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Hair bleaching/dying tutorials

A while back I did 2 tutorials on how to bleach and dye hair on my tumblr. I'm going to repost them here, but you can click below for the originals.
Click here for Part 1
Click here for Part 2
Click here for hair dye FAQ


Bleaching:










How to Dye Hair Bright Colors
Part 1: Bleach

Materials:
Vol 40 developer, Bleach Powder, Mixing Bowl, Gloves

I’ll only be doing my roots for this tutorial since the rest of my hair is already light enough from being bleached white previously. Mix vol 40 developer with bleach powder. This combination will be very powerful and quick compared to supermarket box bleaches so be careful and watch how it develops. I don’t need to leave mine in any more than… 30 minutes or so from when I start applying it.

I start with the most visible areas: my center part, bangs, and nape of the neck (I wear my hair in a high pony often). I try not to get bleach on parts of my hair that have already been bleached, but my bangs grow out too quickly for them to get damaged. A hairdryer once the bleach is all applied will speed up the development. Try to go as light as you can since that will lead to brighter colors once you dye it. To get rid of a brassy or yellow town if you rinse the bleach out too early, try a toner or a bit of purple shampoo in conditioner.

Wash the bleach out of your hair without using conditioner and let it dry. You are now ready to add dye!


Dying:








How to Dye Hair Bright Colors
Part 2: Color

Materials:
Dye (Ion, Special Effects, Manic Panic), Conditioner (Aussie Moist), Gloves

I start by mixing up my dyes with Conditioner. I use Aussie Moist. For typical, bright colors, I will use a 50/50 mixture. This will not dilute the dye too much, but really stretches the life of your dye and helps it soak into your hair. To lighten the color a little bit but not quite a pastel, I would use a 1/3 ratio. For pastels, I would greatly dilute the dye, maybe 1/5. The only color I do not personally dilute is Yellow.

The colors I am using in this round of dye:
Light Blue (Ion Aqua and Special Effect’s Blue Haired Freak + varying amounts of conditioner)
Blue (SE Blue haired Freak and Manic Panic purple haze + conditioner)
Green (mix of Ion Teal and MP’s Electric Banana + conditioner)
Yellow (MP’s Electric Banana)

I typically apply my colors in order from light to dark and in a similar order to where I applied the bleach. For ombre type bangs, I will usually apply the darker color, maybe without being diluted, and then dilute it with more and more conditioner as I approach my roots. Once everything is dyed, I will use a hairdryer to speed up the absorption. There’s no real set time I wash the dye out. Normally I will test to see if my hair has absorbed all the color by rubbing a chunk of my hair. If white or pastel conditioner comes off on my hand, I’ll know my hair’s ready to wash out. This method lasts me about 4 weeks of bright bright hair, 3 weeks of somewhat lighter colors, and pastel hair for over a month after that! I usually end up redoing my roots every 5 weeks so my hair rarely gets to the pastel stage. Hope this answered some questions!

Long time no see!

I've mostly been using my tumblr lately since it requires a lot less writing, just picture uploading/reblogging. But I've decided that I'll use my blogspot for more personal posts that wouldn't really fit into my tumblr. (Cat pics, music I like, my juice/food recipes, workout/sewing/gaming stuff, etc) My drawings/doodles will now also be posted to my art tumblr: Click here to see em! Also have been posting a lot of looks to lookbook/chictopia, as you can see in the sidebar :D

Chictopia Reward + kitty

A while back I redeemed a Chictopia reward with my points :D It was a 'cold shoulder' top from Dress Kill :D It's so comfy!





Can't wait to earn more rewards :D


She's so cute :3 My hair looks kind of poisonous, don't you think?

Green hair! + watermark time

Sooo I've seen a few pictures that I've not posted to tumblr floating around tumblr... One specifically that I've put on just this blog. It's not a big deal, really, just weird to see other people claiming my photos etc :P So I'm going to start putting my tumblr name on the photos. :/ Sowwy.

I put some green and blue in my hair!



All done:





The back:

Lookbook + Goodwill Finds

Soooo I found THE most 80s jacket at Goodwill for $3. A pastel pink, triangular style lines Members Only jacket. Awhh yeah.

And these Puma hightop sneakers for $2... total futureshoes~

There are more pics on my Tumblr!

Here are the looks on lookbook:

Black Milk craziness! Featured on their FB page!

So I've been procrastinating about taking pictures for lookbook, especially of my Rainbow Galaxy Blackmilk Leggings! I took a few pictures to put on lookbook/tumblr and then posted a photo of me wearing them to their Facebook Page. They then reposted a different picture of me on their page~

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=398385850180503&set=a.149556558396768.25241.129617417057349&type=1

Here's my lookbook look~

There was a superfancy Cadillac in the parking lot so we asked the owner's roommate if he would mind if we took photos with it.
There are tons more pics on my tumblr: http://sugarsugar-dina.tumblr.com/

Here's one that's not, though: