Cosplay Hair Dye? Help!

[amjl81]

Okay, I've seen lots of pictures of people that cosplay and they have...unnatural hair color. So my question is for those who do this.

I want to cosplay as um....people (hehe) just need to find TEMPORARY hair dye (that washes out quickly) that you use on DARK hair that WORKS. Silver,blue,red,orange, whatever. So if you know a good company that makes temporary hair dye that works please post and where you can get them.

[PsychoXLeXCemu]

...A good dye that will actually show up on dark hair will have to be more perment...my sister one year tried to put blue streaks in her hair temporaly...her dark brown hair...is sorta had a blue under shimmer in the sun, but other then that, you couldn't tell she even had dye on.

Better suggestion: Wigs for cosplay.

[kitten]

I have dark hair, and the only way to get colours like that are to bleach the hair first so the dye will stick. As Kalas_angel_of_darkness said, wigs. Temporary dye doesn't work, or looks really REALLY bad when coming out. (I knew someone who had blond hair and used semi-permernant black dye, it went really yucky purple.)

[amjl81]

Wigs, I guess they are better, cause then you can cut them and dye them whatever color you want them to be.
Thanks!

Although I did look up L'Oreal Color Pulse, it washes out in 8-10 washes and doesn't damage the hair. It comes in electric black, orange, red, really odd colors.

[Katsy]

Colour Pulse......don't waste your money. As someone who has dyed my hair more times than you can count, bleaching is the only way to go for good results. If you have dark hair, semis even permis will change the tone of your hair colour, but it will look nothing like the colour on the box/container, and if you are trying to go lighter with dark hair you must use a lightner or a hair dye specifically for lightning dark hair, but ya can't go back after using them (unless you dye your hair again) Funky colours on dark hair will usually make you hair really dark to black with that specific colour's undertone.

So wigs are the way to go here, and you can find stylable wigs too, even though they are more expensive, so can trying to fix your hair after a traumatic hair dye experience!

[Nocturnal_Romance]

I found the red and purple Colour Pulse dyes to be the only ones that worked well on my hair, which was naturally reddy-brown. So I'd recommend it if you're dying your hair darker than your current colour and wanting it to last a week or two.
Using a dye without bleach that's lighter than your current hair colour simply will not work, you will have to pre-lighten your hair. I've bleached my hair as much as I dared to and at one point it was in such a terrible, shineless, straw-like state I almost got rid of the lot!

I'd say investing in wigs or extensions is the way to go.

[kitten]

Extentions are good, I'll dig out a link I used to have for DIY hair extentions if anyone is interested.

[Nocturnal_Romance]

I think I have a few hair extension related links too. I use extensions almost every day- synthetic hair, synthetic dreads, wool, ribbon and lace, sometimes just strips of material. There's little that hair extensions can not do!

[Honey]

Although I did look up L'Oreal Color Pulse, it washes out in 8-10 washes and doesn't damage the hair. It comes in electric black, orange, red, really odd colors.

mmm...i used that twice before dying my hair permatly and it didnt work to well. the first time (i have light brown hair) i used funky cherry and it turned some crazy pink and stayed in for 2 months and the 2nd time i used purple and it didnt wash out for like, 4 or 5 months and by that time my roots were quite grown out. (in otherwords...dont use it).

i suggest that cheap hairspray color that you can get at walmart. it works on like, every color hair (it even worked on black hair). but, you have to ponytail your hair or something or it will look really bad...

[PsychoXLeXCemu]

As a cosplayer tho...I highly recomend staying away from the spray stuff. Sure, wigs *can* get expensive, but in time, they can pay for them selves (plus, w/ wigs, you can do some really aswem stuff you can't do to your hair). Plus, after a long day at a con, you can just take off the wig, and have your normal hair back. ^.~

@amjl81-Can I expect to see any of these costumes at PCC, PAF, or AniZ?...since ya also live in AZ...(also check out the ACS)

[Kyattsuai]

Yeah, if you have dark hair, go for wigs. To even get a pink on my hair, I'd have to bleach it like hell and then dye it, and that would kill. And that's only for the ends, which I wanted to do. My only warning for wigs is that pink looks really, really fake. It's a little too glossy and it doesn't look like hair-type strands. Someday, when I have the time, I'm probably going to make my own pink wig out of thread. XDD Those 'colour mousses' don't work very well either. Before we were going to AN, my best friends was going as Tohru and she's blonde, so her mom picked up this brown mousse stuff. We used up practically half the bottle and it was just a little darker than normal, plus it makes your hands look like Grudge hands.