My experience with Arctic Fox has always been like that, the consistency of the dye just gives it that patchy look with the lighter colors like periwinkle or girls night. Sucks too cause I love those colors.
Colors like this should go on as is cause they’re already diluted. Adding conditioner to a diluted color just makes it toner, as you found out. Which is a shame because if you put it on as is you’d probably get closer to the swatch sample. Honestly I would just go over your result again with the same color and don’t dilute it. You basically pretoned. So it’s ready for the real color lol
@@RedHairedRiot some people’s hair get porous because they bleach their hair that’s been previously bleach and I know how my hair takes and I bleach my hair evenly so diluting it is not a problem since I know what I’m doing and know how my hair takes to dyes
I like this color on you! So pretty!! I do think the splotchiness is partially Arctic Fox, every color of theirs I've used came out splotchy. Can also be that parts of your hair are more porous than others and the more porous parts grab onto the color better. And thinner sections will always help especially with direct dyes since the don't develop/swell so don't reach the spots you've missed or didn't saturate fully. ☺️
Arctic Fox is one of the best direct dyes out there. Spotchiness is either caused by poor application(thin slices saturated with product are necessary), using too pastel of a shade, or not starting with a light enough canvas. This girl's hair is not level 10. A pale blue shade like periwinkle requires a level 10 platinum blonde canvas.
I don't think the splotchiness is the dye's fault. Pastels are super finicky and need to be put overtop of an even level 10 base to avoid all splotchiness, Although her hair is lightened her hair wasn't quite a level 10, combined with diluting an already pastel dye by 50%, which is heavy dilution. that's most likely a big part of why she got the splotchiness (also in fairness she did show us that she had banding in her hair before she started and banding makes it super hard to get an even color deposit in general). To avoid the splotchiness, Instead of diluting it she could have ordered another bottle(or even two) and really saturated with the pure periwinkle (and if it were me I would mix a small dollop of something slightly darker like purple rain to make it just dark enough to take more evenly to a base that isn't quite a level 10) also, if she had taken much much smaller sections that would have made a really big difference too, she took two decently sized sections (although slightly large for working with pastels) for the first two sections and then just let all of the rest of her hair down and plopped dye on top of the entire rest of her hair. With pastel dyes especially you really have to take teeny tiny sections and then saturate and work the product in like crazy(honestly though I do get why she might not have done that because application can take a crazy long time to do it that way) Using a tint brush, I find can also really help push the dye into the hair and pull it through more evenly than just hands can. But honestly despite the slight splotchiness it looks super good! And with an already pastel dye I was super surprised that it showed up at all after being diluted so much and then put overtop of a base that is slightly dark it's honestly kinda impressive and alot of pastel dyes on the market more than likely would have not shown up nearly as much if at all.
I tried their periwinkle color w/ their darker blue and found myself......also incredibly splotchy? and this was w/o using an additive conditioner or smashing it in to the hair shafts. I wasn't impressed at all. 100% would recommend trying Iroiro if you do dye at home again !and going w/ a darker color so it can fade out to that nice periwinkle :>
YEY, it looks so cute! I was thinking of going for the color of the year too. Next time try washing your hair only with shampoo, that way the dye lays on more evenly. I also start aplying to the top of my hair and front pieces, since they fade quicker
Just wanted to say Hi! Hope you are having/had a good Tuesday. I think this hair color looked really nice with your skin tone and everything. I think if you like this color next time you are able to go the hairdresser maybe try a dark blue shadow root/or purple. That would be rad.
aww thank you so much you sweet pea! I always appreciate seeing you pop up in the comments haha! Can't wait to continue exploring the hair colour rainbowww hahaha
Lucy I know this is an old vid but you don’t know how handy this is right now, eating dinner watching your vid like an iPad baby with bleach and foil covering my head lol hoping to go periwinkle from dark brown
@@LucyLivinYT omg hi angel ok so the bleach went good, got her to a very ashy blonde (not my color but a great base) and I’m letting her rest for a couple days while I wait to get the actual dye! :)
Girl no omg I’m sitting here with my 2nd application of this stuff already and I’m sad AF I can’t believe it’s not sticking 🥺 I’ll be picking up a darker shade of purple tomorrow. Your video proved to me this shade is hopeless
Also! I noticed you work the hair dye into your hair a lot and that may be why you get splotchy dye. When you mix hair dye with conditioner, the moment the hair colour starts going lighter when you’re working it into your hair, stop! I know it’s hard to section out small sections in your hair but it does help with the splotchyness for that reason. ❤️❤️
That is not how that works. Conditioner only makes the Pigments less concentrated. What she should do is remove the excess conditioner after working it in to see where there is missing spots cuz the pigments goes into the hair and leaves pigment less conditioner. So the conditioner is white bcs the pigments are on the hair!!
