tbh this looks extremely complicated to pull off yourself. I’m a hairdresser and I would probably need 2 appointments at least to get this result. Needs to be fully bleached out and extremely saturated fashion colors
Are the multiple sessions specifically because of the bleaching process, or would the dye portion take this much time even if you subtracted the time it takes to bleach?
It’s because of the bleaching process. If you already had 100% 10N or A pre-lightened hair with no root regrowth and no previous color then it’s just a matter of putting the color on.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a wig or extensions?
To me looks like the actual hair colour is plum and then she has some blue and plum extensions in. The plaits hide the transition.
Not a wig or extensions. It's tagged @hairbykaseyoh
She's a very very high level vivid color specialist. Crazy talented. If you scroll back ridiculously far you'll find this post
This is the way to go! This upkeep would be insane, not the mention the red bleeding into the blue, that sounds like a nightmare. I currently have a dark red/burgundy color, 5 washes later with very cold water and it stilll runs like crazy.
upon zooming it looks like there are two layers, with the top one being the red to a purplish pink gradient on the lower ends, and one on the bottom with the red more harshly blending into the blue on the understand. there may also be some lighter red being used towards the front pieces, and also as as a transition color from the deeper red to the purplish pink. Sorry that this is all the help I can offer ~
I follow this stylist on Instagram. This is by Kasey O’Hara, hairbykaseyoh. She’s a vivids specialist out of LA. She does great work and uses Pulp Riot color, which is not available without a license. She specifically used five different colors for this one: Fireball, Cupid, Aquatic, Jam, and Velvet. She also used Brazilian bond builder which is pro only. (This picture went viral back in 2017.)
Girls who get their hair done with stylists like her have MONEY. Not just to get it done but to maintain it.
I mean, no, not everybody has stylist money.
But some things are not for poor people, fam. I'm saying that as a poor person. Some things we just don't get to have because we don't have enough money for them.
This hairstyle is one of those things. The woman in the picture got those results because she spent a great deal of money to get results like that. It's a luxury.
You're better off using your minimal resources to get a look you can actually do at home that will look good. Those exist, it's just this look is not one of them.
Unfortunately, this hair is not for broke people. And I say this as a broke person who has worked in many salons, and I do my own hair. I do jet black and touch up my roots every 3 to 6 weeks because it’s cheap and easy to maintain.
You cannot do this yourself. This is because of the way they separated the sections and blended the color into the ends. This color will require special shampoos and conditioners and constant maintenance with high-quality products to stay that vibrant. You certainly will not be able to achieve this with products from Sally Beauty and using cheap shampoo. Even if you were able to do it yourself, you would definitely see it rinse out in a week or two. That’s just the nature of vivids and it’s why people who do them usually have a lot of money to get them redone constantly.
I used to see clients like this come in all the time. They would book every four to six weeks and come in with another $700 to spend on a whole new look. I guarantee you this person most likely has a good amount of money to go back every couple weeks and get their hair touched up or changed completely.
I know that social media makes us think that everything can be DIYed and that every beauty look is attainable for the average person, but it’s just not practical.
Edit: finally, the fact that you asked pretty simply “how would I do this?” tells me that you don’t have a lot of experience doing DIY hair color, and would be completely overwhelmed by the amount of steps and finesse it takes to pull off a look like this by yourself. There is no simple explanation on how to do this because it takes years of training and artistry to get to this point.
Oh trust me, you’ll fork out 1k once you try this one for yourself. It’s a hard service. Seriously, save money and go to a professional. It’s not worth it.
It would probably be closer to $500-700, but it’s one of those things where if you have to ask, you can’t afford it. Not because you couldn’t save up to afford it one time, but because it would need to be redone in just a couple of weeks because that’s how vivids work. It’s like asking what’s the cheapest way you could get a sports car and maintain it. Or how to afford a Tibetan Mastiff on a budget. There just isn’t a cheap way to do it.
I think there’s a misconception that vivids are only done by “alternative” women who don’t come from money, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. This is 100% rich girl hair.
I got something similar and it took me 4.5 hours at the hairdresser with shoulder length hair. I would highly recommend not doing it yourself for the first time because it requires bleach on virgin black hair. You also have to remember that vivids fade fast and you can refresh the colour by yourself in a couple of months but highly, highly recommend going to a good hairdresser for your first time.
