Purple Hair Dye
While purple is certainly not a natural hair color, it is a popular trendy choice that is often used to add a sense of drama to dark hair. Purple hair dye is also used to create interesting highlights, and quite simply to color hair a really different color.
Not only are there multiple purple hues, but the effects you can achieve are amazingly varied, depending on the base color you start with. If you have dark-colored hair, purple hair dye will add a mysterious tinge, but if you want it to be a paler purple, or the kind of purple-blue that many flowers are made of, you're going to have to bleach your hair before you can go that route.
When it comes to assessing who is likely to dye their hair purple, it really is difficult to see how anybody would choose purple hair to identify their personality. Why? Because so many people, particularly celebrities, chop and change at will. Now if this relates to personality – or character for that matter – then it has to be labeled shallow.
But this doesn't stop people from copying the hair colors that celebrities choose. After all if a gorgeous model or talented actress can carry it off, then you can always try to follow in their footsteps. Take someone like Kelly Osborne, who owes her fame and fortune primarily to her crazy talented father Ozzy. She vacillates from dark to fair, with a whole lot of hair hues in between. While her dabble with "purple" didn't exactly make the headlines, an impressive, quite recent makeover, showed how a purple tint to a darker hair hue, added to her impressive epic weight-losing achievement just before she made it into the US Dancing with the Stars. That was at the end of 2009, and she ended up in third place … and by then she was back to blonde, not purple!
More recently, Jessie J (Jessica Cornish who is an urban British pop star who made her name for what has been called a "futuristic street style") changed her color from dark, dramatic brown to a kind of kinky, interesting purple hue.
While Lady Gaga is also seen with purple hair from time to time, you never can be sure whether it's been dyed or whether she simply opted for a wig. But when Katy Perry went purple in August 2011, there was no doubt it was HER hair. Known in certain circles as the "hair chameleon", this is one celebrity who is well known for being willing to take color risks to achieve never-before color results. Her purple, though, was more lavender hued that royal purple. Something some will be keen to imitate.
Purple-hued hair dyes are available in many different ranges. Some dyes are permanent, some are said to be semi-permanent, while others are simply "for effect" and should wash out quite quickly. The actual colorant varies according to the product; some are organic, but many are chemical based.
Whichever dye type or specific product you decide to use, always be sure to read the instruction thoroughly. If you are simply adding a dramatic tint to dark hair, you won't have to pre-treat your hair, but if you are coloring dark hair a paler shade of purple, some bleaching will be required. Take notice of all the warnings on labels; sometimes dye can change color in way you wouldn't imagine possible. But if you do it right, according to the instructions, you are sure to be happy with the results. If not, do a Katy Perry and change your color next week!