Haircuts/Hairstyles/Hair Color Mega Thread

[Solumina]

My hair is now a lovely strawberry pink, it stands out but isn't too over the top. I will post a pic as soon as I get a chance

[Pineapple_Juice]

Every hairdresser in the Western hemisphere has decided that it's their life's goal to cut my hair as short as possible, regardless of my protests and adamant refusal of said cut. That said, I'm currently sporting an a-line shag, and I detest short hair.

[drewsilla]

You can use geletin, egg whites or hair glue, like Got2Be spiked glue gel. Regular glue does work really well, too.

If you do use Elmer's glue, I'd wash my hair in baking soda after. That seems to get it out. Sometimes you have to use it more than once, but that's just the price of a mohawk.

[Wormboy]

Thank ya drewsilla ^_^

[Cicero]

For really high hawks gels and glues will often weigh the hair down more than it keeps it up. If your hawk is fairly wide you're best teasing it and using the strongest hairspray you can get your hands on. After spraying it and teasing it just smooth it all together into the desired shape with your hands - works best when you've got your head facing downwards so gravity can help you out a bit. Aside from the usually mohawk you can also mould it into spikes or split it into two fanned mohawks.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Won't that harm your hair a lot?

[KontanKarite]

Look, Aquanet level 3 or higher is enough to get your hair to stand up. It's not that you need your hair to be hard as a rock, it's that you need your hair to be light and firm.

When making your hawk, section it out. I prefer a death hawk style myself, so tease the shit out of the sections and hang your head down to hairspray it.

The base of the hawk is what needs to be rock hard, so don't be gentle with the hairspray at the base. You want a little hair to go with your hairspray, not a little hairspray to go with your hair.

Also, hang your head upside down and blow dry it so that it dries faster. The sooner it's dried, the better it will stand.

[electrosexual]

I actually find that the less hairspray you use the better. Adding too much tends to weigh down my hair and just make it harder to spike up. So I have to keep adding more and more. And washing it out is a fierce affair indeed.

[drewsilla]

Originally Posted by Wormboy

Thank ya drewsilla ^_^

Awww, you're welcome!!

*hugs*

[deztroynoize]

I always like reading stuff that people who do their own hair write about doing hair. I'm actually a licensed hairstylist and have been for a few years now. So let me give you all a few tips if you color your hair regularly:

1) Using a shampoo and conditioner from CVS or the grocery store is going to make your hair fade quickly. It has the do with the properties in the shampoo as compared to a salon brand. And no, buying the salon brand name, like Paul Mitchell, in the grocery store is not the same. They are not the actual product and are watered down and far more expensive than if you went to a hair salon.
2) red's fade. you can't stop it. same with blue, green, purple etc. why? because "party colors" as they are called are semi-permanent. they only coat the top layer of your strands of hair and do not penetrate any further. I do not wash my hair everyday. One, because it dries your hair out if you over wash it and two my color stays longer.
3)Don't bleach your hair at home. The bleaching kits you by at Sally Beauty supply are not professional bleach and they give you universal directions. There is no such thing as universal directions for hair color. That's why people mess their hair up and have to come to a hairstylist to have it fixed.
4) Stay away from box color. even if it's "just black". Box color has an elemental property in it called "metallic salt dye". The chemical reaction they can have to bleach or other types of hair color and cause your hair to literally start smoking and burn off.
5)If you do bleach your hair, make sure that you do a deep conditioning treatment. Go into a salon that is local to you and talk to one of the stylist's about a treatment that would be good for your hair and what sort of damage that's been done to it.

I can't really think of anything else right now, but if you guys have any other questions, feel free to PM me or something.

[deztroynoize]

Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua

So I dyed my hair blue-black this weekend. The two previously blonde streaks in the front are now bright blue, and the rest of it is a dark bluish color.

Originally, I tried to do just the underside blue-black, and bleaching the rest of it with the possibility of the ends of the bleached being pink or purple or something, but that's a rather difficult task to accomplish by oneself. ^^;;;;

The reason why this happened is because you had bleach in your hair. Bleach completely removes the pigment that was already in your hair leaving the shaft hollow. In order to color it back dark and actually have it come out the correct color you want, you need to have it filled first. The reason being is because the color has nothing to hold onto once it tries to penetrate the hollow shaft of the hair. By filling it, your giving it something to hold onto.

Your gonna need to go to a hairstylist for this.

[deztroynoize]

Originally Posted by ForgetThisLostLenore

Ok, the last time I went to the hairdresser, she told me that whatever I do, I cannot bleach my hair. Seeing as I want vibrant, pretty hair, this is kind of bad. So has anyone used Manic Panic of Special Effects without bleach? And if so, how well did it turn out? And would that damage my hair any more than already damaged?

Bleaching would be completely out of the picture. Most of it would probably break off if I did bleach. But what if I got it deep conditioned? I tried asking the hairdresser all of this, but she really wasn't getting me. She did a nice job cutting it though.

The only way I could properly answer that is to know what your hair looks like now.

