Love my Purple Hair....But.....

So about a week and a half ago I took the plunge and coloured my hair Purple. I've been contemplating it for weeks, if not months...hmm...ok I think months and I even booked an appointment at a salon to get it done but by chance and luckily for me the salon miraculously closed down!! (fyi, it was Kimage at Nex Shopping Centre).

When I finally decided to just do it, I went to LeJean salon at Far East Plaza (Sg). My friend who had previously used a Groupon voucher to get her hair coloured here said it was pretty good. Salons really make me apprehensive, first coz I'm always afraid the colour or cut won't come out right, and second usually I get a stylist who doesnt speak much English and that day was no different....I got stuck with 2 stylists who barely spoke English (they were Mandarin speakers). Lucky I had a picture of what I wanted done and I could still communicate in basic Mandarin.

Basically I didn't want a whole head of purple hair. I just wanted like an ombre purple look.

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So first thing they had to do was bleach the lower half of my hair. Bleaching does scare me but hey you gotta do what you gotta do right?

The 2 hunky guys putting on the bleach. I could actually feel the 'heat' from the bleach on my back.

I can't remember how long they put the bleach in my hair, I think about 30 minutes?

And this is what it looked like after they washed it out and blow dried.

What do you think of this look? I look a bit like a poodle :p

While they were blow drying my hair I instantly knew that I have damaged my hair with the bleach. It felt coarse and rough and they were pulling and tugging at at it so hard just to brush it out.

Next they applied the purple dye. They double checked with me using the colour swatch the colour that I wanted to do. The guy explained that up top will be darker while below will look lighter.

With all the purple dye in my hair.

The dye again was left on for about 30-40 minutes. It did sting my scalp a bit. Once time was up they washed my hair for quite long. And they put some kind of ice gel or menthol shampoo or whatever. Not too big a fan of that because it was literally too cold for my head! Once my hair was dry and blown out I actually wasnt sure about the look. I could hardly see the purple. My hair just looked dark....black.

You can see the colour a bit.

where's the purple?

Then the stylist decided to curl my hair. I was like, cool. I don't usually get curls after I get my hair done. Most of the stylist, if not all, that I've gone to would just blow my hair straight. I was quite excited to see what the finished look would be like.

Ta Da! I loved the final look! Still looked too dark for me.

I only realised how purple it was after I stepped out into the sunlight and omg, I was totally in love with it!

The colour with the sun reflecting on it whilst I was on the bus.

This was taken with my digital camera rather than my iphone and this is more accurate of what the colour is.

So all in all it took about 4 hours of salon time and I felt that it was well worth it! So what's the But that I mentioned above? Well as much as I love having purple hair, the problem is it doesn't last. From the first time you wash your hair and every time after your water will resemble grape juice. Even though I'm using a Redken shampoo made just for coloured hair, every single time I wash my hair purple dye would be running down the drain. To make the colour last longer I'm only washing my hair every 2 or 3 days and use a dry shampoo in between washes. 3 days is a real stretch for me because by that time my hair is so greasy....ewww....tmi right? :)

Up close this is what the colour looks like today. I can see some yellow bleached hair coming through and I think the purple is now fading to a light magenta colour or even a dark pink. Which is all fine by me.

So I'm sure if you stayed reading this post all the way till now you're curious to know how much it costs to get this done? Well at the salon I went to, inclusive of colour and bleach, it was SGD$150. This by far is the cheapest I know. Prior to this I've asked around at lots of different salons and the quoted price ranged from $180 to over $200.

Would I get it done again? Heck yeah! You only live once so why not :)

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Post Edit: Well this colour washed out super fast! It barely stayed in for a month.

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