It should be just purple enough to cancel out any super yellow tones but not enough to actually change your hair color. Remember, we’re not using Kool-Aid as hair dye here. Make sure you mix it thoroughly so that the purple color affects your hair evenly. That’s not the kind of color that we’re looking to cancel out-if you are, then your hair stylist hasn’t bleached your hair properly! For an all-over boost:Īdd 1/4 tablespoon purple Kool-Aid powder to 4 tablespoons of shampoo. Using purple tones for hair that’s perfectly icy blonde cancels out any brassiness that might be hanging around-just the way you want it! You might be thinking, “Well, then, why don’t we use blue?” So let’s go back to the color wheel.ĭirectly across from blue is orange-the kind of orange that basically only shows up on hair as flaming redhead hair. You need purple Kool-Aid (remember on the color wheel how yellow is directly across from purple?) to get the job done. You can’t just use any color Kool-Aid for obvious reasons, though. Sure, there are salon-brand purple shampoos and conditioners that you can buy, but there’s always a DIY option.Īnd guess what? You can brighten blonde hair with Kool-Aid! Yes, that Kool-Aid-as in the Kool-Aid Man. I discovered in InStyle that products with purple tints keep blonde hair from turning brassy or fading too quickly. However, I don’t have to let go of being blonde just yet-but sometimes, my hair definitely needs a brightening refresher between washes. This seems to get harder and harder as I get older! Did you know that gray hair is harder to color and bleach as it already has basically no pigment left in it? That’s why it gets trickier and trickier to hide grays.

My hair is very blonde-about as blonde as the poor stylists at the salon can get it. Blonde hair is especially prone to becoming dry, brittle, and brassy, thanks to the bleach-so I’m trying some cheap and easy at-home tricks to brighten things up a bit. Salt, sand, and sun add up to dry, dull hair.

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