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My streaks started out as just a few strands of color. It became more and more difficult to separate the bleached and dyed hair from the normal looking hair. Gradually the color was taking over my head:
A new plan hatched. Here’s how we accomplished one of my silly life goals:
1) Assemble your team.
Silas, my good friend and hairstylist Jody, Bea, Sol, Fifi, Batman, Cici and Mimi. All faithfully attending the dying of the hair.
2) Slap on some bleach. Equal parts developer (30 proof) and bleach powder. If it tingles it means it’s working. Since my hair has been dyed darker (my natural color is a bit lighter than Silas’) it is harder to bleach to white.
3) Go to work with half bleached hair. Have students basically freak out begging to see the top half. Since the roots are virgin hair they bleach lighter and more quickly. It’s really really ugly, like a calico cat disaster. Such are the pains of bleaching. It’s not an exact science.
Teaching Keyboarding and Public Speaking for a few weeks this summer. It’s a pretty great job. Today the above prompt came up – had to take picture of it for Pam (mom) and Max (nephew). Not that either of them would fix either of those things.
4) Freak out because Jody is late and maybe she isn’t going to finish my hair! But no, she came and off we went to bleach again. Typically I’d let the hair follicles rest for a bit, but eh. My hair can take a double bleach ok.
Got my sweet kid’s hair shield thing on. Knock off Toy Story. Baller. This is my yellow hair after two bleachings. The color didn’t move much, but that is ok because I planned to dye over it.
5) Coat your skin with Vaseline, anywhere your hair color might stain. Notice how shiny my forehead is in these pics.
6) Mix your dye. All weird colors are semi permanent. I went for stains rather than full saturating dyes. Manic Panic stains bleached hair but isn’t recommended unless you want a soft color. Prevada is only available to pro hair-dressers (like Jody.) The rest you can buy at stupid Hot Topic (the devil’s store, according to Pam). I prefer RAW and Special Effects. Or Jerome Russell.
7) Have your hair dresser slap on the color. Or do it yourself. I usually do it myself.
8) Get used to your new hair!