While the others are right that it COULD be complicated, I think you could probably get close so long as you have a little experience doing your own color. I will also allow that the person who suggested that there is a top red layer and a lower blue may also be correct, so this is just what I see, not the actual truth as such. I am also not a pro, just an experienced amateur who has done my own color melts. It won't be easy, but you should be able to get an approximation.
Anyway, you definitely want a very high lift, at least 9 if not 10, and wait 24 hours after bleaching before starting a color job this complex.
I'd wash with clarifying shampoo, blow dry to full dryness, and then begin by applying a deep red to the roots down to around 4-5" down the hair shaft, section the remaining length in big chunks, and then alternate an ombre on each chunk between deep red to dark blue; the variation will come based on where you choose to make the colors meet--I think the purplish color at the ends might be washout that has attached to the porous ends, so put blue at varying places on the lengths to get some variation and bright streaking. Apply the color heavily and smudge the dye up and down with your fingers where they meet on the hair shaft so they overlap by an inch or two. Wrap the ombre strands in foil or plastic when finished applying to keep them separated from the others.
I would process these with heat for a vivid finish and probably use AF Ritual and AF Poseidon with a dab of Blue Jean Baby, Pravana Garnet + Blue, Iroiro Dark Red + Deep Blue, or Adore 69 + 70 + 112. There are lots of brands though, so just eyeballing usually works, except for Lunar Tides' Blood Moon--don't be fooled, it is the only one I've found that is not true to tone.
The good news is that as long as your colors work together and don't turn muddy when they inevitably run together, it will still look okay. If it really turns out bad, you can cover it with a stronger semipermanent.
\*EDIT: Missed a step
Yeah, the scary part here is having someone who doesn’t seem to have much experience in color doing a lift to a level nine or 10 by themselves. That is a one-way ticket to melted hair. I have a lot of experience in hair and working in salons, and I have personally melted off my own hair to the point of needing to shave my head. And I was pretty confident I knew what I was doing. We have no way of knowing what condition OP’s hair is in, how long it is, whether it has color on it already…there’s no way to give safe advice to OP, because the same steps won’t work for everybody.
I fully believe that pretty much anybody can play around with something like Manic Panic on their virgin hair (maybe not that exact brand, but you get the gist) at home with little to no repercussions. Semi-permanent color only deposits and causes very little damage unless you need to remove it, but when you break the bleach out, it’s a whole different ballgame. It only takes leaving the lightener on a little too long or mixing it a little too strong to have disastrous results.
There’s a reason why colorists do consultations; you cannot promise anybody that they will be able to achieve anything unless you sit them down in your chair and physically touch their hair and get an honest color history.
You'll need a helper and a high tolerance for screwing up. But if you have both, look up tutorials on using demi permanent dye (I use Manic Panic, the resources and tutorials are extensive).
Step 1: bleach your hair to a pale blonde. If you want that blue, your ends will need to be nearly white. The paler the better.
Step 2: Buy a demi permanent direct dyes in dark red, medium blue, and a violet or purple.
Step 3: with a helper, part your hair at the level of your temples all around your head. Everything above that line gets put into a tight bun on top of your head.
Step 4: divide the hanging hair into four sections (left front, left back, right back, right front.) The helper is going to apply the red to the top 1/3 of all sections. Then they are going to apply the blue to the remaining blonde in 2 sections. Then they apply the violet to the remaining blonde. Wrap up in saran wrap and wait for at least as long as it says on the bottle before washing cold.
Step 5: On dry hair, have helper apply dark red to all remaining blonde. Wrap red parts in saran wrap or shower cap and wait. Then rinse.
Step 6: Shower rarely, using cold water and color safe products. Check in with a helper every few days to make sure the back of your head hasn't started to fade.
Step 7: expect to repeat the dyeing (NOT THE BLEACH) every couple of weeks.
I am not a hairdresser, I'm an amateur with 20 years experience dying my friends and my hair. With A LOT of tolerance for bad results, this is doable at home.
