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[hair dyeing] SO I MIGHT NEED HELP?
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This is the stuff I have
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Plus a bowl/brushes and capes in the closet
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I have starbright silver and electric blue for the sparks colors
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and they mention developed in the instructions so I grabbed that creme developer. 30 vol was the lowest I saw there and my one friend freaked out that I got 30 volume?
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and now I'm genuinely confused about what I'm doing
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like
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I was going to bleach it, give it a few days, using some toning shampoo/conditioner I got to reduce brassiness and let the oils build back up on my scalp
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and then, if I was ready the instructions right, mix one of those colors with the developer and put it on
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but she's telling me mix 50%water and 50% developer to make 15 volume developer?
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obv. I have never studied cosmotology but idk, that sounds wrong?
236 bees
hm
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light as your hair already is 30 might be a little stronger than needed but it's not like 40
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also if you want to dilute it I think mixing with conditioner is a little more standard?
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that sounds a bit better than water, definitely
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but you have a box of bleach there and so may not need it
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box dyes and such one of the issues is you don't know the strength
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it's probably 30 or 40 tho
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the developer is probably fine if your hair isn't fried
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way more important is gonna be your process
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you have fairly short hair, but you are going to want to start with the middle to ends of your hair and start in the back and make your way to the front
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do your roots LAST
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I've never tried dying my hair myself, someone always came to help me out lol
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the roots I know I least I watch a guy on facebook sometimes and he constantly notes that roots process faster
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the tips are gonna be potentially the most fragile and will lighten or take color the second fastest
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yeah, roots go faster because of the heat from your scalp
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heat makes things move faster so roots come last
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you are gonna want to thoroughly saturate your hair in small sections - bleach and dye do not lather you cannot rub them through big sections
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and especially with bleach trying to lather it will make your scalp hurt more because you'll be damaging the skin
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not a lot but like little scratches will make the bleach burn worse
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I've never had my hair fry thankfully but Idk if that's been dumb luck on my part or the fact that I always make sure to thoroughly condition after bleaching and after dying
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which is what you'll get with rubbing it in
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anyway, thick coat of bleach, like it should be covering every strand of hair, not clumps of hair
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you can use foil, it's not fully necessary though
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thank you for helping! I'm stupidly nervous about doing this myself lol
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bf is helping though so he can see spots I won't since I'll be sans glasses
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but yeah the bleach should look like toothpaste coating the hair
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like you want it VISIBLE
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then you wanna take a plastic grocery bag or something and cover your head while it develops
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try not to touch your scalp like I said it'll make things worse
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but cover it, it does not work when it is dry
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then just let it bake until you're happy
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like I said your hair is light?
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to start with
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check the color every 10 minutes or so you're ppppppprobably going to want maybe 20-30 minutes max
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also since you're nervous one thing to consider:
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since your hair is short you can't mess up too bad
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LIKE I MEAN GENUINELY NOT TO BE DISMISSIVE HERE
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but if somehow you manage to screw your hair up so totally that you are bald as an egg after you can get back to the starting place in probably less than a year you know?
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this is not the ideal but I feel like lowers the stakes somewhat
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hopefully anyway lol
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lol no you're right, fucking up now won't hurt too bad
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and my hair tends to grow pretty fast so it'd probably just be a few awkward months
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at least the little pink hat the one lady in the hospital made me would come in handy!
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I think it'd be good if you didn't do it while no one is around. Just that in case you need help or the bleach is running down your neck you have someone to dab it or help in any other way. Back of the head could be hard.
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This advice (?) is brought to you by me watching my mum bleach my gran's hair for years
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oh yeah, defintely. bf is down to help, even helped pick the colors
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yay for bf
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30 is fine
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but yeah you have a kit so it might have the developer with it
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I found some reviews of it too, some people were just putting on the sparks without anything but one person mixed it with conditioner, idk if that would make it last longer or not though, they didn't explain why
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I was thinking of using starbright silver over all my hair and then the front tips of my hair getting some electric blue
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and someone suggested putting the sparks on dry, shampoo'd-only hair after bleaching
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that's what i tend to do
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conditioner dilutes the color, it's often used top make a pastel color