What colour is YOUR hair?

[forestfolke]

Mine is naturally dark brown, but I dyed it a dark reddish purple, it's quite faded now but I might re-dye it after my trip to the beach~

[fika.]

helloooo,
currently my hair is a normal brown, looking on google probably around this colour brown.

i actually have a question if that's cool to post on here?

for the six weeks in july - beginning of september, i was looking into dying my hair a pastel colour.
but of course, having brown hair, and to have the successful pastel hair, i gotta bleach it.
so im pretty cool with that, i'm sure bleaching my hair one time won't damage it too bad, especially if i condition it quite a lot when i'm on holiday, but i have a couple points to make.

1. if i dye it a pastel, would i be able to dye it a brown when i'm back at school until my roots come through, or will it fade quite a lot and will the pastel show underneath?
2. i'm going to spain for the 6 weeks; meaning salt water and chlorine. will that affect my hair?
3. how much will it damage my hair to bleach, dye it a pastel, and then go natural (aka dying it back to brown)?

[Dana Scully]

Mostly a dark-ish brown, but there's some faint, natural auburn/red parts in the front.

[moth·]

Time for my hair [****AGAIN****]
I dyed my hair again, it's brown until a quarter is left. My tips are sea foam, green, blonde, blues and red. My hair is now a natural ombrè with auburn, five shades of brown from sunlight.

[winged-backpack]

So my hair is naturally brown at the moment but I plan to dye the ends purple for prom

[Seasonal]

helloooo,
currently my hair is a normal brown, looking on google probably around this colour brown.

i actually have a question if that's cool to post on here?

for the six weeks in july - beginning of september, i was looking into dying my hair a pastel colour.
but of course, having brown hair, and to have the successful pastel hair, i gotta bleach it.
so im pretty cool with that, i'm sure bleaching my hair one time won't damage it too bad, especially if i condition it quite a lot when i'm on holiday, but i have a couple points to make.

1. if i dye it a pastel, would i be able to dye it a brown when i'm back at school until my roots come through, or will it fade quite a lot and will the pastel show underneath?
2. i'm going to spain for the 6 weeks; meaning salt water and chlorine. will that affect my hair?
3. how much will it damage my hair to bleach, dye it a pastel, and then go natural (aka dying it back to brown)?

I dye my hair bright/pastel colors quite frequently, and I'm naturally a medium brown. I recommend getting it professionally bleached because it costs nearly the same amount and is much safer, but if you want to do it yourself, make sure that you have researched enough that you are comfortable using those products. I would not use a 40-vol bleach, and make sure to do a strand test. If the strand becomes gummy, do not continue bleaching. In that case you'll have to do a deep protein-conditioning for a few weeks and then attempt strand-bleaching again.

1. I don't have an experienced answer to this because I've never done it myself, but dark colors work just like bright ones; it's all dye. Going lighter always requires bleach. If you're doing a pastel like pink, it will fade very quickly, leaving open pores for the brown dye to attach to. I can imagine that it won't fade like a pink would, but I'm not certain. In addition, the roots and ends of your hair may behave differently; I dyed my hair blue once and it faded to a light blue-green, and when I bleached all of my hair, it wouldn't come out of the ends. My ends are still light blue but I've been covering it up with other colors.

2. Yes, it will affect your hair. Chlorine will cause your hair to fade much faster.

3. To do it once isn't too damaging, but re-bleaching hair that's already been bleached can be bad. Like I said, make sure to do the strand test to ensure that your hair is healthy enough for bleach. And once you've bleached your hair, you cannot use heat products on it very often. I use absolutely no heat on my hair, but my hair stylist used a lot of heat on my hair for a competition and it turned very straw-like. The competition was in April and my hair isn't quite back to normal.

Just so you're aware, pastels - especially pink - fade very fast. I've done pink three times and I always went with a very bright pink, because after two weeks it was the pastel color that I originally wanted, and that color lasted about two weeks. You can't wash your hair every day, either, and you must wash and condition in very cold water if you want to preserve the color; hot water will expand your pores and the color will have nothing to hold on to.

I hope that helps! c:

[offline.]

Right now, I have golden brown hair, with blonde underneath that will be a bright red once I dye it again :3

[Liliette]

My hair is black, maybe just a dark brown, but I want to dye it a lighter brown soon.

My hair also is currently in a smol afro because I lay on it so much and only comb it out if I'm going out somewhere

[mychemz]

currently, my hair has red dye in it sooo hopefully my hair will get a burgundy shade, bc i didnt bleach it this time.. :)
but normally its a really dark brown, almost black.. blob.
sometimes i will grow random bright red hairs and then they just fall out.
there's some light blonde/brown strands near the tips from when i had bleached my hair to dye the ends purple + blue, then i cut it all off!

[~SpotOnAppy~]

I'm currently in my natural state of dead straight waist length very very pale blonde... how boring...