair I had to bleach my hair a few times in order to get it light enough for the blonde to take. Now before having this colour I had red hair... Which is a bitch (s'cuse my French) to get out. So anyway, my friend came over and bleached my hair for me, it's better to get it done by a hairdresser than to try and do it yourself. The bleach they use is stronger and there for will lift better. So yeah, she bleached my hair about 4 times leaving the ends unbleached. She then applied the purple to the bleached area and dyed the ends a caramel colour. It looked amazing but as my roots appeared it started to look patchy. So when I went home for Easter my mum (who is amazing at doing hair even though she's not a hairdresser) bleached my roots and applied a blonde all over, I think the colour I used was by Garnier and it was called Natural Blonde. It looked amazing as the ends of my hair were still caramel, which I loved. Then for the purple I buy the little pots of La Riche Directions in Lilac you can buy it here. I'll wash my hair as normal and just before I use conditioner I apply a small amount of the colour to the pieces of hair I want to be purple and the rinse and condition. The colour lasts about 2 washes and then it looks a bit dull, so I like to top it up every time I wash my hair. I would suggest applying the colour to light hair as it wouldn't show up on dark.
I love the colour my hair is at the moment, the only problem being my roots as they are so dark. I have to bleach them each time and it gets expensive and it's not that great for my hair. So I think when my roots get really bad and I start look trampy, then I'll probably dye my hair a light brown so that my roots don't show up as much.
I feel as though this hair colour has changed the way I look drastically, normally I would have dark hair. Having such light hair was a massive shock to me when I first had it done. But now I love it and I really don't want to change it.
Thanks for reading guys, I love you all dearly and I think that if you want to dye your hair a crazy colour, I say GO FOR IT!! You'll look fabulous.
Love Nadia xxx