You have to bleach your hair first, and the process takes four hours.įor those thinking about going pastel, a critical thing to understand is that you have to bleach you hair first-and while the pastel color may fade, bleaching your hair is (very) permanent. So here’s what I learned from dyeing my hair pink: Pink hair makes me think of Frenchie in Grease, or Gwen Stefani, or a mischievous Mozart at a raunchy party in “Amadeus.” In the fashion world, this jolt of electric pink started showing up in winter coats and jackets last season-I bought a pink wool Carven miniskirt that I adore-that felt decidedly fresh, and not exactly ladylike, per se. While the office’s color vote at times teetered between rainbow and a sea green, I’ll admit I was pretty thrilled that the consensus landed on pink. They’ve got white-blonde hair with dark brows, pale lavender braids, chunky blonde streaks-that sort of thing. For the past few years, I’ve had a pretty subtle ombré.Īll that said, the fantasy hair and beauty looks that I rip out of magazines and pin to my Pinterest boards are rarely brunette. Sure, I’ve been highlighting my hair since I was in my late teens, and did the whole “My So-Called Life” box dye job at 14, but I never got bangs, never chopped it all off, never went super-dark-you get the gist. When it comes to experimentation, I definitely favor fashion over beauty. I feel I should start by saying that I’ve never really done anything that crazy to my hair.

Read Laurel’s first-hand account of going pink. Once we decided pink ombré was in order, we took Laurel to Bumble and Bumble Colorist Zoe Wiepertand hairstylist Carrie Hill.

After a successful 2013, our brave Editor in Chief Laurel Pinson rewarded us with the ultimate gift: She let us choose her next hair color.

Pastel pink hair dye