Purple! Purple! Purple!

As many of you know or have seen, I do have purple hair. So I will show you how I achieved my hair color and how you can too. Now everyone has different hair. Some people have thicker coarser hair and some if us have baby fine, very thin hair. Some of us are a mixture of everything. Depending on your hair type, texture, porosity, and elasticity this could be really easy for you to do, or rather challenging. For some of you who don't know what porosity or elasticity means I will explain. Porosity means how porous your hair is. Hair has many different layers to it. The outermost part is called the cuticle. You can look at these as shingles on a roof. When the shingles are tight nothing will get in. When the shingles get worn and loose then everything gets in. The same thing is applied to hair color. When the hair cuticle is too rich it becomes resistant and sometimes the color won't take. When the cuticle becomes too open the hair color is deposit easily but will wash out just as easily. Elasticity is when your hair becomes too damaged and breaks off or you can pull on it and the hair strand will stretch out and keep going. 

Alright, to start out my hair was quite the challenge. I had previously colored my hair with the Pravana ChromaSilk vivids. For those who have never used the Pravana vivids before please be warned, this hair color does not come out easily and the stains are hard to get off of skin. My hair wasn't in too bad if condition when I started this process. At this point my hair is red on the longer half and orange on the shorter half. 

My first step was to lift my hair to a very pale blonde. I used Wella's Blondor  warm blonde bleach and 30 vol developer. The first time I did this I left it on for about 30 to 40 minutes. And it came out as a peach color from the red pravana. 

I bleached my hair about 4 different times to try and get the red color to lift. I tried a soak cap as well which is shampoo and bleach. Unfortunately that didn't work either. I'm sure many of you are wondering how I bleached my hair four times without seriously damaging my hair. My hair was pretty healthy to begin with, but I knew that lifting my hair would take a till on my hair. So after every bleaching I left conditioner on my hair for about 15-20 minutes. This puts the moisture back I to your hair. I also used a Redken Chemistry Treatment, which is a conditioning treatment. I sat under neath a hooded dryer for about 15 minutes letting my hair soak up the moisture. After that I applied the Pravana ChomaSilk Vivids Violet color.

 

Unfortunately because my hair was so porous at the time the violet color didn't last very long. I had to reapply the color at least 2 other times. Now my hair is healthy enough once again to be able to hold the color much longer. 

If your hair is very damaged I can suggest a few different products that can help. Redken All Soft is a great product. Its for dry, brittle, and damaged hair. The Redken Extreme is a great product however some of the products from that line put a lot of extra protein in the hair which can cause hair breakage. Redken Clear Moisture is also a great product for color damaged hair.  I do suggest getting a conditioning treatment and leaving your conditioner on longer. If you use a department store shampoo and conditioner it may dry your hair out even more, so picking up some of these products will definitely be worth the money.

If you have any questions or suggestions please let me know. :)

-Sarah

Alright guys this is the first post for my blog. I'm a licensed cosmetologist in the state of Illinois and I've watched videos and read blogs and seen tutorials but haven't found anything that I've really liked or found really informative. SO! The goal here is, to be able to show you all of those things in an easier way.

I do a lot of hair cuts, considering I work at a salon where you can step right in and get serviced right away. I've done about a thousand different cuts from trims to chopping about 2 feet of hair off. I've cut styles that have been really cute and some that I tried to convince the client where it would be a bad idea such as the fabulous mullet and comb-over. However I want to be able to give you guys different ideas. Not just for the girls but for the guys since most guys never really know what they want to get, or their girlfriend chooses for them.

Styling is always important. It's hard for some people to actually style their hair, or they don't have the time. I can show you easier ways to blow-dry your hair and style it the way you want to with half the work. I can also show you a couple different ways for men to style their hair that won't take up too much time. Pretty simple. I can also show you different up-do's and special styles. If I haven't tried it yet and you want a tutorial then by George I will learn how and show you.

Hair color can be pretty scary to some people, especially if it's always gone wrong for them. I can show you so many different ways to be able to do different colors from going extreme to work appropriate. I highly disapprove of box color so I will never mention anything of the sort unless however I am showing a client in which they used the box color and I fixed it.

And last but not least the world is full of different products. Most product lines will have the same things: moisturizing shampoo, color care, extra body, etc. However some products don't always work the same on everyone or aren't as effective as others. I get the chance to work with a lot of different products, so hopefully this will act as a guide when you reach the product shelf maze. If you have a question about a certain product that I haven't tried I will definitely go out and get that product and do my research on it.

If you ever have any questions or want me to do a certain style, color, etc. just message me and let me know. I'd love some feed back :)

-Sarah