Permanent Mermaid Colored Hair

[Mahi Mermaid]

13526So I am really obsessed with mermaid hair. But not wigs or the colored chalk...I'm talking permanent mermaid colored hair. Anyone know what brands to use that actually stay in and dont fade? The color I get from Hot Topic just seems to wash out too fast and turn to a really ugly color. How do you keep hair bright like this?? Any ideas??

[Mermaid Tula]

Ion Color Brilliance Brights Semi-Permanent Hair Color
It may be semi-permanent, but It stays so much longer than Splat brand. Splat fades out like crazy. Manic Panic is another good one.

[Rat-Soup]

Yeah, depending on your hair type, Manic Panic and La Riche Directions work well. However, they are both semi-permanent hair dyes. To my knowledge, there are no 'permanent' crazy colour dyes. There is no hair dye that can stand up to the rigors of chlorine and saltwater. To try make your dye job last longer, mix some hair dye with your conditioner (about 50/50) and use it like normal conditioner every time you wash your hair. Should slow down the fade.

[Miyu]

I've also heard SFX works particularly well. I have a friend who is now the male face of the Splat pink box, and he used to use SFX cupcake pink, and it stayed in for a looong time. I like Splat, but I like to dilute it for less of a hot pink, but that f ades so I usually touch it up fairly frequently, but it's still cheaper because I mix it with a lot of conditioner, so it goes way farther too.

Well, that's what I do when I have the chance to dye my hair -_-;

[Anahita]

:( All vibrant colored hair dye fades, permanent or not, especially when chlorine and sea water are involved. I used to have BRIGHT blue highlights and streaks in my hair in high-school, but because of swim and water polo, their life was short-lived, and they faded out to a dull greenish color, which mean I had to constantly re-dye them. And this was permanent color that I had done in a salon. The problem with dye is that to keep it vibrant, you have to kind of avoid washing it or being harsh with it... Unfortunately swimming often means exposing the hair to harsh chemicals, and the only way to remedy it is to wash it thoroughly to remove said harsh chemicals....

I would guess depending on how often and where you swim is really going to affect how permanent the vibrancy of the hues are. I don't know the names of any brands off hand, but I do know that salons now usually have permanent vibrant colors they can apply for you (when I first got the blue streaks "unnatural" colored hair wasn't as common as it is now, so I had to look around for salons who could do it). Getting it applied in the salon is your best bet of having it stay in for as long as possible.

Another thing to keep in mind too, is that these colors are achieved through bleaching the base. So even if you have blonde hair, in order to get them THAT vibrant, there will be a lot of bleaching. This on its own can be a problem for some people, but I think when frequent pool and ocean swimming are also involved, it may become a more pressing issue given the damage-on-top-of-damage sort of thing that would be going on.

[Mermaid Kelda]

Experimentation is good too. A couple of friends and I got different coloured streaks in our hair during high school; one friend got bright blue, which of course faded after a few months - but the colour it left behind was gorgeous, and it stayed like that until she next dyed her hair. If you're willing to experiment with different colours and fades, and you can stand having the wrong colour for a while, it can often turn into a (more permanent) great colour.

[Mermaid Tula]

Just to let everyone know. Splat brand changed it's bleach recently. I bought the purple kit when I did my hair teal and purple. (purple faded out so fast it was terrible) I mixed the bleach according to the instructions. I used a shower cap over my hair. I got chemical burns on my forehead and right at my hair line on top. I've never had this happen before with home bleach kits or professional bleaching. Luckily I had baking soda and was able to stop the chemical reaction. What I noticed was that the powder part of the bleach kit was much more coarse than what I've previously used. Normally it's a very fine powder. So when I put the bleach in my hair, it came out almost chunky. I even tried to grind the chunks with my finger tips, but it didn't help much.

[Anahita]

Oh no! OMG, are you ok? That's scary to think a home-kit could do that to a person...

[deepblue]

It can also depend on the color. Blues have been my main color choice along with pinks, red and oranges for a few years. Pinks, oranges, reds always stay in longer, blues are harder to keep. But Punky Color Atlantic Blue and SFX Fishbowl work great, and the greens from them stay pretty vibrant when the blue fades. Fudge Paintbox is another brand that works well.

My advice after 30 years of using these kinds of colors?

First, you have to use them on bleached hair- which sucks for the environment, which I why I'm not bleaching anymore after this last time. But if you do bleach it out and you get light enough to use the color, follow directions exactly. Some dyes prefer heat to set the color, some don't.

