Hair Dye

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Being my most mundane…

Most people in chat last night head this, but I dyed my hair red yesterday. Not a “natural” color of red, but red red. It turned out nice I think. When I gel my hair it darkens and looks more like a burgundy I guess, but in the sun you can see it well. The stuff I used was called “xtreme FX color shock” (hot red), by Clairol. Originally i had just bleached the top part, but wanted something different, so I tried that product. I’m happy with the results.

But, what i’d like to know is, which of you go for the more wild colors? I saw a girl at my school’s bookstore the other day with royal purple hair. I’ve mostly only seen red, pink, or a light purple color on people here. Any of you have dye horror stories? Any of you dye your hair so often you’ve forgotten your original color? :smiley:

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My hair is reddish brown now. I’m naturally very dark brown.

Wild colors… I think I mentioned to silent_rob (who also, BTW, is planning to go red and is currently blond) that I’d love to find a dark, rich maroon color. I haven’t yet found the right color… or guts, for that matter. :smiley:

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Me, me, me!

I suppose the craziest I’ve been was either X47 Burgundy (one of my absolute favorites) which is an Ultress color, or Pomegranate, which is, I think, Natural Instincts.

I do have a bottle each of green, purple, blue, and red (actual red, not redhead red). I want to pick up some orange and yellow, too, and have like, Rainbow Brite stripes.

I also, if I do say so myself, look pretty darn good with black hair. Makes my eyes look pretty cool.

I have another box of Pomegranate, too…might have to do that soon, as my color has faded something awful.

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My gramma mixes brown with black… and comes out with some funky brownish lavendar color. Too bad it’s unintentional!

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My hair is blue-green with purple streaks in it. I have done almost every shade of red and burgandy, as well as black, blonde and blue. (I am hoping to get a picture to put on the SD People pages soon so everyone can see my hair.)
I couldn’t tell you my exact hair color any more without looking at pictures from my childhood. I know it is some shade of brown.
No real horror stories. I figure if I don’t like the color that my hair turns out, I can always cover it with black.

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I inherited the go gray early gene from my Dad’s side of the family. I saw my first gray when I was sixteen. Once I attempted to dye my hair a rich burgundy color. The brown hairs came out lovely but the gray hairs turned hot pink. It was outrageous and I am an RN. I’m sure I scared more than a few patients. A coworker said “that’s on interesting color. Did you do that on purpose?”

Now I stick to dark ash blond. I think Feria is the best especially if you have long hair. It’s the only brand that I don’t need 2 boxes of to cover my middle of the back length hair. I just had about 18 inches cut. It was to the top of my jeans.

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Doob, have you got a picture? I’m seriously contemplating dying my hair bright red (I think it looks awesome on baglady) but I’m afraid it will make me look sallow and washed out.

I’ve only ever dyed my hair auburn, except for the one time I dyed it jet black. Boy, was that a mistake! Even though I’ve got really dark brown hair the black totally uglified me; I looked like I had chemo & was still feeling sick & could only afford this dorky jet black wig. Ugh.

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When I was fourteen I dyed my beautiful strawberry-blonde hair black. I was a mod, I thought I was cool. I had no one to help me but a male friend who also wanted to color his hair.

We used the same bottle for both of us, he did mine first, then I used the rest to do his. Neither of us had a clue what we were doing, nonetheless . . .

His hair, a slightly darker blonde than mine, came out a beautiful rich blue-black which looked great on him. (He had naturally black eyebrows to begin with). It looked so good several people thought it was natural.

Mine was horrible. I woke up the next morning, looked in the mirror and started to cry. It was dull black, with patches of streaky gray. I had forgotten what we had done, and in the light of day it was just . . . awful. Let me be frank: it looked like shit. His mom felt sorry for me, so we waited the recommended two full weeks, (during which time, I became bandanna girl), and she redyed it for me, this time including (duh!) my almost non-existant blonde eyebrows. Then at least it was uniform black, but it still didn’t look good with my pale skin and freckles.

The worst part is, when I was growing it out, we had a little activity in Science class where you had to look at different things under a microscope. They told us to pull out one of our hairs, double it over itself, and then look at the Xed part under the microscope. I doubled a dyed end over a part that had grown out. At first I couldn’t even tell what I was looking at. One arm of the X was smooth, golden, translucent, glowing in the light shining from beneath it, the other was opaque, charred looking, dingy gray, with the texture of a burnt log. I couldn’t believe I had done that to my hair. On purpose!

Oh, and to add insult to injury, my hair never did grow back the same color. sigh It’s now more of a dark, dishwater blonde, although still with red highlights.

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My hair is currently bleached blonde, and has been for over a year… But about a year ago I used to bleach it and dye it bright tangerine… It was beautiful, and I loved it, but I work in an office now and am not sure if they’d appreciate it around here. I may go back soon, I really really miss it. Bright orange is just perfect, and it matches my office attire – Hawaiian shirts.

-FJG

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The weirdest I ever went with hair color was copper red with gold streaks at the temples - can you tell I was growing up during the ‘new wave’ era? It was also an extremely spikey cut. These days, if I feel like dye, I’ll go any where on the scale from auburn to blue black. Since I’m naturally very dark, anything lighter would look rediculous on me.

