My New Taro Purple Hair {and the Dyeing Process}~

Hi everybunny!

I'm so so so so excited for today's post!

I dyed my hair this weekend, and so I thought I'd share with you all how it turned out, as well as the process I went through to get it like this!

And.... here it is!

IT'S PURPLE I LOVE IT SO MUCH

I have a taro purple wig that I wore to Anime Boston this past April {read about it here!}, and I really loved the color of that wig, so I wanted to try something similar for myself. 

(Here's a photo of that btw, if you're too lazy to go read the entire post hehe)

I hadn't seen any tutorials online for how to achieve that color, so I had to sort of guess it by myself, but I'm quite content with the results! I thought I'd share my process with you, in case you were curious, or if you wanted to try it out for yourself!

Anyways, let's start!

This is how my hair was at the start of the whole process. Not too great, right?

I knew that the whole split thing would make the dying process quite frustrating, what with the need to bleach one half for a bit before bleaching the other half. But, after a bit of fiddling, I managed to bring both sides to the same level of blondeness. Because I wasn't going for a light lavender color, I didn't have to worry too much about making it super duper light.

And here it is all bleached and frizzy (it's weird seeing myself with blonde hair- it's not a look I think I'll go for any time soon hehe).

Because I wanted my hair to be an ashy purple brown, I had to get rid of the warm tones in my hair. A toner would have been good for this (I know Manic Panic has one), but I only could've gotten one online, and I didn't want to wait for it to get shipped to me. Plus, toner is expensive, so I just got a cool toned ash blonde hair dye to go over this.

Here's the dye I used- it was only $3 and worked quite well! It left my hair pretty soft too.

The dying process, and my awkward face  (no makeup gasp!)

I also had the leftovers of a really good burrito during this time. Food isn't required during this process, but it's definitely recommended :3

Gosh it was delicious.

And here are the results after that dyeing!

I think it turned out good enough! It took (most of) the warm tones out of my hair, and darkened it a little bit too.

And now came the most stressful part: the purple dye

I couldn't use straight up purple dye because I didn't want my hair to end up dark purple purple. I diluted it with conditioner, so that there was a bit more dye than there was conditioner. This made the dye less potent, and more likely to turn out faded and not too stark on my hair.

The dye looked really dark on my hair, but I didn't want to dilute it too much, because the last time I did that when I tried to dye my hair pink, it hardly showed up at all. So it was a bit of a gamble, and I was scared that it either wouldn't show up at all, or would be super dark. 

But, the fates decided to align and...

Purple!

It looks different in different types of lighting- here's how it in the yellowish light of my room

There are some clearly very purple streaks throughout, and then places where it's more like a purplish ashy brown.

I really couldn't be happier with the result <3 I'm surprised of the streaks that were somehow created- they weren't intentional at all. 

I'm honestly surprised that it turned out as well as it did- it was definitely what I was going for <3 

I'm going to maintain this color for a while I think- I really love how it looks ^_^ And I still have some dye leftover from last time, so I'll be able to do it once again- yay!

And of course, more selfies to show off the fabulous colour~

For some reason this filter made the really purple parts look turquoise... but it does look pretty x3
Maybe I'll try that in the future hehe

Say hi to my cat!

Anyways, that's about it! 

What do you guys think of this haircolor? I'd love to hear your opinions!

Thank you for reading! 

Bye-bye!