As someone who liked to dye my hair a lot, I currently have a fading-out pink colour I don鈥檛 plan to redo. I鈥檓 no professional, but I know a few things from my days of wearing different hair colours that have driven my mum crazy.
Please o, I鈥檓 writing this from my experiences and shouldn鈥檛 be taken as professional hair advice.
1. Don鈥檛 dye your hair after you relax it
I dyed my hair right after relaxing and it thinned out and broke and fell off like raw spaghetti. There was no redemption for the hair and I had to chop it all off. To make matters worse, I didn鈥檛 only dye it after relaxing, I also bleached it. What was I expecting?
2. The dye can skip your hair and go to your scalp
Like my friend Kunle whose hair decided to ignore the dye and let his scalp take all the colour. He can now be found walking around Lekki with a purple scalp. Sometimes your hair can just decide to not take in any dye if it wasn鈥檛 bleached first. Some hair dyes work without bleach, while others don鈥檛. Get a professional to tell you the difference.聽
3. The dye can change colour on your hair
My colleague Itohan went to get a blue dye job and ended up with pink hair. I don鈥檛 know the chemistry of it, but you never know how your hair and the dye can choose to work together against you.
4. Your hair gets really coarse
If you have type 4 hair, I鈥檒l advise you to think long and hard about the decision to dye your hair. Your hair is going to get quite coarse and need a lot more product to maintain it. The coarseness of your hair is going to work for arm work out sha when you need to comb and detangle it.
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5. Dyed hair isn鈥檛 low maintenance
I always have my hair in braids or protective style because I don鈥檛 like to do so much work when it comes to my hair. The pink braiding hair that went well with my hair has been unavailable in the market and this has left me with no other option but to settle for other colours. That鈥檚 just one disadvantage of having dyed here.
6. People are going to stare at you
Nigerians like to stare on a normal day, but they stare times two when they see someone with what they consider to be an unusual hair colour. If you鈥檙e an eccentric person who loves to experiment, be ready to be starred at and complimented by strangers.
7. Your hair may fall off in huge chunks
I said earlier that my hair thinned out and fell off when I dyed it after relaxing it. Well, it also happened when I had natural hair. Consult a professional, research the ingredients in the products, watch and read reviews before going off to dye your hair before you lose large chunks of it
8. Don鈥檛 dye your hair yourself if you鈥檝e never done it before
There鈥檚 a first time for everything and that鈥檚 why your first hair dye attempt should be done on a mannequin or an abandoned wig. Don鈥檛 go and dye your hair or your favourite wig yourself because you鈥檝e watched a few videos. It will end in tears
Yeah, it鈥檚 just hair and that doesn鈥檛 mean it shouldn鈥檛 be well taken care of.
