dye time 3# - the finished product!

For a £3.75 dye, this covered so well! It's a very intense colour.. and the orange in it is very prominent! But it's definitely one of the only dyes that's pretty much the same as the colour chart on the box as it is in real life.
Thumbs up from me for Superdrug Colour Luminance!
xox

dye time 3#

I'm thinking of making this into a series.. I swear I use a different dye each time!

This time I'm using Superdrug's own brand Colour Vibrance (which seems like a take on Live XXL colours) it's certainly the cheapest I've ever bought! At £3.75 (but also on offer for 2 for £5 something..) it's cheaper than even any semi perminant dyes I've used, so I'm a little worried on the quality, but we'll give it a shot! I'm using the 77.44 colour, 'Hot Red'. I appreciate that the lighting is terrible, but this is just a quickie to show you. On the box it appears to be a very bright, orange red - which is what I'm hoping to achieve!

Again, I know the lighting is terrible, but my current colour is somewhere between a light chestnut brown, with a kinda coppery hint. I'd love to keep it this colour, or maybe even lighten it up, but considering this is just how it's faded from the last dye job 5 and a half weeks ago (the longest I've gone without re-dying!) I know that I'm not really gonna be able to get it back this colour.. *sigh..*

First thing I noticed was how small a bottle the developer lotion was in and how big a tube the creme colour was in! It didn't say anything about washing your hair free of product, but it did say to apply it to dry hair, so although I had hairspray in, I used it anyway. The instructions have separate instructions for regrowth application (which is what I SHOULD be doing) but I'm just gonna chuck it all on!

As a little side note, this was the first dye I've ever used that says on the side that it's 'not recomended for use on under 16 year olds'. Odd.

When you first put it on it STINKS. And I mean like a bleach type smell. It gets better, but it's pretty strong! The dye in the bottle is peach colour, but when its been on your head for a while, it goes a deep orange and looks like it might stain, but rubs off with a wet cloth really easily. For what looks like a small bottle, this stuff goes really far! My hair isn't too long at the moment, but its pretty thick, and it covered all of it with dye leaving nothing left in the bottle. It took me 10 minutes to apply and I left it for 25. The box says 30 minutes for the type of application I wanted, but considering it took me so long to apply, it made sense to knock off some time. By the time I went to wash it off, it was blood red.

Washing it off was really good! All the stains on my face came off super easy, and it didn't feel too dry or like rough after the dye had been washed off before the conditioner went on. The conditioner was actually really good too!

For a £3.75 dye, I'm actually pretty impressed. I'm gonna post a picture tomorrow, because the light will be better and I'll have make-up on, but I'm very pleased so far!
xox

lazy days are my productive days.

Marko is currently on holiday and has been for the last.. Well a week today! He's not back until the 22nd (sighhh) so I've been currently doing FUCK ALL, which explains the lack of posts! I'm missing him lotssss as this is the first time we've been apart for such a long time, so as something to take my mind off him, I've been planning what colour I'm going to dye my hair next and I've found some AWESOME colours, tips and buys!

Firstly, the colours. I've blogged before about how I adore Lua P's colour, and I recently had an e-mail from her telling me what dye she uses. For anyone who's interested, it's Alfaparf! But unfortunately, living in the UK means that I can't use it :( Well I could.. But it'd be superrrr expensive.. So, I had a search for some alternatives and found this!

This is the colour chart for L'Oréal Technique Excellence HiColour Permanent Creme High-lift for Dark Hair Only.. Whoa that's a mouthful! But look at the colours! Aren't they yummy?! I think I'd go for the Copper Red as that's what seems closest to the colour Lua told me she uses.

                       

I also ADORE the Medium Intense Red Copper from L'Oréal Preferance Mega Reds..

             

I also really love these colours from Tints of Nature who make organic hair dyes. The light henna red is perfect!

And the Terracotta Blonde from Naturtint is really gorgeous too!
I'll pick one of these as they're all just so awesome and warm and.. AHHH! ^^

I also found this blog called Radiance To Dye For, which gives some awesome tips for people with red hair who want to maintain the colour at low cost. It's written for people living in the US but you can always buy online!

Also! Who's excited for the release of Sinners Never Sleep?! You can pre-order it from You Me At Six's website, or find out more on their FaceBook!
Youth and Young Manhood has just come through the post, so I'm off for a listen! Will be posting my June playlist later today :)
xox

'it's like covering yourself in carrot purée..'

Woah. So I did it! Nothing like what I wanted, but it's okay. It looks alright. Cant imagine I'll keep it long though..

Firstly the dye itself. It was super super bright orange. Literally, it was carrot coloured. It was really promising when I was putting it on. Also, it seemed to go really far on my hair? And my hair is rather thick and long! I think there's still a fair bit left in the bottle, and I had loads on my hair. After being on my hair for about 15 minutes, it started going quite brownish, but I expected that. Smell was good too. Sometimes it can be really overpowering, but it was alright :)

 

(Psst! As I was writing this I found out that Amy Winehouse is dead! As a fellow 14th September baby, I feel deeply moved. RIP, your music is legendary)

When it was wet, you could tell it was gonna be on the dark side, so I was a little disappointed, but Live has never failed me before, so I was curious to see what it was going to be like dry. However, I was even more disappointed when it was dry..

