In line with all my colour standardization jiggery pokery, I've developed a recipe for fun coloured hair dye. It's terribly exciting. It's easy, can be done with fairly readily available ingredients and applies well. The only major down side is that I haven't got the fixative properly sorted out yet, which means that it washes out far too quickly.
But I'll post a vague recipe anyway. It involves about a tenth of a gram of FD&C or D&C powder dyes, mixed to suit your tastes and diluted in about ten grams of hot water. Add a gram of citric acid to that. Take that liquid and mix it into a pile (around fifty grams) of cheap hand cream or conditioner. Either will do. The cream/conditioner just acts as a handy applicator for the dye. The citric acid is meant to be the fixative.
Below, day one of the dye job I got out of the above recipe. One wash, however, stripped a lot of the dye out. That may be because of overly hot water, a too-weak fixative, or the general difficulty of light shade of blue. A coloured conditioner can help keep it fresh, but really doesn't seep in enough to take the place of a good fixative. But I'll work on that and report back.
But I'll post a vague recipe anyway. It involves about a tenth of a gram of FD&C or D&C powder dyes, mixed to suit your tastes and diluted in about ten grams of hot water. Add a gram of citric acid to that. Take that liquid and mix it into a pile (around fifty grams) of cheap hand cream or conditioner. Either will do. The cream/conditioner just acts as a handy applicator for the dye. The citric acid is meant to be the fixative.
Below, day one of the dye job I got out of the above recipe. One wash, however, stripped a lot of the dye out. That may be because of overly hot water, a too-weak fixative, or the general difficulty of light shade of blue. A coloured conditioner can help keep it fresh, but really doesn't seep in enough to take the place of a good fixative. But I'll work on that and report back.
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