Monday night I went a bit awol and decided I wanted a hair change. I am trying to reign in a lot of luxuries at the moment as we have a lot to spend out on doing up our house so thought I would have a go at DIY ombre hair myself. I thought, "whats the worst that can happen?! If it goes wrong ill just have the ends cut off!"
So armed with 2 boxes of Jerome Russell Bblonde medium life blonding kit I baracaded myself into our old bathroom and set to work!
WARNING! The smell of this stuff is....well...*singed nostrel hairs*
If you are going to blonde ombre your hair make sure you use a product with peroxide / bleach otherwise it will just not work effectively. My hair is a blonde colour anyway, so I left the product on as long as possible so that I would notice extreme light blonde on the ends.
You need to really freestyle it and scrunch it into your hair, you dont want it to look too precise or uniformed or it will not achieve the optimum ombre look.
Mix up your mixture, I used one box for the first round and another box for the second round.
Round 1
Separate your hair in half and clip the top half up out the way for now.
Taking small sections at a time get a clump of hair dye in your hair and start scrunching it in the bottom of your hair. For round 1, only put the hair dye half way up the desired length of the ombre you eventually want to achieve. Not sure that makes sense...erm...say you want to dye 20cm of your hair length ombre, on round 1 only cover the bottom 10cm of hair with the hair dye. If you are like me and have insanely thick hair, this will take pretty much the whole first box of hair dye.
Let down the top half of your hair and make your way round that also. If you have feathering at the front of your hair, I liked nipping the ends of the layers with some dye to add definition.
Wait for half an hour.............
Round 2
Mix up the second box of hair dye and work your way back round your small sections adding the dye higher up your hair. (E.g. for the full 20cm rather than the original 10cm). Leave this for a further 20 minutes or so.
Why do you do it like this? Because......the original layer you put on first has longer developing time and will go lighter than the second round of dye. This should make the ombre blend and look a lot less aggressive.
Tips
Obviously the length of time you leave the dye to develop on your hair is up to you, what worked for me will not work on someone elses hair depending on whether you have light or dark hair etc.
Don't try to make each little section of hair reach the same length when applying the dye. Mix it up and make it more random...remember the point of ombre is NOT uniformed!
Voila
Annoyingly this is still very subtle, in fact too subtle for my liking but I guess that is what happens when you try for an ombre look on already blonde hair! Still, I know it is there and that makes me happy!
I hope this tutorial was helpful, if you have any questions or comments feel free to comment below.
***I am not a hair dresser or hair person so I am only speaking from my own personal experience***
Have you tried to ombre your hair? How did it go?
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Robin Sparkles
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