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lonelyfires asked: I loved your tutorial on hair-bleaching and am aaaalmost ready to take the leap to doing it myself... the one thing holding me back is the specific shade I'm going for - platinum grey-ish hint-of-purple-ish. You mentioned in a post maybe a month ago that you were getting there yourself... but how?! What toner or blend of toners are you using? Thanks so much!
Well for starters: It might not go well or get there right away! My hair has taken MONTHS but I’m pretty psyched on it right now though it’s not quite perfect:
I tone the top (blonde) part with Manic Panic Virgin Snow and intermittently use Clairol Shimmerlights conditioner, which works great for colour but doesn’t make my hair feel great and also smells awful. It’s pretty light but I don’t think it’s quite that ideal perfect silver-blonde, but it’s close enough for me for now. The bottom purplish bits are a weird MP concoction.
Wella White Lady and Silver Lady are great for the white/silver grey type platinum, but I find the whole mixing/ammonia toner kind of thing annoying/smelly/damaging especially right after bleaching, and I don’t quite need it. I like the Manic Panic toner since it doesn’t require any mixing. Purple-ish grey is really hard to get evenly, but the Silver Lady (Toner T14) should do the trick, and you can always keep using a semipermanent purple-ish toner or conditioner to get it sort of lavender. The MP Virgin Snow is great for super white-blonde, but it will take unevenly if your hair bleached unevenly, and it definitely gets more “white-blonde” than “purple-ish grey.”
I also put Manic Panic in my conditioner - I dump some of the Virgin Snow and a teeny bit of purple into my plain conditioner bottle so that it’s got a bit of a tint for every time I wash my hair. (You can do this, nothing will explode or go bad.) I like the Hi Pro Pac keratin masks you can get at most beauty supply stores, and when I want to get it really lavender and not just cooler blonde, I’ll mix that with a few spoons of Electric Amethyst or Lie Locks and put it just on the bottoms/ends of my hair for 5-10 minutes while I shave my legs in the shower or whatever, and then just keep sort of combing it through — that’s how I did this colour here. The results are a little uneven in a sort of streaky ombre way, but I think that looks good if you don’t wear your hair super sleek and straight, and it fades quickly anyhow.
If you aren’t super okay with the fact that things could go distastrously or might take a long time to get what you want, don’t try to do it yourself!! I’ve just done so much nutso stuff to my hair that it doesn’t really bother me if I mess it up a little bit, and my hair is also pretty resilient. Go to a salon if you have any doubts — they know what they are talking about way more than me.
There’s also plenty of awesome ladies on YouTube who have done tutorials for their hair colour and who use other combinations — just try looking up variations on lavender and silver hair, there’s so much info out there.
Anonymous asked: makeup must-haves or daily routine? you always seem to wear really bold lipsticks, what are your favorite colors?
I’ve gotten really low-maintenance lately, which is:
For night I usually wear foundation, I used Chanel Mat Lumiere in Ivoire for years but they just discontinued it so am looking for a new one. :( I use Benefit brightening powder (Dandelion) once in a while too, a few Chanel blushes but very rarely, and occasionally this Almay amethyst eyeliner. Most of my eyeshadows are MAC and the colours I use most often are Trax, Handwritten, Woodwinked, Smut, Carbon, White Frost, and Gleam, plus the pigments in the Gareth Pugh silver and Copperclast.
PS I LOVE WHEN Y’ALL ASK ME QUESTIONS, GO FOR IT.
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Do you know what is happening in, like, 3 weeks or so? I turn 19, or 27, or 23, or 29, or 25 or something. Two days later there is this, which is totally internet-important and will sort of be like that party last year but way cooler. Also look! Squirrelfriend is doing video projection-y things and like Avery and Jermaine and Aaron and Elle and Amy and whole lot of other people I like a whole lot are doing things too! k cool SEE U THERE Y’ALL <3
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