The White Stripe: a hair dilemma

[fortworthgal]

I love pure white hair on a man! John Slattery is my favorite silver haired gentleman.

John Slattery is just downright HOT, any way you slice it.

 

[crwritt]

I thought I'd share this easy way to add temporary wild colored highlights to your hair
http://www.kandeej.com/2012/02/hair-color-how-to-hair-chalking.html

 

[pineapplefruitcake]

Just for anyone else interested - I've dyed my hair fairly consistently for the past 6 years or so both at home and in salons. For the most part it was dyed natural colours with a few blonde highlights and that sort of the thing - for the record my hair started off naturaully bright auburn, faded to blonde and is now a mouse brown ( hence the constant dyeing). Over christmas I went to a salon that specialises in vintage and rockabilly styles and had it dyed bright orange with a single platinum streak and I have the under layers of my fringe dyed platinum too so if it's down it just looks orange but if it's pinned up or curled it shows blonde For me, this was pretty much the best decision ever - I completely love it and feel way more confident in my own skin that when I had "natural" hair. But that's me. It did cost an absolute bomb - about $350 ( but Perth prices are like that) but I had my whole hair cut, lightened and dyed and got the streak. I think if anyone is considering it they should just go for it cause ultimately it is something that you can cover over or change if you need to but if you like it then it can make a world of difference to you.

As a side note, I know people have been saying it takes a bit of effort to maintain, which is true, but on the plus side even if you don't have time to do a complete set or anything your hair will always look interesting and retro ! win.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

This is my own streak that i fondly call White Lightning! (not really)


I dye my hair black, so when i initially bleached this in, I had SO much damage. This was because i wasn't using the correct products, and used these wrong ones over and over again in a span of 2 days. I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS!! But if you do have bleached or damaged hair, this is how i made the damage less noticeable: I trimmed that part of my hair (when i set it, it didn't look crazily multi-lengthed.), used deep conditioner on the part EVERY time I washed my hair, used this "placenta" spray leave-in treatment after I washed my hair, and used the John Frieda nighttime serum on the nights i didn't wash my hair. When it was wet, I'd comb it out with a wide tooth comb, and very gently so. If i had any sort of difficulty combing it, I'd stop. I'd put a decent amount of heat protectant on my hair, and gently blow dry it on a medium-low setting. When it was dry, i'd gently brush it out, and set the front in stand up pin curls when it was still warm, and in the morning, it was curly, bouncy and there was no sign of damage. PS: my streak was still not my desired white during this time!

Fast forward to when my hair was ready to be bleached again, I used Effasol color remover (found in my beauty supply store). This is a super strong bleach, but it's somehow less damaging on my hair. My theory is that it's because it's not meant to be left on hair for as long as bleach. Worked like a charm! And to get it white, i used Manic Panic's Virgin Snow to tone down the yellow.

Since then, a friend turned me on to this surprisingly AMAZING bleaching kit from Hot Topic of all places. It comes with everything you need to get your hair white, and the toner in there is WAY better than Virgin Snow. Virgin snow will only work if your hair is pretty much the lightest yellow possible, but the toner that comes in this it is a bit more powerful. Admittedly, i'm a trifle embarrassed to promote anything from Hot topic, but this is THAT good!

Here's a crappy picture of the 'do:

(i always unconsciously raise my eyebrow in pictures. Maybe I was a wrestler in a past life!)

Hope this helps!

I find myself more and more drawn to "the Mallen streak", but am not yet ready to take the plunge. I've got red hair and this style of curl (kind of a mix of C-dot in terms of colour and Wrecking_Belle in terms of length and curl, but nowhere near as gorgeous as either one of them ). Can anyone recommend something in the way of temporary DIY extensions?

 

[Isis]

I'm trying to decide whats happening with Rita Hayworth's hair. In this picture, she appears to have a Mallen streak:

But in other photos of the same session, it isn't there. The only other similar photo is this colour one, though it isn't white:

...And no other photo of her shows it. It isn't mentioned in biographies of Rita either, so it's probably just a lighting thing. It looks pretty good though!

I talked that over with my hairdresser when I had my blond streak in and we agreed that it looks like her hair has been painted in darker on the actual photo to make it looks like she has streak. I love mine, btw:

The rest of the hair is my natural colour. It has grown out a bit now, but I plan to maintain it soon.