Hair Chalking

WARNING: This will NOT come out of blond hair after one wash! Also, it will get on your pillow case/clothes if you sleep with it in. Children under the age of 18 who's mother will kill them for trying this and then find me: please refrain. Don't say you were not warned!

Now that my PSA is over, we can get to the fun stuff! I love the look of hair chalking! Its more subtle and cool than stain. And less permanent. And messy. And there are more colors to choose from. I'll stop now...
Jacie loves to have different colors in her hair so she was totally down for this! Here is what we used...

I redid Jacie's highlights this evening so I had some pre cut foils lying around. Yours don't have to be as pretty as mine.

These are the oil pastels she picked out. I have a whole pack of them from The Lobby (Hobby Lobby, that is...) They need to be oil pastels! She wanted it to fade from this pinky purple to the dark purple...

I grabbed a section of her hair and twisted it like so...

I did this because I'm going to start the color mid-shaft and don't want there to be an exact line where it begins. Ala Ombr'e style. I did the first color and then, overlapping a little, put the darker color on the ends. Use your finger to really get the chalk in there...

I flipped the strand back and forth to really get it covered. Then we did a strand that was solid of the lighter color. Just for fun, just to see how it looks, just because. I then placed the colored strand on a piece of foil and halved it so the strand was sandwiched in it...

Here comes the part you really need to pay attention to! You are going to take your hot flat iron to this piece of foil. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT fry you hair off. Fast hands people! It only takes a little bit of heat...



Let it cool for a second and take it out of the foil. Run a brush through it because its going to be kinda ratty. This is what Jace's looked like...

Pretty frickin' cool huh?! The dark purple didn't turn out as vibrant as we wanted so I might play around with it a little more. I haven't tried this on a brunette yet but rumor has it if you get a little water on the pastels, put them on the hair, and then do the foil/flat iron thing, it works! And washes out faster. Let me know if anyone tries this!

Dessert wine is out,

Les

Color Do's

-When in doubt, please ask a professional

-Try fun color combinations!

-I'm being serious when I say fashion colors (pink, purple, blue, ect) are very in. Like, Giga Pets in '95 kinda 'in'. Not just for teenagers, for regular people with adult jobs and stuff. Its all about placement and tone.

Color Don'ts

-I can't stress this enough, be easy with the flat iron for this project. Its better to go over the same foil twice for short amounts of time than once for long amounts of time.

-Don't do this while wearing a nice white shirt and then wonder why you have a little bit of pink on said shirt. AKA, turn your brain on.