A Blank Canvas - Seasons may Change...

 

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!

A Blank Canvas

It is no secret that I like to dye my hair.

When myself and best friend Ellie (EllesBelles) were around 14 or 15, Ellie made a little diary for our school's time capsule about general Towers School life for her. In this, she wrote a profile about me. At that time we counted 18 different hair colour combinations. I'd been dying my hair for 2-3 years at this point. 6-7 years have gone by since then...how has my hair not fallen out since then!!

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.

 Step by step:

1. Bleach the shit out of your hair..looking for wispy white in colour and fried ends.
2. Separate hair into the sections you want coloured. 
3. 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.
4. Wash out. Dry. Reseperate the blonde from the yellow best you can the you don't mix the purple with the yellow. 
5. 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....
6. Leave again for a couple hours. It's semi-pernement it won't do much damage.
7. Now condition the fuck out your hair beca use we want to remind our hair that we love it.
8. 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!)