#20 Experimental Red & Purple

It looks wrong for Adam to have normal hair. Here's a shot of his hair taken 3 days before. As you can see there's only the slightest hint of pink there and his hair as gotten quite long again.

Firstly I took a bit of length of the back of his hair to give it more shape. I also sliced into the top part of his hair so that it would sit better when left natural. Adam seems to have an aversion to styling his own hair so I gave him a cut that would look ok without any styling products. He had a bit of regrowth which we bleached out to match the rest of his hair.

I wanted to use a peachy pink shade on the roots out of leftovers I had lying around. I used Directions Rose Red and added some conditioner to lighten it up. It was quite a cool toned pink so I added some Bright Daffodil to warm it up and add the kind of orangeness required for a peach shade. It came out a bit more vibrant than expected (I ran out of conditioner to lighten it up).
I applied this to Adam's roots in the same way you would apply bleach to your regrowth. I started by parting his hair down the middle from forehead to neck and also across from ear to ear. I then took small diagonal sections on each of these triangles and painted the dye onto the roots with a tint brush.

When that was finished I started applying a blue shade. I was thinking of using Special Effects Purple Smoke but next to the vibrant pink shade it looked kind of washed out where it would not normally so we had a change of plan and used some Blue Mayhem and mixed a small amount of Rose Red in there to give it some coherence. This produced a gorgeous deep violet colour. I used my fingers to apply this to the tips of his hair.
In order to get a nice gradient between the two colours I mixed up a third shade which was a combination of Rose Red and Blue Mayhem in a ratio of about 80:20. You can see the 3 colours as they looked mixed in the bowls.
The last colour was applied to his midlengths and lightly brushed through into the other colours for a smooth blend.

And here's how it turned out. The first picture here shows his hair after it's been blow dried. I dried it completely and blow dried upwards so his hair would have extra fluff for styling. Next I rubbed some styling cream through my hands and grabbed chunks of his hair and pulled them upwards to give him this crazy style.