3 posts tagged “bangs”
So! I dyed my hair with Creative Image Adore hair dye in Forest Green and, later, Purple Rage. Here are my experiences:
first time:
second time:
I just dyed the purple over the brown, but there were some bleached streaks left over from ages ago. (You can see those in the first-time picture, as well as tons of other pics of me here.) It turned a lovely pinkish bright raspberry purple on the bleached bits and gave the rest of my hair a really pretty almost auburn-y shine.
The green is much darker this time, probably because I rinsed it in achingly-cold water! I'm so impressed with this brand of dye. I'd never heard of it before but it's given me fantastic results.
My thoughts on it after using another color and a second time:
- I wish the bottles were designed differently. It's messy. They've got a sort of push-top design, like this: http://i1.ebayimg.com/05/i/001/2d/fc/6687_1_sbl.JPG And so the dye gets all over the bottle.
- The green is fairly thin and liquidy. The purple is thick, like hair gel. They seem to soak into the hair at about the same rate, though.
- The color pictured on the bottle is definitely not the color you will get. Putting the dye on a piece of plain white paper, though, and blotting it a little, will give you a nearly-exact swatch (over bleached hair, at least).
- Something I forgot from last time is that my hair feels absolutely amazing. I can't stop touching it.
I'm going to stick with this brand to try and get more pictures of its color range out there. I'm also going to keep track of how the purple fades, and see if it'll last as long as the green did. The green lasted 8 weeks and was still a pretty light lime by the time I dyed over it. (If not for St. Patrick's Day I probably wouldn't have bothered redyeing...but, I also wanted to add the purple, too.)
Hooray, weirdly-colored hair!
Yeah...it just looks weird now. (but not entirely broken!) You can also see my bad pinning skillz.
In the sink, ready to be covered in glorious 180ºF water!
You can clearly see the fine, high-quality stand I used.
What you can't see in this picture is the delicious steam that comes off of 180° water. I reccommend a soup mug for all your wig-straightening needs, as long as you use a big enough pot to heat the water. :)
Shortly after this shot was taken, I poured that water right onto the top of the wig, starting with the bangs and working my way around. I had to refill my mug many times to get it all wet.
The back of the wig, right after being wet. It's darker than it was! It also looks rather...icky. I wouldn't want to wear this right now.
Here you can see again my lovely wig-pinning skills. Not a gorgeous wig anymore.
But it doesn't look as bad from the side! No siree!
While waiting for it to dry (and it takes a LONG time), I wrote this post, had dinner, talked to my boyfriend, and transferred files from one computer to another.
The wig wasn't dry until Day Three. See that post for the rest of the straightening story.
When I got home today, there was a box waiting!
I began opening it eagerly.
Inside was...styrofoam peanuts, obscuring most of the box's contents.
After that came the
Well, I was so overcome with glee, I just had to get started! I put my Femme Femme on the styling head and got to work combing out the lovely, shiny plastic.
It was huge...
I kept combing.
but that just wasn't enough for me! I had to finish it all!
Once that was done, I separated out the bangs, or what would become them. But I had made a mistake:
I didn't have a ponytail holder to tie the bangs together! I ran to go find something.
Luckily, this scrunchie was sitting in a basket a few rooms away, waiting to help me with my first major wig styling project.
As much as I wanted to get working, I knew that I'd better get some experience in cutting wigs first. I took my cutting practice wig out of its plastic bag and was awestruck by the grandiose impressiveness.
Naturally, I wanted to destroy its majesty as soon as possible, so I repeated the comb-separate-twist-search pattern of before.
This time, I found a yellow covered elastic: ouchless, for the plastic's comfort.
Always nice to know that your tools are pain-free...until you cut them!
Yeah, no dignity left for this wig. It's like some weird Sephiroth knockoff.
...okay, maybe a bit too much.
Any chance of regaining the lost superiority of this wig is gone.
I felt the bangs needed some volume before I cut them, so I used curlers and low-heat blowdryer to add a bit of poof.
I put the rest of the hair into a ponytail so it couldn't get cut, then took out the curlers. Isn't it pretty?
Here's the slightly-more-poofy, separated wig. It's shiny...and ready to be cut!
Snip, snip...
Oh, the wigality! Obviously a bit of training would be needed to keep that puff on the right under control.
Lots of hair...all cut from the wigs.
I started trimming and thinning the ends for a more wispy look.
A view from the top...well, moreso than the last picture.
I was done for the night. I took two last profile pictures and put away my camera.
The right side...
And the left!
Tomorrow I'm working on finishing the bangs (I got them a bit too poofy) and the ponytail.
