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Youngest daughter has reddish brown hair
As a teenager, she had it dyed jet black with the last 4 inches bright red

She loved it but it wasn't easy.
The ends of the hair had to be bleached of all natural colour ( white) before adding the red dye or it wouldn't work to the same effect.

Bleaching red brown hair to pure white doesn't really work. it was yellowish

I once had green hair, by default. When I was about 20, I had bleached blonde hair. Thinking that an ash blonde semi permanent might enhance it, I gave it a try.
Disaster - it went green!
It wouldn't wash out, so I had to cover it with a reddish brown colour - and became an
aubergine! :-0 :-D ;-)

Liz ~ I thought you would have purple hair, with sparkly diamonds in it.

:-D

Because I was losing so much hair, I stopped dyeing mine a few years ago. It's now long, below shoulder length and practically all grey. I have received many more complimeny0pts in that time. I have noticed many young girls are colouring their hair grey lately, seems it's an 'in' colour.

I have a friend who constantly colours her dark spiky hair pink, purple, blue or green or a combination of those colours, she looks great. She is a senior support worker for people with special needs. I bet she brightens their day.

I used to use an ash blonde permanent dye when my hair was shorter, it would fade out to a nice blonde shade before I did it again. For someone who had grown up with dark brown/chestnut coloured hair, being blonde was something new for me lol

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My granny had blue hair........ so blue that my aunt told her she looked like a budgie :-D

I've had some weird & wonderful hair over the years......... I once had red spikey bits at the front & blonde rat tails at the back. No, I wasn't a punk! I've had pink streaks & purple streaks.

These days I can't be bothered fighting with my curly hair, I just let it go mad........ but I have blonde streaks (foils).

DH says I look like an old hippie.

:-D


Not sure about the blue just yet...... I don't want to look like budgienana

What happened to the 'blue rinse brigade'? they were ahead of their time.

Ptickolls.........only you LOL :-D :-D :-D

At the moment my hair is more or less completely grey but that is because this time of year I let the colour grow out. I don't like to keep piling colour on colour. But it will very soon not be grey. I shall get it coloured again in a month or so.

Hi have dull light to mid brown hair with some red strands in it. When I was younger I dyed it black, blonde and red at various intervals to liven it up. It is now back to my natural colour and as of yet I have no greys but will start dying it again though this time a more natural colour when they start coming through.

are you aware you can get coloured hair mousse? my hair which was blonde is no longer blonde but silvery, so to warm it up I use coloured mousse - I mix a dark blonde mousse with ordinary mousse and it's great - of course it does wash out

lolol PH, I'll remember to watch out for that, otherwise I could go in fancy dress as "Bluebeard the pirate" :-)

When I was about 18......I dyed my hair jet black.

Now, to make sure I didn't miss any hairs, I piled the stuff on lower than my hair line.

When I washed the stuff off and looked in the mirror, my facial hairs, that I didn't even know I had, were dyed too!!

It looked as if i had a jet black beard growing out my forehead!!

:-0 :-D :-0

Tell me about it Rose :-0
OH, who didn't have highlights, washed his out quite easily!

If you fancy a change, go for it ;-)

I have till June to try it out anyway so I may just give it a whirl :-)

Well yeah! Hasn't everybody? :-0

Go for it Rose.

Give that son a slap. I know I would LOL

Go for it Rose.

No way am I going to end up a grey haired old lady.

No way...........never!!

Don't be shy.........give it a try!

;-) :-D

:-D +++DetEcTive+++ Some of those temporary dyes last a lot longer than you expect!

Apparently ice blue is the trend this winter :-)

Only once, and that was accidental.

I had growing out highlights in light brown hair, when we were invited to a 'themed' family party. I used a blue temporary dye. Unfortunately it wouldn't wash out of the highlighted sections. :-0

Have you ever gone a bit 'wild' with yours?

I was on the bus today and a young lady got off several stops before mine, as she passed me I noticed her very long and luxuriant hair in a perfectly beautiful shade of pale blue, it really was stunning :-) My son asked last week if I was going to dye my greying hair before going to my nieces wedding " so you don't look like a grandma" (!) and I am now rather tempted to turn my white streaks into something a bit 'different' lol and choose the colour of my dress to match ;-)

Have you ever gone blue/pink/ purple?
:-D