How To Dye Hair Pink

Are you ready for a not-so-normal hair color? Having pink hair is playful and flirty and in this guide, I will show you the exact process and the exact products to use so you have permanent hair color for six weeks or more.

What you Need

Clarifying shampoo/conditioner
Pravana Chromasilk Vivids in hot pink
Hair bleaching kit
Disposable gloves
Dark towels or ones you don’t care to throw away
Cheap hair ties
Plastic grocery bag
Optional: A bowl, a hair color mixer brush, aluminum foil

The Steps

Shampoo and condition your hair with your choice of clarifying shampoo and conditioner. Suave makes a inexpensive clarifying shampoo but it all depends on your preferences. You may blow dry your hair but be sure to use a cold setting as this process takes a toll on your hair.

Put on disposable gloves. Gloves help protect your hands from getting the hair bleach in any hang nails you might have and also protect the natural skintone on your hands.

If you are bleaching your whole head, part your hair down the middle and where your ears are, part it again so you have 4 sections of hair separated into individual ponytails. If you are only doing chunks, separate the rest of the hair that isn’t getting bleached and put that in a pony tail. After you’re done dyeing your hair in chunks, roll it up and place aluminum foil around it so it doesn’t get into any hair you don’t want dyed.

Find a place that is well ventilated as all hair bleach stinks.

Start bleaching the hair that’s going to be pink. If you have previously colored your hair and it’s fading out at the roots, start from bottom to top. This will make it so your roots aren’t lighter than the rest of your hair.

Placing a plastic grocery bag over your head will help in not getting the hair dye everywhere.

Wait the time the instructions tell you to. If you find that it’s not bleach blonde that way you want it, leave it in for five minutes more and check the color. Keep checking your hair after five minutes after the initial waiting period.

When you wash it out, the best thing to do is to not use any shampoo or conditioner as this will cause it to fade a lot faster. You can now take out the hair ties in your hair.

Take off the gloves after washing out the hair dye.

If you want to use a blow dryer to dry it, use a cold setting. You can also air dry it and I find that is the best method.

Place a towel over your sink and around the parts you are standing. The hair dye that I recommend stains like crazy so you’ll definitely want to not miss this step.

Place the Pravana in a bowl. I like placing it in a bowl because it has a gel-like consistency and it’s easier for me to control the amount of hair dye I have in my hands.

Put on another set of gloves. If you don’t want hot pink hands for three weeks, this is also not a step to miss.

Starting placing the hair dye in your hair. Repeat the steps for the bleaching.

Place another plastic bag over your hair.

Since Pravana doesn’t burn, I usually wait an hour before washing it out.

When washing it out, keep your gloves back on and keep a cup in the shower with you to wash out any hair dye that drips. Wash it out until your water is no longer pink. If you find that it stained your bath tub, 409 Spray with bleach removes the stains.

Now you can remove your gloves.

During the next week, don’t wear any light colors. You may have washed it all out so the water is not pink but it will come off on light-colored collars. To keep up with your new hair color, I recommend washing it with a sulfate-free shampoo and conditioner.

I recommend Pravana because it’s permanent so it will last six or more weeks. It’s the only kind of permanent wild color hair dye. You can find Pravana on Ebay or if you know a hair stylist that will order it for you, you can get it that way.