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

[ivy]

I was wondering how maintenance works... do they just go over it again with a different set of colors on subsequent times, or is there some effort to match "okay, this area was blue, so we're gonna do that one blue... and over here is gold, so..."? That sounds like it would be so difficult, if the latter!

[umadoshi]

I was wondering how maintenance works

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?