I chemically dyed my hair copper orange

[lara grace]

I have been wanting to do this for almost a year now and finally did it! I posted a while ago asking for advice on what to use. I know most people here are against chemical dye for good reason, but I just couldn't resist the urge to have beautiful copper hair like so many of the henna-heads here. I just couldn't achieve that sort of colour on my natural hair with henna. I felt stuck in a rut with my natural colour and really wasn't happy, so I decided, to hell with it, I'll be happy with my hair again :D so I chemically dyed it with a professional L'oreal Hicolor dye in Copper.

I went from this: (looks a bit darker here than it really was)
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=6520&pictureid=97697

To this:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=6520&pictureid=101061
Wearing pyjamas in both pics, oops!

What do you think? The tones vary in different lights and along the length a bit as I've had my hair all sorts of colours and there must be tints remaining. I'll post a proper picture showing the back to my album when my hair is behaving, I took this because my friend was begging me to show her :) I henna'd over it yesterday to condition and add a bit of permenance to the colour and the henna made it feel a bit woolly :confused: Hopefully that will go away next wash. Strangely the henna made it feel worse than the chemical dye.

Oh and I know my eyebrows look terrible! I usually fill them in with brown eyebrow powder, but I just don't know what to do with them now?!

[PiroskaCicu]

Wow, that's a gorgeous and bright colour! :) I love it!

[louisemg82]

I would suggest that if the henna made your hair feel bad, then you need moisture - especially after a chemical dye. To make it feel better, why not do a deep conditioning or oiling?
But as for the colour - I'm a henna head myself so I do love the copper :)

[julliams]

I think that looks brilliant and I could be fooled into thinking you are a natural redhead because you have the colouring for it. I would leave your eyebrows alone. Many redheads have very light brows and yours are perfect.

I really really like it.

[bunzfan]

I love that colour it really suits you, i think your brave for doing it to.

[Sweetie]

I definetely love your new colour!!! And it suits you real good!!!

[julliams]

I just wanted to add that you remind me of Lily Cole.
http://www.lauratoogood.com/USERIMAGES/Lily%20Cole.jpg

[Wally]

It looks great! Goes terrific with your eyes and complexion.

[lara grace]

Thank you so much everyone :) I'm glad that you think it suits me. And thanks for the comparison to Lily Cole! I've always thought she was pretty but never thought I looked like her :P

I'm going to do as much deep conditioning as possible and an overnight coconut oil soak to restore the condition. I've read that a few people feel that their hair is dry after henna. I can feel that it's stronger though, just dry so I'm happy!

[nucleardelusion]

Ooooh! I love it! I think your eyebrows look great, but if you still feel like you need to use a powder or pencil, usually "blonde" shades work well for me and my red hair. I'm naturally a light strawberry blonde and henna my hair a bit darker.

I usually just leave my brows alone, but since they're so light sometimes I fear they won't show up in pictures at special events in the wrong lighting :eek: so I use a blonde eyebrow pencil to fill them in and make them just a shade darker.

[telegraph64]

Gorgeous color, I'm jealous. Your eye color is so beautiful, wowee!

[jojo]

I just wanted to add that you remind me of Lily Cole.
http://www.lauratoogood.com/USERIMAGES/Lily%20Cole.jpg

I thought the exact same Julliams!

I think your new colour suits your colouring really well and I agree leave the brows they look great with it!

[Aaroo]

Wow it looks great on hair, and has a gorgeous shine! I am also a fan of copper and have done that previously.
Just a question, was your hair henna'd before or not? As I've heard its hard to color on henna.

[lara grace]

Thanks for all the compliments and advice, I think I will just get a blonde pencil, I'll find one that has reddish tones rather than ash. I tried out a dark orange eyeshadow but it looked ridiculous :P

Aaroo, My hair had been lightly henna glossed a few months ago but that had mostly faded out I think. But there were red tones at the ends of my hair from it being dyed red last summer, then being dyed brown over that :)

[Sooze]

Fabulous colour adnd soooo natural !

[Anje]

Wow, bright! That's pretty awesome -- I love when I get that brilliant orange from fresh henna, myself.

Eyebrows I'd leave alone or fill them in a bit darker. No need to have them match -- lots of redheads have non-matching eyebrows anyway. Mine have always been near-black.

[HintOfMint]

I L.O.V.E. it! It's absolutely gorgeous!

[ericthegreat]

I think it looks beautiful! You pull off being a redhead very well, with your natural pale skin and greenish blue eyes it almost looks natural on you. Good job!

[RitaPG]

I think your natural color was lovely, but that bright orange looks awesome :D Lovely match with your eyes and skintone.

[lara grace]

Yay thank you all for the compliments, I'm glad that you all think it suits me. Only one of my friends has seen it and she likes it, but when I go back to school I think I will get some negative reactions. Although I live in Ireland and there are lots of natural redheads, they get a lot of abuse! I know I will get asked "why on earth would you dye your hair ginger!". It won't bother me though, I love it :)

[CrystalStar]

That looks brilliant! Very natural looking and beautiful! For the eyebrows, I once found a website which specialised in make-up for red-heads.. If you were to google make-up for redheads it may just show up! :)

[Slinks]

oh WOW just wow !! no wonder you wanted that colour .. it so totally looks awesome on you !!

[Lady Verity]

Love it!!!

[scorpio_rising]

AH! It looks amazing. You are so lovely. :)
I wish I could do some kind of striking and fun color with my hair. You've given me a renewed longing to become a redhead, but alas with my olive skin, I would look ridiculous.

[HeatherJenae]

You do look like Lily Cole! Spot on observation. I would kill for your original color. It's what I try and dye mine to look like. Isn't it funny, we usually never like what we're born with! :) I think the copper orange is beautiful on you and very eye catching. I bet you turn a lot of heads.

[SearMeCarefully]

I totally love it! I've always wanted to do mine fire/neon orange like in the movie Fifth Element - someday..
I have auburn hair but have always been envious of the red hair like yours now is =]

Also my eyebrows are a dark brown

[zombi]

very pretty! (:

[wendy51]

When i saw the color i was like ' awwww!'
This color is brilliant =') , beautiful *
^^

[Dragon]

The colour turned out well. It looks really nice and suits you :)

[Mesmerise]

Thanks for all the compliments and advice, I think I will just get a blonde pencil, I'll find one that has reddish tones rather than ash. I tried out a dark orange eyeshadow but it looked ridiculous :P

Aaroo, My hair had been lightly henna glossed a few months ago but that had mostly faded out I think. But there were red tones at the ends of my hair from it being dyed red last summer, then being dyed brown over that :)

Your hair looks great! That's the colour I love, but I'm not quite getting it with henna anymore... oh well... As for eyebrows, I keep mine brown even with red hair ;) and yeah, I have naturally light ones too so I have to fill mine in!!!

[MonaMayfair]

It looks gorgeous, I LOVE that color!

[Fufu]

You look awesome with bright hair colour :)