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Yellow over blue = green?

 
 Rij
(@rij)
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I was contemplating bleaching my roots, which is going to be a challenge seeing how I have dreadlocks now.

But I want green again, directions alpine quickly turned into blue.

My question is : if I put directions daffodil and directions fluo glow over this, will it turn green? I still have a whole pot of daffodil and a quarter pot of fluo glow. Was going to mix the two.

I just don't know since the blue isn't very light..

My hair is like this :

Thanks!

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Topic starter Posted : December 25, 2014 1:56 pm
(@marthakins)
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I'm not sure how strong those colours are since I haven't actually used them but I think they should make the blue more green toned at least even if they're not strong enough to make it true green. Could you try it on just a bit of one?

I think the worst that would happen is you'd get turquoise.

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Posted : December 25, 2014 3:28 pm
 Rij
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Daffodil isn't so strong, I used it once over very light hair and it went a pale yellow and faded fast. I couldn't find more fluo glow (which is quite strong), so I ended up bleach bathing my roots and currently have a mix of special effects cupcake pink and stargazer baby pink on mostly the roots and a bit down the dreads where it touched the bleach. I'm expecting a coral-ish pink at the roots and the bits that touched the blue went purple (which was what I expected). But baby pink isn't very strong. I'll have to wait and see. πŸ™‚

I can always dye over it if it doesn't look good.

Thanks for the advice anyway! Next time when I don't know what to expect, I'll do one dreadie and see what happens. I did it before, so I don't know why I didn't think of that, haha.

Oh and I ended up finding a whole tub of fluo glow after I executed my new plan. xD Oh well, there's always a next time. πŸ™‚

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Topic starter Posted : December 25, 2014 4:33 pm
(@marthakins)
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Ooh I think that sounds really cute πŸ™‚

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Posted : December 25, 2014 5:39 pm
 Rij
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Sneak preview!

It turned out very well! Not as salmony as I thought it would be. Don't mind the roots, I'm having my dreadlocks touched up in a month or so. Maybe the bleaching will help knot it up too. I'll post a topic tomorrow with daylight pictures, since the lamplight makes it more orange than it is.

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Topic starter Posted : December 25, 2014 9:24 pm
(@marthakins)
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Wow, I love how that looks, the gradient has worked really well. and I've probably mentioned this before but your mirror is amazing!

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Posted : December 25, 2014 11:31 pm
(@kitebunny)
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That is so pretty  πŸ™‚  and I also want your mirror!

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Posted : December 26, 2014 1:14 pm
 Rij
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Thank you!

And that mirror actually comes from England. πŸ˜€ Newcastle to be precise. We were waiting for the boat to take us back to the Netherlands (Newcastle - Ijmuiden) and there's this shop near a castle ruin where they sell all sorts of things. This mirror too. I had to have it. Was years ago though, so even if you know the shop, I don't know if they still sell it.

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Topic starter Posted : December 26, 2014 1:48 pm
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totally not hair related but I live in Newcastle and don't think the shop is there any more but I bought a similar one there (same design but all just plain mirror glass instead of the rainbow - although I loved the rainbow one more my hubby talked me out of it as it didn't match our hall!!:( )

A xXx

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Posted : December 27, 2014 9:38 pm
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totally not hair related but I live in Newcastle and don't think the shop is there any more but I bought a similar one there (same design but all just plain mirror glass instead of the rainbow - although I loved the rainbow one more my hubby talked me out of it as it didn't match our hall!!:( )

A xXx

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Posted : December 27, 2014 10:12 pm