BEFORE
A while ago I fell in love with Nicole Warne‘s block blue-black hair. I wanted the multi-dimension gone from my hair. I loved it and I knew going back to my natural colour (which is black as you can see in these kid’s pictures of me) would allow my bob to grow into a lob much faster! My hair became so healthy! But as Summer approaches I got frustrated with how much make up I had to wear to make my skin not look so pink. The tone of your hair, can change your skin tone quite dramatically.
So I went about researching the best way to slowly get my hair to the new Alexa Chung brown without damaging and over bleaching.
AFTER
So here are the tips my hairdresser gave me which are perfect for Asian girls wanting to reduce their hair from black.
1) It takes time and will happen in stages. You cannot bleach your whole head and then dye over it without damaging your hair a lot. Here we started with strategic foils and over time I will probably get more until my hair can get a rich chocolate semipermanent over all of it.
2) Using a new product called Magma they are able to lighten hair up to 6 shades while colouring at the same time. In one process! This is particularly difficult on artificially coloured hair (which mine was). But the result is silky and smooth hair. Even the ads on the website for this product have Asian models so maybe it was designed for my kind!
3) Tone and tone some more. Asian hair is naturally warm and this means a little orangeness loves to come into our hair when it’s lightened. A good tone, even for 8 minutes, will ensure a lovely and non-brassy finish.
4) Where possible use semi-permanent colours. Semi-permanent colours will give that fabulous shine without the damage of permanent colours. Shiny, shiny shiny!
I think the result is amazing and look, I am not wearing dark lips. I can finally look normal with nude lips! Yeah!
Thankyou so much to Fitria Adi for her outstanding smoky eye! Wearing my new recycled Manning Cartel jumpsuit and DIY Tom Binns necklace. The tutorial is coming soon!
