Coloured Hair? DIY Hair Chalking! Video Tutorial & Pictures

WARNING! This post is going to be quick pic heavy, but it kind of has to be to show the amazingness of DIY Hair Chalking!

I first saw this on Lauren Conrads website The Beauty Department  and i've wanted to try it out for ages, I eventually moseyed on down to my local arty crafty store (Riot Art & Craft) and found the Soft Pastels recommended for this look.

Let's take a trip down memory lane for a moment. When I was teenager; I loved having colourful hair I had pink, blue, green, purple, red... honestly, every colour under the sun. I trawled through my old photos, REAL PHOTOS...remember those? to bring you some of these doozies (bad eyebrows included!). Check out the last picture and my white nail polish, such a trend setter! 

So now you've seen my embarrassing photos, lets talk about how you do this! 

What you need:

• Soft Pastels (Not oil pastels...they won't work)
• Towel / Old Shirt
• Water if your hair is dark
• Gloves - Particularly if your using water. This does wash off your hands easily though!
• Hair Straightener / Curling Iron - something with heat
• Clarifying Shampoo (I've been using the Herbal Essences Drama Clean)

These are the Soft Pastels I used, I got a set of 48 for around $36 just check your local art/craft stores. They come in all varieties of sizes & colours.

How to do it:

• If your blonde just go straight ahead and rub the chalk/pastels on your hair where you want the colour to go.
• If you have darker hair, you need to wet the hair you'll be working with first and then rub the colour on.
• If you've wet your hair and put the colour on, let it dry off. The colour will intensify as it dries, then your going to want to add some heat either with a hair straightener or curling iron. (TIP: If your hair is naturally curly, straighten it beforehand it will make putting the chalk on much easier)

That's pretty much it really, I also did a video tutorial on YouTube if you'd like to watch below:

So now I have some final pictures, on my own hair and also on my friend Angela (click her name to check out her blog). She has dark hair so was kind enough to be my guinea pig in making her hair a rainbow mess... a cool rainbow mess :)

Hope you enjoyed this post! If you give it a go i'd love to see your results :)

Tutorial: Rainbow Melting Crayon Art

Now I don't fancy myself as much of an artist at all but I did this the other day with mum and it looks so rad that I had to share, it's super simple as well! I saw heaps of versions of these popping up over the interwebs, especially pinterest so I looked into it a little further and decided to give it a whirl.

All you need to create this little piece of art is -

• Canvas (I used white, but I wouldn't mind painting one next time for a different effect)
• Crayons in tons of colours (I used Crayola because I like the look of the logo showing)
• Hairdryer
• Glue, you need something thats going to stick those crayons down. We used a hot glue gun but super glue or super strong craft glue should work fine.
• Newspaper - Unless you want bits of crayon everywhere

Now here are the steps, in pictures and a video :) 

Now for the fun stuff!!! Get your hairdryer out (make sure it's on the heat setting) and melt your crayons, you can get really creative with how you do this! Check out the video below to see my mum do hers, when you see the finished products you'll see how different ours are because I used the hairdryer a little differently. 

Here are our finished artworks! On the last one we got a little creative and did a rainbow and put one of my mums Papertole (a paper craft she does) on the canvas as well. I really want to do one in blues and greys with a girl holding an umbrella next :)