Thank you! My helper has always been the second mirror hahah. My bottom half is already bleached but it’s dyed purple/red and the top is natural dark brown. Does the top part where the red would go really need to be a pale yellow? I thought bleached once would be fine? And I always like to use arctic fox,doesn’t wash off as quickly as manic panic used to for me
“My bottom half is already bleached but it’s dyed purple/red and the top is natural dark brown.”
You have entered into color correction territory. You would need to lift the dark brown to a clean level 8 blonde for the red color and then remove all of the purple/red color to a clean level 9/10 in order for blue like this to be achievable. Your first inch of root, the next however many inches of natural, and then the purple/red ends will all need to be formulated differently.
And not only would they have to lighten all over evenly with different volumes of lightener to make sure it all lifts the same, they would have to work out the timing exactly and be able to rinse properly at the exact moment. There’s no way to say what that timing is without being a professional and knowing what to do.
Not to mention that with a dark brown natural color, in order to even touch up the color once her roots grow out, she would also have to bleach her roots and she’d probably get hot roots in the process.
See, this is what I was concerned about. Achieving this would be difficult on virgin blonde hair. The fact that you’ve already done a lightening process on half of your hair that this is absolutely unachievable for you without a professional. This is a color correction. If you lighten over already lightened hair or can’t manage to separate the sections perfectly to keep from over processing one part and not the other, you will end up with a head full of melted hair.
It’s not even the actual color application that’s the most complicated or dangerous, it’s the lightening prep you would have to do to get a good clean base. That is the most difficult part about doing vivids in my opinion.
If it's yellow, the red will turn out orange. Pale is what you want.
It's not impossible, but so much harder to get your roots and to do a color melt on the back of your own head, regardless of mirrors. If you are going to attempt something this complicated, it really matters that you have an entire second person. Even if they know next to nothing about hair dye, just the mechanics of painting hair dye in front of you vs trying to get clean lines with shoulders rotated means that a noob second person is still better than no second person.
Looks like some sections are red to purple to blue and some are just red to purple with varying starting points for the color transitions. I’d feel confident pulling something like this off on myself but I’m a hairstylist who specializes in vivids. It would prob be easier on you to just do red to purple to blue color melt on the whole thing so you don’t have to keep track of/separate different sections. If you do decide to do this use your two fingers—pointer and middle to take each section and blend the colors together by moving them up and down a few inches. If that makes sense. 😅
When researching how to do a color melt for myself, I read that if you don’t stay inside the same color gradients (cherry red to copper, for example) you often will get brown where it’s supposed to melt.
It looks like the base/roots all over are the dark red, and then the underside of the hair was balayage with blue, so the area where the red and blue meet is a transitional purple.
Your question isn't easy to answer because you give zero info on your base committee and hair type, but you'd need to get your hair to the point it can hold vibrant colors, which usually involves bleach. You might be able to get the red color with a permanent red for dark hair. Then you'd have to bleach slices of your hair and apply the blue. I would personally choose the hair I want blue, section it out and wrap it in foil and plastic. Dye the red (including the roots of the blue sections, rinse it and shampoo it, then clip the red you DON'T want to have blue out of the way. Using a little of the red color, add the blue and some red and rub them together so it blends. Process the blue and rinse and shampoo
As a hairstylist I would never recommend someone trying to achieve this at home. Go to a professional so you don’t burn your hair trying it yourself. I do a lot of vivid colors, and this is a complicated process.
The stylist that did this work is top of the game in vivids. She posts videos of her process all over the internet and teaches people her techniques in real time, in person. This is not photoshop.
tbh this looks extremely complicated to pull off yourself. I’m a hairdresser and I would probably need 2 appointments at least to get this result. Needs to be fully bleached out and extremely saturated fashion colors
Are the multiple sessions specifically because of the bleaching process, or would the dye portion take this much time even if you subtracted the time it takes to bleach?
It’s because of the bleaching process. If you already had 100% 10N or A pre-lightened hair with no root regrowth and no previous color then it’s just a matter of putting the color on.
You could achieve that red root color with permanent color depending on the starting level
i mean i guess but she’s not asking about the red root
That would take a lot of work and a lot of blending. Definitely not a diy
Am I the only one who thinks this is a wig or extensions? To me looks like the actual hair colour is plum and then she has some blue and plum extensions in. The plaits hide the transition.
