January14
Hi Anya,
First I wanted to tell you how much I love your E-Book “Any Colour of The Rainbow” and your blog. Where I live (small village in Germany) it is impossible to find a hair stylist who knows what he/she does, so I color/cut my hair myself and the E-book and blog really helped me.
So, now my question:
I have shoulder length, white-blonde hair with some yellow bits in it. For my prom dance (is it the right word?) I want to dye the bottom layer green (lime green from crazy color), top layer purple and leave my bangs white-blonde, or maybe dye them a dark blue. Would these colors bleed alot when I wash my hair?
And what purple do you recommend? I’m searching for a nice blueish purple that doesn’t look too bad when it fades and doesn’t stay too long,because my hair is kind of damaged and I don’t want to bleach it to get rid of that color,but I have to work in a shop three weeks after the prom dance and colorful hair isn’t allowed there, so my hair should be back to the white-blonde it is at the moment when I start to work there.
Thank you so much for your advice
Prom Queen.
Hi Prom Queen,
Thank you so much for your email and for your kind words, I’m so glad you enjoyed the eBook and blog. Its great that its helped you with doing your own hair.
In answer to your question “…would these colours bleed a lot when I wash my hair?”
You may get a tiny amount of bleed, but it will not be noticeable. As long as you don’t have a dark colour next to a light one, as darker colours run more.
For example; If you had dark blue next to lime green, you may find the blue bleeding to the lime green. (Although as green has blue in it anyway it would just make the green more of a darker, aqua shade.)
Can I suggest you don’t use dark blue on your bangs, but instead use a light blue? Because the dark blue will probably still leave a residue in 3 weeks time, and of all the colours you want to put in your hair the dark blue is the most likely to bleed.
Here are my suggestions for dyes to use:
1) Bottom layer “Lime Green” from Crazy Colour is good.
2) Top layer light purple use “Violette” from Crazy Colour.
3) Bangs light blue use “Sky Blue” from Crazy Colour.
All these colours are light shades and will have washed out before
you go back to work. And because they are light, they will bleed
much less than a darker shade.
Also I suggest you colour you hair only a day or so before the dance,
so that the colours will be their most vibrant. If you colour it a week
before the dance you might find the colours have started to fade already
as they are lighter shades.
Hope that helps, and thanks again for your feedback.
Peace,
Anya
Hey Anya,
Thanks for your answer! Since the date of my dance has changed and I was kind of bored with my all white-blonde hair, I dyed a blue underlayer in it…

- (NOTE: Prom Queen’s Blue and Blonde Hair.)
I know that this will probably affect my plan for the dance, but the blue is already washing out and there’s quite a lot time left for it to wash out.
Greetings from Germany ;D
Prom Queen.