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Help with mixing this shade of purple & turquoise

 
(@emily-chameleon)
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Hi 🙂

Looking to get this hair tomorrow:

My hair is currently very faded directions turquoise so it's kinda Pastel turquoise.

I have noticed that directions turquoise has turned blue now so I bought spring green to mix with it to make it the greener turquoise I wanted.
Would that make the same colour in the pic?

Also for the purple I have a variety of colours to mix as I want it to be a bright purple not dark.
I've got plum, violet, lavender, cerise, poppy red, Atlantic blue, lagoon blue and Fire.

What colours would make this purple?
I'm struggling to think. I can only think of cerise with a bit of poppy red and some sort of blue?

Help me 😪

Thanks in advance

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Topic starter Posted : November 28, 2014 5:19 pm
(@emily-chameleon)
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Not sure if the picture posted ad in in my phone.
But this is the link:
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Topic starter Posted : November 28, 2014 5:20 pm
(@Realize)
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Do you have the new or old Plum formula? if you have the old one, Plum alone should get you to this purple, maybe just dilute it a little as it comes out very dark when freshly dyed. If it's the new batch I'd try to mix Violet with Cerise and maybe a tiny bit of blue or Cerise and Blue.

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Posted : November 28, 2014 7:44 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)
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I am not sure you will need to add more green to the turquoise, maybe just dilute it a bit. The new Turquoise is greener than the old version, and the old version used to dilute greener.
For the purple I would start with Cerise and add the Atlantic blue or the turquoise until it is the shade you want.

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Posted : November 28, 2014 7:47 pm
(@emily-chameleon)
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Do you have the new or old Plum formula? if you have the old one, Plum alone should get you to this purple, maybe just dilute it a little as it comes out very dark when freshly dyed. If it's the new batch I'd try to mix Violet with Cerise and maybe a tiny bit of blue or Cerise and Blue.

It's the old plum so it's very blue based unfortunately 🙁
Okay I'll have a play with the cerise and see what I can get.
It'll be over my blueish base anyway so hopefully I just need the pinky side of purple to make it bright.

I am not sure you will need to add more green to the turquoise, maybe just dilute it a bit. The new Turquoise is greener than the old version, and the old version used to dilute greener.
For the purple I would start with Cerise and add the Atlantic blue or the turquoise until it is the shade you want.

Greener? Really? I find its a lot more blue so I have to add green to it. But may have just been the last batch. I'll see how this one looks.
So looks like cerise is a good option for a mix of purple. Ooh mixing turquoise with it 😮 never thought of that! I'll play with all the colours and hope I can find something pretty 🙂

Thanks to both of you

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Topic starter Posted : November 28, 2014 7:55 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)
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They may have changed it again. They did with Alpine Green, when they tweaked all the formulas they made it much greener, less teal. Then they reverted to a bluey teal colour (which may or may not be the same as the original formula, who knows, but definitely less green than the 'new' formula lol) I just wish they had kept the original formulas alongside the 'new & improved' versions, old formula Plum and turquoise were always two of my favourites, and I agree that the original plum with the pink fade would have been just right (and is possibly what she used in the pic)

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Posted : November 28, 2014 8:15 pm
(@Realize)
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You are welcome 🙂 if your base is already a bit blue then a mix with a lot of Cerise in should result in a nice purple!

They may have changed it again. They did with Alpine Green, when they tweaked all the formulas they made it much greener, less teal. Then they reverted to a bluey teal colour (which may or may not be the same as the original formula, who knows, but definitely less green than the 'new' formula lol) I just wish they had kept the original formulas alongside the 'new & improved' versions, old formula Plum and turquoise were always two of my favourites, and I agree that the original plum with the pink fade would have been just right (and is possibly what she used in the pic)

I wish they would at least write somewhere or inform retailers that they change their formulas! I was so bummed about the new green based Plum, I've found out on this forum that it had been changed and when I wrote on their Facebook page about it they only suggested what dye mix could replace it but they didn't somehow apologize for the lack of info. I mean, if I hadn't researched a little on here I would've probably thrown it away as I thought I had an unlucky tub from a bad batch...

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Posted : November 28, 2014 8:45 pm
(@emily-chameleon)
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Thanks for all the advice everyone. Just finished dying my hair directions turqupise mixed with crazy colour(?) uv turquoise and directions spring green.
For the purple I mixed directions Cerise with directions new style plum and directions turquoise.
It's come out AMAZING! I will upload photos tomorrow 🙂

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Topic starter Posted : December 2, 2014 9:09 pm