Nah hon, just to much conditioner while using a Paste. I was going to try it but it’s a bit to blue for me and they don’t carry it at the stores here.your hair logs beautiful and really goes well with your skin tone.
Красиво! 💜 Цвет лёг неравномерно, потому что база, основное полотно волос, было неоднородным. Не нужно осветлять волосы полностью снова, а просто выровнять основной тон. Осветлить на 1,5% оксиде дополнительно только те места, где тон волос более рыжий, а потом нанести краску :)
I've heard of Emilie from Emilie in Paris just being a super super rude main character to french people, could never bring myself to watch it as a french person myself, not a fan of cringer fests :'DD Edit: oh yeah I mean it evens out because the real cringe part are the rude french people in the show :D So yeah I understand your feeling haha
No no you got it right the first time, the cringe is the non-French Emily haha 😅 Although I will say it improves a lot on season 2 imo, much less cringe 😅
@@LucyLivinYT It's nice if there's character progression haha But I guess for us seeing french people being rude or not respecting of the french etiquette would be even more cringe if it doesn't match with what we know of our people Also because it's always painful to see someone of your same community acting like a dick right :'O Saw a clip of a random french dude being overly flirty and adulterous, people not saying hello or insisting on speaking french in a rude way etc, super cringe!
as a dutch person I thought the most cringe thing was the stereotype american thinking they know better than everyone because they are quirky and ~american~. But the french men were also pretty terrrible. and GOD THE FASHION, havent watched season 2 but season one had Emily constantly almost have cute outfits, but because of the exxessiveness it became an obnoxious spoof of itself almost every time. (except for the one audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffannys moment, that was cute)
we'll wait on the hairdresser jury lol but I have a feeling that maybe that's for dyes that have bleach/developer as opposed to pure colour depositing?? and the chemicals in bleach will react with the metal, but as it's just pigment / conditioner I think I might be a-ok? but that's just my thoughts, may have to banish my lil whisk hahaha
I am also using hair dye more than ever these days, I have gone from auburn (OG hair is a muddy brown) to strawberry blond and now to rose gold. I just had my hair professionally done, so I am looking better. I feel if it cheers you up, it is your hair, just dye it. BTW a thank you also to Alex @prettypastelplease for also giving me the push to do the dye.
My experience with Arctic Fox has always been like that, the consistency of the dye just gives it that patchy look with the lighter colors like periwinkle or girls night. Sucks too cause I love those colors.
the way i see this shade is a perfect toner and that's pretty much what it did to your hair
Colors like this should go on as is cause they’re already diluted. Adding conditioner to a diluted color just makes it toner, as you found out. Which is a shame because if you put it on as is you’d probably get closer to the swatch sample. Honestly I would just go over your result again with the same color and don’t dilute it. You basically pretoned. So it’s ready for the real color lol
@@MetallicMagenta your hair is porous then and low porosity-you should be careful with more dyes then cause it would take unevenly all over
@@RedHairedRiot some people’s hair get porous because they bleach their hair that’s been previously bleach and I know how my hair takes and I bleach my hair evenly so diluting it is not a problem since I know what I’m doing and know how my hair takes to dyes
Wow, such a pretty color. The tone looks so pretty on you. The different shades of blue give so much dimension. Gorgeous 😍♥️
I like this color on you! So pretty!! I do think the splotchiness is partially Arctic Fox, every color of theirs I've used came out splotchy. Can also be that parts of your hair are more porous than others and the more porous parts grab onto the color better. And thinner sections will always help especially with direct dyes since the don't develop/swell so don't reach the spots you've missed or didn't saturate fully. ☺️
Arctic Fox is one of the best direct dyes out there. Spotchiness is either caused by poor application(thin slices saturated with product are necessary), using too pastel of a shade, or not starting with a light enough canvas. This girl's hair is not level 10. A pale blue shade like periwinkle requires a level 10 platinum blonde canvas.
