Forever being told at university to try using an autumnal palette: reds, greens, yellows. That's not what is inspiring me. Sorry! Until Autumn 2016.
Gonna be honest I was quite lazy with this and did it very spur of the moment in the end and it didn't last as long as I would have liked.
But it was still pretty awesome!
Here's how it went:
- Manic panic hair dye
- Pillabox red
- Sunshine yellow
- Live Vibrant Colour
- Blue
- Punk purple
- Superdrug wash in/wash out
- Strawberry blonde
- Like before I had lovely bleach blonde hair to begin, with freshly trimmed to get rid of the straw like ends.
- As I was going for a orange base I used a strawberry blonde wash in/wash out dye to add warm tones to the hair as I had none due to the amount of bleach I use.
- I only had a small amount of orange hair dye left so I mixed that with the red and yellow dyes I had (all manic panic) to create a warming autumn leaf tone.
- I then mixed a bluey/purple. I didn't want too much purple but just an undertone running through the blue.
- I added the blue and bit of the red to it in a pot and mixed it.
The two main colours are now ready.
In my head I wanted the orange as the main colour on top with the blue underneath like a long shadow. I wanted this appear like a autumnal sunset.
So, I separated my hair into four sections. Two top sections and two under sections.
I looked like I was trying to make a dodgy 90's hair-do.
- Keeping bottom layer tied out the way I did one half of the top layer, then the other half.
I used no special technique here. I have no professional training. I just slapped the orange in my hair. To create some depth and tones I added bits of the yellow in places as "highlight" and red "shade".
I don't think it would have looked as good as it did if I just stuck to orange and blue.
- Once the top layer is nicely smothered in orangey tones I tied the two halves back up and covered in cling film.
- Then I moved on to the blue.
- I used the same "technique" as before but with blue/purple/red tones. The blue/purple mix I made earlier.
- I left this for a couple of hours wrapped the cling film, washed it out and conditioned.
Voila!
My autumnal palette.
Ready for Halloween.
I allowed this to just fade as it did over November. I got some wacky looks from this and then bleached it out in the 3rd week of November.
I needed the icy blonde look back for December
For this I used:
- Hair bleach
- Colour freedom toner
- Manic Panic shocking blue
- Colour freedom pastel
Simple for this one. Just think Elsa!
- An icy white blonde top with blue undertone.
- To give it more depth I did a dark deep blue undertone with a more pastel blue middle then blonde top.
- This stopped harsh lines of colour and allowed the blue to fade into an icy shadow.
Thanks, FreyJa!
