i bleached my roots yesterday and did a quick bleach bath (left it on for 5 minutes) on the rest of my hair and it turned mint green and i am in love with it! its summer now so i am not as much of a vampire as i am in winter so i think i suit the mint. but my roots are yellow. should i do a bleach bath on them and then mix directions turquoise with conditiner to get mint or should i try enchanted forest? (even with a bleach bath my roots will be yellow so enchanted forest would go too green maybe?)
if the bleach bath doesnt get me light enough i think i would do an ombre with diluted turquoise roots how do you guys think it would look?
An ombré would look great and definitely be easier than trying to match!
yes but i am afraid of messing it up. i have never done an ombre before and my hair is short now i dont know where to stop. i want the mint to be the main color but doing just the root with turquoise would look ridiculous, and i cant find any tutorials for ombre in short(its medium lenght but its short for me :)) hair like mine.
* i did a strand test and it looks like very diluted turquoise will match.
If you have a look on my timeline in the timeline photos section, you can see I've done a few ombré style on hair shorter than yours. It works 🙂 if you still fancy doing it if the turquoise doesn't match.
If you do, I can explain how to do it then.
After seeing your photos i prefer going with ombre now 😀 and mint is making me look very pale with very dark eyebrows i loved it first but the sun is up and i need some darkness around my face, but still not giving up on mint. So i would love it if you explained how to do an ombre for this lenght hair. thank you already *thx*
The length of the hair is irrelevant, the technique is the same. You have one colour at the root, another at the tip and a mix of the two in between. You can literally just smoosh the two colours together on the strand so it blends, or you can mix the two colours in a container and apply to the mid section, then smoosh to blend where it meets the 'neat' versions of the colours. It is much harder to explain than to do lol.
I wont be dying the bottom section i will be leaving it as it is and i am just not sure on how long to keep the top section. from Janineb's pics it looks good anyways but maybe its because she has gorgeous hair 😀
i guess i will just do my roots and than add a little more conditioner to the dye and put it in the mid section and then smoosh. I guess that would work.
Yeah, it's a lot harder to explain than do!
I do it slightly differently to wicked pixie, but only slightly. I get random sections of hair and put the dye on the root and smooth it though fairly thickly until it's about an inch away from where I want the colour to merge. Then I drag that colour through so it blends down through the length. If I'm doing another colour, which I don't always, I just then add it about an inch lower and then blend the two. If I'm adding a third, I do the same lower. It's really not hard 🙂
If you don't know how big to make the top section, start off small and see how it looks. You can tell quite well with this method how it's going to look when you're finished. If it needs more, add more. It's easier to add than it is to take away of course!
Your explanation is better, that is actually what I was trying to describe. The way you describe the three colours, the middle colour can be a mix of the original two, I find this easier for two colour gradients on long hair
You're right, it can be! And, to me, the OPs hair is definitely long not short 🙂 (even if it is shorter than you're used to! That's the longest my hair has ever been!)
I had tail bone lenght hair since i was 11 and just cut it a month ago so its very very short for me 😀 but i love short hair now, i might go even shorter.
I will dye my hair tonight i will show you the results tomorrow. Pride is in 2 weeks and i wanna look good *1*
i did the ombre and it was just shiny green i hate it. i did a strand test with more turquoise and purple on the ends and turquoise always goes green. should i just try the turquoise with less conditioner? i feel hopeless. i feel like just dyeing it purple again. directions turquoise looks soo blue on others why is it lizard green on me?
If it's too green for you then just go for a true or purple toned blue instead of turquoise.
I dont have any true blue dye and i am leaving for istanbul in a week and the dye wont come that fast even if , order now. Aafter going into crisis, i calmed down and figured i could use my left over purple dyes on top (turquoise doesnt cover my roots but goes blue on my ends) and turquoise on my tips. Green makes my face look really bad but i dont mind it when its further from my face. I hope it works out.