Rainbow Pride Month Hair feat. Headshot

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Hi there!

Although the following review sounds too positive to be not sponsored, I assure you that this is only my own opinion and I purchased everything on my own. It is a genuine recommendation of mine without any affiliation.

Some of you already know that I love to dye my hair all different colors on the visible spectrum. Similar to my love for making art, it is a way to represent myself and free my mind, which is hindered to flourish due to my mental illnesses. Being able to make my outer appearance match the brisk, vivid, colorful feelings I yearn for is helping me to cope with not being able to experience happiness and blitheness. I am not afraid of looking non-standard because I believe that it is crucial to be unique and always true to oneself. It is important to me to play out individualism, no matter what others say. And to be honest, I have almost always gotten positive feedback for my colorful hair. In fact, some people tend to say they would love to be as brave as me and dye their hair, too. All I can say is: DO IT. Do not look back, enjoy yourself and always remember: hair grows back. But I genuinely recommend to go to a hairdresser, at least for bleaching your hair. I do it at home, but sometimes I wish I would have gone to a coiffeur because I lost a huge amount of length. On the contrary dyeing one's hair with semi-permanent hair colors is way less, probably not at all damaging and can be easily done at home. If you are interested in colorful hair perfect for pride month please keep reading!

I myself have already tried many brands and colors, and by now I definitely have some favorites. One of the dyes I used before was a blue one I surprisingly found at my local second hand shop for one Euro. It was Desaster Blue by Headshot, a hair dye company which is vegan, animal cruelty free and they offer a recycling system for the hair dye bottles. Somehow I cannot find where the brand is located at or where it originated from, they only seem to have a German website. And the only information on the packaging and website is the production area, which is said to be the EU. For this blog entry I messaged them on instagram asking them about the country they come from. I am crossing my fingers to get an reply, and I am going to share the information with you by editing this post as soon as I receive an answer.

[EDIT: They did reply to my message: Headshot is a German hair dye company located in Duisburg-Rheinhausen. Throughout their journey they received some offers to produce the dyes in other cities around Europe, but remained faithful to their hometown. The About Us page on the German Headshot website is currently being upgraded. Plus, Headshot revealed to me that they are also working on an English website. I am excited!]

Headshot Haarfarbe company logo

Headshot did not cross my mind for almost two years because I was in love with a different brand (Freak Direct Colours by Artistique) in the past months. Maybe I will talk about those colors in an upcoming post, but right now I am using Headshot to the fullest. Their dyes are personally speaking the best ones, next to the Artistique colors. And I already have tried Directions by La Riché, ColoRista by L'Oréal, Colour-Freedom by Knight&Wilson, and Color Injection by dusy professional. Both Headshot and Artistique excel in pigmentation and that is a huge factor for me. You can always dilute a highly pigmented dye by adding a certain amount of hair mask or even a so called pastellizer offered by different brands, but you can never make poorly pigmented hair colors turn out vibrant and bold. So instead of using a dye on its own I rather choose to dilute it myself. The downside of intense pigmentation is the bleeding of colors, meaning it takes a long time to get all of the excess pigments out of your hair, which can lead to staining clothes and even undyed hair. I take that risk for having pretty brisk and vivid hair anytime.

While using the Desaster Blue diluted and mixed with other colors before, I did not really see how strong it is. This January I got my purchase of the Rainbow Set from Headshot. I was searching for another orange dye, plus a green and a yellow one, since I do not own these colors. Wanting to try out said brand I surfed their website hoping for a little discount - and I was successful. Not only did I find a set with six colors containing orange, green and yellow among others, they even had a valid discount code online.

The Rainbow Set by Headshot

Months later I was ready to use them. Altogether. At the same time. Perfect to share my support for pride month! And with this I truly want to show that I accept every single human being and every single kind of sexual or gender identification. Be who you really want to be, that is all that matters. I know that as a cis heterosexual I cannot fathom what any person other than cis heterosexuals experiences, but reading stories online from people who are discriminated and bullied for who they are makes me want to help. I underwent bullying for quite a long time for being a foreign loser (I cannot think of another reason, never asked the bullies), and I do not want anyone else to go through this, too. So I stand with those counted among LGBT, hoping for a change in societal views on sex and genders in the very near future. In the end, love is love, right?

