How Do You Get Your Hair Like That???

One of the questions I get asked most often is, "how did you get your hair like that?"
It is a process and something I would never recommend doing yourself at home.  I have extremely dark colored hair so bleaching it is very damaging, especially when trying to get it very light for a bright color.  It has taken about two years to get my entire head completely bright pink.  To start I went to Visible Changes salon in San Antonio, but they do have locations all over.  Another salon I recommend is Toni and Guy.  I cannot stress enough how this is something you DO NOT want to do at home.  We began with not really knowing where this was all headed in the end, so we started with "partial highlights". They bleached out highlights only on the upper layer or "crown" of my head and we covered that with Pravana "Vivids" Permanent Dye in Violet.  It was very unnoticeable at first.  I decided to go back in two weeks to have another set of highlights added and we would go over them with the same purple color.  In about 3-4 sessions we had covered my entire head with the most beautiful, vibrant purple.  It is very important to remember to deep condition often after any bleaching is done on your hair.  You can find very low priced ones at the groceries stores; the key word you're looking for is Keratin Protein.  That is what will save your hair.  My hair was extremely dry to begin with so I purchased the Paul Mitchell Awapuhi deep treatment for $43 from my salon.  After my hair was completely one color you move into the easy zone which is just going back to get your roots touched up with bleach and the purple.  You do still have to deep condition and get regular haircuts.  

Around Halloween time of 2014 I started to get bored with the all purple color and wanted to change it up.  This time we bleached out a very large amount in the front, about 3 inches and covered that with Pravana "Magenta."  Having two colors turned out to be a bigger pain in the ass than I thought it would be.  It looked amazing but as I learned, this is very hard to maintain.  If the two colors even touched during your shampooing they will blend together and you've got a mess.  It was still obvious that the front was pink and the back was purple, but to keep it that way I had to wash the two separately with cold water.  Meaning, head in tub to wash the pink then make sure its blow dried completely.  Then head in the shower and wash the back making sure nothing touches the dry front.  UGHHHH!  Big hassle.  Had to get rid of this one ASAP ha!  So where to go from here?

At this point my wedding was about 3 months away and everyone was harassing me to dye my hair "one color". :)  I got tired of hearing it.  I was going to go one color, just not the one they expected ha.  To get my hair entirely pink we didn't have a lot of time to do the highlights a little bit at a time so I had to go in for a large amount to be bleached.  The entire back of the head in one shot; we knew it would kill my hair but still give me enough time to deep condition and get cuts before my wedding.  Since there was purple in its place before the bleach out; the covering it with pink wasn't completely successful.  It was pink but there was obviously pieces that looked orange.  So over the next few weeks we continued to bleach out the specific strands that did not take and cover them over with the pink.  We were finally done with a month and half before my wedding, whew!  And yes everyone old in my family was mad at me at my wedding but Comeee Onnnn people, it was in Vegas!!!  

The hard part is over at this point.  I now have a solid pink base of Pravana "Magenta", so anytime it starts to fade over the next 6 weeks before I need my roots done I just refresh it with Manic Panic "Hot Hot Pink."  I also no longer have to spend hours at the salon.  They just bleach my roots and I come home and cover it with the Manic Panic or if I have time to spare I'll stay there so they can go over it with the Pravana.  Either way works so great!  I still have to keep up with cuts and deep conditioning; whenever you have heavy colored hair like mine you will always have to.  But that's it.  Like I said before, "its a process." :) 

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