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Yesterday I got my dyed in a style called "oil slick," which is a type of rainbow hair that brunettes can do.
I love it. It came out even better than I imagined. It's prettier in person than in the pics - the colors are both more delicate and more visible, and you can see more of them.
I asked the stylist not to try to cover up the gray in my hair, but to keep it as is so it (I hoped) would become another color accent. I say "gray," but it's actually a bright, glittering white. I like it and hope to have a streak rather than just individual strands some day. Anyway, that worked very nicely - it adds to the sparkly/metallic effect.
Even more photos, in different light and showing how changing my part reveals different colors.
Apologies for the bad lighting and visible camera. I don't like selfies as they change the shape of my face in an unflattering way, so I took these in the bathroom mirror.
I love it. It came out even better than I imagined. It's prettier in person than in the pics - the colors are both more delicate and more visible, and you can see more of them.
I asked the stylist not to try to cover up the gray in my hair, but to keep it as is so it (I hoped) would become another color accent. I say "gray," but it's actually a bright, glittering white. I like it and hope to have a streak rather than just individual strands some day. Anyway, that worked very nicely - it adds to the sparkly/metallic effect.
Even more photos, in different light and showing how changing my part reveals different colors.
Apologies for the bad lighting and visible camera. I don't like selfies as they change the shape of my face in an unflattering way, so I took these in the bathroom mirror.
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Can you send me some pics of yours?
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This is the selfie I took when I first got it.
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When I do wash my hair, for the first six weeks or so I only shampoo it, and use a leave-in moisturizer instead of conditioner so I'm only rinsing it twice (first to get it wet, second to get the shampoo out). After about six weeks it starts to fade enough that I go back to using conditioner in the shower.
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I asked the stylist not to try to cover up the gray in my hair, but to keep it as is so it (I hoped) would become another color accent. I say "gray," but it's actually a bright, glittering white. I like it and hope to have a streak rather than just individual strands some day. Anyway, that worked very nicely - it adds to the sparkly/metallic effect.
My gray hair is sparkly too! Nobody ever told me it was so different from normal hair. I don't know why people cover it up (well, I do, because of all the cultural weirdness we have about aging - my mother-in-law once said to me something like, women who don't dye to cover up their gray hair are just "letting themselves go", or something like that). But I really like it. It's an interesting metallic effect, like on a silver car.
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I always intended to not cover up my gray, just as a general protest against women being supposed to not age, but it never occurred to me that I would love my gray hair for its own sake. It's so pretty!
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But at the moment I am rocking the plain salt-and-pepper and very happy with it. Sparkly hair with no maintenance required! For free! This is a good deal!
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I still have brown hairs in the back and sprinkled through the white. Honestly, I wish I'd gone pure white. My father and his mother both did very early, and it was stunning. Now I'm thinking of a "blue rinse", but the ones old ladies did up through at least the 1970s were based on a toxic dye.
In the New South, there seemed to be a law that a woman went blonde by 35 at latest.
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Cut was not asymmetrical, my head was just tilted.
Second time:
I love it. It was just a three-hour commitment each time.
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Yeah, I was in the salon from noon to 4:00 or 5:00. However, I also got a haircut. I'm hoping if I actually show up for regular touch-ups it'll be less time-consuming.
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I'm probably 80% gray at this point, and I'm reluctant to do anything that might never fade, but that picture sure does tempt me.
What did you do as it grew out?
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I am happy and I'm enjoying it. About time!
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some, but there are totally people with different colors hair here. and yeeeeeesss bring it ooooover :D :D :D
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I also usually wash my hair every day but I'm going to start cutting back. I'll see how it goes.
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If yours is oilier, you can try washing with conditioner only for every other wash--your hair won't feel as clean after the co-washing (as it's called), but it's less harsh on color than shampoo is.
(Looks great!)
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Second, thanks for uploading your pics to DW image hosting, which means work doesn't block them and I don't have to click, curse, get frustrated at not being able to see the pretties, and then hope I remember to check the pictures when I get home.
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I wish I could take credit for uploading direct to DW but in fact it's just because I don't have another image hoster.
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I'll have to keep it in mind in case I ever want to do it and think I could get away with it at work.
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https://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/1055620.html
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Every so often I think about doing some sort of color, but I haven't yet. I wear my hair short, so maintenance would be a pain, which is one of the deterrents.
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I think I'm a bit happier with the brighter colors I've been going with lately, but I was also really delighted by my oil slick colors, so I'm happy to see it coming across my reading page. ^_^
[ETA: In terms of maintenance, the big thing I've been told about other than washing it as infrequently as possible (I wash mine about every four days) is to use the coolest water you can when washing it. I never manage cooler than lukewarm, but my color still lasts really well; I get it touched up every...ten weeks or so? And usually the roots growing in are a bigger concern than fading.]
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Thanks for the maintenance suggestions! I need to buy a shower cap. Like, tonight. This is why I like living in a big city.
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And yep, shower caps help a lot, although I desperately wish they were better about not letting my hairline get damp. (Which is just because it bugs me if my hair gets wet at all in the shower if I'm not washing it, not because it's a problem for color maintenance.)
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I'm not entirely sure, to be honest--I have terrible vision and always have my glasses off when my stylist is doing color work on my head. ^^; I think they try to match the existing streaks--it involves foils, so they're already separating the hair out into those tiny bits, and I imagine snagging/painting/wrapping the right chunk of hair is one of those things that gets a lot easier/faster with practice?
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Now I want to do that, but my hair's so short it probably wouldn't work (I'm doing the short back and sides thing.)