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#23 Blue Cherry

Thu 18 January 2007

Adam's last adventure had almost completely washed out so his hair was almost a clean slate. Time for a change.
Products used:
Directions Rose Red
Crazy Color Capri Blue

 

So here you can see how uncoloured his hair was. In this light it almost looks white but in real life it was a pale turquoise-blue. His hair was in definite need of a trim so I took a few inches off his hair and tidied up the style so that it didn't sit in such a block.


Adam's hair a washed out blue colour

 

After a trim I bleached his roots to match the rest of his hair. I haven't included a photo but you can see the process in some of the earlier adventures.
Now for the fun part! I wanted an asymmetric look for the red colour so I took a round section of hair just left of his crown. I clipped this out of the way to allow me to colour the rest of the hair.

The Capri Blue was applied to pretty damp hair. Usually with a nice bright blue like this I would recommend applying to dry hair to get the best results but on this occasion I wanted a slightly softer blue. I then applied the rose red to the remaining hair and kept it well away from the blue to avoid bleeding.


Part of adam's hair is clipped out of the way while I colour the rest

 

 

Et voila! The colours came out exactly as expected and there was no bleeding. The photos above look like there is some purple in there but it's actually the blue showing through the red giving the appearance of purple. Allowing the red to spread across the blue gives this style more movement.
It's worth noting that it's nowhere near as pink looking in real life. It's what I would describe as a cool red colour. It's much deeper cherry red shade in real life but the camera wouldn't pick that up.


Red spreads across his blue hair

 

Side view shows the contrast between the two colours

Comments

clau0329 clau0329 says: ":]] i was looking EVERYWHERE on how to do this... it came out amazing. thanks for posting!!!! <333"
Jun 3, 20079:31 a.m.
CupCakeX CupCakeX says: "dude, i'm jealous. CupCake X"
Aug 24, 200711:28 p.m.
EmmaBOTx EmmaBOTx says: "This hair is just amazing! :D Love the colors and the both look so crazy together :D"
Sep 30, 20075:25 p.m.
Godiva says: "After reading this, I actually wanted to try it in Black and White..woulda been awesome... but upkeep = insane cause my natural colour is like black =T"
Nov 26, 20073:45 a.m.

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