lundmir
January 15th, 2011, 05:57 AM
Once again, I did it, but I did it right this time.
I had white/silver hair back when I was 17 (there's a pic in one of my albums), but it was fried due to overlapping bleachings, and I ended up getting a pixie to get rid of the damage. Not that I cared about my hair back then, but I have missed the color ever since.
So, I was determined to keep my hair long and red/pink as long as I could stand it, and whenever I got sick of it, I would chop it off to a pixie which would be the adored white/silver color. Since my black hair goes white really quickly with coconut oil and bleach on one application, I would only have to do my roots, so I would grow beautiful long hair once again.
But! I'm not getting sick anytime soon of long hair, if anything, I want it longer! And at the same time, I coveted the color, so the wait was driving me crazy.
I applied the two week rule. More like a month rule, with every day more convinced that I did want the color, so I decided to finally do it.
I waited for my lovely color to fade to a horrid orange mess, and mixed a toner with blue and magenta dye and conditioner. Did give me a metallic grey color, but unfortunately it was so dark it looked black, so it was no good for me. If I wanted black hair I would grow virgin!
I let it fade to an ash brown color. And I bleached it, I needed a lighter canvas.
And I love it! The top part of my hair is white, silver, purple and even blue, while the length goes from grey to black.
Thankfully, I'm not seeing any damage, and my toner mixes keep my hair happy, as does my movie star oil shampoo. I will do a cassia experiment whenever I get the time for it, but so far I'm really satisfied with its condition.
I didn't lift all of my hair to a pale blond color, since my dark ends are already overprocessed (and don't want to push my luck and finally see and feel damage), plus, I have hennaed several times and that stuff is stubborn. Definitely not touching it, as much as I love my lightest color. Plus the gradient effect is lovely!
So anyway, I wanted to share, seeing I never post much about my own hair and going artificially silver isn't that common in my opinion.
I would love to have silver hair when I grow old, but that's not going to happen. Every one of my grandparents stayed salt and pepper into their 80's, so... artificial for me. Silver haired members, I have color envy.
Anyway, here are some pictures. Today it was a little blue, I used too much pigment on my toner.
http://s2d3.turboimagehost.com/t/5547428_estrellado.png (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5547428/estrellado.png.html)
http://s2d3.turboimagehost.com/t/5547429_new.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5547429/new.jpg.html)
http://s2d3.turboimagehost.com/t/5547430_new.png (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5547430/new.png.html)
And sorry about the silly expressions, I'm very tired but can't sleep right now! thanks for reading.
I had white/silver hair back when I was 17 (there's a pic in one of my albums), but it was fried due to overlapping bleachings, and I ended up getting a pixie to get rid of the damage. Not that I cared about my hair back then, but I have missed the color ever since.
So, I was determined to keep my hair long and red/pink as long as I could stand it, and whenever I got sick of it, I would chop it off to a pixie which would be the adored white/silver color. Since my black hair goes white really quickly with coconut oil and bleach on one application, I would only have to do my roots, so I would grow beautiful long hair once again.
But! I'm not getting sick anytime soon of long hair, if anything, I want it longer! And at the same time, I coveted the color, so the wait was driving me crazy.
I applied the two week rule. More like a month rule, with every day more convinced that I did want the color, so I decided to finally do it.
I waited for my lovely color to fade to a horrid orange mess, and mixed a toner with blue and magenta dye and conditioner. Did give me a metallic grey color, but unfortunately it was so dark it looked black, so it was no good for me. If I wanted black hair I would grow virgin!
I let it fade to an ash brown color. And I bleached it, I needed a lighter canvas.
And I love it! The top part of my hair is white, silver, purple and even blue, while the length goes from grey to black.
Thankfully, I'm not seeing any damage, and my toner mixes keep my hair happy, as does my movie star oil shampoo. I will do a cassia experiment whenever I get the time for it, but so far I'm really satisfied with its condition.
I didn't lift all of my hair to a pale blond color, since my dark ends are already overprocessed (and don't want to push my luck and finally see and feel damage), plus, I have hennaed several times and that stuff is stubborn. Definitely not touching it, as much as I love my lightest color. Plus the gradient effect is lovely!
So anyway, I wanted to share, seeing I never post much about my own hair and going artificially silver isn't that common in my opinion.
I would love to have silver hair when I grow old, but that's not going to happen. Every one of my grandparents stayed salt and pepper into their 80's, so... artificial for me. Silver haired members, I have color envy.
Anyway, here are some pictures. Today it was a little blue, I used too much pigment on my toner.
http://s2d3.turboimagehost.com/t/5547428_estrellado.png (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5547428/estrellado.png.html)
http://s2d3.turboimagehost.com/t/5547429_new.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5547429/new.jpg.html)
http://s2d3.turboimagehost.com/t/5547430_new.png (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5547430/new.png.html)
And sorry about the silly expressions, I'm very tired but can't sleep right now! thanks for reading.