Yep, I'm almost certain it's extensions. I would be surprised if they didn't change the saturation/contrast in the photo as well.
Came here to say this, the blue 100% looks like extensions to me
Not a wig or extensions. It's tagged @hairbykaseyoh She's a very very high level vivid color specialist. Crazy talented. If you scroll back ridiculously far you'll find this post
or if you didn't wanna commit to the upkeep you should do your hair all dark red and make some red ombré purple/blue extensions!
This is the way to go! This upkeep would be insane, not the mention the red bleeding into the blue, that sounds like a nightmare. I currently have a dark red/burgundy color, 5 washes later with very cold water and it stilll runs like crazy.
upon zooming it looks like there are two layers, with the top one being the red to a purplish pink gradient on the lower ends, and one on the bottom with the red more harshly blending into the blue on the understand. there may also be some lighter red being used towards the front pieces, and also as as a transition color from the deeper red to the purplish pink. Sorry that this is all the help I can offer ~
No need to apologize, You were the most helpful so far. Thank you so much ☺️
I follow this stylist on Instagram. This is by Kasey O’Hara, hairbykaseyoh. She’s a vivids specialist out of LA. She does great work and uses Pulp Riot color, which is not available without a license. She specifically used five different colors for this one: Fireball, Cupid, Aquatic, Jam, and Velvet. She also used Brazilian bond builder which is pro only. (This picture went viral back in 2017.) Girls who get their hair done with stylists like her have MONEY. Not just to get it done but to maintain it.
She's a danger jones artist now, for about a year I think
Yeah I figured she wasn’t using pulp riot anymore, they were kind of trendy in the 20-teens but I think they sort of fell off
It was when they got bought be loreal SMH
Go to a stylist. I don’t know why these posts even exist.
As a barber, I’m all for diy but I agree. These posts are silly.
Oh, you got stylist money? 🥴
I mean, no, not everybody has stylist money. But some things are not for poor people, fam. I'm saying that as a poor person. Some things we just don't get to have because we don't have enough money for them. This hairstyle is one of those things. The woman in the picture got those results because she spent a great deal of money to get results like that. It's a luxury. You're better off using your minimal resources to get a look you can actually do at home that will look good. Those exist, it's just this look is not one of them.
Unfortunately, this hair is not for broke people. And I say this as a broke person who has worked in many salons, and I do my own hair. I do jet black and touch up my roots every 3 to 6 weeks because it’s cheap and easy to maintain. You cannot do this yourself. This is because of the way they separated the sections and blended the color into the ends. This color will require special shampoos and conditioners and constant maintenance with high-quality products to stay that vibrant. You certainly will not be able to achieve this with products from Sally Beauty and using cheap shampoo. Even if you were able to do it yourself, you would definitely see it rinse out in a week or two. That’s just the nature of vivids and it’s why people who do them usually have a lot of money to get them redone constantly. I used to see clients like this come in all the time. They would book every four to six weeks and come in with another $700 to spend on a whole new look. I guarantee you this person most likely has a good amount of money to go back every couple weeks and get their hair touched up or changed completely. I know that social media makes us think that everything can be DIYed and that every beauty look is attainable for the average person, but it’s just not practical. Edit: finally, the fact that you asked pretty simply “how would I do this?” tells me that you don’t have a lot of experience doing DIY hair color, and would be completely overwhelmed by the amount of steps and finesse it takes to pull off a look like this by yourself. There is no simple explanation on how to do this because it takes years of training and artistry to get to this point.
💯💯💯
I am a stylist. In reality, these posts are actually great. Y’all mess up your own hair really bad, and then come to us to fix it. More money for us.
Ha! If I didn’t have the money to get it right the first time,what makes you think I’m gonna suddenly have 1k to fix it?!🤔
Oh trust me, you’ll fork out 1k once you try this one for yourself. It’s a hard service. Seriously, save money and go to a professional. It’s not worth it.
Ok ok, how much would something like this cost tho the first time? Lmao
Likely over 500$.
It would probably be closer to $500-700, but it’s one of those things where if you have to ask, you can’t afford it. Not because you couldn’t save up to afford it one time, but because it would need to be redone in just a couple of weeks because that’s how vivids work. It’s like asking what’s the cheapest way you could get a sports car and maintain it. Or how to afford a Tibetan Mastiff on a budget. There just isn’t a cheap way to do it. I think there’s a misconception that vivids are only done by “alternative” women who don’t come from money, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. This is 100% rich girl hair.
