Cherry and Strawberry Lemonade Koolaid on Brown Hair

I got some real human hair extensions and dyed them with koolaid to show you what brown hair looks like with koolaid in it. I've been meaning to do this, because so many people are interested. So I'll tell you what I did.

First, I got the extensions and dip dyed them with Strawberry Lemonade koolaid. Then I took a photo. Then I dyed over that with Cherry koolaid (to see if it would darken the color). It did.

Strawberry Lemonade:

Cherry:

The problem is it's really hard to see it! But basically it turned an auburn color with the Strawberry Lemonade and a little bit of auburn/ burgundy with the Cherry koolaid. I hope you can actually see it. I tried to get the best lighting I could with these photos. Here is an edited picture to point out the color change:

Obviously, adding koolaid to brown hair is not going to change the fact that you still have brown hair. It's just going to add a tint of whatever color you used. You'd have to lighten your hair if you want it to show up more than this. The process of lightening hair may cause damage. It's really up to you if you want to do that. I would suggest trying a dip dye on your hair before lightening it, because you may be surprised to find that you like the color and then you wouldn't need to lighten your hair after all. These photos don't show the full extent of the color. If you are in the sun, you'll see a much more vibrant red color. It really depends on your shade of brown (how dark or light brown your hair is). Light brown will show the red a lot better; however, the red will still show up in other shades of brown, especially if you are in natural sunlight.

Remember that koolaid can be hard to get out of hair, so try my tips and do a strand test beforehand. I hope this helps anyone with brown hair who is interested in koolaid hair dye.

Candy Apple Red Hair Color

I didn't know koolaid could make this color.

What a beautiful candy apple red color! It looks exactly this vibrant in real life too. It looks like something you'd get from Manic Panic. This was a surprise. I was actually trying to make bright pink hair dye. I'll tell you how I did this.

I used the dip dye method. As you can see, there is an obvious line. It's not really a gradual color change. You can make the color change more gradual if you kind of move your head up and down from time to time while dip dying.

I combined Pink Lemonade koolaid and Black Cherry koolaid. I used one packet of each. I was trying to make a bright pink and I ended up with a vampire red. I'm not upset though. It turned out really nice and it even looks professional. I can't imagine that koolaid gave me such a great color. I have no idea how mixing Pink Lemonade and Black Cherry made this color.

Here is what black cherry looks like by itself:

So as you can see, there is a huge difference and I have no idea how this vampire red color came about, but I'm not going to complain. It was a nice surprise. Just goes to show you, you never know what you're going to get when you experiment with koolaid in your hair.

Dye Your Hair With Koolaid Using 2 Colors!

It's been a while...

So I just dyed my hair with koolaid using 2 different colors and the outcome was great. I used Grape and Tropical Punch. My hair looked like this to begin with:

I used the dip dye method because it's the fastest way. You can do this with conditioner and foil, but it will take all night. This took only 30 minutes. I got two cups and filled them with warm water. I added the packet of tropical punch to one cup and the grape to another cup.

It's important to add that I parted my hair in a zig zag and then dipped the ends. You need to do this so the colors look even on each side. Then I sat down and did this for 30 minutes:

If you can't tell, I'm dipping the tips of my hair in the cups. The envelope is there to hide my cleavage. Yes, I had a shirt on. Actually, it was a spaghetti strap shirt so the straps are hidden by my hair. Anyway, whatever.

After 30 minutes passed, I picked up the cups, slowly walked to the nearest sink, emptied the cups and rinsed my hair out. If you aren't very careful during this step, you might spill koolaid everywhere and it stains fast.

Then I patted my hair off with a dark colored towel and let it air dry.

The results are this:

I love this color. You can see the obvious darker streaks (which is the purple) and then the bright fiery red (which is the tropical punch). They go great together. I just can't get over how great this turned out. Which makes me very sad for my next announcement:

Most of you come to my blog not searching for how to dye your hair with koolaid, but searching for how to get it out of your hair fast! So you've already dyed it, gotten over it, and want it gone. In order to better serve the majority of my readers, I have to get rid of this awesome dye job quickly. I want to make a post about me getting the koolaid out of my hair in (hopefully) less than a day. So good-bye, really cool hair. I hardly knew you.

I guess it's not that big of a deal. Since this took little effort, I can do it again one day. Leave your questions for me in the comments.