Q. I recently seen video's on youtube explaining you can dye your hair with chalk and it looks so cool! I have shoulder length, bright red hair and I was wondering whether it still works on hair this colour/whether it would look good... many of the picture I've seen are on long blonde hair, but some are on black hair, which is making me think about doing it... Please help?
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Chalk it up: Coloring hair streaks with craft-store pastels (sold @ craft or art stores) is the latest beauty trend
CHICAGO â First there were feathers, then the âHunger Gamesâ braid took over. Now thereâs a new hair trend just as easy to embrace â coloring strands with craft-store chalk. No stylist, no complicated instructions, no great expense.
Everyone from hipsters to children to Hollywood celebrities is embracing the runway fad for brightly colored hair, using soft pastel chalk.
âThereâs really one person to credit for the chalking trend: Itâs Lauren Conrad,â Perrotta said.
Conradâs hairstylist, Kristin Ess, said beauty professionals have used the chalks to color hair for a while. She credits the proliferation of online beauty blogs for turning the tool into a trend.
âUsually it was secret, so top secret,â said Ess, who cofounded The Beauty Department with Conrad. âBut now the way that things are, itâs so easy to get it out there.â
The steps arenât complicated: Take a piece of chalk, run it along the strand of hair until itâs colored and if necessary pull the hair through a curling iron. If you have darker hair the chalk may stick easier if you dampen the strand first. Itâs important to use soft pastel chalks â the kind artists use, not oil-based chalks or sidewalk chalks.
To remove, shake or brush your hair to dust out the chalk before getting into the shower. Then wash your hair. The chalk can get messy, so wear plastic gloves.
Kandee Johnson, a celebrity makeup artist and beauty and style blogger, posted a hair chalking how-to video on YouTube in February. So far itâs gotten more than 630,000 hits.
âPeople were sending me pictures from websites,â she said. âI didnât think people were going to be that excited over it. I did not think it was going to be that popular at all.â
Johnson thinks the attraction comes because chalking is temporary and affordable â a whole set of chalks can cost between $6 and $8.
âItâs a fun idea if you have kids or you have a corporate job,â she said. âIt will be really fun for summer because you can have fun ponytails.â
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HAIR CHALKING TIPS:
âUse art soft pastel chalk. Oil-based chalk will stain your hair. Sidewalk chalk or chalkboard chalk wonât stick to your hair.
âNo matter what color your hair, apply the chalk to dry hair first. If you have darker hair and the chalk isnât showing up then dampen the hair before applying.
âUsing a curling or flat iron after chalking can help seal your hair if needed.
âBlondes may have to shampoo a few times before the color fully rinses out.
âShake or brush the chalk out of your hair before you wash it. Getting chalked hair wet could stain your hair.
âProtect your clothes and hands. Wear gloves and smock or towel to keep chalk from getting on you while youâre applying it. Chalk can flake off while itâs in your hair, so itâs a good idea not to wear light clothes.
Itâs important to use soft pastel chalks â the kind artists use, not oil-based chalks or sidewalk chalks.
To remove, shake or brush your hair to dust out the chalk before getting into the shower. Then wash your hair. The chalk can get messy, so wear plastic gloves.
Kandee Johnson, a celebrity makeup artist and beauty and style blogger, posted a hair chalking how-to video on YouTube in February. So far itâs gotten more than 630,000 hits.
âPeople were sending me pictures from websites,â she said. âI didnât think people were going to be that excited over it. I did not think it was going to be that popular at all.â
Johnson thinks the attraction comes because chalking is temporary and affordable â a whole set of chalks can cost between $6 and $8
Example from YA! "I bought a 24-pack of hair chalk online from nomorerack.com. It's a very reliable website. However, when I received the hair chalk,I saw that it was just a pack of Mungyo brand soft pastels. I've used the hair chalk three times, the first two without a problem. Two days ago, I put some greens and blues in my hair and took a shower at the end of the day. The next day, I realized that I still had a strip of bright blue on the right side of my head! So I took another shower last night, and I was extra careful to scrub that part really well. It's still there. I don't know what to do. Will this be permanent? How do I get it to go away?"
Hair extensions question!?
Q. I am planning to get hair extensions today from Sally's Beauty Salon.
Which brand is the best?
