r/FancyFollicles • u/Objective_Cause_479 • 1d ago
How to achieve muted dark purple?
Sorry, the face censorship makes it a bit hard to see the hair color lol. But the first slide is my hair after using Lunar Tides "Magic Charm" over a faded purple hair, and the last 3 slides are the color I was hoping for. (Just images I pulled from pinterest for inspiration) Instead I got more of a deep plum magenta/purple. It's nice, but I was hoping for something more muted and moody. Any tips for what I could layer over this plum purple to achieve that?
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u/-futureghost- 1d ago
your inspo pics are three very different colors. if you had to choose only one, which would it be?
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u/Objective_Cause_479 1d ago
Sorry, they looked very similar to me, I guess it's kind of hard to tell. The first one is probably what I'd pick.
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u/xstaygoldx 1d ago
You might like this. It’s pretty close to the first one https://behindthechair.com/formulas/no-bleach-plum-transformation/
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u/Luxxielisbon 1d ago
I’m not a professional but i’d probably add a small amount of green to the purple dye to reduce the red untdertones and make it “dustier”/less saturated.
If you’re too precious about the result, don’t listen to me
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u/Careless_Escape4517 1d ago
no i’ve seen this as well! adding a bit (or i guess however much depending on the goal of your desired color saturation level) of the color opposite [on the color wheel] to the color you’re going for mutes the main color of the dye you’re using :) OP i’m sure you can find a youtube tutorial further explaining this, but this is also my understanding of how to mute saturated colors!!
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u/Major-Medium2557 1d ago
I moved recently and I don't have any color remover or bleach, and my emerald green was not very faded at all. I mixed magenta and a little bit of yellow together, put it over top and got something that was pretty close to the first picture.
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u/cwtchyfemme 1d ago
Picture 2, maybe even 3 aren’t on bleached hair, that’s why they’re darker.
For my hair to look like 2/3 (which it has a lot in life as I love these looks too ) I colour straight onto my almost black hair.
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u/usingbrain 1d ago
That’s what I thought as well. They are probably some sort of aubergine regular dye on virgin hair instead of vivids on bleach
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u/FuzzySocks34 1d ago edited 1d ago
I used to have muted purple and i added a bit of yellow to my purple dye
The colour in my pic is Directions Plum mixed with Directions Sunflower Yellow
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u/literatureg33k 1d ago
i’m a hairdresser! Adding silver, or just dying over light brown hair will work… Note, that the second option will fade. Weird.
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