Any decent blue hair dyes?

sylphraven · 11 July 2008 at 8:08PM

I've home dyed my hair since the age of 13 but have never found a blue hair dye that stays in... anyone tried one that works? I really dont want to fork out a bomb to have it done at the hairdressers.

I dont need lots of it, just enough to put streaks in & do the ends (I know, not everyones cuppa tea but its what I like). All the ones I try fade quickly to a greeney colour.

vik6525 · 11 July 2008 at 8:25PM

How long do you leave the dye in?
Stargazer is GREAT if you leave it in overnight (with a towel on the pillow, naturally!)

bringmeshoes · 11 July 2008 at 8:45PM

i used to use directions have you tried them?
i also got one from boots (cant remember the name tho)and it was a roll on one, great for doing some streaks/ends

sylphraven · 11 July 2008 at 9:05PM

I've only ever tried leaving them in for about 1/2 hour over recommended time as my hair goes dry easily & I've been worried about ruining it, especially after prelightening/bleaching.

Again, the directions electric blue went green fairly quick - any tips on how to slow this down bringmeshoes? except not washing my hair, lol.

So how long did stargazer last for you vik6525?

vik6525 · 12 July 2008 at 7:40AM

sylphraven wrote: »

I've only ever tried leaving them in for about 1/2 hour over recommended time as my hair goes dry easily & I've been worried about ruining it, especially after prelightening/bleaching.

Again, the directions electric blue went green fairly quick - any tips on how to slow this down bringmeshoes? except not washing my hair, lol.

So how long did stargazer last for you vik6525?

Well,like i said, it always depends on how long you leave it in....
Sometimes, if I had nothing else on, I'd leave it on for a entire weekend.... When i managed to do that, my hair would stay coloured for a couple of months, without fading...
But usually, id just leave it on overnight, and it'd last for about a month or so....

The other thing I found is that it fades more slowly on bleached hair...
Dont know if that any help to you?

Savvy_Sue · 13 July 2008 at 3:39PM

I wonder if it's going green because of a reaction with chlorine in your water?

And I wonder if an after-swimming shampoo would help you?

Boots have a new-ish range which includes a version for coloured hair. Blue, triangular bottles.

I use the regular version after swimming and find it very good for getting the 'swimming pool smell' off me.

bringmeshoes · 13 July 2008 at 6:35PM

sylphraven wrote: »

I've only ever tried leaving them in for about 1/2 hour over recommended time as my hair goes dry easily & I've been worried about ruining it, especially after prelightening/bleaching.

Again, the directions electric blue went green fairly quick - any tips on how to slow this down bringmeshoes? except not washing my hair, lol.

So how long did stargazer last for you vik6525?

blue dyes always fade to a greeny colour at some point, as vik says they work better on bleached hair. i have my hair coloured pink at the hairdressers and bleach my hair before i go. i also use trevor sorbie shampoo & conditioner for coloured hair and finds it prolongs the colour

sylphraven · 14 July 2008 at 10:19AM

Thanks all, shall try the stargazer dye & leave on for as long as I can stand, luckily it goes on towel dried hair so hopefully I can get my mass of curls into a tidy plait afterwards (not so easy with dry dyed hair) or pigtails, then it'll look fairly neat for a couple of days.

I'll look into getting a decent shampoo for dyed hair, the new head & shoulders one still strips the colour away, just not as fast as the normal.

Shall let you know how I get on.

teedy23 · 14 July 2008 at 10:39AM

As for not spending a fortune at the hairdressers, ever thought of going to one of the big salons training acadamies. Got my hair coloured and hightlighted for £15 the other week.

sylphraven · 24 July 2008 at 7:49PM

I lightened my hair & put stargazer electric blue on, left on for about 36 hours, it came out green. So I put on the rest of the bottle for another 24 hours & it came out kinda aqua blue. Better but not the effect I wanted so I ended up putting blue-black all over, where the aqua streaks are it didnt take as dark as the rest & the blue shines through, fab effect!

At the moment a trainie is not an option for me as I'm scared of going to a hairdressers/training college hairdressers, irrational I know but I cant help it. Faced my fear today & went to a hairdressers to have my hair chopped, it was 1/2 way down my back, now its 7" at its longest, big change but I was bored with it, still scared hairdressers though, lol.

geekgirl · 24 July 2008 at 9:17PM

Blues and greens always fade badly, pinks and reds will last much longer.

I always did my own. The first one I used to use was Crazy Colour but that was yonks ago, then when I found it hard to get that I used directions but that was also a long time ago.

As you know bleaching your hair is pretty bad for your hair (well it was for mine as I bleached it using 60 vol peroxide and powder) but Crazy colour was like a conditioner it really helped my hair so I used to just top it up each week to keep it really bright.

Ahhh! The memories!

Well fancy that! Just looked it up and they still do it! And both my fave colours cyclamen and pinkissimo are still there!

Any decent blue hair dyes?

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