Gen Z gifted us millennials something mixed in with our confusion, and it's the dirty roots trend.
I've had unnaturally colored hair for most of my adult life. My father had very few rules he enforced during my teenage years, and one was that I could not have weird hair. I believe I've dyed it (mostly blue) ever since I aged out of this parameter.
The one issue I've always had is that I care about my hair A LOT. I'm not one to have dainty nails or a put together outfit... But my hair? I take my hair very seriously.
My hair grows crazy fast. In this picture I have about 9 months of growth, roughly 3-4 inches of dark brown roots.
The same thing happens every time. One day I look in the mirror, and I suddenly hate my roots. Then I know that I'm ready to touch them up. I usually have a hair appointment 30 minutes later.
This time, I let my blue fade out into a turquoise blonde before making the decision. And on this occasion, I decided not to go to a salon.
This is typically a HUGE no to me, I've been known to pay through the nose for my hair.
Part of this choice is time, it takes anywhere from 5 to 7 hours to get my hair dyed. The other aspect is money, last time I went in to a salon I spent an ungodly sum. So, I decided to see how I could do on my own. I headed to do some thrifty shopping, and collected the goods.
In case anyone is hoping to learn here, I want to note that volume 30 bleach on dark brown hair is an abomination. I should have used volume 20.
Since I had only dyed my hair once in the last year, and it was feeling pretty strong, I skimped a bit on quality purchases. Manic Panic is a brand that's nostalgic for any US punk or goth over a certain age. This stuff was nearly holy to me when I was younger.
I slapped it on to my hair, and waited...
Crud. That isn't right.
My hair lightened fairly nicely, but I had some dark spots here and there. The most notable thing to me though, was that it had a yellow tone to it. This is 110% a no-go if you are applying blue. You'll end up with green, either right away, or when it begins to fade. Damn me, I had to bleach it again.
You can probably tell from this pic, my hair did great on the second bleach. When I rinsed it off, I had an even blonde that held up to inspection...
All accept one detail.
It STILL had a slight golden tone to it. That wasn't going to work at all, so I headed to an actual beauty store. Toner time!
Purple cancels out yellow, this I know. The exact wizardry that you use to balance this without having purple hair is a total mystery to me however.
Luckily, I found an employee at the shop who really knew his stuff. He told me he worked at a salon as his main job, and I could feel his confidence as he helped me select what I needed to fix my golden conundrum. Deliverance.
If I had been smart, I'd have gone to the beauty store before the second bleach. This blunder ended up costing me a chunk of change, but still an insignificant one compared to salon costs.
The man who helped me was kind enough to write the instructions on the boxes for me, sensing my anxiety bubbling in my gut.
I promise there is a method to the madness.
It's magic, and you just have to wait to see it...
I let this sit on my hair for about 30 minutes. I overlapped the toner onto my blue-ish hair a bit, whereas I did not touch the majority of my hair with the bleach.
With the new growth blended into the remnants of the last blue, it was time to wash and blow dry!
Success!
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YESSSSS! I actually liked this color a lot, for a brief moment I considered leaving it this way for a week or so. Instead, I decided I'd go an ashy tinted blonde perhaps next year, when I'll be ready to do this all again...
With the right base achieved, it was time to move on to blue!
The dye I picked is premixed, which is how salon dye comes as well. The brand I picked has a "clear" tube that you can mix into the others to alter the shade. I wanted a deep ocean like blue though, so I left it as it was. I typically go a medium blue, so it was fun to switch up.
Final color!
Woot! When I was finally done, my hair was exactly the color I'd hoped for! Depending on the lighting, the way it appears is wildly different. In the cloudy day sun, you can see all the electric blue highlights in my braid.
Here's a photo in a dim room vs. in the sun.
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The first photo isn't the best. It's apparently really odd to take a photo of your own hair, I kept having to retake it because of glare... Then eventually gave up.
I was really quite pleased with the final result! I saved a ton of cash, and was able to take the time to do each step as it was convenient. I'd say it took about 7 hours, but I split them over two days instead of sitting in a chair for them consecutively.
Of course, now it was time to give my hair some love.