I don't think the splotchiness is the dye's fault. Pastels are super finicky and need to be put overtop of an even level 10 base to avoid all splotchiness, Although her hair is lightened her hair wasn't quite a level 10, combined with diluting an already pastel dye by 50%, which is heavy dilution. that's most likely a big part of why she got the splotchiness (also in fairness she did show us that she had banding in her hair before she started and banding makes it super hard to get an even color deposit in general). To avoid the splotchiness, Instead of diluting it she could have ordered another bottle(or even two) and really saturated with the pure periwinkle (and if it were me I would mix a small dollop of something slightly darker like purple rain to make it just dark enough to take more evenly to a base that isn't quite a level 10) also, if she had taken much much smaller sections that would have made a really big difference too, she took two decently sized sections (although slightly large for working with pastels) for the first two sections and then just let all of the rest of her hair down and plopped dye on top of the entire rest of her hair. With pastel dyes especially you really have to take teeny tiny sections and then saturate and work the product in like crazy(honestly though I do get why she might not have done that because application can take a crazy long time to do it that way) Using a tint brush, I find can also really help push the dye into the hair and pull it through more evenly than just hands can. But honestly despite the slight splotchiness it looks super good! And with an already pastel dye I was super surprised that it showed up at all after being diluted so much and then put overtop of a base that is slightly dark it's honestly kinda impressive and alot of pastel dyes on the market more than likely would have not shown up nearly as much if at all.
Cutee! Love this colour. Keen to see what you settle on with your next trip to the hairdresser ✨
Aww thank you so much! I actually already have my new colour 👀💕 It's over on my insta hehehehe
@@LucyLivinYT I just did a sneaky sneak over there 🙈! Super cute, if anyone can pull that off its you
I tried their periwinkle color w/ their darker blue and found myself......also incredibly splotchy? and this was w/o using an additive conditioner or smashing it in to the hair shafts. I wasn't impressed at all. 100% would recommend trying Iroiro if you do dye at home again !and going w/ a darker color so it can fade out to that nice periwinkle :>
Yeah, I had the same issue with their blue dyes.
This color thooooo😍
Lookin like an absolute snack
🥺💕 you are too sweet thank you 😩💖
ahhh I love the pastel blue hair soo much!! 💗
My gosh I remember woolworths lol! Glad I found your channel, love it! - UK xxx
Always happy when you post a new video. Is always a great time.
YEY, it looks so cute! I was thinking of going for the color of the year too.
Next time try washing your hair only with shampoo, that way the dye lays on more evenly. I also start aplying to the top of my hair and front pieces, since they fade quicker
Just wanted to say Hi! Hope you are having/had a good Tuesday. I think this hair color looked really nice with your skin tone and everything. I think if you like this color next time you are able to go the hairdresser maybe try a dark blue shadow root/or purple. That would be rad.
aww thank you so much you sweet pea! I always appreciate seeing you pop up in the comments haha! Can't wait to continue exploring the hair colour rainbowww hahaha
@@LucyLivinYT 🥰😊
looks so good lucy :D:D
Thank you so much 💖
We love a trendy queen
😤 i will survive the vibe shift 😤
AHH! This is so beautiful. It suits you so good
Love your hair it really looks beautiful 😍 sending you so much love and light 💛 always
You are so sweet - thank you so much for watching :,)
you’re so sweet, blessed to have found your channel! we love brisbane crows in the background lmao ~ thank you for making my day 💗🪄
awww thank you so much for watching, this is such a lovely comment u made my day 😤💖💕
Aka Aislyn did a similar color with lime crime you should try the colors she did I’d love to see it
Lucy I know this is an old vid but you don’t know how handy this is right now, eating dinner watching your vid like an iPad baby with bleach and foil covering my head lol hoping to go periwinkle from dark brown
omg!! how did it go???
@@LucyLivinYT omg hi angel ok so the bleach went good, got her to a very ashy blonde (not my color but a great base) and I’m letting her rest for a couple days while I wait to get the actual dye! :)
Girl no omg I’m sitting here with my 2nd application of this stuff already and I’m sad AF I can’t believe it’s not sticking 🥺 I’ll be picking up a darker shade of purple tomorrow. Your video proved to me this shade is hopeless
Beautiful as always lucy
Thanks so much for all your support! I always notice your sweet comments, so thank you.
Good morning from Arizona!!! Love the video, thank you for posting 💖💖💖💖
Good morning! I hope you have a lovely day and thank you so much for watching 💖
It looks cool!
Eek, I need to dye my own hair next week. It’s grown out so much.
