Two Tone Hair

[papa_levante]

^ Thanks for showing us! I am currently waiting for my second application of bleach to work.

I used these great blog entires to do this!

Zoella
Amy Antoinette
LLYMLRS

 

[dauphine]

The tutorials make it seem relatively easy to do, if you have really really long hair. I am not so lucky.

 

[papa_levante]

Alexa Chung sports a shorter 'do with the two-tone in it. Try it.

I did it at home, and it really dried out my hair. I bleached it 3 times until it would finally bleach my dark brown hair. So I'll be conditioning religiously for the next month.

 

[dauphine]

That one blog that was linked to, Zoella, her hair is gorgeous. My hair is growing out from a pixie, it's pretty shaggy at the moment, not even Chung-length. Maybe at the end of the summer it will be more do-able.

 

[miniris]

I'm still working on my ombre hair, it takes long to get the perfect look on very dark hair, but I'm getting close to there

For now it looks very natural, but I'd love to go a little bit more extreme.
My hairdresser bleached the end of my hair (not all of it), and she dyed those ends in brown so it gets lighter and lighter the more I wash my hair.



I'm still dreaming about Lily's hair (it's been months!), maybe I should try to bleach more hair around the face...

 

[papa_levante]

Rumi on Fashion Toast has great two tone!

fashiontoast.com

 

[dauphine]

She's the queen of two tone!

 

[Andrea.RL]

I cant see the pic right now, but last time i saw it i thought it was too blonde on the tips. :/
I went to the hairdressers with a pic and the lady said it would cost 52€.. I went back to get it done and it was an other hairdresser there and she told me it would cost 92€ because they had to do a color first then work in some highlights. So i finally didnt get it done.

Can someone explain to me how its done?? So i can explain what i want... People here dont get it done and the hairdressers never understand what i mean when i say ombre style. --'
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[teenagexvanity]

I recently had my hair done ombre and I don't know if I'll ever go back! I don't even care if it;s "out", it suits me so much because I have naturally dark/ash blonde hair so the ends are just super light, no root touch-up, and i've never been that pristine highlights every six weeks kind of girl anyway.

With me, the stylist did it all free hand pretty much. First he extended my roots longer (as I had been growing them out for awhile) and toned them to be slightly warmer as opposed to ash. He put a few highlights right in front of my face with foils, and then took the brush and free-hand painted on blonde in parts he thought it would look best. It's been almost 2 months and have NO idea when I would even need a touch up! May go back in a month or so to get some more lightening on the ends but we'll see! It's just so wearable for me and flattering IMO. the best hair I've ever had

 

[FleurDeLys]

^I'm really curious to see how it looks! Would you mind posting a pic?

 

[teenagexvanity]

of course you have to bear with me, i don't have a digital camera currently this shows the night it was first done, the contrast isn't completely accurate... it's not that yellow looking!

i can try and take one in better lighting with my camera phone tomorrow seriously though, this guy was the best stylist i've ever gone to and i've never been so happy leaving a salon either

 

[dauphine]

It looks good!

 

[FleurDeLys]

^^Thank you! It looks really good, very natural! I'm thinking about having it done too, but very very subtle because my hair is quite light already.

 

[Psylocke]

I love Rumi's hair!

Here's a good exapmle for how two-tone shouldn't be done! There's barely any transition from that almost black hair to the blonde part on Vanessa Hudgens. It looks awful, IMO.

justjared

 

[dauphine]

I hope for her sake that those are extensions.

 

[chel4mdavali]

not the most flattering makeup either....

 

[kissablekae]

teenagexvanity, i'm sure it looks amazing in person your hair always looks pretty in the photos i've seen

psylocke, i agree. they look like the traditional harsh(b/c of the high contrast) peek-a-boo highlights that have always been around, there is no gradient fading. if that photo is new, it's probably extensions

 

[Andrea.RL]

thank you teenagexvanity! (and thanks again miniris )
I went to a different salon, the owner is a friend and he told me that he would try. I showed him pictures and he figured he should do it through highlights ("Balayage") so i'll bring all of your info and we'll test this out! fingers crossed it goes well... (I'm a hair catastrophe!) (I can't wait though!!)

 

[teenagexvanity]

Thanks everyone! I tried taking this with my phone by myself but it proved harder than I thought haha.. but hopefully this shows the colour a bit better!

 

[Andrea.RL]

your colorist brushed it in?? It's really nice.
I started thinking about it last night... If mine does it through balayage/highlights there still will be some dark at the end no?
I went around the net to check out Technics, and some peole color a part of their lengths, then color it again but a few inches lower and that as many times as you want until you get a light enough blonde at the tips...?
Your thoughts?