Dip-Dye Do's and Dont's

Following suit from my last blog, this is a review on hair dye/ dip-dye and some all important DO's and DON'T's, hopefully slightly more helpful than a Furby chat, but we'll see. So sit back and read whilst dye takes (I'm writing this wearing foils)

I am notorious for being that girl that gets an idea in her head of something new she wants to try with her hair, jumps straight in there and then hates it. My family have first hand experience of consoling me through my hair disasters, from when I thought bleach blond highlights only at the front of my head was a good decision and suffered looking like a badger for months, to thinking I was dying my hair red and coming out ginger (although I actually thought I rocked it). Despite this, my last two hair "experiments" actually worked quite well for me. The first, going from a sweeping preppy side fringe that I had sported for what seems like my entire life, to a full fringe. BAM, love it!


The second, and this was a slightly more spur of the moment idea, was to dip-dye my hair. Originally the plan was to strip the bottom half of my hair from its burgundy and replace it with a more vibrant purple. My  flatmate and her friend were on hand to conduct my makeover, however after step one the "stripping" of the colour, it was a unanimous decision that I should sport the ginger look for a while, pretending I meant to do it. So I did. SLADOOSH 



Do excuse how large these pictures of my face are, I'm not that vain, honest.

So it's been about 10 months of me re-dying this ginger, actually going to a salon and asking for the most orange they can make it, met me with some very concerning looks and even a few "but blonde's very in for dip dye?" NO, MAKE ME ORANGE. The time has come for me to continue on with quest for purple ends. I purchased a Dip-dye kit, that promised me vibrant purple ends within the hour. Bang on. Now here comes the most important, if not the only thing I wish you to take away from this blog, STAY AWAY FROM SMART BEAUTY DYES. This is the second time I have attempted to use their products and both times I have had to correct my hair from what hell it left behind. Example...




There are lots of pictures of my face in this, apologies.

This is the aftermath of their "Purple Hue Dip-Dye Kit". What a load of crap. On my already light (ginger hair) I used their pre-lightener as suggested, yet still ended up with this patchy lilac mess. Great.

So thus far I have learnt, and wish to pass onto you, the following;
DO lighten your hair first before dip-dyeing, it will make the colour more effective,
DON'T use Smart Colour Dyes, a waste of money, time and efforts and cancel out point #1
DO go to a hairdresser if you want to keep the same colour you achieved first time, it wont happen more than once
DON'T do spur of the moment hairstyles, I was lucky this time, THINK IT THROUGH
DO post attractive pictures of yourself on the Internet

As previously mentioned, I am writing this with foils in, an attempt to remove this slightly horrific colour and restore my hair back to its natural glory with Scott Cornwall COLOUR B4. The reviews and research I've read look promising, lets see shall we...