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    DIY Dye: Bright and Funky Temporary Hair Coloring You Do at Home
    DIY Dye: Bright and Funky Temporary Hair Coloring You Do at Home
    DIY Dye: Bright and Funky Temporary Hair Coloring You Do at Home
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    DIY Dye: Bright and Funky Temporary Hair Coloring You Do at Home

    By Loren Lankford

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    HAIR THAT’S TO DYE FOR

    Want an accent streak of fire-engine red? How about forest-green tips? Or maybe you’re daring enough to transform your locks into a rainbow of bright colors? It’s all up to you!

    With DIY Dye and some imagination, you can easily personalize your hair with any color and style imaginable. This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instructions on every aspect of at-home hair coloring including:

    • Picking the right dye
    • Concocting original hues
    • Adding highlights
    • Getting an ombre in any color

    Whether you’re looking to add color for a day, week, month or longer, DIY Dye shows you how to fashion the look you want using affordable options like coloring kits, chalks, henna, food coloring and even Kool-Aid packets.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUlysses Press
    Release dateFeb 4, 2014
    ISBN9781612433103
    DIY Dye: Bright and Funky Temporary Hair Coloring You Do at Home
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    Loren Lankford

    Lo Lankford is a Georgia native, NYU film graduate and current L.A. dweller. When she isn't rescuing dogs from high kill shelters, thrifting items for her online shop, Southern Dropout, or editing her crafting website, CraftFoxes, she's doing actual freelance work! An early graduate of publishing giants Hearst (CosmoGIRL! and Cosmopolitan), Time Inc. (Entertainment Weekly) and Condé Nast (Jane), Lankford has also written, produced and edited for AOL's Lemondrop.com, NBC's iVillage, Paste Magazine, MTV and several others. She helped launch Fab and Bookish, did all the research for a best-selling memoir and spent time as a community operations admin at Etsy. "Time off" means traveling all over the world for sporting events and film festivals.

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      DIY Dye - Loren Lankford

      INTRODUCTION

      It’s crazy to think that there are people in this world (tons of them!) who have virgin hair, meaning they’ve never used dye. There are also tons of people who only use dye to enhance the shade they naturally have. Many of these gals and guys were born with dishwater blond or mousy brunette hair and get highlights or lowlights or some mix of the two in order to take things up a notch. And then there’s me.

      If you can find the shade on a color wheel, my hair has been there. Throughout middle school and high school my hair was every color from green to pink to highlighter yellow to purple to black and every combination in between. I used Manic Panic hair paint and was actually thrilled to find out that the chlorine in the pool where I worked would turn my hair the fiercest shade of puke green (forgive me, hair gods! I knew not what I wrought).

      I did it because choosing to dye your hair—and in what ways—says a lot about your personality and the kind of image of yourself you want to project to the world. Much like your fashion choices or preferred makeup style describe you to those around you, your hair color and the way it is laid out might say that you’re a fiery redhead at heart or a wannabe blonde.

      You don’t have to be quite as experimental as my sixteen-year-old self in order to dabble with dyeing your hair. No matter where you fall along the spectrum and whether you dye at home or at a salon, there are hundreds of different ways to enhance your look. Worried about screwing up? Try to remember that it’s just hair—you can redo it or a stylist can work magic on it, and if nothing else, it’ll grow back! If I could attend my first movie premiere with (accidental) gray hair, you can overcome your mistakes as well.

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      BEFORE YOU START CANDY-COATING YOUR LOCKS, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW.

      MATERIALS

      Obviously there are different materials you will need for each specific type of dye and style, but here are the things you’ll need on hand no matter how you choose to dye:

      •Painting clothes, like an old T-shirt and pants (to wear while you dye)

      •Rubber gloves

      •Hairbrush or comb

      COLOR WHEEL—BASE COLOR

      If you have blond or light hair, you’ve basically hit the hair-dye jackpot. Any color that you want to use (purple, red, black, etc.) will dye well right onto your current palette after using a toner. That’s the key. The lighter your hair color is after using a toner, the more vibrant the color will show up. Dyeing right on top of gray hair will also get you super-vibrant results.

      Think of it like this: You have a piece of white paper and crayons. When you draw red on the paper, it comes up . . . well, really red! But if you then take a brown piece of construction paper and put it on the red, you’re not just going to get brown—you’re going to get a marriage of the two! So, depending on the color you want, you must consider your current color and how the two will mix. That’s why it’s important to remember the color wheel you learned as a kid in art class. If you’re trying to go bright red and you put that over yellow, your hair will be orange. If you put blue on yellow, your hair will turn green.

      If you’re a brunette and you want to dye your hair purple, using purple dye directly on your brunette hair will show up as burgundy and might not have quite the effect you want (unless what you want is a faint, darker tone). For color that is vibrant and lasting, bleach your hair first.

      The same goes for those of you who have super-dark hair. You’re going to have to do the most work to get a really bright shade of any funky colors like red, purple, pink, or green. You will need to use bleach, not high lift color, and in doing so run the risk of damaging your hair, so use a protein treatment beforehand. If you’re feeling a little nervous about going blonde on your own, you may want to have a professional get you there so you have a nice blank canvas to put some bright colors on.

      An alternative for dyeing dark hair is to use a color treatment that

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