#17 The Atomic Experiment

Here you can see Adam looking a bit Jimmy Saville with his freshly washed hair. It's gone super light blond from blue due to sun bleaching . It's a nice even colour to start work on.
Check out how long his hair has got and that was after a trim. I can see a nice set of dreadies on his head soon!

So what I did first was apply Special Effects Atomic Pink to the roots. Since his hair is so long now I had to split it into 4 sections from the crown and then take thinner horizontal slices from each section to get good coverage. I did about 4 or 5 cm of Atomic Pink before switching to Manic Panic Atomic Turquoise (Gel formula) for about 4 cm. I had to go back through all the slices I'd made before to make sure each part of his hair had some Atomic Turquoise. Then we did the tips with Atomic Pink. I had planned to do another stripe of turquoise but I only had 1/3 of a bottle and it ran out. Ooops. Maybe next time.

All rinsed out. You can see why this shade of pink is called Atomic. It's a shame it ran into the Atomic Turquoise, which when on its own I would never doubt its atomicness. However, it made a nice purpley blue when mixed with Atomic Pink.

Happily I just happened to have a bottle of PVA glue and a hair dryer in my bag so decided to highlight this Adventure's atomicness with some spikes!

Again, sorry there are no photos of the actual process. Gluey fingers and expensive camera is a bad combination. We're planning to recreate the hair do for Leeds festival (look out for Adam) so will do a step-by-step guide with photos for the styling section.

So here's how I did it:
I started with a load of PVA glue on a paper plate and a tint brush. The base of the spike needs to be thicker for longer hair so that it can support it more easily. Adam's hair is about 20cm at the top so I took quite a large clump of hair at the crown... about 5cm in diametre. With one hand I held the hair upwards from the ends and with the other painted the PVA on with a tint brush so it covered all sides. It's not necessary to saturate the hair with glue. If you leave the middle "unglued" it helps give the spike some support while it dries. So, still holding the end of the spike I took a hair dryer and dried the spike. It's best to hold the dryer quite far away, especially if it's a powerful one. Once the glue goes tacky it's usually safe to let go. Use a tiny bit of glue on your fingertip to point the ends if you need to. I continued with this process for each spike until his whole head was done. The glue took about 30 minutes in total to dry.