But there is a bottom line. If your hair has pigment in it, the semi-permanent color like manic panic and all that shit isn't going to stick in your hair. The most it would do is stain it and even then the color won't be vibrant. the reason being because there is already pigment in your hair blocking whatever other pigment is trying to get in.
it would have to be bleached in order to have it come out vibrant like you want.
if you have a bunch of colors in your hair right now, or have colored it recently with box color, I wouldn't have put bleach in your hair either lol.

[Wormboy]

Originally Posted by drewsilla

Awww, you're welcome!!

*hugs*

*hugs back*

To the mohawk discussion people:

Well, I've read in some places that someone used Knox Gelatin and it worked wonders. They also said their little brother used too much on his liberty spike and was able to support his head with the spikes :-P. I'm not interested in deathawk (I love them though, but I would rather a good old fan hawk) So teasing is not an option. As for hairspray, eh I need something a bit stronger and a bit cheaper. I'll try the hair glues and if that doesn't work I'm off to the grocer for some Knox ^_^ I'm getting my hawk right after my girlfriend's prom. I'm also going to take the last two inches and bleach then silver wash them to get them white, along with taking the front part (fringe) and turning that completely white and wearing it down as a fringe. Any and all advice is much appreciated.

[Wormboy]

Originally Posted by KontanKarite

It's not that you need your hair to be hard as a rock

I somewhat do need that, since every idiot I know is going to want to touch it.

[Anti-Mindvirus]

I am going to dye my hair pure white in two weeks.. any other advice anyone could give me would be loved..

[electrosexual]

Start conditioning now!

[Anti-Mindvirus]

With what exactly?




100 post!!

[electrosexual]

A good conditioner from a salon. Kerastase is probably the best. Look for words like "intensive" and "repair" etc etc.

Use it every time you shampoo, and in a few weeks when you want to bleach your hair, it will be in good condition for it. Also try to avoid product and heat devices if you can.

Also, its probably best to bleach your hair once, to blonde. Then wait a week or two and bleach it again. then after another week bleach it a further time to get it really white. Be sure to condition in between bleaches. It's better doing it incrementally rather than just frying your hair in one 4 hour bleach session. trust me, you don't want to do that. Your hair will [quite literally] fall out, your scalp will bleed and you'll have to shave all your hair off. I know from experience.

And dont forget to condition after you've bleached your hair! And use heat defense products if you use heat devices.

[KontanKarite]

Originally Posted by electrosexual

I actually find that the less hairspray you use the better. Adding too much tends to weigh down my hair and just make it harder to spike up. So I have to keep adding more and more. And washing it out is a fierce affair indeed.

That's why I said just the base really needs it. After that, the teasing itself will just about hold itself up, you really only need a solid amount. No need for overkill.

[GothicChristian]

Originally Posted by electrosexual

A good conditioner from a salon. Kerastase is probably the best. Look for words like "intensive" and "repair" etc etc.

Use it every time you shampoo, and in a few weeks when you want to bleach your hair, it will be in good condition for it. Also try to avoid product and heat devices if you can.

Also, its probably best to bleach your hair once, to blonde. Then wait a week or two and bleach it again. then after another week bleach it a further time to get it really white. Be sure to condition in between bleaches. It's better doing it incrementally rather than just frying your hair in one 4 hour bleach session. trust me, you don't want to do that. Your hair will [quite literally] fall out, your scalp will bleed and you'll have to shave all your hair off. I know from experience.

And dont forget to condition after you've bleached your hair! And use heat defense products if you use heat devices.

I'm, simply, nodding in agreement.
You seem to have as much, if not more, experience as I do with bleaching hair.

I use ion repair solution. It's the intensive therapy protein rebuilder and moisturizer. Yeah.

Oh, another way to get your hair white, though I don't suggest it, is Clorox and peroxide. It gets your hair white. It smells terrible and burns your skin, though. A lot more conditioning than normal hair bleaching is needed afterwards as well.

[Johnny Gnar Gnar]

I hate to ask, but what do you guys think of this particular coloring style? I've been wanting to try it since I was in high school. *god, that was a long time ago* Just curious what anybody thinks?

[bleedingheart344]

I still can't find anything to do with my hair. I feel like a new style. I've had people tell me deathhawk, among other things. What does everyone else think? http://i27.tinypic.com/21j3nrm.jpg

[Zerachiel]

I think it would work well, since your hair is curly, I think it would have a better chance of staying up. I'm not sure how it would go with your victorian style though...Try to stick it up now, to see how that is, just...Imagine the sides gone lol. You don't want to screw it up, then have to be bald.

[Bete Noire]

Originally Posted by Zerachiel

Try to stick it up now, to see how that is, just...Imagine the sides gone lol.

Bleed, whilst this may work for people without your kind of hair, it most certainly is very difficuly with curly hair like yours. I tried it on mine (it's the same hair type as yours but about 3/4 of the length.) And it's not easy to get it to work.

That aside, it would look awesome as a death hawk. I'm going to get one myself later in the summer.

If you want a rough idea on how it would look, search on deathrock.com for pictures of "Zavon" he's got similar hair and a hawk. He leaves his curly but you could always straighten it.

[Zerachiel]

O.o Is it harder? I would think it would be thicker...etc. :s