ksiepierski's Timeline
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I've been tinkering around trying to figure out what works and what doesn't to make this color. I had it pictured in my mind but went through some trial and error getting it just right. I faded out nearly all of the dye that was still in my hair, just from the sun and doing overnight oil soaks, so it was all pale yellow, white and still a little bit of Atomic Pink clinging on for dear life in the back underneath. I used about 3-4oz of Cure Care Hair and Skin Conditioner, a couple drops of Virgin Rose and a couple drops of Nirvel ArtX Nutre Color in Grey and I love it! Exactly what I've been trying to achieve!
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Did a few shampoo fading treatments (heated, under a cap), then did a bleach powder + shampoo + olive/coconut oils treatment and this is what I'm left with! It is literally the exact same shades I use in my eyeshadow palette everyday lol. You can really tell how much of a brown base the Nirvel Grey has here. I am actually really liking this on me, surprisingly! I may keep it for a bit before going back pink
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I spent all afternoon toning what I had last so I had a mid to light really grey looking blonde with random muted strands of pastel, all colors of the rainbow lol. I then used Nirvel ArtX Nutre Color in Grey, diluted about 1/3 with conditioner and this is what I got! I really love this shade but I really don't like the purple streaks coming through STILL from that Atomic Pink from October, so I currently have it on my head again, almost neat so it's darker and those purple streaks won't be so prominent. Also, those chunks I had to cut in front of my ears were driving me insane and just looked ridiculous so I caved and took my fringe up a lot to help blend it in more, and my layers too so it looks more shaggy/choppy
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I used the Nirvel ArtX Nutre Color in Grey over what I had last and used just the tiniest speck of Pravana Green too over the pinker areas. The Grey was heavily diluted made like a toner with conditioner
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I put a violet toner over what I had in my last photos but the line between my roots and the rest of my hair still seemed too severe and I didn't want to darken them anymore. So I just did streaks along my parting using various combinations of the colors listed. I applied it to conditioned, wet hair, and only left it on for about a half hour - the opposite of what I normally do because I want it to fade faster.
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Here you can see how pretty the Pravana Green is when it's diluted - those turquoise looking bits are it diluted over pale yellow hair where my toner didn't take
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I seriously love this so much! A year ago with dyed black hair I never would have thought I would have pastel Lisa Frank unicorn cotton candy hair!
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Did another shampoo + bleach powder + coconut oil + olive oil fading treatment on my hair. it was right after bleaching my roots, on shampooed, wet hair and I left it on for 5 minutes!
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This shows the top part of it a little better. It's like I have pale yellow>pastel pink>light neon pink>pastel pink>baby peachy pink
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This was after doing the bleach powder + shampoo method to fade my color. It went from a tiny bit lighter than my last photo, to this! Very happy! The Pravana Violet looks completely gone, as well as any other pinks I used. On the root area in places it looks like there may be a bit of Virgin Rose clinging on, but it's mostly just the Atomic Pink I'm left with
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This photo shows the lightness/gradient a little bit more than the other photo, but I like the other photo better + couldn't decide which to put up lol. You can see how light the pink is over the ends really well here. Also, you can see the shorter chunks a lot better in this photo, the areas hanging just in front of the ears, you can see it on the other side too. I was going to even them out or just make my sidecuts bigger + chop them off...If more damage shows up on them then I probably will just make my sidecuts bigger, but until then, if it happens, I'm just going to leave them this way.
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These are the results from using the bleach powder + hot water paste technique on hair that was dyed a few weeks ago + I hadn't done any fading treatments first. I also still had some coconut oil in my hair too. The purple is my normal color, and that bright pink is what's left from doing the paste on it. It stripped out everything except for that Atomic Pink from last October. I'd say to treat it as if it were a low vol bleach bath, my hair doesn't feel damaged at all, just dry. I'm pretty impressed with it though, especially considering I didn't fade it before doing this.
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This is the result of after having to go 2 months without trimming off my split ends. I had to take off a lot more than I wanted! It's a lot shorter than I like, but it feels oh so good to have those split ends cut off and have all of my hair be the same texture again. I've been just letting it air dry on it's own without trying to curl/braid/straighten/twist it as it's drying like I normally do. After cutting it a few weeks ago I put just a pravana violet toner over it to help keep it cooled off. I've been doing a lot of coconut oil soaks and you can really see how much it had faded the violet out from my roots! Anyway, I'm happy with the health once again, still happy with the color, just not the length, but it will grow!
