Where in Cork can i buy unusual colour hair dye (preferably semi-permanent) URGENT

livemusic4life

Hi folks.
So i signed up to the shave or dye campaign for the Irish Cancer Society and i daftly allowed people who donated to choose the colour.
Now RAINBOW coloured hair is winning but i'm having real problems getting any interesting colours of dye. Being Rainbow i'd really prefer to go semi permanent.

Does anyone know of anywhere i can get a few interesting colours. Think along the lines of the strong colours goths use.
I'm supposed to be doing it on Tuesday, which clearly means i'm running out of time.
Please can anyone help me?

Kind regards
LM4L

booboo88

livemusic4life wrote: »

Hi folks.
So i signed up to the shave or dye campaign for the Irish Cancer Society and i daftly allowed people who donated to choose the colour.
Now RAINBOW coloured hair is winning but i'm having real problems getting any interesting colours of dye. Being Rainbow i'd really prefer to go semi permanent.

Does anyone know of anywhere i can get a few interesting colours. Think along the lines of the strong colours goths use.
I'm supposed to be doing it on Tuesday, which clearly means i'm running out of time.
Please can anyone help me?

Kind regards
LM4L

moonshine in paul street

Pythia

livemusic4life wrote: »

Hi folks.
So i signed up to the shave or dye campaign for the Irish Cancer Society and i daftly allowed people who donated to choose the colour.
Now RAINBOW coloured hair is winning but i'm having real problems getting any interesting colours of dye. Being Rainbow i'd really prefer to go semi permanent.

Does anyone know of anywhere i can get a few interesting colours. Think along the lines of the strong colours goths use.
I'm supposed to be doing it on Tuesday, which clearly means i'm running out of time.
Please can anyone help me?

Kind regards
LM4L

You do realise that to get colours to show up means you will need to bleach your hair first, unless it's already blonde. Semi permanent doesn't exactly mean semi permanent, it means it will be strong at first and then fade into a less strong colour. You will most likely have to wait til it grows out or re-dye it back to the original colour.

poutie

Hennesy's in Sarfields Road, by driving test centre do Crazy Colours, semi permanent colour, I did Shave or Dye this year and thats what I used. About €5 a bottle, I needed two, and they are open on Sundays, prices are vat free too on Sun I think!

Tabitharose

what Pythia said alternatives would be looking at the spray colours in Boots & this although I've never tried it:
http://beaut.ie/blog/2012/hair-chalking-could-you-be-arsed/

edited to add:
think this is the one I've seen in Boots:
http://www.colourfx.eu/
party supply shops etc would have similar

booboo88

Tabitharose wrote: »

what Pythia said alternatives would be looking at the spray colours in Boots & this although I've never tried it:
http://beaut.ie/blog/2012/hair-chalking-could-you-be-arsed/

edited to add:
think this is the one I've seen in Boots:
http://www.colourfx.eu/
party supply shops etc would have similar

they apparently stopped doing that

livemusic4life

I went into moonshine in paul street yesterday and got 5 great colours. I have my hair done now and i quite like it, i have to say

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w108/cliodhna_crowley/19032012556.jpg

Thanks again folks

Tabitharose

it looks awesome it suits you - very pretty

Josie_tickle

Pythia wrote: »

You do realise that to get colours to show up means you will need to bleach your hair first, unless it's already blonde. Semi permanent doesn't exactly mean semi permanent, it means it will be strong at first and then fade into a less strong colour. You will most likely have to wait til it grows out or re-dye it back to the original colour.

In case anyone is referring to this post now a days this comment is not true.

The colours will show up on fair hair without bleach, but if it's pastel you want you'll need to bleach. Make sure you use a bowl and tinting brush and carefully section your hair as you go to get it even.

The colours are non staining so they lift with acetone (nail varnish remover) and usually wash out from clothes. Some of the red hues (pink fuscia etc) are harder to get rid of.

The hair will NOT be coloured forever, depending on what you've done prior. If your hair if freshly bleached wait a few days or the colour will stick like glue and you'll not get rid of it for months especially deep vibrant colours like red, deep green and blue. Pastels are lighter and shift quicker.

You can make pastel colours by using 50% colour 50% conditioner mix in a bowl until homogenous. The colours do fade but unless you put a bright colour onto freshly bleached hair and leave it a long time you'll be ok.

If you want to shift colour quicker use washing up lighuid e.g platinum fairy liquid. You'll need a good conditioner for this I suggest L'Oreal Elvive Full Restore 5 Extreme Repairing Conditioner (purple bottle not white) I only ever see it in Tesco but it's THE best thing under a tenner. Go forth and dye !

MinnieMinx

Jeez, DO NOT FOLLOW THE ADVICE ABOVE!

That is unbelievably dangerous and based on a complete lack of knowledge of the chemistry of hair colour.

Acetone should never used as a hair colour remover. It's a highly flammable solvent and you will burn your scalp.

It's obvious that the above poster is not a trained professional as they clearly have no understanding about the way direct dyes work on the hair. There are safe ways to remove direct dyes effectively providing the colour hasn't been reapplied to porous hair and stained the cuticle layers.

Cupcake_Crisis

MinnieMinx wrote: »

Jeez, DO NOT FOLLOW THE ADVICE ABOVE!

That is unbelievably dangerous and based on a complete lack of knowledge of the chemistry of hair colour.

Acetone should never used as a hair colour remover. It's a highly flammable solvent and you will burn your scalp.

It's obvious that the above poster is not a trained professional as they clearly have no understanding about the way direct dyes work on the hair. There are safe ways to remove direct dyes effectively providing the colour hasn't been reapplied to porous hair and stained the cuticle layers.

I think she meant that acetone can remove any colour that has stained clothes

Twee.

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