Blue hair + Eyebrow Piercing

errlloyd

Wanna dye the hair blue and get an eyebrow pierced for Shace and Dye.

Anyone have any recommendation of places in town that would be good at doing this for a lad?

spinandscribble

in my experiences with blue hair, the dye doesn't take the same day you bleach it. unless you're very very fair, you'll need to bleach. if there's any yellow/warm tone in the hair it will turn green. it needs to be pretty much white. i usually get my hairdresser to bleach it and after a few days dye it blue myself. its cheaper and in my times dyeing my hair crazy colours, its always lasted longer if i've done it myself (probably because i leave it in for a few hours if i can unlike in a salon where they stick you under the heater for 25 mins.

I don't think you'll find a piercer/hairdresser in one place.

convert

If you didn't want to completely dye your hair, you can buy blue hairspray which will give you 'blue' hair, but will wash out very easily.

errlloyd

I didn't expect to get it done in one place. Yeah I pretty much expected to have to go white for a while first. Which tbh I am kinda pumped for.

I have no experience doing any of this stuff myself, I have a kind of a dark Auburn naturally and hardressers tell me its a ****ing nightmare to dye, so I figure I'll leave it to pros.

But you reckon two trips will be required to get it blue?

spinandscribble

my hair is dark brown/black and it takes 2/4 depending on the condition/strength used and how many layers of dye are already in the bits being bleached. Theres no way of telling how your hair will take to the bleach, if you already have layers of dye in it it'll taken longer then if it was virgin hair so to speak. hopefully two trips + lots of toner then a few days before adding the blue, but its hard to say depends on the condition/underlying pigments.

CamillaRhodes

spinandscribble wrote: »

(probably because i leave it in for a few hours if i can unlike in a salon where they stick you under the heater for 25 mins.

Seriously OP, though I understand you're not used to dying your hair, I really think if you want to get a great, strong blue you should do it yourself and leave it on for ages. Your hair's gonna be kinda fooked from being bleached anyway so don't worry about harming it (though I guess if your scalp started burning you'd want to take it off). When I used to dye my hair blue I left the dye on for about 2 hours. Needed to be topped up quite regularly too, to keep the colour strong, probably every 3 weeks or so, which gets pretty expensive if you have to go to a salon each time. You only need to bleach it as often as you care about your roots, so maybe go pro with this to make sure the blonde is even.

You can buy pots of brightly coloured dye in plenty of little funky stores in Dublin (is that where you are?) like in George's market arcade, they're about 8 euros.

Then, go to Snakebite on Middle Abbey street to get your eyebrow pierced, best piercers in Dublin (IMO, but check out the tattoos and piercings forum if you want more opinions). DO NOT be tempted to get it pierced at the little place in George's Market Arcade!

errlloyd

Right that advice is very very much appreciated. I think it'd just be for a month or so anyway for the craic like. But the whole keeping it in is very sound advice, and you're right you can **** up bleaching, but there is always dye remover right?