It is no secret that I like to dye my hair.
Whilst studying art, people would say "haha, your hair is like your art" I'd just think "well yeah!". I remember hearing my dad talking to someone, "the blonde is only there as a base in between colours, like her blank canvas"
So,
Post-uni-art-thinking made me decide it was about time I used my hair as a blank canvas and design a series of hair colours showing something to do with colour theory in art.
I'm not big on reading long giant books on theory, prefer colour for dummies or just the basics of colour so I can experiment at my own free-will.
Taking all this into account, I decided on using quotes or sayings from artists or art historians or theorists or general people and turning them into my hair!!
If you get what I saying here...
To show you what I mean, I did a practise run of the first idea.
"The splash of Yellow, says more about the purple than just having a plain field of purple" Danny Rolph, 2016.
- Bleach the shit out of your hair..looking for wispy white in colour and fried ends.
- Separate hair into the sections you want coloured.
- Yellow first. Smear dye all over the area. Forget that tip about vasaline on your forehead - going for the Simpson look - leave in hair for a couple hours for stainiest finish.
- Wash out. Dry. Reseperate the blonde from the yellow best you can the you don't mix the purple with the yellow.
- Cover blonde section in purple hair dye. Realise you don't have enough so throw in a bit of old blue to top up. (Pretend this was all deliberate) yes it was meant to match the tattoo....
- Leave again for a couple hours. It's semi-pernement it won't do much damage.
- Now condition the fuck out your hair beca use we want to remind our hair that we love it.
- Wash out conditioner after another hour and dry.
I dunno, just trying something new here.
(I was also meant to upload this about a month a go. oops!)
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