Rainbow Hair w. Joico + Waterfall braid (OHSummit projects)

September 27, 2015 nouyang

I haven’t had rainbow hair in a while.

I bleached it once for 90 minutes and then again in three sections, the shortest section was 30 minutes and the longest 80 minutes.

The ombre effect didn’t really come out. I suspect the first bleaching needed to have been part of the gradient as well.

The bleach I did myself, but I had Holly J.’s help with the hair coloring. It didn’t look like much at first (wet)

But dry it looked pretty nice.

I used

Joico Vero K-PAK Color Hair Color – Red 1 9.79
+ orange, yellow, peacock green, cobalt blue, amethyst purple (yes that adds up to a lot >__>). It was from sleekhair.com
(shipping took about a week).

I chose that after reading the reviews on this site

I was a little underwhelmed with the intensity of the colors (they’re not super BRIGHT), but they’re very nice colors (they look very … soft and natural in the sunlight). I choise Joico after reading the reviews on this site: http://fashionista.com/2014/10/rainbow-hair-dye

The hair bleach I got locally, from Sally Hansen’s Beauty Supply store near Target in Somerville / Union Square. It probably cost me around $25.

The hair looks really nice with a waterfall braid

IMG_20150927_123419836 — socks! as my grandma would say, “you’re murdering the scenery!”

Here for instructions:

Here’s how my hair looked after two days in french braids. So fluffy! Haha.

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Open Hardware Summit Nails: Water Marbling (success with solid colors)

September 20, 2015 nouyang

My theme for Open Hardware Summit 2015 was rainbow — hair, nails, and dress.

I also tried drawing with the white nail marker (on my right hand, pictured below) — here are some “color associations”, like apple for red. However, I think overall that added too much busyness to the nails, so I didn’t do it on my left hand (above).

For the process, I used $22 of nail polish from Target. The Sally Hansen “Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear” kind worked well ($2.9), as did Sinful Colors ($2.3 per bottle). I got all the colors of the rainbow plus black.

20150918_130146 — All important vaseline!

The procedure involved

clean off prior nail polish with acetone and cotton swab
paint nails white
fill disposable cup with water to a level that I could easily dip even my thumb or pinky nail into
unscrew all the caps, apply Vaseline around fingers from the tip up to the middle joint
drop in 7 or 8 drops of nail polish color concentrically (so at the center of the previous drop). After the first few drops, where the color of the nails polish diffuses a lot, the colors will become more solid
Blow on it to dry the nail polish a little until it’s tacky, then take a skewer or toothpick and streak the design a little
Pick an area I like and dip my nail into the polish, keep the nail down and swirl around until I get a clear patch big enough to bring my nail out. Avoid the walls of the cup or you’ll get a big white spot!
Using paper towel and qtip, swap off nail polish on finger. This should come off easily if you applied vaseline. If not, it should wash off after acetone or in a day with normal water if you’re lazy
Voila! Water marbled nails!