I've been asked about my hair a lot in the last few years and it's probably due to the rate it's been changing from one color to another. I was born a Scandinavian blonde and i kept it like that til i turned about 15-16 (can't remember too well anymore.. also have no photos of my former blonde hair.)
From blonde i went to dark red, then dark purple and eventually to black which i kept for over 9 years. Black as a hair color was so me and i loved it immensely.
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| © Arto Soini hair by me |
After moving to Australia in 2009 i started craving for color. Not just any color but bright purple, purple being my favorite of all colors. Don't quite know what my logic was then when i went to a hairdresser that specializes in all sorts of goth colors and had my hair stripped off black and dyed medium pink (very vibrant and light in photos.) The color we used for it was Special Effects Burgundy Wine.
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| © J.Short Hair by me
This was the start of my long-lasting love affair with Special Effects dyes. They have never faded to anything terrible and some of the dyes have stuck so that they're almost impossible to get rid of. Not bad for a line of semi-permanent dyes! :) Anyway that's how it stayed for almost 6 months before i ventured out to blue.. This time Special Effects Blue Mayhem. This is one of my absolute favorite shades, it was so vibrant and beautiful!
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| ©Andrew Oatham Hair by Lisa Oatham
Again i stayed with this blue for a fair while, shot few of my favorite shots and just generally enjoyed being a blue-haired freak. Thou no-one ever treated me like a freak, which still strikes me as odd, quite the contrary i got tons of compliments from complete strangers from children to old-timers and they were always so enthusiastic. This hair was the bomb! ♥
From blue i finally started going towards purple..with mostly black hair and the fringe being brighter than the rest of the purple. This time the dyes i mixed were Blue Mayhem, Wild Flower and Pimpin Purple, all from Special Effects.
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| ©Joseph Darmenia Hair by me
Now at this point i'm not sure how long i stayed purple, I've got a feeling it wasn't very long but who knows. Couple of months maybe! Anyway i dyed most of my hair black after missing it for a while and left a little bit of color at the front. And not just any color but bright hi-vis orange. An unusual choice, i admit but it was worth a try. Loved how easy this hair was to style but not how hard it was to mix with all the purple tones in my wardrobe! Color used was Napalm with a tiny bit of Cherry Bomb (both from Special Effects.)
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| ©Jude Agar Hair by me |
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| © Frank Packer Hair by me |
Then onto the Australian wedding hair... What a mission! For this job i booked an appointment with the girls that first transformed my black mane into the beautiful pink it was in early 2011. Now my hair has always been easy to dye and it even still stays in my head after all those bleaches (added bonus!) But as Murphy's law is what it is, that would not be the case when it comes to dying your hair before the big day. After the girls bleached my hair there was some electric blue left in my hair against all odds. It also survived the subsequent purple dye-mixture. So that meant that after my hair was bleached and dyed by professionals my hair had weird greenish-blue blotches. Not_happy! Lucky these blotches weren't too visible but this still had to be fixed before the wedding. Went to see the same girls again a couple of days after the first attempt and then my hair was stripped off all color (which made it light green-gray!) and re-dyed. This time it worked and all the wicked green was gone! Thank fuck! This was the result of 11 hours of work all up! Dyes used were Special Effects Wild Flower, Directions Plum (and few other ones that i can't remember).
A lovely cold purple to suit my Gallery Serpentine corset and skirt!
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| Wildilocks = hair magic |
Actual photos of Australian wedding hair :)
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| ©Sharne Perrett/Immerse Photography Hair by Lisa Oatham ** |
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| ©Sharne Perrett/Immerse Photography Hair by Lisa Oatham |
The day was magnificent (i will no doubt be making a post about both wedding parties soon enough) and within a week we flew to my beautiful home country Finland to have another wedding party. What a crazy idea that was, 2 weddings!! O_O
For the Finnish purple i used Wild Flower again but this time with Pimpin Purple. This made the purple a bit warmer to match the Finnish Dress that i got from Romantic Threads. Picture featuring my beautiful husband Jack and the surroundings of a medieval Häme Castle in Hämeenlinna, Finland ♥
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| ©Riku Wallin/Visual Reality Hair by me |
Obviously the purple worked wonders and i kept it for a while due to 2 weddigns and a lenghty honeymoon. After we settled back home i found some unused Atomic Pink from the bathroom cupboard and decided to give it a go. My hair had faded a bit after the last so it really stuck. It was so much lighter than the pink i had before! o_O
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| © Maria Vesterinen (No photoshop! Natural light) Hair, makeup, wristcuffs and feathers by me |
This red was constructed by mixing half Cherry Bomb and half Devilish (both Special Effects)
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| ©Brad Blake Hair by me |
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| © Frank Packer Hair by me |
So, that was my hair dye-adventure! Miss my Gothic looks and therefore will eventually go back to all black.
If not otherwise mentioned, all dye-jobs done by my husband Jack! :) For photoshoots i usually style my own hair but there have been a few deviations from this.
If you have any questions please ask :)
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