I know, I know i’m the most fickle girl in the land…One minute i’m telling you how much I love my auburn red hair, the next i’m shaking it up for something completely different.
I’ve recently been on a pinning spree on my ‘hair’ board and found some super lush pictures of purple hair. I felt really inspired to help my dark roots blend in a little better with my artificial colour and decided to switch up my orange-red, for a purple-red.
The colour I used is the Schwarzkopf ‘Live’ Intense Colour in the shade ‘Pure Purple’ – I’ve tried to dye my hair purple before using a L’Oreal Feria colour which was an absolute fail. NEVER use the purple dye from L’Oreal, it gives zero effect and when I complained to L’Oreal directly that the colourant had zero effect on my hair, the procedure to resolve the issue was farcical…but that’s a whole other story for another time.
I have used LIVE colour on and off for as long as i’ve been dying my hair and I knew I could rely on the brand to give me some lovely results…Especially when it came to choosing a bold colour. As my hair was already pretty red, the colourant took well and left me with a deep, burgundy-purple shade which inspired me to buy some clip in hair extensions to match.
I had to cut my hair when I went through a stage of being addicted to bleach blonde locks and since then i’ve been very slowly gaining millimetres of length. As my works Christmas party was upcoming, I bought 8 pieces of real hair from a shop in Liverpool to give a fuller head of hair a whirl. The colour match is pretty perfect for the colour the LIVE dye turned my hair and I couldn’t be happier with the result.
To top up my deep burgundy/purple hair I have been using ‘Dark Tulip’ by Directions, the semi-permanent dye is perfect for adding to conditioner to refresh your colour between dye jobs and is the perfect match for both my extensions and my natural hair.