Regrowth is my enemy 😩 Thank you for watching 💖💕
Love the way this came out!😍😍
Aww thank you 🥺💗
It looks really cute!
eeee thank you!!
Hey Lucy, loved your video and as a fellow Queenslander I hope you and your family and friends are safe and dry 😘
Aww thank you so much! 💕 Hope you're staying safe and dry as well 💖
Also! I noticed you work the hair dye into your hair a lot and that may be why you get splotchy dye. When you mix hair dye with conditioner, the moment the hair colour starts going lighter when you’re working it into your hair, stop! I know it’s hard to section out small sections in your hair but it does help with the splotchyness for that reason. ❤️❤️
That is not how that works. Conditioner only makes the Pigments less concentrated. What she should do is remove the excess conditioner after working it in to see where there is missing spots cuz the pigments goes into the hair and leaves pigment less conditioner. So the conditioner is white bcs the pigments are on the hair!!
OMG YES, thai color is gorgeous 🤍
One hundred percent larger milkshakes are the best!!!!
Nah hon, just to much conditioner while using a Paste. I was going to try it but it’s a bit to blue for me and they don’t carry it at the stores here.your hair logs beautiful and really goes well with your skin tone.
Красиво! 💜 Цвет лёг неравномерно, потому что база, основное полотно волос, было неоднородным.
Не нужно осветлять волосы полностью снова, а просто выровнять основной тон. Осветлить на 1,5% оксиде дополнительно только те места, где тон волос более рыжий, а потом нанести краску :)
Where did you get your barbie crop jumper? 😖
It's from Chuu! I don't know if they still have this one exactly but it's their Barbie Collection 💕
thank you ☺ x
Saw the arctic fox and immediately though it was from Alex.
from the boomers: You look like you should be on TV
yeah its just because i didn't leave the house with sweats lol
I've heard of Emilie from Emilie in Paris just being a super super rude main character to french people, could never bring myself to watch it as a french person myself, not a fan of cringer fests :'DD
Edit: oh yeah I mean it evens out because the real cringe part are the rude french people in the show :D
So yeah I understand your feeling haha
No no you got it right the first time, the cringe is the non-French Emily haha 😅 Although I will say it improves a lot on season 2 imo, much less cringe 😅
@@LucyLivinYT It's nice if there's character progression haha
But I guess for us seeing french people being rude or not respecting of the french etiquette would be even more cringe if it doesn't match with what we know of our people
Also because it's always painful to see someone of your same community acting like a dick right :'O
Saw a clip of a random french dude being overly flirty and adulterous, people not saying hello or insisting on speaking french in a rude way etc, super cringe!
as a dutch person I thought the most cringe thing was the stereotype american thinking they know better than everyone because they are quirky and ~american~. But the french men were also pretty terrrible. and GOD THE FASHION, havent watched season 2 but season one had Emily constantly almost have cute outfits, but because of the exxessiveness it became an obnoxious spoof of itself almost every time. (except for the one audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffannys moment, that was cute)
Ehhhh!! I did this awhile back and it was my FAV hair colour of all.
🤣🤗🥰😱🌤🌳💗
Any hairdressers in the comments to confirm that dye shouldn't be handled with metal utensils? Or is that old school & formulas are ok now?????????
we'll wait on the hairdresser jury lol but I have a feeling that maybe that's for dyes that have bleach/developer as opposed to pure colour depositing?? and the chemicals in bleach will react with the metal, but as it's just pigment / conditioner I think I might be a-ok? but that's just my thoughts, may have to banish my lil whisk hahaha
Direct dyes are not oxidizing dyes, so it eon't matter. If you are using permanent or semiperm then you should avoid metal.
@@2shadowcats2 thank you
Beautiful Lady 💕😘👌
Wow 9 mins in and still no dye on ur head 😂
Beautiful!! And YESS I LOVE EMILY IN PARIS BUT SHE CRINGY SOMETIMES😆
That ausi accent 😩
The fact that you shampooed after dying is.. just no ahhh
After you dye your hair you should wash it out with just cold water.. no shampoo QQ
I am also using hair dye more than ever these days, I have gone from auburn (OG hair is a muddy brown) to strawberry blond and now to rose gold. I just had my hair professionally done, so I am looking better. I feel if it cheers you up, it is your hair, just dye it. BTW a thank you also to Alex @prettypastelplease for also giving me the push to do the dye.