I used to do the vaseline thing, but I'm a klutz and I have a lot of long hair, which means I'd end up getting vaseline in my hair, and have under-dyed spots.

I've never figured that out either.......which is largely why I've been in this temp color thing lately.

also, I've found, viz a vis, purples, that a lot of the dyes out there tend to look reddish on my hair (I'm mean a reddish shade of purple) and those are actually my least favorite shades of purple.

I've had some success mixing midnight blue in with those dyes. You just need a little and you can put it on in layers for the multi-tone thingee.

I've also stumble on this thing of using the Punky Color UV temporary dies and instead of just pasting it on my hair, mixing it with some water and then running it through my hair like I would other kinds of styling gels.

the other night I got a rad purple (that nicely matched my purple leather bikers jacket and purple pleather docs) and I used an extremely small amount of temp dye.

It's making me want to buy several colors and trying out different cominations........they wash right out (with a little bit of pink left with anything that uses red.

but hey, pink is the new black and i have bright pink hi tops so, fuck it

color on!