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I’ve been wanting to get Peek-A-Boo Purple streaks in my hair for awhile, so a few days ago I finally did it! I went to the Paul Mitchell Beauty School downtown to get it done by one of my boyfriend’s co-workers. If you haven’t had your hair done there before, I totally recommend it. You only have to pay about half the price of a normal salon because you’re allowing a student to do it for you and even though they’re students they have their teachers there the whole time to make sure that they don’t mess anything up, haha.

When I got there I had to start with a consultation with my hairdresser, Paulina, and her teacher to figure out how she was going to achieve the color that I wanted. I first asked if I could color all my hair to a dark red but it was going to be very difficult to achieve because I don’t have virgin black hair, I have black box dye hair. So I just went with purple peek-a-boos instead.

It took close to an hour to lighten the sections of my hair that would be dyed to purple, and it was so weird to see blonde streaks in my hair after the bleach was washed out.

Then once the purple dye was put on, it took another half hour to let it set.

And then once you include the consultation, washing and conditioning, blowdrying and styling.. 5 hours had already gone by! And this was the end result. I have 2 streaks on each side but it was really hard to get a picture of the other side.

In certain light it looks more red than purple but it’s because it’s like a violet/ red color. I had to go back the next day because I also wanted to get it cut because all of my layers grew out. So here’s the final result.

I love that the purple peeks out in a subtle way because depending on how my hair falls at times you can’t even see them but that’s what I love about them. I’m very happy with the way it turned out.