I recently dyed my hair again. I was inspired by my hair extension and decided to make this ombre look. It took me 2 failures to figure out how to do it properly. I used Loreal Blondissima again as it worked fairly well the first time.
What not to do: I initially put the bleach dye in the hair for 45minutes and then washed it out and then redid the tips for another 45 minutes and it turns out that I should have just left it on until my hair physically changed into an orange colour instead of doing it by time. I also realized I wasted a lot of bleach as I only used 1/3 of the bottle but mixed everything inside the bottle. I threw away 2 blondissima's as I mixed both of them in the bottle. By the 3rd try, I realized I should mix it in a separate container and apply it with a brush.
Here goes my little hair adventure!
Here is me with my original hair, it was dyed black earlier this year and it faded out to a brown black.
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| original hair- Front |
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| Back |
Loreal Blondissima works wonders and it really didn't damage my hair much.
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| colour chart of what it "should" do |
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| me wearing a cap/ wearing my friends shirt |
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| this is what I saw after I removed the foil after 45 min. It was a reddish brown |
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| First bleaching! Front |
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| First bleach- Back |
After my second bleach job on the tips I thought it would suffice and I attempted to put a blonde over the bleached colour. It failed as the hair colour was still too strong and blonde bairly did anything. It did take a bit of the brassy red/orange out though. I used Loreal sublime Mousse and I hated it...it smelled awful and I swear it sucks.
The is the colour after 2 bleachings and one blonde colouring. It was still an orange brown. It was not quite the ombre/ hair dip look so I knew I had to fix it. I asked my bf and some friends how it looked and they said it looks like my hair grew out......o____O not the answer I was looking for.
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| excuse the look on my face, it was super sunny- Front view of blonde hair dye in |
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| Back view of blonde hair dye in |
A day later I decided to bleach the tips to make it more obvious that I am creating a ombre/ hair dip look. This is the 2nd time I bought the bleach and mixed the whole bottle and used 1/3 of it...throwing the rest away. The look after was close to what I wanted and I was satisfied at the time but deep down inside I knew I wanted blonde tips...real platinum blonde or something close to that. I also got annoyed with the tips of my hair...there was a lot of obvious split ends so I grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped snipped snipped! LOL..so my hair is a little blunt now on the ends..I think it's fine, saved money on hair cut!
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| redyed the tips to make it look ombre/dipped hair- Front |
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| Back |
My 3rd attempt using Blondissima, I mixed it in a container and painted it on my tips instead of wasting another bleach dye. I also picked up an ash blonde hair colour to cover the brassy orange. I picked up Clairol Perfect 10.
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| light ash blonde |
After bleaching until my hair turned yellow, I washed out the bleach. Oh yeah!! It was finally blonde..woot woot and my hair still felt fine. :D The picture below shows my hair as slightly wet. I was tired to dry it all the way with a blow dryer so I just dyed over slightly damp hair.
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| This is after the 3rd bleach before the hair dye |
I love the Clairol Perfect 10. It didn't smell too bad, although hair dye is hair dye...I guess Asian hair dye is better in regards to the scent. I only had to leave the Clairol Perfect 10 in my hair for 10 minutes! I was very pleased with the results! And here it is....the top is black, middle is brown and bottom is blonde!
I love this hair. If I get bored of it I can cut the blonde off and tada, new hair style!
-Carmen
