I dye my hair with a temporary dye, that tends to fade out evenly, because it’s easier on my hair and I still have to dye it about as often.
I wear a bathrobe, though. It’s black so it doesn’t show any dye that spills on it, and I don’t have to pull it over my head to get it off and take a shower to rinse the stuff out.
This is why I spend $7.00 on a bottle of Clairol or L’Oréal hair dye at the supermarket and dye my shit-brown hair auburn (current color is Natural Essences Rosewood). Like jinwicked, I use temporary dyes – mine are usually marked “Level 2” or “semipermanent” – and the color lasts for a month with barely visible roots because it fades evenly overall.
Oh yeah, and just wear a cruddy old t-shirt. My high school gym shirt works nicely for me. I don’t have to get my mom to help me either, though admittedly I don’t always get all of my waist-length hair evenly dyed.
You’re a suicide blonde? Dude, go professional!
I’ve NEVER done highlights at home-I do color my hair red, however-well, my mother does because I’m a klutz and would probably dye the bathroom as well.
Which reminds me, it’s time for a little kick in my life…
You probably won’t have to worry about it in a few years. Keep going and you won’t have any hair left to dye. That stuff is terrrible for hair, the more you do it, the worse it gets. Ask any beautician
I had a friend who bleached his hair frequently. He was going to Chicago to audition for a school, and I tagged along. The night before, he’d touched up his bleach. When we got out of the car in the windy city, I watched in fascination as white wisps of hair began to fly off his head. He didn’t wind up bald for his audition (probably because he also plastered his hair down the gel), but it startled him enough that he cut his hair short and dyed it dark again.
There are many hair colors in the world that don’t require bleaching. Perhaps you should consider changing to one of them.
Okay, I figured out what was bugging me about your OP. Bitching about the stuff you use to bleach your hair - fine. Bitching about bleaching your hair to look beeyootiful - fine. Bitching about it and using the words “have to” is inappropriate - no one is strapping you to the chair and making you bleach your hair with smelly crap for an hour. If they were, that would also be a legitimate bitch.
Just my opinion, of course.
If your hair is just brown, you can probably dye it lighter without bleaching it. I am trying to get to be a blonde from my medium auburn shade, and it’s not going so badly. I hate the roots, but other than that it’s all good.
Surely lightening=bleaching?
Sorry for not sympathizing here, but WTF?
Shutcher trap and hit a salon. Find a cute irl with real training and equipment to futz with your hair while bopping around to happy dance music. (Mine is named Tara, but while I reccomend her, she’s not a need, per se)
Step two is not bleaching your hair and instead choosing a pretty color to augment your natural brown. (I am not a fan of bleach blondes. Of any gender.)
Beyond that program, its good to hear that you’re having fun with chemistry, its cool stuff.
Or you could be like me and bleach one strip of hair (at the salon) and dye it blue to accent the brown. Only I let all the blue wash out and now it’s sort of mauve because I used this red shampoo stuff on it.
And now that I think about it, the mauve is pretty awful, while the blue is actually pretty nice. I should really go get it re-bleached, then dyed back to blue.
And if you put lemon juice in your hair, then sit in the sun, it’ll lighten it quite a bit.
Or you could be like me and bleach one strip of hair (at the salon) and dye it blue to accent the brown. Only I let all the blue wash out and now it’s sort of mauve because I used this red shampoo stuff on it.
And now that I think about it, the mauve is pretty awful, while the blue is actually pretty nice. I should really go get it re-bleached, then dyed back to blue.
And if you put lemon juice in your hair, then sit in the sun, it’ll lighten it quite a bit.
Also, how old are you, just out of curiosity?
I just noticed today that I have a lot more grey hair than I’d like.
Then I thought “It’s better grey than gone.”
Suck it up. Live with the brown hair. Especially if you’re a man. Chicks don’t care about that if you’re a mature, well adjusted adult.
You sound more like a crabby baby.
Mirror, I’m 16.
And about hair bleach making your hair fall out, I thought that was only peroxide and the cheap stuff. I use L’Oreal Super Blond. I think that’s a good brand.
Ha, me too.
Seriously, if it’s that big a deal to bleach it, why don’t you do fun stuff with it, too? You’re just going to re-bleach it anyway, so dye it blue or pink or green or some other fun color.
It just occurred to me, if you’re embarrassed with your hairy chest and you don’t like your natural hair color, you might as well go bald. Get a Brazilian wax all over your body.
Or, you could stop being so self-conscious and learn to love yourself the way you are.
I’d rather have an all-natural man than a pretty boy who spends more time doing his hair than I do. And what are you going to do when you hit college, man? Have your dorm roomate help you apply that crap to your hair? BWAHAHAHA!
You can be beautiful without dying your hair.
All I can say is… your poor, poor mom!
Guys, guys, guys!!!
The guy likes his hair BLOND. This is a perfectly valid decision. I, personally, like peroxide blonds of any gender, but that’s not the issue here. STOP CRAPPING ON HIS CHOICE OF HAIR COLOR. Do not imply that he’s a “pretty boy”, with all the gay-bashing overtones that phrase has. Don’t tell him he’s a overcompensating ricer. That says more about the limits of your cultural exposure than it does about his fashion sense. And in experienced hands, most people can maintain white-blond hair indefinitely without doing lasting damage to hair or scalp, so stop implying that he’s ruining his head. I’ve been bleaching my hair to white for 10+ years, and maintaining several friends’ hair likewise.
Did all of you go over to the “I like my shorts mid-thigh, not mid-ankle” thread and tell the OP he can be beautiful in long pants? Or that he’s immature for wanting to wear shorts? Of course not. Give the boy a break for making his own fashion decisions. Commisserate about the horrors of bleach spots on clothing. Or something.
And I can be beautiful with any hair color I want, but purple is what I choose to wear.
mischievous
Checking “pretty boy” off the list of appropriate words to say, even though I know lots of noneffeminate straight guys who fit that description and even though the OP said he’s trying to be beautiful, which is something I would expect a “pretty boy” to say.
I have no problems with dye jobs, personally. I just don’t understand the whole idea of hating your natural hair color. I mean, it sounds like an expensive, time-consuming hate for the OP. For a young man OR woman, it’s probably best they not worry over something like dying their hair (especially if they hate the process). Chances are their hair color is not as awful as they think it is.
No need to play the “cultural exposure” card here. There isn’t a person in the world (at least in the Western world) who hasn’t been exposed to dye jobs, good and bad.
Did the OP whine about shorts that he had put on voluntarily, as if someone was forcing him to wear them against his will? If so, let me head over there and make fun of him too!
“Pretty Boy” is has more of an air of a vain, self-centered, narcisstic guy who fusses way too much over his looks.
Like I said, get it done professionally if you like how it looks.
Oh, and I believe peroxide is an ingredient in ALL blond dyes.