Dip dye Disaster and hair colour reviews

Hi guys and dolls! Hope you are all ok!
Sorry ive been MIA for a while, been super busy looking for houses and jobs, hoped to be having an interview this week with a job that got back to me and asked for my photo and a health questionnaire, but no luck. i just want to email them saying 'its manners and curtsy to at least let me applicants know wether or not they have got the job, not leave them hanging in suspense with no peep or email to tell them! AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH MY PASSPORT PHOTOS I SENT YOU?! i want them back please.."
Anyways, rant sort of over...for this.

So ive been getting bored abit of my hair colour and in the previous post ive been wanting to go the same colour as Holly Hagan off Geordie Shore, so i took her advice and bought the Manic Panic colour in the colour she said she uses 'Purple Haze'.

Upon purchasing two tubs of the stuff i did a strand test of my own hair instead of risking it all over. As i though i have to have my hair lightened before i have the directions dye on and she bleaches her (nooo way for me!) so i thought id at least get somewhat of a similar colour, even if it has a tint of red or cerise in it. Heres what i came out with:


 I is soooo much darker than my hair now! so whats the point of me paying over £50 to have my roots lightened for me to slap dye on and it go just as dark as my natural hair?! and why the hell is hers so much lighter?! plus it was more patchy than an old blanket.

Miffed.


So, -£12 and two usless tubs of hairdye i kept plodding on through the instagram and tumblr pictures and kept comming across this awesome dipdye! I thought to myself, hmmm i think i can do that! it seems pretty simple and ive dipdyes my hair before ( brown with teal bottom).
So i bought some more lighter hair extensions to match my lighter hair (roots growing through yay!) and get some old ones too and get going.

Heres what happened and a step by step instructions on what to do.

1. I usually double up on my extensions, so i usually get one long weve and the fold it in half and cut accordingly to the sizes i want, then sew them together and attach the clips last.

2. Put in the extensions as you normally would, ensure they are straight or as straight as you can get them. This ensures a level line for the dying.

3. then i split them in half and put them into ponytails, then slid them down to the ends to which my natural longest hair finishes ( those two pieces by my neck are the longest. Also you may want to as a few cm more so it gives the hair room to grow and not go over the dipdye line.

4. So i went home bargains and debated between this B Blonde and the XXL blonde, i knew how good the XXL one was but still i was intrigued at the B Blonde and it says on the black that it lightens up to really dark brown. So i paid the £5 and i gave it a go.

About 45 mins later i washed it out
and
excuse my language

FUCK ALL HAPPENED!!!

nothing

nada

zip zilch

so what are we up to on hairdye money? £17?
great, and next payday is a looong way away.

So i ended up sacking it off for 2 days as i was really angry (and coz i prepared the colours to put on after and ened up having to wash them down the sink!)
Then on Monday i bought the reliable XXl and started again.

5. So on the left is my new lighter extensions which it took the cerise out and lightened the natural hair underneath, but the old extensions that i bought from a shopping center in the exact shade (no dying for me!) only lightened a bit, but didn't loose the cerise colour?
By this stage i couldn't give a flyer and decided that instead of two tiers of colour on them, ill just do the lighter ones one colour and the darker another.

6. So on the lighter ones i used the new semi permanents range from XXl Live in blue and then for the darker ones i thought id better make use of the many tubs of Manic panic dye and put it on them.

Then i went to the pub
.
About 1 hour or so later i washed them off, dried them and curled them, and this was the outcome.

 They came out ok, not really what i wanted or as bright as i wanted, but it'll do for now.

i really cba, and i wont be doing this again for a while!

What do you guys think?

Zoe *