Years ago, a stylist told me about Olaplex bond builder, and I became obsessed with it soon after. Since then, I've always had some on hand.
Sadly, I tapped out the last of my #3 Olaplex between bleaches. Letting the healing properties permeate my hair for a handful of hours, I knew I'd need more.
When I got to the beauty store, I spotted this stuff. It has all the same stuff that Olaplex has as far as I can tell, but it's wayyyyy cheaper. I decided to pick some up for aftercare, and so far it seems just as good. Here's my before and after pics!
Although my hair turned out well, there were several steps that gave me anxiety during this process. I'm fairly certain I won't be dying my hair at home again... but it feels cool that it worked this time.
Do you dye your hair? If so, do you prefer to do it at home, or in a salon?
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Do I know you? You must get ahold of some peoples.. someone that looks like you has turned your hair blue... and it rocks. Possibly a #snookmademedoit? Love the hair... love the post. But the real reason I am here?
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Ta da! Your DIY dye turned out looking awesome!💙 You're now a level 4 color stylist in my book! Looking forward to more of your educational DIY posts @grindan
I've been doing my hair for many decades and at times the struggle is real. I can't do foils my own hair so I have those done once or twice a year but everytime I find a good stylist, she ends up moving to another state within 1-2 years. Wish my hair grew fast as yours does. Ptff! Nowadays it would take me at least three years to have the nine-month root growth you have in your first photo. And that's with taking vitamins & supplements for help!
Just wait till you start getting "natural highlights" (silver) growing among the normal hair. They are color resistant shits. You just reminded me I need to darken up and color my roots👩🦳✂️
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SHUCKS! Thank you so much, that's a heck of an accolade! 😍💗 !LUV
This has to be some strange but unavoidable phenomena... I feel like all of us have the same curse- you find the perfect stylist, and then they disappear 😭! It's the heartbreak that no one talks about 😂
Thank you so much for the beautiful comment Nina! I hope you're having an awesome week 🤗
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Hey, you! Pretty blue haird girl! Can I have your phone number? 😍
Oh wait... 😜
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! help(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoLife shouldn't be taken too seriously and hair is one of them. I love that you're not afraid to experiment, and the colour suits your personality.
That blue plait is gorgeous.
Happy Sunday, and Happy Coffe Day ☕️💙
We're always bonding over our hair attitudes 🤣
Thank you so much for gassing me up Milly! I think the blue matches my personality too, it makes me smile that you said that 💚🤗
Happy Coffee Day to you too! ☕️💕
That's a beautiful shade of blue, love it!
Hey Kenny! Thank you so much my friend 🤗
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Damn girl, this looks nice! Well done!!!
Thank youuuuu! I was so relieved when it developed haha 💚🤗
We should always be "stubbornly selfish" when it comes to ourselves. Allowing ourselves to do what we feel is best for us is an act of liberation and approaching true freedom.
As long as we are not hurting anyone else all is well. And as the saying goes "between tastes and colors authors have not written."
Thank you dear @grindan for sharing your stylist experience. And above all for maintaining the firmness of your aesthetic and beauty convictions!
I loved the way you summed that up- YES, we must follow our passions and express ourselves! Thank you for this lovely comment 😁💚
Your hair turned out very gorgeous dear grindan. Moreover, your hair looks really healthy with what I see here on the images, some hair finds it really hard to survive all of the bleaching. I mostly go DIY also cause I do have this naturally golden hair. But, I do make it up to six(6) professional touches every year.
Happy Sunday to you, do well to have amazing new week. 🥰🌹🌹
It's cool that you do both DIY and salon hair coloring- the best of both worlds! I'm always jealous of those with naturally light hair... I'd save so much on bleach 🤣🙌
Thank you so much for the kind words, and sharing a bit about your hair as well! 💚 Happy Sunday, and here's to a great week ahead 🙌💃 !LADY
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Hey! Dear grindan. Thanks for the beautiful words, wishing you a fortunate week too
I do love the blue hair! It gives you some fabulous pizazz, @grindan!
