Can you dye your hair unnatural colors without becoming a dangerhair? - Asking for a friend

[CaseyTatumm]

Metallic dyes are harsh on hair due to build up, so oxidative color is recommended. You can't use oxidative color on hair that already contains metal build-up or that will melt it. You want to always be honest to your stylist about what is in your hair. If you're not sure you can have them perform a strand test. Lightner shouldn't overlap on previously lightened hair. That can cause damage to the cortex and make the hair weak. Try to only lighten the roots every two months or less. Most sulfate free products have moisturizing properties to maintain vivid colors.

This is my hair.

Your hair is so pretty!!!!

 

[NoReturn]

WTF is a dangerhair?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Danger%20Hair

 

[The Husbando Collector]

Yes you can still have some unnatural hair color without being a loon that makes a Victorian madhouse look sane in comparison. I dyed parts of my hair blue without bleaching beforehand while in lockdown and I was still the troon oppressor that I was before. It's not the unnatural color, it's the person attached to it.

 

[Stan]

I try not to judge people by the color of their hair but by the content of their character.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

I don't think changing hair color will also change your personality and behaviour, unless the dye used is some wish.com bootleg trash with sketchy chemicals that may or may not also include some drug.

Your friend is safe so long as he or she doesn't use said trash. This is not anime after all, where changing hair color also changes you.

 

[ten dollars off]

imo, if you look hot with your natural hair color, then you probably won't look like a dangerhair after dying it. most of the women I have known that dyed their hair bright red were not particularly attractive, and it came across as a desperate attempt at getting attention from those fetishizing redheads.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

No, and even if you could, why would you do it? Shit's ugly

 

[Lathe]

The problem I see with a lot of danger hairs is money. They pay to damage their hair and it’s funny when that shit washes out requiring them to pay again to get it put back in. Even if not professional, it still costs money in terms of time and dyes. So either way you’re an idiot in my eyes.

 

[one_time_user]

I was a punk teen, rocker chick and had every color of hair before sjw dangerhair was ever even thought of.

Spoiler: powerlevel but, you asked

I grew up and have a nice office job and nice clothes and I bleach the everloving hell out of my hair and dye it pale lavender. I dye individual hairs first (so they come out half a shade darker) and leave out tiny clumps from the second dying so they remain silver/gold from the bleach and my hair literally shimmers. I use olaplex and have a lightly layered long bob.. My hair is beautiful and well taken care of.

I am also openly terfy but a productive citizen.

Colors don't make a dangerhair, slovenly-ness combined with attention seeking style makes a dangerhair. It's laziness, like, why bother bleaching and dying your hair and then never conditioning and oiling it or brushing it?

 

[Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran]

I was a punk teen, rocker chick and had every color of hair before sjw dangerhair was ever even thought of.

Spoiler: powerlevel but, you asked

I grew up and have a nice office job and nice clothes and I bleach the everloving hell out of my hair and dye it pale lavender. I dye individual hairs first (so they come out half a shade darker) and leave out tiny clumps from the second dying so they remain silver/gold from the bleach and my hair literally shimmers. I use olaplex and have a lightly layered long bob.. My hair is beautiful and well taken care of.

I am also openly terfy but a productive citizen.

How well does your hair deal with all the bleaching? I dyed mine black during my teenage goth phase, when it was also cut short (very short edgy pixie). Never colored it again after growing it out, I like my natural brown and wouldn't want to damage my hair with any harsh products. It's down to my waist now (with a sideshave because I want to keep some edge) so damaging it would be quite tragic.

Got a friend whose hair got really fucked by constant bleaching and coloring so she had to buzz it off and start fresh. It put me off from ever wanting to try that myself.

 

[one_time_user]

How well does your hair deal with all the bleaching? I dyed mine black during my teenage goth phase, when it was also cut short (very short edgy pixie). Never colored it again after growing it out, I like my natural brown and wouldn't want to damage my hair with any harsh products. It's down to my waist now (with a sideshave because I want to keep some edge) so damaging it would be quite tragic.

Got a friend whose hair got really fucked by constant bleaching and coloring so she had to buzz it off and start fresh. It put me off from ever wanting to try that myself.

It used to take it like a champ but some health issues made a lot of my hair fall out a few years ago (like, 35 percent of my hair) and what grew back is a bit more fragile so I have to be very careful when doing my roots.

I am a natural blonde but my hair is bleach resistant (not sure how the hell that happens) so I count myself lucky that I have never balded myself. I did have to cut about 6 inches off a few months ago but the timing was fine because I normally bob it in the summer anyway.

If you are hesitant, go professional! I am of the mind, bleach it the first time when it's long rather than assuming you will grow it long while continuing to bleach it. You should only be doing your roots after the first round of bleach (which may take more than one session).

 

[🔪Cold Steel Brand Rep🔪]

It depends greatly upon if you're a faggot or not

 

[Anti-Social Social Club]

Obviously not, it's just that dangerhairs want to be "queer"/counterculture and right now having unnatural hair colours is pretty counterculture.
I always wanted to dye my hair unnatural colours even now but I worry about the bleach damaging my curls. I was thinking of dying the ends of my hair so I could cut the damaged parts.
It obviously sucks when you meet someone and can pretty much guess their political beliefs and personality from their hair so I encourage more farmers to dye their hair weird colours.

