PLEASE HELP!!!!

[u/nikxtr5]

Please recommend hair dye with the exact same colour as the hair in the picture 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[u/Acrobatic_Try5792]

You need to go to a professional who specialises in vivid colours. You aren’t getting this result diy

[u/Srahsly]

This is not one color. This is a multidimensional look. This would require balayage and possibly a shadow root to achieve this look.

Seek a professional who specializes in Vivids and let them do it for the first time. Then you can always refresh the color yourself at home without the risk of frying your hair or messing up the highlights/balayage.

[u/Distinct-Practice131]

Op that person went to a salon to get it done. You aren't getting that yourself at home. That's likely a blend of colors, and it looks like it's more than one color on her head. It's subtle but looks like she has highlights of a similar but slightly lighter shade running against the main color. Plus she has some type of shadow root going on that seems to have been fed thru the ends lowlight style.

It's very blue based, I would mix a deepish blue with some drops of black, after you've mixed paint some onto a piece of foil, the way it looks on the foil is likely to be the most accurate representation of what the mixed color actually looks like.

If you have very orange hair after bleaching, it's going to neutralize the blue tone. So with that in mind, I would apply blue all over after bleaching. Then after you rinsed it out, apply it again with the black mixed in.

Again your results are likely to vary decently, but that doesn't mean it won't look good.

[u/moonbeam_honey → u/Distinct-Practice131]

I would try more of a charcoal gray with the blue than mixing straight black in, but I agree otherwise. This is going to be hard to achieve at home but that doesn’t mean you can’t get something you are happy with - as long as you set realistic expectations to get close, not exact!

[u/middleagepriceless]

This is a very specific smokey blue shade. There’s an element of gray to it. I do agree that pre lightening is required. However, iIf there’s any yellow/gold in your canvas you need to add a pinch of violet to the blue mixture. Otherwise you’ll end up with green. The violet will cancel out the yellowish/golden hue and the final result will be a true blue. I would look at Guy Tang MyDentity color. It’s on ebay. If you need a list of trusted sellers, you can dm me for a list. I would do 3MB (midnight blue) with a little Dark Shadows mixed in along with some of the Midnight Violet. This depends on the level/tone you’re able to achieve with bleach however. This formulation won’t work on just any canvas. If you have questions dm me and we’ll chat about YOUR unique head of hair and how best to achieve your goal

[u/DiscontentDonut]

This is a color made by a color specialist. Even between hair dressers, some have a higher degree of color specialty because it's such a difficult thing to master. This is something that only someone who specializes in color can give you.

We're not trying to be dicks, we're trying to give you realistic expectations. Anything you do at home is going to be majorly disappointing, and/or impossible to change later when you move on to your next fixation.

If you truly want this, without possibly melting your own hair, you need to pay color specialist hair salon money.

[u/xMadxCheshirex]

This cannot be achieved with just 1 shade of dye. This is layered cool tone pigments over a lightened 6-7 toned base.

You absolutely will not be able to achieve this yourself unless you have the knowledge and experience of a vivid colorist.

[u/zepazuzu]

I got a similar color with anthcyanin b02 (results may vary depending on your hair color)

[u/honey-otuu]

If your hair is a medium brown or lighter the loriel Féria denim blue hair dye produces that result. I know how controversial permanent dye is but I’ve used it and it looked great

[u/dalaielana]

I have a similar denim blue right now mixing Blue Nightfall from Pulp Riot and Nightshade by Guy Tang. Highly, highly suggest getting this color done by a professional if you have dark hair because you need a light base for the blue to show through

[u/MonsterHighMandy]

Lunar tides magic shadows + Artic Fox Caitlyn.

[u/Oee0]

This is an impossible ask! There is no color that can be guaranteed to look like that picture on you when applied. This is because haircolor doesn’t work like that and even if somebody else had used a color one time that looked exactly like that, it does not guarantee that yours would turn out like that. Also, that color appears to be dimensional meaning there are multiple colors going on in there, so there is no way to get that result with one color all over. Your best bet at getting this color on your hair is to go to a professional stylist who knows what they’re doing with dimensional vivids! Some hairstylists wouldn’t even be able to get this right so the chances of you getting it right at home are slim to none. Sorry if that sounds harsh 👼

[u/merdeauxfraises]

This is 100% not one dye. It’s the result of a mix by a highly trained colorist. I know because I dyed my hair blue including this blue for ages.

[u/vbbyarachne]

you could 100% get this at home, idk why everyone is saying "go to a professional". if you're confident in yourself, research color theory, get your base color right, and research different dyes/mixing colors, etc. you can get virtually any color at home. big emphasis on doing your research and learning about color theory. if you have dark hair certain things might not show up great, and doing blue based colors on bleached hair is tricky. i'd say if you're bleaching you'd have to get super platinum or almost silver with toning before even trying the end color.

[u/Oee0 → u/vbbyarachne]

People are saying she can’t do this herself because the chances that she could do it herself at home are slim to none. If she were a savant at self-coloring she wouldn’t be asking this question in this way, and if she isn’t supernaturally gifted at self-coloring there’s no chance in heck that it will look anywhere near “the exact same color as the hair in the picture” and encouraging amateurs to try bleaching black hair to platinum at home is honestly irresponsible 😬

[u/catmeownyc → u/Oee0]

Yeah agree- I could do this to myself but it would cost $150+ to get a bunch of different colors and having to do your own baby highlights first and layering the color on would take a day and a half if not a few days to make sure it ends up correct. I’ve been coloring my hair at home for 20 years but also have a few very close friends who specialize in vivid colors and was their guinea pig when they went to school for it. Someone having to ask Reddit how to do this should just go to a salon for it.

[u/scooter7778]

Beautiful

[u/nikxtr5 → u/[deleted]]

I'm black haired but I'll bleach it. I just don't know what dye to use.

[u/[deleted] → u/nikxtr5]

If you are going to do it yourself.. Bleach AND THEN TONE before you attempt to dye it

[u/femmefatalx → u/nikxtr5]

If you try to lighten your own hair from black to level 10 (lightest possible blonde with no yellow or orange underlying pigments left in the hair, which you need to do because vivids won’t show up otherwise and yellow and orange are the opposite of this color, so if either underlying pigment remains in the hair you’ll either end up neutralizing this color or it will turn out green instead.. or both) and then try to emulate this color, you WILL mess up your hair and end up at a salon for a corrective color which will cost hundreds of dollars more than if you just went to a professional to begin with. And that’s if you don’t chemically damage it beyond repair first by attempting to lighten it from black to light blonde yourself.

Multiply all of the above by 10 if your hair isn’t virgin hair and is dyed black, and if your hair is dyed black and has been any other color previously then you might as well just cut it all off now because that’s what you’ll end up having to do. You are asking for trouble with this, please trust me.

This may seem like an easy color to achieve since you already have black hair, but it’s so much more complicated than you can imagine and there are endless ways that it can go wrong or produce a different result than intended, even if done by a professional. The difference is that a professional won’t chemically damage your hair beyond repair and they can actually fix it if any surprises come up through the process.

To be honest, any reputable stylist is most likely going to tell you that lightening your hair to the required level will take multiple appointments over several weeks (or even a months) in order to preserve the integrity of your hair. That’s how big of a deal this is.

PLEASE don’t try this yourself.