Okay so I did my moms hair last night because a lott of her gray was showing. I was a little nervous about doing it but it turned ou AWESOME. Here are some tips/steps of how to do a good job:
1. First, you will need your hair dye and whatever else it calls for in the directions. If you're getting your hair dye from like Sally's Beauty Supply or any other beauty store, everything will probably come separate so make sure you READ THE DIRECTIONS!! You will also need gloves (very important), some type of brush. You can get them at Sally's for like $1. Some type of clips. Metal ones work best for me. A brush, a comb, and a bowl that you can mix the dye in.
TIP #1: Before I dyed my hair about a month ago, I had some highlights coming through so I really wanted to cover them up once and for all. So I went to Sally's and I go this hair stripper. Its a little package of powder and you can get it for like $1. So just do what the directions say and that works REALLY good. It basically strips all of the waxes out of your hair so there isn't any type of layer blocking the color. But your hair will feel reallyy dry and stringy afterwards. but after you put that in, wash it out, wash your hair, and then dry it.
TIP #2: If you know you have lots of hairspray or like any heavy hair products in, go wash it out and then dry your hair. You want the color to saturate as much as possible.
2. Brush you hair!!! It makes everything soo much harder when your hair is all tangly.
3. Put gloves on
4. In a bowl, mix the hair dye and other ingredients. Mix with the coloring brush really well for at least a minute.
5. The easiest thing to do is to split your hiar into pieces. To start off, I put hair into four equal pieces. Start at the bottom, that's the easiest. So the picture is showing the top of the hair pinned up starting from where the top of the ear is. Then, I split that into two easy pieces. On the bottom, I cut the hair in half vertically.
TIP #3: My mom's hair is black, and I dyed it black just to cover up gray. But if you want to go from really light to dark or vice versa, I'd split the pieces of hair even smaller just to make sure you get EVERYTHING.
6. You want to apply the color starting from the roots and then go to about where the clip is in the picture. Safe the ends for last.
TIP #4: When you do the roots, make sure you lift the hair up and do it on the bottom as well as the top. Then you might want to take a little bit of dye on your fingers and massge it in. But don't waste too much of the dye.
7. So when you get to the top, you should probably split the hair into 4 pieces. There is a lot more hair to cover and there is more room for error.
8. Once again, start from the roots and work your way down. Be extra careful up here because this is what you always see, so triple check and make sure you got EVERYTHING.
9. After that piece, make sure you only put the dye about halfway down your hair. Then, start letting down other pieces in an order that you are most comfortable in.
10. Once all of the roots are finished, apply the dye to your bangs (if you have any).
11. With your brush, work the dye down your hair to the bottom. I usually just take a bunch on my hands (with gloves on!!) and just kinda massage it through, or put it in as if you are putting in conditioner or something.
12. So when you're done, make sure you check you got everywhereee. It never hurts to check more than two times. If you are applying the dye to someone else, look around by pulling random pieces of hair up and checking if the dye is everywhere. If you are doing it to yourself, I'd make sure I got it everywhere by taking the remaning dye in my hands and run it through my hair, focusing mainly on the top.
13. When I wait for it to dry, I take all of my hair, twist it, and pin it up.
What you don't want to happen..
To avoid getting it on the skin (because it WILL stay) put lotion or Vaseline on your neck, ears, and top of forehead to avoid the dye completely dying your skin.
TIP #5: If you want your color to last, I would definitely buy some color protectant shampoo and conditioner. I use Ion Color Solutions and it works great! I would also think of getting some type of deep conditioner so your hair doesn't feel so dry. By the way, I use Clairol brand hair dye and it works really good (it's a gold box that you can get at Sally's or any other type of beauty supply store).
I wish you all the best of luck!!
-Ashlyn :)
So what you'll want to do is get some type of flat edge tape. I used this nail tape from a french manicure set. You first paint the base color, let it dry really good, and then place the tape on your finger nail really carefully on the spot where you want the next color to be. So after I put the tape on the place where I wanted my nail painted, I painted the upper right corner black. I recommend taking the tape off right after the nail is painted. Let it dryyy!
After the second color has dried, place some tape on the next spot that you would like painted. Or you could just stop at the second color. I decided that just the black corner was too plain, so I wanted to add more. I painted the lower right corner silver. And voila!
If you're a horrible painter like me, I suggest taking a Q-tip and dip it into some nail polish remover to take off the coloring on your skin.