 

[one_time_user]

Also, for anyone considering bleaching and dying their hair a funky color- there's a VERY good chance you will need to use semi or demi permanent hair color rather than permanent. Don't be alarmed.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

imo, if you look hot with your natural hair color, then you probably won't look like a dangerhair after dying it. most of the women I have known that dyed their hair bright red were not particularly attractive, and it came across as a desperate attempt at getting attention from those fetishizing redheads.

as a man who proudly fetishizes natural redheads, i actually look down on women who dye their hair red, especially when it is one of those shades of red which you would never see a natural redhead having. if you arnt born redhead then choose a different color to dye your hair.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I was a punk teen, rocker chick and had every color of hair before sjw dangerhair was ever even thought of.

Spoiler: powerlevel but, you asked

I grew up and have a nice office job and nice clothes and I bleach the everloving hell out of my hair and dye it pale lavender. I dye individual hairs first (so they come out half a shade darker) and leave out tiny clumps from the second dying so they remain silver/gold from the bleach and my hair literally shimmers. I use olaplex and have a lightly layered long bob.. My hair is beautiful and well taken care of.

I am also openly terfy but a productive citizen.

Colors don't make a dangerhair, slovenly-ness combined with attention seeking style makes a dangerhair. It's laziness, like, why bother bleaching and dying your hair and then never conditioning and oiling it or brushing it?

I'm intrigued by your spoiler and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Fr, your hair sounds beautiful - can you walk me through the color sequence? I got confused by "individual hair" dyeing and "clumps."

Is it:

Spoiler: Consider me 5

1. Full platinum bleach all over
2. Paint on lavender dye to small sections (size? Root to tip?) (those sound like inappropriate questions...)
3. [Apply by some method] a second lavender dye but somehow avoid clumps (larger clumps than the ones dyed in the first round - are these excluded clumps only un-lavender-dyed sections, or sometimes both dyed and un-?

& your outcome is shimmery: does that mean it's all blended, or do you have distinct locks that have color against an overall platinum?

Pardon my retardedness. I've been dyeing my med-dark brown hair to lighter blondes for 25 years - varying shades & highlighting, but generally pretty standard umc professional ww style; I haven't had highlights done since covid, though, and have never attempted them/any targeted color myself. My hair is long & healthy despite all that bleaching/coloring. I'm not looking to go platinum /pastel/ nontraditional colors as yet, but I am info-gathering for the not-too-distant possible future. Trying to figure out ways to start testing how my hair handles adding different colors or ways to add it that are subtler or artful/work in a professional context.

On the thread topic: biggest indicator that unusual colors are not dangerhair is health, shine, and softness. Plus healthy skin, clothes that complement you (of whatever style)#, etc.

This is the least farmerlike thread I have ever read.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The way I see it anybody who dyes their hair a crazy color is desperate for attention and those kinds of people are best avoided in the first place.

 

[one_time_user]

haha, I do it differently each time because I over bleached my hair a few months ago and had to switch from permanent to semipermanent dye. (eta: it's usually blended, sometimes I get sloppy and have a streak but I roll with it amd make it look intentional.)

My hair is bleached pale banana yellow and toned to almost white silver.

When I was using permanent I used Wella Illumina opal essence silver Mauve which is almost impossible to find and not really permanent but is so beautiful.

With semi permanent I use (really diluted) Ion lavender semi permanent. I use an eyeliner brush and paint little lowlights of maybe 10 hairs each all over. I leave that on for a few minutes and occasionally do the same thing with different colors (blue jean, teal or pink). I use Vaseline on wherever I don't want the color to take (ten or so hairs each all over my head) and then use a sponge brush to paint on the rest of my diluted hair color. The portions that I put the color on first get half a shade darker and the different colors are still lavender after but deeper or richer or brighter depending on the original dye color. the vaselined stay silver white.

it sounds like a lot but I have it down to a fine art by now. I only wash my hair once a week with shampoo and one additional time with just conditioner. if I ever don't feel like doing all that I just do the lavender and go nice next time.

I do regret not knowing that my hair cannot take a beating like it used to and over processing it and not being able to use the Illumina opal essence any more but my hair grows like a weed so if I don't fuck it up I can go back to that next year.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Yes, but you have to either be good at hair or go to an actual salon. The color needs to flatter your skintone. Since it's attention grabbing, you need to have a good cut and not be an ogre. It needs to be regularly maintained. All requiring effort and funds that dangerhairs usually don't have.

Used to be dyed red, kind of on the verge of unnaturally red. My hair grows fast and I have a ton of it so it was $300 and 5 hrs in the chair every three weeks. Got sick of it.

 

[batterybee]

i think its ok to dye or bleach natural or near-natural colours but if i see the full RGB setup i think dangerhair or e-girl and i wouldnt get involved with them beyond surface level frienlyness.