The bleach coupled with heat styling was also really starting to break my hair, and it was then when I decided that I did actually miss the healthy hair I used to have. So with a heavy heart, I dyed my pink hair back to black. Some would say why do that when I’ve gone through all that effort to get it pink? I’m just like that, I get bored with my hair really quickly. There’s nothing glamorous about split hair growing out naturally. Eventually, I got tired of bleaching my roots. I was able maintain the shade by using pink shampoo and conditioner every week. I obviously kept this look for a while because it was what I wanted all along. Even though it was not one solid colour, it turned out just the right tones of blue and teal that blended together perfectly. This time I knew exactly which areas to rebleach and how to even it out to get a solid colour all around. I was excited that my hair had lifted to anything other than black, so I was desperate to try again. I used loads of cruelty free conditioner from Boots since then to keep it healthy. I waited 8 weeks to bleach my hair again, to give it the proper time to recover from the first bleach. I don’t know what the salons were on about.

I was still super impressed with the bits that came out the right colour, because it meant that with an at-home bleach kit I was able to lift my natural pigment. This is because immediately after bleaching it at home, I tied my hair up in a bun (I had super long hair) and it created the uneven stripes. It came out streaky, uneven because the bleach was uneven. As you can see, my first attempt went very wrong. I thought I’d do half blue, half black, because it would be easier to tone in with the colours in my wardrobe.

Pastel pink hair dye