
If you have dark hair or mid-brown hair, bleach the tips first. You can also go with standard dyes to offer a shade of hair tip subtly different to the rest of your hair, or experiment with white blonde hair tips. Not sure which hairdye to use? Manic Panic do a good range of semi-permanent rainbow colours, but they do fade quite fast so you might want to look into Punky Colors or Special FX. You will need: Hair bleach (almost certainly), developer, gloves, brush, foil, dye You can dye your hair tips as a solid block of colour, or dye thin clumps and strands separately for a more rainbow, tye-dyed effect. Having dyed hair tips can be enormously satisfying, and if you tire of them they’re easy to grow out and snip away.
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If you get stuck or bored, we’ll show you how to dye the tips of your hair at home using standard hair dye, too. Achieve any colour using soda, natural foods and artist products to get an ombre effect. I also would NOT use this as a dye for the whole head of hair unless you want your hairdresser to be really really frustrated.See how to dye your hair with kool aid. I would definitely only do this with a color that I was comfortable having in my hair for several months (like a red), and NOT a color like green or blue. In the light you can still see a *tiny* bit of red on the tips, but it’s not anything that’s noticeable. Ok, who’s going to try it? I can’t wait to hear how it turns out for you!įEBRUARY UPDATE: I dyed the tips of her hair at the end of October and the dye definitely faded a lot within a month or two. Shampoo WELL as soon as you wake up the next morning and style like usual! Step 11: Sleep with the Kool-Aid mixture in your hair. Step 10: Wrap the hair, including the foil sections, in saran wrap so that no dye will get on your pillow while you sleep (sorry everyone, my daughter wouldn’t let me take a picture of this step in the process!)

Step 9: Continue around the head with the same technique used in steps 6-8. I also folded over the sides to help the foil stay more securely (not shown). Step 8: Fold up the foil piece so that the dyed section of hair is completely covered. Step 7: Using a paint brush, brush the Kool-Aid mixture over the piece of hair. Step 6: Separate out a small section of hair and place it on a piece of foil. Step 5: Brush hair out really well and put on an old t-shirt.

Step 4: Add 1 teaspoon of water and blend more. Step 3: Mix the unsweetened Kool-Aid and conditioner until it makes a paste. You can see how much I used in the image below. I didn’t actually measure it, but I don’t think it really matters exactly how much. Step 1: Put three packets of UNSWEETENED Kool-Aid in a bowl. DO NOT get sweetened kool-aid or your hair will end up sticky. These are the instructions for dyeing the tips of the hair, but I’m sure you could do your whole head, or longer highlights if desired.

Let us know how it turns out if you try it! I posted the after picture to Instagram and to my personal Facebook page, and I had a few friends say to be careful when dyeing BLONDE hair with Kool-Aid because it can take forever to wash out. I was surprised at how well it turned out (so impressed that I might even try doing mine!) and my daughter loves it. My 12 year old has been begging to dye the ends of her hair for a while now, so I figured that dyeing it with Kool-Aid would be a great compromise!
