Hello everyone! I currently have hair that has peachy pink, orangey, light purple/pink hair. I first had it bleached from a deep green on one side and deep purple on the other side. Most of the color got stripped off. It was dyed to a light blonde with orangey/yellow undertones. I then dyed my hair purple at the top mixing into red mixing into orange at the ends. It's quite faded now (see pictures).
It's been almost two years since I had my dark green hair and I miss it! My natural hair is growing out (1.5 in) and I want to wait to bleach my hair for new color until it is mostly my natural hair. I want to find a way to dye over the color I have now in a way that could get me dark green hair. I would not mind dyeing my hair other colors to eventually get to the dark green.
I don't fully understand color theory so I don't know if what I plan on doing will even work, but this is what I had in mind:
I will probably buy a pravana blue and dye over the color I have or maybe a deep purple and then once it fades dye it blue. I'd probably keep it blue for a while. Once I let that fade, I was thinking of dyeing it sfx sonic green or pravana's green (i am saying I'll use sfx and pravana because I've used these before and really liked the color and how long they lasted).
Would this work? Or would I need to bleach/ bleach bath etc. my hair so when the color fades it actually fades blue and not pinkish again.
Does anyone have any other tips?
Thanks!
Posted : March 11, 2017 9:11 pm
Going round the colour wheel is definitely the best plan. When you add blue, it will go purple to start with. Though, in orange parts your are likely to get muddy parts as orange and blue are opposites and neutralise each other (to browny mud colour mostly) so, I would actually advise using a slightly more leaning to pink purple first. As that's fading, start using blue and it'll gradually move to blue from purple. From there you can start adding green.
Posted : March 11, 2017 9:27 pm
I find a good way to understand colour theory is to think back to the three primary colours and realise that when all three are present it makes brown, so if you mix red and blue you get purple but if you mix orange (red+yellow) with blue you get brown.
So in this case as Janine says, you need to move through purple to blue and then you can move to green from blue (as green is made up of blue and yellow so any red or pink tones left in your hair will make brown as all three colours would be present)
There's a chance I may have just confused you more and if so ignore me completely!!
Posted : March 13, 2017 12:44 pm
I would recommend Adore Emerald for this. Let me dig out some old pics...
The top is Adore Fuchsia Fiesta with a gradient down to Adore Violet Gem, fade. I did an application of the bleach powder, coconut oil and shampoo mix and then dyed immediately over that with a mixture of 2/3 Adore Emerald and 1/3 Adore Aquaramine. Emerald on its own would give you an even deeper green.
Posted : March 17, 2017 1:29 pm
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