Alright. Its five thirty.
I've spent the last three hours poring over hair dye and dreadlock how-to's. Its blue highlights for sure. I'm still holding out hope that you really mean you love me no matter what, because one day honey it really is going to be dreadlocks and I hope you can stand it.
So anyway.......
Special Effects seems to be the hair colour du jour.... with a trillion user-based reviews touting its staying power over that of punky color or manic panic.
Here's the tried-and-true conundrum slash giant fuckup in the making:
I always want to err on the side of caution, to avoid day-glo way-too-light colours. And i always end up going too dark.
This time that is NOT going to happen!!! Don't let it.
I already decided that I want blue, not turquoise per se, but bright and not deep dark.
Already I am gravitating to the deeper darker colors. And that sucks. Because these are swatches done on white white demo hair I'm looking at (they always are), and I'm only bleaching to a medium blonde so hen they fade they can probably pass for highlights. On deeper thought they might not truly fade and might retain a teal-type stain. In that case light brown dye will drop them to a great highlight because if applied all oer it will darken the rest of the hair up and make it noticeable.
Seriously sometimes I think I went into the wrong profession.
But aestheticians, and particularly the ones who specialize in funky hair colours, are notoriously cute and stylish, and I am most certainly neither. Or if you want to insist on my cuteness and radiance and funky stylishness, you'll at least have to agree that its not their type.
But I digress.
http://www.specialeffectsusa.com/hair_dye.html
On first look its a toss up between Blue Mayhem and Blue Haired Freak.
The fear of, and gravitation away from too-turquoise shades comes into play here because I'm trying to avoid ending up with powder blue.
But again I really need to remember that I am NOT bleaching to white so whatever I choose will end up darker and therefore negates the possibility of a chalky pastel result. Digression. My greatest fault. Anyway the colors look perfect in their swatch form on the site.
Fishbowl s a little much. Blue velvet would be great as a base all over color with thick black highlights (mental note for later).
But its Blue Haired Freak or Blue Mayhem.
And really I think I'm leaning toward Blue Mayhem in an exercise of safety. My reckless and interesting inner voice (the one who cooked up this brilliant scheme in the first place) is telling me that it will be too dark. And she's right. She's always right about it being too dark.
Here are the swatches (from haircrazy.com)
Blue Haired Freak, Blue Mayhem, and Blue Velvet.
Really I just included the Velvet because its gorgeous. It really will scare my clients away though But let's mentally bookmark it for the absolute first order of business when I eventually hire someone to go play nice with the old folks in my stead.
Now you kind of see what I mean about the color difference.
Here, in a white-base hair swatch the Freak is really light. its actually described as "a dazzlingly bright medium blue shade - one of Special Effects' lighter blue colours. For the brightest and bluest results use on hair that has been pre-lightened to pale blond." Pale blonde. Okay, so maybe not an actual white base. But I was going to lighten to a gold-blonde kind of like the highlights I put in a few months ago. Th Mayhem is described as " a super vibrant shade of blue. Blue Mayhem produces rich shimmery blue results on hair that has been pre-lightened to pale blond and may also give a blue tint to untreated hair." This seems more up my alley. Not safe, and not probably too dark, but Precisely the color that I'm in the market for.
Interestingly enough, I found another website that compares the blues offered by Special Effects, in which they place Freak as even lighter than Electric, with Blue Mayhem falling slightly deeper than Electric. Interesting. (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=special%20effects)
Here's a picture of a girl with a gorgeous colour blue that I think is perfect. Its enough to stand out but not extremely blendifferous, so you can see it ad its great without shouting HEY LOOK AT MY BLUE HIGHLIGHTS. Unfortunately this particular image does not mention what color she uses.
All three of these people are using Blue Mayhem. The girl with the dreads is about the same color as the one above who didn't denote a specific product. The rainbow one with the sunglasses came up a little purple but I am pretty sure that she did her colors all at once and some of the pink mixed in. The last one is a bit dark but i am pretty safe in assuming that she did it on unbleached or minimally lightened hair, because her overall effect is dark.
This first one is using a combination of Fishbowl, Blue Haired Freak, and Electric Blue to get a gradient effect. Problem is that you really can't differentiate between the three to tell which is which. The darkest color in the back is most likely the Electric Blue, and the one I gravitate toward, but then who really knows? The second is another with Fishbowl but you can clearly see which is which. The third is another freshly dyed Blue Mayhem. I found a lot of other Blue Mayhem pics but they were all a few weeks after dyeing, poorly taken care of, and faded as hell. Fortunately for me I have exceedingly porous hair and know how to keep highly unusual colours in as long as possible.
Here are a few more shots of Blue Mayhem, taken from http://www.beeunique.co.uk/bluepage1.htm. There's a girl on page five 'round about the middle that reminds me of when I went purple/blue back when Miss Chickie was in Kindergarten. Happy hunting. ;-)
And a few Blue Haired Freak. See how similar they are to the Mayhems? What a pain in my ass!
And finally, here's the greatest idea in all of known history. Mayhem and Freak. Mixed together. Pure Genius. Because WHY THE FUCK NOT???
Oh honey, you're gonna be so sorry you signed on for the hair dyeing game. Really, I'm extending my deepest of condolences. Because ow not only are you going to be subjected to my obsessive chatter, but you get small-novella length emails which require extensive replies. Oh yeah, did I mention the extensive reply?
Lovelovelove.
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