DIY Ombre Hair: My Experience

Hello beautiful people! I understand that this is the first ever post on my blog! Howdy-do?


So I'm here to talk about my experience with DIY Ombre Hair! 
If you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you may not know what Ombre hair is. Ombre hair is when you bleach the tips of your hair, but gradient it towards your roots to give the 'Ombre' effect. It's been seen on cat walks and loads of celebrities lately. The Ombre can be quite subtle or very obvious, depending on your personal preference. 

Ashlee Simpson

The bleaching kit I used was the 'Jerome Russel BBlonde Lightening Kit' which I think cost £6.21. The kit came with cream peroxide, powder bleach, mixing tray, application brush, 2 (mahoooosive) protective gloves, after bleach shampoo & conditioner, scalp cap and hook (if kit was being used for highlights) and instructions. 

It was so easy! All I did was mix the cream peroxide with the powder bleach in the providing mixing tray and made sure there was no lumps with the little brush, slipped on the gloves and slapped on the bleach! I had my hair in a center parting and concentrated the bleach on the tips of my hair, then gradually worked it upwards. 

I'd never dyed my hair before and I was doing this all alone, so understandably I was downright nervous - especially when the old towel wrapped around me fell off (thanks to that I accidentally bleached parts of my arms and collar bones - only teeny weeny bits though!). I

 My hair is a fair mousey brown and goes quite light in the summer, so I didn't want to leave the bleach on for too long. In the instructions leaflet there is a table that tells you how long to leave the bleach on (according to your current shade of hair) and what shade it'll turn out like, and it was pretty accurate. 

I left the bleach on for 15-20 minutes. I began washing it off in the sink with the shampoo & conditioner provided after recieving an 'urgent' call off a friend about a bbq haha! I put my hair in a deep-conditioning mask (honey & extra-virgin olive oil) and after washing that off too I blow dried it with lotsa heat defence! ;)

I took this photo on my Webcam (sorry for the quality!) just after I finished the whole process. It wasn't quite as blonde as I'd have liked it to be and I plan to do it again in a month or so.

Dress and belt: New Look

But during that week, I noticed my hair get progressively blonder at the tips. I'm not sure if it was because of UV exposure or what but it definitely got blonder and a lot of other people noticed and commented, which was really sweet :) Since then I've noticed that every time I wash my hair (every two to three days) the blonde is more prominent and obvious.

I'll do another blog post next time I plan to DIY Ombre Hair, hope y'all liked this one!

Rach