Red air dye advice

cazs · 25 May 2016 at 9:31PM

Wonder if anyone can share their experiences of using red hair dye. Naturally light brown hair with blonde highlights, which had grown out for about 6 months.

I decided to try dark red hair and had that done Sunday at my salon. However, I've been having dye run out of my hair in the shower since then and have washed it 5 times already - in the morning and after evening gym session - but am a bit concerned that the colour is still running. Is that normal? Never had it after previous colour treatments at the salon?

Of course, this excess dye is going everywhere and now have a white towel all splodged with pink and a pillowcase with pink on it and got some splodges on a white top whilst at the salon somehow. I've sprayed with Vanish but has anyone got red dye out of fabrics successfully and if so with what product please?

Finally, any makeup tips with deep red hair? (v. pale skin and grey eyes)

thanks

indiepanda · 25 May 2016 at 9:51PM

Red hair dye is well known for not lasting as well as other colours but this sounds an extreme example, mine has never dyed the pillows though it did make pink marks on white towels (I now use dark brown ones so it's not an issue).

I went from having mid brown hair with a lot of blonde highlights to a coppery brown a number of years ago and have mainly stuck to variations on that since. The first time it washed out pretty quickly, but as the highlighted hair grew out it lasted better. Still not as well as plain brown though.

I think if you wash your hair that often you might struggle to make red dye last long enough for you - I don't wash mine that often and it still fades between salon visits.

indiepanda · 25 May 2016 at 9:54PM

Oh and make up tips - really depends upon your skin tone and whether you've gone for a warm red (yellow based) or cool red (blue based).

I go for warm reds as my skin tone is warm even though I am quite pale and use brown, bronzes, peaches, khakis, teals etc.

cazs · 25 May 2016 at 10:02PM

Thanks, I'm a v pale cool tone skin wise. Hair more blue based I think. It's been referred to as mahogany/burgundy/plum.

piglet74 · 25 May 2016 at 10:10PM

I was red on and off for years, and while it does fade, and run all over you in the shower, I have never experienced it as bad as you describe

Ie, maybe the first two washes after the colour would run down me on the shower, but I never had stained pillows etc.

I did have dark coloured towels for my hair though,

I would recommend Johnsons baby shampoo, and a really good colour protect conditioner,

Hth.

indiepanda · 25 May 2016 at 10:51PM

cazs wrote: »

Thanks, I'm a v pale cool tone skin wise. Hair more blue based I think. It's been referred to as mahogany/burgundy/plum.

Well you've got it right picking a blue based red to go with your cool skin tone, although if you have gone much darker than your natural shade it could wash you out a bit and make you look paler, might be better with something of a not too dissimilar depth to your natural shade unless you want a very dramatic look.

I haven't been my natural colour for 20+ years but these days I don't go much more than a shade or two lighter or darker - too dark and I look pasty and too light and it looks unnatural compared to my eyebrows (too lazy to go dying them too).

If you have cool skin tone, you would be a winter or summer in House of Colour terminology (possibly more likely to be summer if you have v pale skin and light brown hair), suggest you have a look at the make up on their website recommended for those seasons.

http://www.houseofcolour.co.uk/shop

jenniewb · 26 May 2016 at 1:58AM

I've had probably every shade of red hair over the years (currently it's dark purple as I got bored after 20 years of red!) In my experience it does tend to bleed but only for the first week, after then if it's still leeching out at the same rate as it was when it was done then I'd go back to the salon to check it's not faded to oblivion as I can't imagine there'd be much colour left!

If your hair was very damaged or porus or you use a lot of heat when washing, drying or styling; this will make colour leeking worse. If you can stick to cooling things down as much as you can it will help. You've not got to go all out and take an ice cold shower or anything, just maybe don't set it to a maximum heat if you usually do this. Take the heat down a notch or two, every little helps!

For make up- with lips and cheeks, opt for cooler reds and pinks. If you're looking for eye shades (don't do with lips or it just looks like your either in drag or part of a theatre performance). I always used to wear bronzes as my hair shade was warm red but if you have a cool red, maybe opt for purples, cool taupes and smudgy greys. If you are looking for paler shades, you can't go wrong with an ivory generally but if your skin isn't too yellow (mine is so I know how this can look on the wrong skin tone!) try white-silver shades and cool ice pink shades.

greensalad · 26 May 2016 at 12:36PM

I had red hair for many years. Yes it does run. It will always run. I wore my hair red for 8 weeks plus between dyeing and there was always red water in the shower.

cazs · 26 May 2016 at 5:52PM

Thanks everyone for your comments. I hope it stops running soon or going to have v expensive towel bill.
Nonetheless I'm liking how "rich" my hair looks...

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