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You can see really well here how much all the overnight coconut oil soaks have faded the violet out from my roots! Also, it's safe to say my Cocochoco Brazilian Keratin treatment is completely 100% out, my cowlick is back to it's massive, annoying old ways lol. I'm just going to roll with it though, not use heat at ALL, whatsoever, keep up with my normal routine, I have nice sharp shears again now...I just want my hair to be the length it was when it was black and I'll feel a lot better. Waist length is my goal though!
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I had purple hair for a couple days! I added too much Pravana Violet to it, I used maybe a pea size and a half and left it on for about 4 hours + this is how purple it made it! lol. I liked it but shampooed it a couple times + let it set to remove some of the violet. This was at night, with flash
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This was my best friend Marshall (he passed away 4 years ago) but I just came across this photo and thought it would be cool to share it on here. This was before we toned it so it's still pale yellow here. I can't remember which bleach we used but the black was Wella's demi in 1N
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Just wanted to show how iridescent the color really looks. This is in natural light, no flash and it's overcast out today. Also wanted to update on the Keratin. It didn't seem to affect the dye uptake at all, and the smoothing effect is still pretty good, especially considering I'm sure when I bleached the runoff probably took some out. It hasn't been as pin straight after the bleach bath on my roots, but my waves are still clearly relaxed a lot, and this was taken right after I woke up. I'm still very happy with the Keratin treatment and will continue using doing them!
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This is in natural light with no flash and it was sunny (dyed my brows too!). I used about 1 ounce of each of the pinks, only a teeny bit of Virgin Rose though just so I could compare the swatch of my mix to it, and I used about 2 3/4 oz of the Pravana Violet and about 4 oz of conditioner. I just eyeballed it all then looked after I was done to see how much was left in the bottles + tubs to figure out how much I used. I still have about 5 oz left over.
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I wanted to make my pink even more purple, but I didn't want it to go too dark or too purple and not look pink anymore. So this photo was after I scrubbed it a few times with Biolage Anti Dandruff Shampoo and let it set the 3rd time for 15 minutes.
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Having a great hair and makeup day today! And the light was perfect outside today, so these pictures are completely true to color with my hair, skin and eyes. I did a Cocochoco Brazilian Keratin treatment on my hair thanks to @AlexiaKat, and my hair LOVES it. I know it's probably hard to see the difference in texture/shine, but I did the treatment 2 nights ago. I haven't done a single thing to my hair since except comb it twice but it didn't even end up needing it. I've had ZERO tangles, my hair is so smooth, it has a weight and sway to it that I am inlove with, it just looks and feels so enhanced. I love it!
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Just wanted to show what the color looks like in natural light, and I am so happy with it!
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Another shot in natural light. This is true to color, completely and I couldn't be happier with it! So glad I made this sort of "toner" for it!
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From the Atomic Pink I used before, my hair had too much reddish tones to it for my liking, and it was a couple shades lighter than this. I really wanted more of a purpley pink so I made a sort of toner with about a cup and a half of conditioner, 1/2 ounce Virgin Rose, maybe a half teaspoon of Pravana Violet, and added maybe a half ounce of Hot Hot Pink just to "pink" it up a little bit. I mixed it in a white bowl and smudged some VR at the top of it so I could compare it. It looked like a sligtly more purpley version of diluted VR. I'm super happy with how it came out! This is exactly how I wanted it! I also cut off quite a bit layer wise to rid myself of those pesky stained ginger ends
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From the Atomic Pink I used before, my hair had too much reddish tones to it for my liking, and it was a couple shades lighter than this. I really wanted more of a purpley pink so I made a sort of toner with about a cup and a half of conditioner, 1/2 ounce Virgin Rose, maybe a half teaspoon of Pravana Violet, and added maybe a half ounce of Hot Hot Pink just to "pink" it up a little bit. I mixed it in a white bowl and smudged some VR at the top of it so I could compare it. It looked like a sligtly more purpley version of diluted VR. I'm super happy with how it came out! This is exactly how I wanted it! I also cut off quite a bit layer wise to rid myself of those pesky stained ginger ends.
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I had redone my roots and refreshed the color but left the Atomic Pink out this time. I diluted the dyes a lot more this time too, using more conditioner than actual dye. But you can still see the red coming through from the Atomic Pink! It definitely cooled off a bit, but not enough for me.
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I really wasn't liking the red tones from the Atomic Pink, which you can really see well here
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gave myself an undercut! I like the zig-zaggy effect from the triangle. So glad i cut that section off, that part is naturally really curly(?) and knots easily so it was already much shorter and thin at the bottom. feels really weird but cool feeling air on my skin there :) also, this is exactly true to my real life color, it goes from a cool hot, neon pink down to a reddish pink. the ends now look like i used rose red alone on them.