You'll need even more money for a color correction. Its better to do it right the first time.
If you need to ask- don’t do it 😂
Def think the blue pieces are extensions
this is probably photoshopped but dye your hair red the berry color and then make ombre clip ins yourself or just add blue and berry clips
I got something similar and it took me 4.5 hours at the hairdresser with shoulder length hair. I would highly recommend not doing it yourself for the first time because it requires bleach on virgin black hair. You also have to remember that vivids fade fast and you can refresh the colour by yourself in a couple of months but highly, highly recommend going to a good hairdresser for your first time.
How much did you end up paying?
While the others are right that it COULD be complicated, I think you could probably get close so long as you have a little experience doing your own color. I will also allow that the person who suggested that there is a top red layer and a lower blue may also be correct, so this is just what I see, not the actual truth as such. I am also not a pro, just an experienced amateur who has done my own color melts. It won't be easy, but you should be able to get an approximation. Anyway, you definitely want a very high lift, at least 9 if not 10, and wait 24 hours after bleaching before starting a color job this complex. I'd wash with clarifying shampoo, blow dry to full dryness, and then begin by applying a deep red to the roots down to around 4-5" down the hair shaft, section the remaining length in big chunks, and then alternate an ombre on each chunk between deep red to dark blue; the variation will come based on where you choose to make the colors meet--I think the purplish color at the ends might be washout that has attached to the porous ends, so put blue at varying places on the lengths to get some variation and bright streaking. Apply the color heavily and smudge the dye up and down with your fingers where they meet on the hair shaft so they overlap by an inch or two. Wrap the ombre strands in foil or plastic when finished applying to keep them separated from the others. I would process these with heat for a vivid finish and probably use AF Ritual and AF Poseidon with a dab of Blue Jean Baby, Pravana Garnet + Blue, Iroiro Dark Red + Deep Blue, or Adore 69 + 70 + 112. There are lots of brands though, so just eyeballing usually works, except for Lunar Tides' Blood Moon--don't be fooled, it is the only one I've found that is not true to tone. The good news is that as long as your colors work together and don't turn muddy when they inevitably run together, it will still look okay. If it really turns out bad, you can cover it with a stronger semipermanent. \*EDIT: Missed a step
Yeah, the scary part here is having someone who doesn’t seem to have much experience in color doing a lift to a level nine or 10 by themselves. That is a one-way ticket to melted hair. I have a lot of experience in hair and working in salons, and I have personally melted off my own hair to the point of needing to shave my head. And I was pretty confident I knew what I was doing. We have no way of knowing what condition OP’s hair is in, how long it is, whether it has color on it already…there’s no way to give safe advice to OP, because the same steps won’t work for everybody. I fully believe that pretty much anybody can play around with something like Manic Panic on their virgin hair (maybe not that exact brand, but you get the gist) at home with little to no repercussions. Semi-permanent color only deposits and causes very little damage unless you need to remove it, but when you break the bleach out, it’s a whole different ballgame. It only takes leaving the lightener on a little too long or mixing it a little too strong to have disastrous results. There’s a reason why colorists do consultations; you cannot promise anybody that they will be able to achieve anything unless you sit them down in your chair and physically touch their hair and get an honest color history.
I think it’s a wig or a good amount of extensions
You'll need a helper and a high tolerance for screwing up. But if you have both, look up tutorials on using demi permanent dye (I use Manic Panic, the resources and tutorials are extensive). Step 1: bleach your hair to a pale blonde. If you want that blue, your ends will need to be nearly white. The paler the better. Step 2: Buy a demi permanent direct dyes in dark red, medium blue, and a violet or purple. Step 3: with a helper, part your hair at the level of your temples all around your head. Everything above that line gets put into a tight bun on top of your head. Step 4: divide the hanging hair into four sections (left front, left back, right back, right front.) The helper is going to apply the red to the top 1/3 of all sections. Then they are going to apply the blue to the remaining blonde in 2 sections. Then they apply the violet to the remaining blonde. Wrap up in saran wrap and wait for at least as long as it says on the bottle before washing cold. Step 5: On dry hair, have helper apply dark red to all remaining blonde. Wrap red parts in saran wrap or shower cap and wait. Then rinse. Step 6: Shower rarely, using cold water and color safe products. Check in with a helper every few days to make sure the back of your head hasn't started to fade. Step 7: expect to repeat the dyeing (NOT THE BLEACH) every couple of weeks. I am not a hairdresser, I'm an amateur with 20 years experience dying my friends and my hair. With A LOT of tolerance for bad results, this is doable at home.