I am looking for these qualities:
-durable for straightening and curling
-looks real and not fake (is not frizzy but silky quality)
-easy to manage and to clip in
-stays in throughout the day
Please tell me your opinion on which brand or kind to get
Thank you
10 points rewarded
Answer
Getting extensions are not that easy, like buying shoes. AND if you have problem styling your own hair, add hair extensions to the formula, it will be even harder to style when you have them.
People waste tons of money on extensions because it's the new trend. Without doing much research. Then, they come to YA HAIR and ask us questions on how to clip it on their hair, if they can go swimming, play sports, if they can dye or perm, etc. Do you think you'll have time for school, trying to put on hair extensions over 1 hour every morning? Then they ruin it by dyeing to match their hair.
If you live in NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, Texas or San Diego and you wear hair extensions made by Remy, it COULD have been from a stolen beauty store and are sold for much more! It's also possible they're being sold ONLINE.
It's really not that simple! Then again, it will not work out if you have thin hair, the clip will be showing through! How embarrassing will that be, if it keeps falling out from your head, if it's not on right!?!
May 22, 2011: Model and businesswoman Katie Price, who was formerly topless model Jordan, is demanding compensation from a top Los Angeles hair salon after she spent $17,000 on hair colourings and extensions that she claims were botched, leaving her hair so damaged it began falling out.
Kate Gosselin got hers from a salon, and she was on the front cover of People magazine, but she HATED her hair!!!! Access Hollywood. She paid $7,000 for hers. Took 7 hours.
At the salon: 25-50 ($50-$100) extensions, they also have hidden costs, like monthly maintenance fees, one girl charge YA poster $248 more saying the salon put 120 extensions on her head, but she only counted 60. They are very charming!
Google Britney Spear's hair extensions. July 21, 2010.
Jessica Simpson & Paris Hilton don't even use their own hair extensions, plus they have stylists to do them in photo shoots or travel with them. Jessica was photographed, showing her clip-ons during a windy day.
EXAMPLES OF WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT their HAIR EXTENSIONS
well on friday i got synthetic extensions, and they dont curl very well, so i was wondering if i plaited them and left them over night would they go crinkly and mix in with my real hair
because theyre fake i dont know if i can actually style them very well, which is annoying!
+they are starting too get ratty, any tips on how to take care of them ?
thanks!
And another ex:
I have sewn in hair extensions. My natural hair is neck-length, and these extensions are down to my chest. They're sewn in (if you didn't already know) with black tracks, while the hair is my natural hair colour: brown. But I want to have it up in a high-ish ponytail. But, obviously, the tracks are really obvious. How can I make them less obvious?
I hate having to have my hair down all the time. I've always wanted it, but now I'm getting bored. :/
One more ex:
I removed my hair extensions yesterday after 4 months. My hair is really thin does any1 no any good products to thicken it?
And another ex:
i bought 100 dollars clip in 100% human hair extensions and it hurts and pulls my hair. u shud just wait til it grows out. my hair was real short and i wanted extensions real bad and now i feel bad wasting 100 bucks on that where i cud of spent it on clothes or sumother beauty thing. ur not going to wear them after a while cuz u get annoyed having to keep clipping them in and all or whateever kind of extensions ur getting.
This one says it all:
i have had hair extensions done in a hairdressers in melton mowbray 3weeks ago. i have been told they are 100% real hair but they look terrible,it looks like i have been back-combing it. if i curl them it just goes frizzy and if i straighten them it also goes very frizzy with the back-coming look. i have bought all the products that was advised and i have looked after them the way i was told to. i have had hair extensions before and they were lovely, i had no problems. i have been back 2 times to the hairdressers for help and advise and i was told that the hair is rubbing on my shoulders which is giving the back-combing look (my shoulders are not that big). i am now asking for my money back and the hair taken out but they are refusing. i have spoke to the hairdressing federation and they told me to call trading standards, they said to get them tested but i do not know where to send them. thanks for any help.
Sources:
I know hair. I have over 4 decades of hair know-how. I have silky, shiny, soft, smooth very healthy hair down to my knees. Previously damaged by perming & dyeing in the 90's. I've known people in their 30's whose hair stopped growing from ironing their hair in the 70'
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