This is what it looks like in different lights. Its rather dark, but it does have a reddish purpley tint to it. I think its growing on me. I think its really nice actually! Nowhere near what I wanted, so I am disappointed in that sense, but I lurrrvee it!

So for anyone thinking about buying Hot Cinnamon based on the model or colour chart, THINK AGAIN! Don't be fooled - it's a lot darker than you'll anticipate!
xox

dye time again.

My roots are long. My colour has faded so bad, I cant even remember what it looked like before.. It's time to re-dye.

This time, in an attempt to get a similar shade as Luanna's from the lookbook I linked to a couple of posts ago, I've gone for Live XXL in Hot Cinnamon, but I'm very scared.

I've read a blog where someonne tried to dye to this colour before, and it ended up quite dark. Loads of people then commented saying their hair went almost black, so I am a little worried as I'm hoping it'll go a coppery red! As you can see, I'm having a lazy day. Its the summer holidays, what can yah do?

So at the moment my hair is a mix of red, pink and brown.. I'll post later with the results.
Here goes!
xox

TADAAAHHH!!

From thisssss..



To thisssss!

Cyber Purple babieessss!

This is a baddd picture. In some lights its very dark, but in the sun, it's almost pink.
Love love LOVE IT!
xox

and this is why you should go blonde at a hairdressers..

I've got one of these dyes on..
Not gonna tell you which. But I'll post a picture of the finished product later, 'cause I've got a feeling its gonna be bright!

Fingers crossed I'll be able to go to the Mayday fair after.
xox

from bad.. to worse..

So the 3rd dye has left me an interesting gingery yellow colour, and after going out to buy something darker to put over the top, my Mum's now told me that I can't 'cause I'll kill my hair.

And I bought the Live XXL Cyber Purple and everything!
That an a Garnier reddy brown one.. But I like the idea of being purple!

I've got a horrible feeling I'll be going into school on tuesday like this..

AND!! To make matters worse, I don't think I'm allowed to go to the Mayday fair anymore ><
This day is getting worse and worse.

But it just hit breaking point.
My temporary phone, has just DIED.

Excuse me while I go eat my weight in chocolate..
xox

dyes and american pies.

Sorry it's been so long! Its been a busy busy week..

I thought I might do a post today, as at the moment, I'm sat with a THIRD hair dye on, trying desperately to get blonde ><
Last night I used Garnier Nutrisse Truly Blonde Pre-Lightener to get to a very odd shade of yellow, before using the Radiant Blondes hair colour in 8.03 Natural Blonde and sleeping on wet hair.

I woke up this morning to find I had gone ginger.

So that was great.
But yeah, I'm sat here with yet ANOTHER dye on (Boots had a 3 for 2 offer on all their hair dyes, so I thought, why not?!), this time its the 9.3 Pineapple shade, slightly lighter, PRAYING that it works, otherwise I'll have to stick a hat on, walk down to my local tesco and try and get another dye.

Luckily this one smells a lot nicer than the Pre-Lightener did.

But yes! Its been a busy week! I finally got my science results back - A in biology, A* in chemistry and C in physics, so I'll retake that one! But yeah, I'm pretty pleased with that :D
Speaking of school, it was nice to have just a 3 day week this week. Lovely way to ease everyone back in after the holidays. So thank you Will and Kate, and congrats! The wedding was lovely. I'm so proud to be able to say I watched it all. It was beautiful.

I also went to see Insidious that evening, with a few mates.
What a film!
I had Liv and Lev on my left, hugging each other, barely able to watch, and Joe and Jordan on my right, squeezing each others and and chewing on my jumper!I was just laughing the whole way through :') It's a good film though. Music is freakayyy.. We're convinced there'll be a 2nd. And we will DEFINITELY be watching it!

Went over the boyfriends house yesterday and watched half of American Pie, before realising it's NOT a film you watch with your other half, and putting Hot Tub Time Machine on instead.
And we made a den!
Might put a picture of that on later.. I was quite proud tbh :')

Just washed the dye off.. Third time lucky I hope :S

Well. Its not as ginger anymore.. I'm not really sure what colour you'd class it as? But it'll do for a moment.. Gonna go out later and pick up something lighter and see what happens!

Oooh I bought a few things actually!

Bag and vest top were both a fiver from Matalan and the shoes were £18 from a brand called Orchard, which can be found in Brantano. Also bought a really nice denim like, cotton shirt, also from Matalan, but I cant find a picture of it..

Well anyway! I'm off out to sort out the mess that is my hair. Gonna try the sublime mousse in the lightest shade, but pick up a brown colour in case it doesn't work ><
xox

Ooh! I forgot to say - we FINALLY have a full set list now :') Looking forward to practice!