Blue Black Hair?

Hi, I am thinking about dyeing my hair a blue black color. (This might sound weird, lol, but you know the Archie comics? You know how Veronica''s hair is like black, but where the they make the light shine on it her hair is like a navy bluish?) Anyways, I have natually dark brown hair and my eye brows are natually black. Will this color look good on me? Also, do you have any suggestions as to what brand dye i should use? When they label the color blue black...will it really make my hair have a bluish tone, or will it just look black?? Thanks so much!

Oh...and if the tips of my hair are lighter (from using Sun-in 2 years ago) will the color still work on the tips of my hair too??

Hi Maggie:

I 'm going to suggest semi-permanent deposit only color if your going darker...You don't need to put your hair through the permanent color thing. Maybe someone can recommend something...If you get Salon color Redken Shades, or Matrix Color Sync would work great.

Yes, your old highlighted ends will pull base tones from the color...muddy..grayish greenish or even bluish...? They need to be filled before coloring.

Hmm blue black is nice. I see a lot of asian people using it. there nothing weird about it. It just another shade of black. I use to have it to. I looks great, but people dont really notice it unless you compare a black dyed hair with blue black then you will see the different. But since you have brown hair the colour would show

I'm asian but I look awful with blue black hair. I tried it once and it just clashes with my skintone (looked harsh). But with a natural or soft black, it looks best on me. I love that shiny, black hair without bluish undertones. More of like silvery black.

[QUOTE=Maggie] Hi, I am thinking about dyeing my hair a blue black color. (This might sound weird, lol, but you know the Archie comics? You know how Veronica''s hair is like black, but where the they make the light shine on it her hair is like a navy bluish?) Anyways, I have natually dark brown hair and my eye brows are natually black. Will this color look good on me? Also, do you have any suggestions as to what brand dye i should use? When they label the color blue black...will it really make my hair have a bluish tone, or will it just look black?? Thanks so much!

Oh...and if the tips of my hair are lighter (from using Sun-in 2 years ago) will the color still work on the tips of my hair too??
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Natural Instincts have Amazon Indigo, which is a blue-black semi-permanent color or Feria's Starry Night permanent dye, also blue-black. I bet blue black hair will look gorgeous on you, just like this fave actress, Claudia Black of "Farscape" (see my icon).

Go with the Natural Instincts...You don't need 20 vol. H2O2, and ammonia to deposit color. (Unless covering gray)

Beware...a girl on another thread reported using semi-permanent hair color in blue-black (natural dark brown) and it is not washing out. This will happen sometimes when you use a darker color in semi-permanent.

It will, or could, happen with any color, semi, demi, or permanent.

If you're going to deposit dark color on your hair it doesn't, in most cases just wash out and go back to your natural color.

Thanks everyone for replying!!!! So I should use a semi-permanant hair dye? but Now im not sure about dying my hair...since my tips of my hair are dyed with sun-in. Are you sure it wont work right?? Now im sad, lol:( but thanks so much for all the replies!!!!

Do a test strand girl, see if you like it...make sure you get some of that lightened hair so you can see what the dark will do on it.

It won't just wash out tho...be aware of that.

Let us know

yea, maybe I will try that. If I do that, I could do some of the hair underneath. but now im not totally sure I want to dye it!! hmmmmm.

Yeah I tried dying my hair blue to get Blue black hair since my hair is naturally black I thought it I used lots of dye it would show up a bit... but it didn't work. It turned the red at the front a yucky dark grey purple and only showed up once under some light. My hair is to big and messy anway I don't think it'd look too good but I'd like to try it anyway especially when it grows out.

I don't want to use anything permanent as I want to bleach my hair sometime (I'm a future planner) and it's dark enough already.

Hey everyone,
Ok so I had a post similar to this one but no one responded, so I thought I'd write here. I've got brown hair, and I suppose brown eyebrows and was thinking of going black (or black with a light blue tint) this weekend.

Few questions. One, would this even look good on me?

Two, what are some things to watch out for? I'm not worried about it not washing out, but what I am worried about is ending up with greens and oranges or whatever in my hair.

This being my first time, should I attempt to do this on my own, or leave it to a pro?

I would appreciate any advice, even if you want to make fun of me. Laugh if you want, just let me know what the word is.

My cats breath smells like cat food.

Big B

Do yourself a favor, go with a pro. I don't color my hair but even getting it cut properly is important to me.

Why leave it to chance? Go to a good salon.

I do not mean to impose on this thread, but I am thirteen and I have been dying my hair with semi-permenent colors for almost a year, and I would like to try something different. I really want to dye the tips of my hair either blue or green. I wanted to know if I could use some sort of food coloring so I can change it often. I went to a website and it said that I could also use Kool-Aid or Jello to acheive this look. How do I use them and how long will they stay in? I go swimming a lot and was also wondering if the color would come out in the pool? If you could help me it would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Eryn

It turned your hair navy-blue? I've been trying to make my hair blue. . . of any shade. . . for years with no luck (always turns green :-( ). I've wondered sometimes if those blue-black dyes would make my hair as blue as the sample strands look, but knowing it wouldn't wash out, I've been afraid to try. I might be more likely to try now it'd take less time to grow all out, even if it were a mistake. *wonders*
Would the less permanent kind turn out as blue as the permanent? I'd really rather use the gentlest thing possible, especially since I (only sometimes) have reactions to dyes. *wonders if it's even still all right to dye in that case*

yes this is a great color that my friends have used...get l'oreal preference in deepest indigo.

caca noir (black henna) by Lush should do the trick. It's exactly what you're looking for, a black dye with blueish shine. It's available at www.lush.com, and as you may or may not know using henna to dye hair doesn't cause any of the damage of convential chemical dyes and is actually healthy for your hair. Good luck!

I thought I'd let everyone know about new products on market right now (available at any retail or drugstore). There are Garnier 100% blue-black and you can see it at http://www.garnier100color.com and also Revlon added a new shade to Revlon Colorsilk collection, a blue-black (#12). I guess the color is still popular as ever and it's a good thing they're keeping up with those colors. I'm curious to try one of those...but they're permanent color so I'm a little hesitant and would show up well on those who have brown or lighter hair than those who have naturally black hair.

I think I'd have to be assured it would keep its blue-ness before I would risk a permanent blue-black dye right now. I really would like to try it, as I'm getting bored with the reds I've been using, but it's the blue cast that attracts me, so I'd have to make sure it would look and stay blue on me. I wouldn't see the point in it if it weren't very blue, as I've had plain black before and don't especially want it again.

see i tryied dying my hair black and it turned out a blueish black i HATE it!!!

[QUOTE=babydoll1474] see i tryied dying my hair black and it turned out a blueish black i HATE it!!!
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I'm sorry to hear that you don't like it at all. It can be lifted by using a color remover/stripper to return to your natural color or to go lighter. It can be done. You can either do it yourself or go to salon to do this. Blue-black color suits people who go for that 'Goth' look or have olive or cool skintone. I have olive skin and that's why I love it on me.

Okay. *crosses that off the list of shades I'd like to try, then*

Anyone tried either Garnier 100% or Revlon Colorsilk Blue Black dyes yet? I'm leaning towards Colorsilk 'cause it is ammonia free and more gentle on hair, I presume. Please let me know before I buy, thanks!

I have done every black known to man. Try doing a permanet one. I don't like semi ones because if you do like it a week or so later it is gone.It is very depressing. Oh well I say you only live once. you don't like your color, try again.That is what makes it fun!!!