Purple Pravana Hair
Yesterday I saw my awesome stylist Christian at iStyleXG (a Paul Mitchell salon) to update my hair color. I now have purple pravana hair.
Purple Pravana Hair
I was at the salon from 1pm to 6:15 pm while he worked on my hair. (For those of you who are curious, I last had my hair done on May 1st) He started by lightening my hair with 20 developer to remove the previous color (including most of the black), to see how light my hair would go. It had been previously processed, as I’m sure you know. It ended up looking mint (from the teal blue side) and the top where there was black had some orange (on the purple side). Most of the lower half of my hair was white, as light as you could go. During the lightening process he put a hot towel on my head to help the lightening along. He washed my hair and then we decided to do the Paul Mitchel Awapuhi Wild Ginger Keratin Intensive Hair Treatment.
After that, we plotted out our color. Originally we were thinking emerald green, teal blue, and lime, but with the orange pieces, we couldn’t use those colors on it, so we went with violet, magenta and hints of orange. I had my black done at the roots, as I prefer, and then Christian used the Pravana Violet for the darker purple shades. He did a sort of balayage effect with the Pravana Wild Orchid for the lighter pieces. He created a few orange panels and put some orange near the tips.
After coloring, he trimmed my hair of about half an inch of dead ends and he also dusted the ends of my long layers. I absolutely love how my hair looks! See my hair in action in my Phyrra Says Vol. 32 video. Check out my recent post for tips on how to care for rainbow hair.
I spent some time with my ring light and took a few photos. I’m wearing Too Faced Melted Rainbow lipstick. Seriously, this IS my summer color. I love it so much!
Seriously, if you’re in the Tampa area and you’re looking for creative color, Christian is the man to see! He does amazing work.
What’s on your hair right now?
Love your hair cut and the colours. I also love your necklace – it’s gorgeous!
I think this might be your best hair yet! I’m so in love!! I might have to steal your cut, it’s fabulous. I would steal the color too, but my stupid workplace doesn’t allow fun colored hair, boo. I usually keep my undercut lime green, but I’ve been too busy lately to keep up with it and just have it back to my natural color – so boring!
Thank you so much! Maybe you could try red or blonde highlights where the lightest pieces of mine are?
I love this hair. Sooo pretty. I wore Melted Rainbow just yesterday. It’s so perfect.
It’s my everything shade this summer. So great!
I think that pulling off this look is down to your eye color! I can handle some warm hair colors but it’s usually with a cheek product. Too warm and things get sallow and muddy quickly!
Could you do a video on how it fades till the next time you dye it? What color does it go too? Thanks love your video!
So my hair doesn’t really fade because I use Overtone Hair Masks to help keep the color vibrant, plus Pravana lasts better than any other dye for me. If you check out my how to care for rainbow hair, I have more tips. When I got my hair dyed this week, it hadn’t really faded since I had it done in May because I use hair masks. https://phyrra.net/2015/05/how-to-care-for-rainbow-hair.html
HAWT. Girl, so hot!
Thank you!
Love your hair colour – it totally suits you and the colours you love to wear. What an amazing hairdresser you have!
Thank you! He is amazing.
Love the colors- if I may ask, what color is your natural hair, and do you have any gray to worry about? I have a lot of premature gray 🙁
My natural color is a dark brown so dark that people think it’s black, but when you put it next to a true black, it looks lighter. I don’t have any gray hairs yet.
Actually, in the pictures of my hair here https://phyrra.net/2015/06/urban-decay-interstellar-tutorial.html
You can see my natural hair color at the roots, because they were in desperate need of dyeing.
Ooo, it is dark!
Love it!
I really wanna dye my purple too 🙂
You should!
Love it!
Thank you!
I am so jealous of the way the Pravana Violet comes out on your hair, it’s so dark on my hair that it looks black unless I’m in direct sunlight, and then it just looks mostly black.
When I was doing my own hair with Pravana Violet, I had to cut it with conditioner because it would come out black on my hair, too. It needs to be lightened up a bit with conditioner so that it’s bright.