On my twitter I started a poll whether or not I should dye my bangs with the pride colors in a vertical way and all of the six votes said to do it. One is unfortunately shown as a no, but the person told me immediately it was unintentional. They wanted to agree on it, so I can count it as a yes. And yeah, that is how my hair has been the past ten days, as I immediately started to dye my bangs after tweeting the poll. I was hoping for a clear yes by my followers, anyway. Speaking of followers, I miss the engagement on my twitter and blog, but that is another story, and I hope to get it back someday.

The Headshot Rainbow Set - definitely a new favorite!

Returning to the Headshot hair dyes, the Rainbow set contains six different colors, as mentioned before, which are:

• Hellfire Red - rather a berry red turning into a pink after a few washes, while heavily staining undyed hair
• Captain Carrot - a perfect orange having the right red to yellow proportion, definitely bolder in color than carrots
• Yippie Ya Yellow - resembling a sunflower yellow which stays in your hair for quite a long time, compared to other yellows
• Danger! Danger! - a neon green for sure, probably my most favorite color following the blue one
• Desaster Blue - a tiny amount of greenish pigments makes it look slightly teal, yet blue enough to be labeled a blue - I love it
• Psycho Purple - not purple enough for me, it lacks the pinkish hue and rather looks like a warm dark blue

The six colors swatched on white paper for a reference

The consistency of the dyes is pretty average compared to other ones, maybe it is a bit more liquidy so that it is easier to get out of the bottles. And yes, it is a hair color in bottles which makes it harder to use without a bowl. In fact, you need to use another container to put the dye into, but remembering the strong pigmentation you would need to use a mixing bowl anyway to dilute the dye. I myself used them on their own to make my bangs look highly vibrant. And I was amazed how bold the colors came out after just twenty minutes. I washed my hair beforehand to get rid of all the styling products and sebum, so that the colors are properly able to stick to my hair. It was late at night, just a few hours before my laboratory practice began, and I was too tired to wait for the full thirty minutes I usually do when dying my hair, so I washed it off after just twenty. Believe me when I tell you it looks unreal. I could not think of a better result, unless you want pastel hair. You would need to dilute it with a lot of hair mask or the like, for sure.

I love my sunglasses - and my new pride look!

For around the same prize as a pot of Directions you get almost twice the amount of hair dye in one bottle, which is a great deal, thinking about the intense pigmentation. As far as I know Headshot only delivers to fifteen European countries including DACH, BeNeLux and the UK, but it is possible that other online shops stock their hair dyes and are able to deliver out of Europe. As it is a rather unknown hair dye company you may have to ask an online shop to start carrying this brand. Another option is to ask your relatives or good friends living in one of the fifteen countries to help you. As a last resort, remember, there are other good hair dyes available worldwide.

Unfortunately, my boyfriend Korin is not as excited about my colorful hair, but he was kind enough to take photos of me with my bangs. Usually I am someone who hates pictures showing me, as I am not happy with my body at the moment. Even selfies are strange to look at and I have to take a ton of them to find one that I can post. Frankly, Korin did a great job at capturing my beauty, as he calls it. And indeed, I did not need a lot of editing. As you can see in the photo below I applied the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet from left to right - in my perspective - because I tend to slightly tilt my head to the right while sitting in the auditorium, making it possible to recognize the pride flag. My bangs are too short and my dyeing skills too restricted to make the flag horizontal, so vertical it had to be.

What do YOU think of my rainbow bangs?

Saying this without a doubt, I am super satisfied with the results. Not only are those colors looking perfectly vibrant and eesome, the pictures are also some of the most favorite ones I shot this year, or got taken by others. Another advantage is that the colors look still super bold after thoroughly washing them twice. The only downside is the bleeding of the red one. It not only does stain the undyed hair, also the yellow hair got discolored. Frankly, all the dyes, except from Disaster Blue which gets a little more teal, but remains pretty, wash out without ugly undertones, they just fade, but it takes what feels forever. Depending on what you search for in a hair dye, it is either a benefit or a disadvantage. For me it is definitely a plus.

This is how I feel about my bangs, as well as my boyfriend - I am deeply in love!

I hope you enjoy my pride month hair just as much as I do. Would you wear your hair dyed with pride colors, too? Or did you already rock such a look before? Let me know in the comments and feel free to post weblinks to your colorful hairstyles.

I wish you a joyful and peaceful rest of June and pride month, see you soon! ☺

xxxx Aga