usually i do dye my hair myself, but since it was for a wedding, I went all out....and went into a beauty school to get it dyed for cheaper than if I went to a salon. Basically because my hair is so black naturally, they had to do a process bleach on it, mixing various levels of bleach and toner (level 20 and 40 respectively on different parts of the hair/root) in order to lift the previous color (purple) off so i could get some hint of hot pink in. Asian hair is nearly indestructible, as one night before the first day of class in high school, I slept with a bleach cap on ...my hair had bleach in it and I wrapped a plastic bag around my head and went to bed. Next day, I rinsed it out - not only did my scalp not burn off, my hair didn't fall out either - and I went to school with blue hair to go with my skirt (there's a theme here). Not that over bleaching is recommended or safe. ;)
Now I use hot oil treatments and really intense conditioners to get my hair shiny and soft (because the bleaching has pretty much fucked up the texture to straw). The flash was on my camera too, so that might have added to the shiny effect of my hair.
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okay, the 411 on the hair thing
Date: 2005-07-27 07:10 pm (UTC)Now I use hot oil treatments and really intense conditioners to get my hair shiny and soft (because the bleaching has pretty much fucked up the texture to straw). The flash was on my camera too, so that might have added to the shiny effect of my hair.