My tips are (were?) very light and looked like an intentional ombré but are (were??) actually just the evidence of my years and years of overdying my hair that have grown out over the past two years. Some strands were actually legit blond, so I used them to test run the color and then left for work. As I was leaving my building, a neighbor pointed at my head and said, "For St. Patrick's?"
To which I responded, "Oh, nooooo." And then spent my entire shift at work explaining to coworkers I had not planned this and deflecting their comments that I was definitely going out for Jameson and Guinness that night.
I got off work and it was time for bangs. Bleaching and dying your hair in a dorm with communal bathrooms is exactly as fun and easy as it sounds!! V. fun to have people constantly walking in on you and asking what your doing as you furiously apply bleach while holding your breath to avoid inhaling the fumes.
After I lifted the color in my bangs, I looked like some sort of off-brand Jack Black character.
For the color, I wanted a deep blue/green and mixed Voodoo Blue with Electric Lizard until it looked like a dark teal in the bowl. Left it on for two hours and ended up with this:
At this point, it was 2am, my bangs were a little too bright, and my ombré a little too mossy (like I was some sort of forest wizard a la Sylvester McCoy in The Hobbit). So I went to bed, woke up, mixed up a bluer dye and left that on for four and a half hours.
Needless to say, shit looks bomb!
I especially like it in a high ponytail.
Indoors it looks Sailor Pluto-y and has a lot of dark green lowlights, and then I go in the sun and the neon-y bits light up. It's perf. *pats self on back*
(Let's see how my preschoolers react to this.)
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