Growing out my dyed hair is something that’s always prodding at me when I consider changing my hair colour. Black is the most daunting, and I say honestly say I’ve succumbed to the horrid task growing it out naturally because typically the only other options are to chop all of my hair off or to use colour removers. If you’re looking for a quicker option I would say read into either of those (the Vitamin C trick is the best). This post is a little re-cap of how I ‘grew’ my hair from black to red without intending to!
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| Semi-super old photo of me with black hair from this outfit post. |
It all Began with Black Hair
Back in the beginnings of this blog I had my natural brown hair. Sometimes with red, other times with blonde and for a little while green! My hair was so damaged by the bleaching (it literally broke) that I had already resolved to dye it all black when I was sick of the blonde. And thus it was black.
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| The day my hair was |
Then I Started Dying the Roots a Dark Purple
This was purely accidentally, but I had wound up with a dark purple permanent hair die. My friend gave it to me because a family member didn’t want it and she knew it would get some use with me. It sat around for a while until eventually I was stuck with obnoxious roots and no money for black dye. It was obviously purple, but created an awesome gradient into the black.
It was purple-black for a while.
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| From this outfit post here. |
I Realised I Liked it Better Faded
The purple black was a great permanent in the beginning because it was a lovely purple-black that faded to an equally lovely deep red. Never did it ever fade to an orange or further than the red. It was when I realised that I would purposely fade it to the red after dying that I decided I might as well just dye my hair red instead.
You could simulate this by buying a red toned purple permanent, a darker red permanent or even by consistently using semi-permanent hair dye that will eventually wash out all together.
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| Image from this outfit post over here. |
It’s been a little over a year now, and the black is only left in the tips of my hair and the newly added underside. But it kind of proves that ombre can be just as good at growing out hair colour as it can at experimenting with colour only on the tips. But you might have to take your time and hope for a lot of luck!
What do you do when you’re sick of your hair colour? Have you ever chopped it all off or do you have some tricks you should-totally share?
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