Okay this is a weird question.
Someone has said to me once that they were like maybe you shouldn’t get your hair bleached
if you are on your period.
Is that true?
I have never heard that.
I mean.
I was like really?
Hey guys its Mi-Anne and this is Beauty with Mi.
Today is a very, very exciting episode of Beauty with Mi because last week I did something
kind of crazy.
I dyed my hair pink!
You might be wondering why I am wearing a hat right now.
It’s because I filmed the entire process from start to finish.
But I don’t want to show you what it looks like yet!
Cause I have a final reveal at the end.
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So I am here at Spoke & Weal in New York with Madison, my lovely colorist who is going to
be helping transform me from this to pink.
I have many questions for you before we start though.
Alright, what do you want to know?
So what should people do before there going in for a big bleaching process like I am.
I don’t want you or any type of client to wash their hair several days before.
We want to let the oils kind of buildup on the hair.
It kind of gives nice little coating on the scalp.
And also if you wash your hair the night before, or the day of,
you can cause some type of irritation.
and when you are putting a chemical on it,
it can cause stronger burning sensation on
then when you would normally have.
I haven’t washed my hair in five days so it’s really stringy right now.
What should people with very dark hair like mine keep in mind when they are bleaching?
A lot of people being super dark naturally it’s going to be
a lot harder for them to reach this platinum level.
Alright I think I know everything I need to know.
And all we have to do now is start bleaching.
After I chatted with Madison a little bit she started mixing my bleach.
So she used a mixture using hydrogen peroxide.
They applied the solution to my mid-lengths and ends.
Let that sit for about 30 minutes before they applied the same solution to my roots.
I thought that the bleach would really hurt.
or that it would burn but Madison told me that if you are getting your hair bleached and
it really hurts or really burns you should tell your colorist right away because it should
not do that.
And she was totally right.
In terms of the sensation it was more prickly, almost itchy sensation but it definitely wasn’t painful.
Draco Malfoy vibes. That is my new aesthetic.
But my hair was definitely on the brassy blonde side.
So when they washed it out, which by the way felt amazing!
When you have bleach in your hair for an hour and it’s kind of like itchy, kind of uncomfortable.
The cold water, it just felt so good.
They put a gloss in my hair to neutralize the brassy tones, and then followed up with
a pink gloss that would serve as the base for my pinky rose quartzy hair color.
We actually mixed the color together.
I can add a little more lilac and I feel like maybe a little bit more pink.
I can just add more pink to it.
Okay let’s try that.
And then, Madison and Becca applied the whole solution to my head, and then we chilled for 20
minutes while it all absorbed.
Madison washed it out to reveal my brand new color.
Ta da!
This is my hair and I’m so pleased with it.
It is the exact color that I imagined oin my head.
I’ve had this hair for about a week now, still getting a little bit used to it.
I look in the mirror sometimes and I forget that I dyed my hair and I’m just pleasantly surprised
again and I’m like “I have pink hair now.”
There’s a lot of work that goes into
the upkeep and the maintenance.
The first thing Madison warned me was that the more I washed my hair the faster my color
will fade.
So in the past, I would wash my hair every other day if not every single day.
Now that my hair is bleached, my hair is drier so it’s been absorbing a lot of the oils on my scalp.
I’ve been using the Ouai repair shampoo.
and my hair feels so soft.
I also use the repair conditioner from the same brand.
So this fella from Verb is non aerosol dry shampoo.
Squeeze the powder into your roots and you massage it in and it absorbs so much oil it
also gives your hair a little bit of a gritty texture that’s really nice for styling.
In terms of maintaining the color apart from fewer washes, Madison said that I can use
a product like Uberliss’ bond sustainer.
That you can mix together, put it on your hair and it kinda almost re-dyes your hair.
So after a few washes when my hair is sufficiently faded, sad.
I’m going to do this.
Getting hair like this is not cheap, it’s also not fast.
It cost around three to five hundred dollars on your hair, double colored and processed
like this in New York City.
And then touch ups can be another couple hundred.
Technically according to Madison, you’re supposed to get your hair touched up
every four to six weeks.
That’s like what my root regrowth has come out.
If you wait longer than six weeks, it becomes much harder for your colorist to dye your hair back evenly.
So that is all, that was a lot.
I hope you learned something from this, let me know what color you think I should get
next in the comments now that I’ve gone lighter, I’m so excited to experiment with more colors.
Thanks so much for watching guys.
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