All Beginner Guides articles

1. The Ultimate Dyeing/Bleaching Preparation List

   Everything you need to set up and do before bleaching or dyeing.
   Do you ever start bleaching or dyeing your hair, then realize you forgot something, take off your dye-covered gloves to get it, then come back and realize you’ve stained the … Read more

2. How To Do A Strand Test

   Whether you need to know how you hair will look with a new colour or what condition it will be in after a chemical process; a strand test is your friend.
   Will bleaching another time damage your hair? Will one colour look okay dyed over another? You just don’t know until you try. But dyeing your entire head of hair only … Read more

3. Getting The Most Out Of Your Red Hair

   This guide aims to eliminate some of the mystery and difficulty of taking care of your red hair, keeping it vibrant for longer periods of time.
   Red dye has the largest color molecules of all hair dyes. This means that red hair is difficult to keep consistently looking its best. This guide aims to eliminate some … Read more

4. So You Fried Your Hair

   A guide for when you've completely murdered your hair and how to resurrect it
   So I’m sure if you’re reading this you’ve had or currently have fried hair. Some people honestly don’t know how their hair got to such a state, and those of … Read more

5. How To Dye Your Fringe And Hair Separate Colors

   Super easy, inexpensive way to achieve two different colors on one head.
   Going to the salon is great, but lets face it: not everyone wants to pay an arm and a leg for a hairstyle you’ll probably change next month anyway. That’s … Read more

6. Cutting Your Hair Into A Mohawk--The Easy Way!

   technique for acheiving a straight and even mohawk
   After cutting my first mohawk on a friend’s hair (at his insistence), and doing a hack job [it swiveled across his head like the stripe on a baseball], another very … Read more

7. Tricks To Long Lasting Color

   the secrets to keeping your color looking fresh
   So, as we all know in the crazy hair color community, the color doesn’t last as long as we want. This article is going to tell you how to keep … Read more

8. Bleach Bathing

   A step by step guide to making your own bleach bath for lightening or colour removal.
   A guide to bleach bathing (sometimes called soap capping). This process is not intended to be used instead of bleaching for initial dying, but rather as a gentler step by … Read more

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   Dyeing Unbleached Hair

   If you can't or won't bleach your hair there's still a way to get an unnatural colour.
   You don’t have to bleach your to use unnatural colours like pink, red and purple. Maybe your hair is too damaged to bleach, you aren’t allowed to bleach it or … Read more