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I don’t know how “wild” this is, but it’s sorta different.
Last October my wife treated me to a day at the hair-stylists. I got my hair cut in this spiky kinda do, and dyed not quite, but almost platinum blond.
Here’s the thing, I’m in the middle of this experiment (for lack of a better word) to go a whole year without a haircut.
So it’s been 11 months since my last haircut, my hair is naturally brown, and is now quite long, but the last 2-3 inches is platinum. I think it looks pretty cool, but my wife wants me to pick a color and run with it. I think I’ll wait until October to decide.

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Sounds awesome, Doob! Get a pic up, I wanna see!

I have had my hair too many colors to count. I started coloring it when I was 15 (hot pink) and haven’t stopped since. Right now, it is black. A couple of months ago, it was burgundy. I’ve been every shade of blonde, red, and brown, and some outrageous colors like purple, pink and blue. I have some Purple Manic Panic that i intend on using over this black once it fades out.

I have 2 horror stories, although not terrible. I once decided I wanted a white streak in my hair, it came out nice and looked good for about a week or two, then, from the overprocessing, all the hair broke off, looked pretty shitty. And once I had a dime-sized blister on the top of my head from frequent dyeing, hurt like a bitch.
I am pretty sure my hair is naturally a light, chestnut brownish or so, but I’ve not seen it in years, I wonder sometimes if I have gray hair. I might never know.

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Mine’s pink.

A bit innappropriate for the office I work at, but I got away with it. You know how?

Because I went to my local hair dye store and said to Jeff (I go there a lot, they also sell taxidermed rats and dead animals in jars at this store- seriously!)
“I would like a haircolour that’s BORDERLINE-socially acceptable.”
This is because my office is somewhat casual, but not casual enough for pink hair and hawaiian shirts.
Jeff recommended Manic Panic RUBINE.
He said
“This is a nice deep cranberry colour, but it washes out and fades to bright pink.”

He was absolutely right. My hair gradually got pinker and pinker and it was too gradual for anyone to say anything, and now I’m “that girl with the pink hair” around here.

I’m getting tired of it though. My natural hair is some nondescript brown, but I like the way Clairol Black Cherry looks on me.

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That reminded me of the first time I got my hair bleached. My hair is very dark black, naturally. It takes about three hours for them to bleach it to platinum. Well, someone left some of the bleach on my forehead for most of that time under the moist heat thing. Talk about pain… Luckily, my hairstyle was Caeser-ish, so I could just pull the hair over it. :wink:

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I’ve done pretty much every color and mixture of color imagineable. Lately, I’ve just stuck with bleached blond though. My favorite was bleached blond with black streaks and red stars. that was cool. It was a bitch to do though.

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Yep, I went blond just about two weeks ago. It is the wildest I have ever gone (of course, I’ve only ever streaked it before). I am a fairly dark brown, but in the summer I get a kind of red-brown look, from the sun. My goatee/mustache especially. Oh, that reminds me, I have left my facial hair brown, and plan to leave it like that. A nice contour, I think. And yep, I’ve got the red dye and am doing that next weekend. Should be interesting.
And Audrey, don’t worry about not having the guts. You know I’ll keep nagging you until you actually dye it. :smiley:

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If you’re going to do your hair red, you should do your beard blu or purple. That would be cool

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Yeah, I would but here’s the thing; I bleached (actually, Blondisimaed) my hair to get it blond. My beard hair is much, much thicker, and would take a lot more to do. I got a little chemical burn on my scalp, doing my hair because my hair is really thick. Not a lot, but enough to be annoying.
I would have to bleach my beard as well, and it would thus be just as unpleasant, if not more. But I will think about it. It would, indeed, look pretty cool.

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No picture yet. I want to get one ASAP, but I need a sunny day, since in regular indoor light, the red isnt too noticible (you can see it in flourescent light, but incandescent light it’s not showy). It’s very noticeable in sunlight though. Without the gel it’s very red. I think the color it is right now is subtle enough when gelled that I could get away with it in an office.

Next time, i’m gonna lighten my hair up a lot more so the red (or if I choose another color) is more noticeable. I let the highlighting mix stay in the maximum time, but my hair only went to a light brown color. I also seem to have burned a small patch of my scalp. That spot was burning/itching while the bleach was in, and when I washed out the bleach, it was reddish and a bit sore.

I don’t know if i’m going to stick with red or go for another color. But, rest assured, my hair will probably be dyed the next doper bash I attend.

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I’ve been dyeing my hair since I was 16 years old. I remember the first night I dyed it, I went black, it was the same night Cher won the academy award and everyone thought I did it because of her. Actually I was just tired of my normal mousey brown. I’ve had every color of the rainbow. I even bleached a streak of hair once and then dyed it gray, with the rest deep black it looked pretty cool. At the moment my hair is fire engine red with blonde streaks. I had to cut all my hair off at Christmas because of a BAD BAD perm. At first it was less than an inch all over but at last it’s reached my shoulders. It was a shock to get used to considering I hadn’t cut my hair in 27 years. I didn’t tell my husband I was cutting my hair, I left home with knee length light red hair and came home with almost shaved neon red hair. My husband’s comment…“Did you get your eyebrows waxed?” At least he noticed something.