When I saw a notification from you, I thought you'd come to bust my chops for write club (which would be super fair) ahahaha. I need to overcome my staggering writers block! 😵
Thank you for the awesome comment Jayna 🤗💚
Even though it's an older post, I had to come and say you rock the blue hair!
I always love it when I see someone with such a colour or pink or one of the other flashy tints, and think damn, I wish I could rock that.
It's funny to read you did it as soon as you got out of the house, I remember my mother always saying I could not have a perm, I was jealous of her curls. As soon as I could, I did it as well, lol.
Shucks, thank you!!
Right now I'm a stay-at-home mom. I figure, if I'm playing all day, I might as well have fun hair 😂
I think when I first dyed it, I was in shock for a few days... it's odd to see yourself radically differently in the mirror. I certainly felt that I was not rocking it at first, then I settled into it. I bet you'd feel the same, or maybe even like it straight away! Unless you mean you can't because of your profession... either way, I hope you can give it a try someday!
It's awesome that you had your own coming of age hair-do 💚! Being an adult could never be as cool as we thought it'd be as kids, but there are those special things 🤣🙌
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Ah you're so right! You should have fun hair :)
I can relate to the shock, I had the same with my first time perm, my god, I wanted it for YEARS, and when I had it, I was like this is not how I wanted it! I wanted slightly curls not these extreme ones. Thankfully for me, I have very heavy hair so it took a week max for the curls to drop and be as I wanted them.
I can do with my hair what I want, I think soon I will do another round of red hair, now that we moved, I bought dark towels so I don't have to ruin any towels anymore, lol.
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Lo mejor de todo son los cambios. Hay que arriesgarse. Te quedó muy bien. Saludos
¡Muchas gracias! Estoy de acuerdo, debemos tomar riesgos para encontrar lo que es divertido en la vida. 😍
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Every man loves to see his woman looking good and having a good hair do.
Now that you got it right, you will save more money.
I'm excited to have my options open for next time I dye my hair! Thanks for your comment 😁
The blue color suits you well. You look more beautiful and blooming having that kind of color in your hair.
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The Gen Z's are realy essing with us. Experimenting can be really fun but it can go left too, I'm glad you got the colour right, it suits you...
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Hehehe, what an experiment you did @grindan , but then, the end result is amazing. Really love your lifestyle and the new colour of your hair after your experiment is simply cool and fits you well. As for me, I might be scared of doing this myself, hahaha..I will surely choose to go spend money in saloon but here, you saved money and got a nice result.. really a great try my !LADY
You look great on the shots, so beautifully made 😍
Shucks, thank you so much!! 💚
I was surprised that I managed to get it just as good as it would've been if I'd gone to a salon... but I don't think I'll gamble again, there were a few scary moments in the process haha!
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At some point while reading, I was anxious for you, especially after you had the second bleach, but I'm glad it all turned out well. I admire your courage though to keep going even after several seemingly failed attempts. The blue truly suits you.
At that point I was like... uh oh, did I mess up?! ahahahah
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Your blue hair looks amazing. I’m also thinking of taking a different turn with my hair. Try new things on it.
Do it!!! It's so fun to experiment 💚
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It is quite cool having the courage to continuesly or timely change your hair color.
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WOW.. You are brave girl 😜 lol
I never died my hair myself only at the hairdresser, and only highlights. But I always liked blue color and Pink so I was putting some fun color for a party once but ya... It went away after shower so I am not very brave 😁 lol
I really like the Light blue shade before it got all blue. But then I LOOVE how the real blue looks on you to. Damn.. You can pull any color and hair due off looking awsome 😍
Beautiful... I cheated..
Made a edit to see how I would look in Pink and blue 😂 Hahahaha
Still to chicken to actually do it, so I admire you for doing it.
Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful sunday.
Much love 🤗💗🤗
Saffi!! I totally missed this till just now somehow 😰😵
From your edited pics, I think you'd rock either color... Although I think I'd pick purple for you if I could pick a color, it would look so ethereal with your eye color!
Your natural hair color is really lovely, so I can understand why you'd prefer that.
Thanks for the kick ass comment sis! 💗🤗💕👯
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