How I get my hair so bright

Some of you will already know the answer but I often get asked what hair dye I use, How do I get it so bright and have others that have tried using the same dye but not get the same brightness because they left the important bit out.

BLEACH! Although now I no longer use 12% peroxide to get my brightness, I now use XXL live blonde before adding colour.

Dyes I use are directions, manic panic, XXL live and the odd crazy colour.

 

Having hair this colour does come at the cost of my hand changing colour everytime I wash my hair, turning my white tops whatever colour my hair is if I wear my hair down (it does wash out) and sometimes my bathroom. Oh and my scalp! my scalp has often got pretty blistered during the turning my hair a white blonde process before colour, hence why I prefer to use directions,manic panic and crazy colour when it comes to adding colour as it doesn't have any chemicals in and is pretty much like a hair gel so can be slept in for better and brighter results AND less damage then two lots of chemical hair dyes would do.

 

 

Argan oil shampoo25Oml

I grabbed this beauty from my local poundland

It's on eBay ranging from £2.79 + £2.9O P&P to £3.99 with FREE P&P 

They also have the conditioner on there which I'm intrigued about and would love to give ago

but I'll keep my eyes peeled for it in poundland first

They had some other argan oil bits in too but I only grabbed this for now.

I can't stand the feel of oily stuff!! so even this was a hit and miss for me but you can barely notice that it has any oil in, it just feels like a normal everyday shampoo.

I used it the other day and I don't know if it's the placebo effect because I've seen/heard the name argan oil pop up all over the place or because it is really good?

I used it along with my normal shampoo and conditioner using this as the second lot of shampoo after my original one first, The stuff I'm using is a new one I'm trying from wilkos

and it usually leaves my hair feeling a little bit rough 

but with the argan oil shampoo used in between my hair feels really smooth and looks shiny.

You only need a small little amount for it to lather up, my hair is mid length and I only needed two little squeezes for my hair 

I'm definitely stocking up if they have any left on my next visit

Have you tried any argan oil products?

L'OREAL paris FeRia Hair dye

Where do I start? My partner bought me this hair dye by accident when he was buying my XXL live dyes to get my purple back, this box of dye has sat around since that day as I only needed the one XXL purple to get the colour I wanted YAYYY!! So this one wasn't needed, We had a wedding to attend yesterday and I planned to wear my hair down my roots had got pretty bad so I thought I'd re do them and use this dye (stupid I know) Thank god we done all over and not just the roots because it come out the WRONG colour :( I am not amused at all it came out the colour the hairdressers gave me when I parted with £45 then fixed it myself and got the colour i wanted :'( so know i'm going to have to kill my hair some more getting my purple back!! This is why i haven't used box dyes in years after buying a brown and it coming out jet black.

this is the colour I've ended up with...

I am under that fringe somewhere lol

This is what i had before...

You can't really see much different in the bottom picture of me and Andy but the top picture of me and my girls is how reddish it is :'(

She's got a lip ring and 5 colours in her hair

In this post i thought I'd post about the many hair colours I've had, if you have any questions on how I achieved the colours please don't hesitate to leave me a comment :) These are in no particular order of when I had them I've had so many I couldn't tell you which order I had them in but here we go.....

The first ever bright hair colour i had, i am under that fringe somewhere :')

My rainbow which my friend done in her hairdressing competition, other people who had little tiny strips of rainbow where amazed that i was actually leaving my hair these colours.  As you can see from the pictures one side was pastels the other bright :)

After i bleached my hair so many times it was time to cut it all off as all the ends were completely dead and straw like :'(  So the only way to restore some health into my hair was to have a bob! One of the undercuts grew bigger and bigger until i ended up shaving the side of my head.

^ One of my fave colours that I've been Turquoise

Whatever shall i do with my left over colours when all my colour has come out and I'm left with blonde? Of course lets mix it up abit

I had these hair colours for about a week before my hairdresser friend came round and went crazy at me for putting black in my hair and she started to bleach it back out again, the brown didn't look very brown either tbh everyone was saying i reminded them of cadburys chocolate and that wasn't my aim.

I've had many more hair colours but if i post anymore pictures this pot could end up a page or two long. 

Do you change your hair colours often? 

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Live Colour XXL V46 & 00B

Now i'm a serial hair dyer i never have the same hair colour for to long, i'm known for my bright funky hair colours in my area and people are always looking out for my next hair colours. Anyway after years of using bleach powder and peroxide on my hair to get my bright hair colours, my friend had gone back to her white blonde to get rid of her dark red and mentioned she used XXL so i thought i'd give it ago, i used the LIVE color XXL colour intense max blonde 00B to get rid of a dark red i ended up with after asking the hairdressers for a purple/plum (never again will i go to a hairdressers for a colour) the bottoms of my hair went a lovely white blonde but some places stayed a gingery orange colour if i wanted it all white another box would have sorted it, usually my hair takes atleast two lots of bleaching to get it white all over so from now on i will be using XXL to get my hair bright. I purchased mine from superdrug while it was on offer for £3.99 it's RRP is £5.49 

After attempting to stay blonde for 2 or so days i really couldn't do it so put on the LIVE colour XXL colour intense cyber purple V46 my partner grabbed this one for me at it's full price from asda but it was on offer in superdrug but he surprised me with it late at night, I put this on over the V46 by XXL very strangely for me i was dreading it being as bright as my usual colours as i'm preferring darker colours atm, my brights take so much up keep and having two little ones it's hard to keep up with root touch ups etc. Anyway i washed the dye off and instantly fell in love with my hair colour it's not an bright in your face purple but its a nice vibrant purple, indoors its a dark plum but still noticeably purple, outside and in natural light its a brighter more vibrant purple but not an in your face purple 

The only small downfall to these dyes are you'll need to buy a whole box of dye for root touch ups (my others were like hair gel so just use what i need and popped the lid back on) and the smell is very strong until your 2nd good wash but a small price to pay for the gorgeous colours