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I don't remember exactly when this was taken, but it shows just how much Atomic Pink really takes over and how red toned it is!
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Took a couple of photos today of my hair. This was next to the window, it was cloudy out and no flash or editing.
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I used 3 oz Virgin Rose, 1.5 oz Atomic Pink, 1 oz Rose Red, and 1 oz conditioner. I am AMAZED by sfx! it barely bled when i rinsed it out. i mean, it did, but nothing crazy like when ive used other brands...i was expecting my tub to look like a Barbie chainsaw massacre. My tub only stained a little bit + its very very light. Also, it was a great consistency. I barely even got any on myself which is surprising! Its usually all over my neck, my arms, my face...not this time!
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used 3 oz Virgin Rose, 1.5 oz Atomic Pink, 1 oz Rose Red and 1 oz conditioner. I love this color so much! it is true to color except for the very ends, they aren't as dark in real life.
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well, i had bleached out some areas and had after midnight blue, pravana blue and violet basically from my root to about 6 in down and the rest was black. after many color fading treatments, 2 color removers and 3 bleach baths, the black is gone, the blue is gone, and this is my base for magenta!
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This was after 1 full head application of One n Only Colorfix, another application of it just on the midlengths to ends, and one 30 vol bleach bath (so about 15 vol) with Matrix Light Master powder bleach allover. The top half is a gorgeous pale yellow, but from the midpoint downward I should have realized it was stained at this point but I didn't. You can see in the next photo how much lighter I was able to get the ends after another 2 bleach baths - not much lighter but definitely an improvement.
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And this is what the periwinkle faded to. Excuse the roots coming in where the black is, which was either Ion or Matrix.
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Diluted the pravana dyes to make a periwinkle color, which faded to a really icy blue. This lasted about a month and a half
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This was the result of a faded Pravana rainbow, then letting my roots get rediculously outgrown. It's yellow looking because the roots got so long, plus the section where it's parted is where the Pravana yellow, orange, and red were. The yellow clung on for dear life. I ended up having to do a quick bleach bath on it all to get it back to pale yellow so I could tone to white and go periwinkle! Unfortunately I never got a photo of my rainbow somehow (???) which drives me nuts because it was awesome. You can see how long and super healthy my hair was here though, except the last 6-8 inches were fried a few years back! So the ends reallyweren't as healthy, but with some great products they sure looked and felt like they were!
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over the course of 6-8 months i slowly bleached/bleach bathed my fringe to pale yellow. i dyed a pravana rainbow into it but unfortunately never took a photo. i also used pravana blue and violet to make some pretty pastels!
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again, back with the black after my hair got severely damaged thanks to my ex boss who used 50 vol when i told her to use 20 and 30. i didnt want an inbetween color and there way so way i could have even touched it with bleach, so went back to black. you can see how damaged the ends are really well here. awful.
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i used the brand Scruples. it lifts artificial pigment and deposits color all in one step. so i went for a mahogany and i loved this
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i moved and the closest sallys was 1/2 hour away so i just used redkens black since thats what my salon carried (my first salon job!) . i added some cheap jessica simpson extensions and i dyed some human hair extensions with redkens red
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i went back to black. i used wella color charm demi in 1N. the absolute blacket jet black out of any black i have ever used and ive tried probably about 10 different brands of black. it lasts and does not fade, is easy to remove with a color remover, and always left my hair feeling amazing after
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this was the same, color removed and bleached blonde color as below, but i threw in some chi pink chunks. sorry about the editing but its the only picture i have of it. it looks more red here, but it was like a barbie pink i loved it!
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i used a color remover and did a 40 vol bleach (eek! i was young and impatient) and i didnt use any toner.
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the same redken as below, but this is faded a lot, and i was growing out my short cut
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this was a redken color, something close to 4RV with some brighter pieces in it
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After a hair dye fiasco trying to go back to my natural color allover, it turned out a bright but slightly darker than pastel looking rusty/coral ginger color, so went to the salon and got this. And that is Vern Yip from Trading Spaces lol. I know she did a bleach bath on the highlights and she put demi for the darker pieces, which I think was by Redken.
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This is a little darker than it naturally is because of the lighting in the photo (a polaroid taken at the dentist's office lol), but my natural color looks about a level lighter than this and much more ashy, like a greeny gold. I used to use Bed Head Manipulator to make it all spike up and out.
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Natural (No Product Used)
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This was how light my hair was when I was really young! If only it were still this light naturally lol!
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Natural (No Product Used)
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