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So, this is how I feel right now:
Which is weird, because my hair is like this:
So I should be feeling more like this:
I’ve had a lot of this the past couple of days:
But now he’s all:
and
Pretty hair!!!
It is a lot of fun and a lot of work. When are you coming to see meeeeeeeee?
Oh, you’re beautiful!
I love, love love rainbow hair!
My hair is a bit darker than yours, but I can get red to show up on it, if it’s a dark red. I think if I dye it again, I will make it black with two great big red streaks in front.
Weird random tangent alert:
Did you ever watch the teen “Star Trek” knockoff on Nickelodeon, “Space Cases”? There was a character on it named Catalina who had bright, stripey rainbow hair. I always wondered how a person did that — dyed stripes into one’s hair without having the colors run together.
I didn’t see it. Star Trek scared the crap out of me and I avoided all things related.
It’s actually really easy to do streaks as long as you don’t mind having the colours run together a tiny bit. I’m a big fan of Manic Panic because I’m allergic to the regular hair dyes (my hair is red via the power of henna). To do this, I separated out a pretty big chunk of hair on the top of my head and clipped the rest back, then separated that into three sections and used the tiny rubber bands you get for braces to hold each one. This step looks ridiculous. Then I carefully bleached those sections (last time I had streaks I overbleached my hair, so I didn’t get it as light as I wanted this time because I was nervous) and washed my whole head. Each streak gets its own clingwrap barrier that lays against my head while I apply the dye (working back to front); once I have enough dye on the hair for it to be saturated, I take my gloves off and fold the cling wrap over and around it so I have a little bundle of neatly folded hair encased in plastic wrap. This keeps it off the rest of my hair and each colour separate. Because MP is all plant dyes and some heavy-duty conditioners, you can leave it on forever, basically, so I put on an old hat (incase I didn’t do a perfect job wrapping the bundles up–it stains fabric) and go to sleep, then shower in the morning to get it all out. The purple has faded a little bit into the pink and teal (giving me a deep magenta and peacock blue in the overlap), which I think looks way more awesome. If you want to keep the colours separate, you haev to wash them separately–too much trouble!