Purple Dip Dye

I decided that I would take the plunge and 'dip dye' the ends of my hair. It took me a while to decide on a colour that would suit my hair as I didn't want to dye all of my hair brown and then dip dye the ends as it would be too damaged and it has taken me a year and over £300 to finally get it back blonde.

Before I started with the dying of the ends, I re-dyed the roots of my hair so it was all one colour. I used Schwarzkopf LIVE Colour XXL in the shade 00A-AbsolutePlatinum;

For the dip dye, I chose to go for purple. Most people dip dye their hair pink, blue or green and I wanted to be 'original' and go for a colour that is rarely used on blonde hair. I went to Tesco, a well known supermarket in the UK. I looked to find a light purple/violet colour and spotted the Schwarzkopf LIVE Luminance in the shade L76-Ultra Violet;

The colour of the image above looks like a very light purple/pink kind of colour so I thought that would look perfect on my hair.

I gathered all of the things that I would need. This included strips of foil, a plastic bowl and a brush/mixer. Instead of mixing the dye in the applicator bottle, I thought it would be easier to apply the dye to my hair from a bowl.

I took a section of my hair and applied the dye on about an inch and a half of the ends of my hair then wrapped it in a foil strip. (I have no pictures of this as my hands were covered in dye, sorry)

I then continued this process for all of the ends of my hair.

I waited for 30minutes before checking the colour of the dye under the foils and then washing it out over the sink. 

I then washed my hair with shampoo to ensure that I had all of the blonde and purple dye out of my hair and then conditioned it with the conditioner that comes with the box dye.

I then let my hair dry natually in a towel and styled it as normal. 

To my suprise, the purple was a lot darker that I wanted but I thought that it looked rather nice, here are some pictures of the final result;

I hope that this has inspired or helped any of you with dip dying your hair or anyone else's hair. It is a really simple way of getting colour in your hair without having to commit too much.

Thank you for reading

-xo