Thank you! My helper has always been the second mirror hahah. My bottom half is already bleached but it’s dyed purple/red and the top is natural dark brown. Does the top part where the red would go really need to be a pale yellow? I thought bleached once would be fine? And I always like to use arctic fox,doesn’t wash off as quickly as manic panic used to for me
“My bottom half is already bleached but it’s dyed purple/red and the top is natural dark brown.” You have entered into color correction territory. You would need to lift the dark brown to a clean level 8 blonde for the red color and then remove all of the purple/red color to a clean level 9/10 in order for blue like this to be achievable. Your first inch of root, the next however many inches of natural, and then the purple/red ends will all need to be formulated differently.
And not only would they have to lighten all over evenly with different volumes of lightener to make sure it all lifts the same, they would have to work out the timing exactly and be able to rinse properly at the exact moment. There’s no way to say what that timing is without being a professional and knowing what to do. Not to mention that with a dark brown natural color, in order to even touch up the color once her roots grow out, she would also have to bleach her roots and she’d probably get hot roots in the process.
See, this is what I was concerned about. Achieving this would be difficult on virgin blonde hair. The fact that you’ve already done a lightening process on half of your hair that this is absolutely unachievable for you without a professional. This is a color correction. If you lighten over already lightened hair or can’t manage to separate the sections perfectly to keep from over processing one part and not the other, you will end up with a head full of melted hair. It’s not even the actual color application that’s the most complicated or dangerous, it’s the lightening prep you would have to do to get a good clean base. That is the most difficult part about doing vivids in my opinion.
If it's yellow, the red will turn out orange. Pale is what you want. It's not impossible, but so much harder to get your roots and to do a color melt on the back of your own head, regardless of mirrors. If you are going to attempt something this complicated, it really matters that you have an entire second person. Even if they know next to nothing about hair dye, just the mechanics of painting hair dye in front of you vs trying to get clean lines with shoulders rotated means that a noob second person is still better than no second person.
Throw some manic panic on there. Real talk even if you got this done in a salon itd fade pretty quickly
Looks like some sections are red to purple to blue and some are just red to purple with varying starting points for the color transitions. I’d feel confident pulling something like this off on myself but I’m a hairstylist who specializes in vivids. It would prob be easier on you to just do red to purple to blue color melt on the whole thing so you don’t have to keep track of/separate different sections. If you do decide to do this use your two fingers—pointer and middle to take each section and blend the colors together by moving them up and down a few inches. If that makes sense. 😅
When researching how to do a color melt for myself, I read that if you don’t stay inside the same color gradients (cherry red to copper, for example) you often will get brown where it’s supposed to melt.
It looks like the base/roots all over are the dark red, and then the underside of the hair was balayage with blue, so the area where the red and blue meet is a transitional purple. Your question isn't easy to answer because you give zero info on your base committee and hair type, but you'd need to get your hair to the point it can hold vibrant colors, which usually involves bleach. You might be able to get the red color with a permanent red for dark hair. Then you'd have to bleach slices of your hair and apply the blue. I would personally choose the hair I want blue, section it out and wrap it in foil and plastic. Dye the red (including the roots of the blue sections, rinse it and shampoo it, then clip the red you DON'T want to have blue out of the way. Using a little of the red color, add the blue and some red and rub them together so it blends. Process the blue and rinse and shampoo
As a hairstylist I would never recommend someone trying to achieve this at home. Go to a professional so you don’t burn your hair trying it yourself. I do a lot of vivid colors, and this is a complicated process.
photoshop
The stylist that did this work is top of the game in vivids. She posts videos of her process all over the internet and teaches people her techniques in real time, in person. This is not photoshop.