When you wash your hair use a dye safe shampoo and wash only your scalp- don't directly shampoo the streaks if you can help it. Rinse well, and then condition with a dye safe conditioner. Keep a little dye around for touch ups.

[Kumori Kitsune]

What you need to do is shop for hair dye at one of those odd wig shops like kings beauty, lee's beauty, they have alot of colors tht are pernaent in all kinds of colors. and get shampoo that helps lock in color.

[Aziara]

I used Manic Panic once on my hair without dying it first. The website says you can do it with the darker colors. They won't come out super bright, but green envy turns out a nice hunter green on my medium brown hair. It didn't last very long, only a week or two. The first time I swam, it disappeared completely.

[Mermaid Veruliya]

I've used an off brand, manic panic, another dye sold at HT, splat, and some kind of dye from Sally Hansen... Long story short, they all sucked. All faded out, especially manic panic. Splat stayed the longest.

The best on the market in my opinion right now is Pravana colorsilk. It is AMAZING. Seriously. And the pastel colors are so gorgeous. So vibrant. A salon near my house uses them I just discovered and there's a girl with hot pink hair that uses it. It really lives up to the permanent 6-8 week color. No fading.

I highly recommend it. Www.pravana.com

Edit: don't let the small amount of colors fool you. Most if the best colorful hair is done by mixing your own colors! That's the fun of it

[Mermaid Tula]

@Anahita: Yep. I made a paste out of baking soda and water and smeared it all over the chemical burns and it stopped the reaction immediately. I work in a jewelry lab at school and we have boxes of baking soda specifically for if the acids we use get spilled or splashed onto skin. I had a bit of red across my forehead and had some slight scabbing and sensitivity to my scalp for a few days, but nothing too severe. If I wouldn't have know to use the baking soda, it would have been much worse.

[DrkAngl90]

i've tried a bunch of different hair dyes for trying to put purple streaks in my hair. one time did purple and blue, the purple faded out in a week, the blue lasted 6+ months. right now i have the pravana purple hair dye and it lasts longer in my hair, it still doesn't stay very well. i've kinda learned that my hair doesn't like dye very well. had mine dyed black for 4 months and i had to dye it every week or every other week to hide my blond roots and then after 3-4 months i finally gave up since my hair started to not take the black. i still want to put back in my purple streaks but with my hair still refusing to take any color its gonna be while before then. even after 8 months my hair still hates hair dye.....

[XMermaidMarinaX]

I love Pravana, I got my ends dyed blue, but I guess it needs to be touched up since she tried another method for it. So I'll see how long it lasts once she touches it up again :D

[Mermaid Oshun]

I have been meaning to try Manic Panic Snow White

[Blondie]

Manic Panic was a good choice for me. I did some streaks of blue in my hair last summer. It was only supposed to last a month but it took about two months to completely fade from my hair. I don't know if they have permanent colors but if they do, I'd vote on that.

[Seraphina Suds]

I've used an off brand, manic panic, another dye sold at HT, splat, and some kind of dye from Sally Hansen... Long story short, they all sucked. All faded out, especially manic panic. Splat stayed the longest.

The best on the market in my opinion right now is Pravana colorsilk. It is AMAZING. Seriously. And the pastel colors are so gorgeous. So vibrant. A salon near my house uses them I just discovered and there's a girl with hot pink hair that uses it. It really lives up to the permanent 6-8 week color. No fading.

I highly recommend it. Www.pravana.com (http://Www.pravana.com)

Edit: don't let the small amount of colors fool you. Most if the best colorful hair is done by mixing your own colors! That's the fun of it
I just heard about pravana through tumblr! This is the picture going around, gorgeous colors!
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There's more here (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151498130392695.1073741829.181954967694&type=3) too. I would love to color my hair a mermaidy color, but my job would not be having that lol.

Edit: Aw man I was just looking through the facebook album and check her out:
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[Mermaid Veruliya]

I plan on doing mermaidy dip dye ombre once my hair grows out, so probably in about 6 months or so. I was going to leave my hair it's natural color and then put dark blue fading to light blue on the tips.

[Mermaid Photine]

Directions/punky color faded pretty quick for me- it was all but gone in about a week. I've had a lot of luck with special effects, but it's still not permanent.

[Kumori Kitsune]

I want to dye my hair just not sure if I should

[DrkAngl90]

now with seeing the blue colored hair dye styles people have done i want to try and do the tips of my hair from light blue to dark blue. since my hair did hold the blue, i'm hoping it will stay in longer than a week