She's Like A Rainbow

[rachelmanija]

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.

Comments

[havocthecat]

First of all, I love your hair, and it gives me hope that my dark, dark brown Italian-American hair could be actually dyed a color without bleaching the shit out of it someday. I don't know that I'd ever do it, as I'm not sure I'd want the roots maintenance, but knowing I could is nice.

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.

[rachelmanija]

Thank you! It sounds like you and I have very similar hair (mine's Ashkenazi Jewish, but also very very dark brown), so you too could do an oil slick! If you want to minimize bleaching even more, you could just say so - the colors would be darker and you wouldn't have the golden streaks.

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.

[havocthecat]

My Italian-American hair is very Mediterranean, and therefore pretty close to the Ashkenazi Jewish hair of many of my friends, so yes, I think we have a very similar color hair! I'm trying to look at your eyebrows, and Mr. Havoc thinks mine might be a little darker? But it's one of those things where it might be the picture's lighting too. It's awfully close.

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.

[rachelmanija]

This is from a while back, but it shows my natural color better. Just imagine that with a little salt in the pepper:

https://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/1055620.html