Hey guys this post is going to be all about my new fantastic mermaid purple-y blue hair & what I did to get there from having very darkest brown roots and mid lengths to reddish brown mid lengths and tips.
Ok to start off this was my hair before I started 
With the color over the patchy bits and it's like this
Although it doesn't look how I've described I promise you it was ... I had been to my hairdressers and she worked her magic !
Ok so my method was to not was my hair or put any products on for at least 2 days ! Any one with Afro English hair like me knows how hard that is to do !
Anyhooo so when your ready I wore an old top that I wasn't afraid of getting manky and an old towel too as they will be a state when your finished.
Then I sectioned my hair into a hot cross bun style so you have your four equal sections , I started to sort of my bleaching stuff and this is what I use.
I went to Sally's beauty supply & got the dust free powdered bleach and 6% which is 20 vol peroxide , know my normal bleach is wella blonder but since I wasn't going blonde or highlighting my hair I chose these plus they were on offer ! Bonus !
So basically as I said I section my hair into four and then I clip or tie 3 pieces up tight!
To mix the bleach I always use the measuring cup you normally get with the bleach and do it in equal amount to bleach and peroxide ....... ( 5 scoops of bleach and 5 scoops of peroxide did my full hair)
And then start to apply bleach , so out of my section I take about 2 inch wide pieces and do my lengths first as they normally have colour on then my ends and leave the root till very last (the end of every section go back in and apply to roots NOT SCALP ! I will then wrap each section within the sections in foil and leave to process.
The processing time varies with every ones hair mine take 45 mins from when you finished your last section .... My roots only take maybe 20-25 mins.
After I bleach all sections and roots I then check the first section and then carry on checking all over every 7-10 mins know if you are wanting to go blonde wait until your colour is achieved , if your hair doesn't lift to the colour you are wanting or it has any yellowish orange tones , I suggest getting a high lifting tint which will lift the colour even further ..... If your like me and just looking to put another colour on top the yellowish/orange tones shouldn't bother you :)
So then I just simply rinsed my hair until all the bleach was out this May take a good 5 mins ,the colour I got was violette crazy color from Sally's also, so towel dry your hair until it is borderline dry and then section hair again and start applying color from root to tip ! After my first color application this is what i was left with
Very patchy and uneven right ?! But looks kinda cool right ? Ok maybe just me haha
So I left it over night dry and in some sort of style and then went in again
Know I feel it's more even and a lot less green ! Still some bits I want to bleach again in a few weeks but for now I'm happy although it might not look it haha !
Well hope you fine lot enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it
See you guys soon xox
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