Today, I'm going to be coloring my hair
using a Schwarzkopf got2b Smokey Steel Metallics shade.
Typically, I would lighten my roots
before applying any new color...
but, this time I'm not going to.
I'm really curious
to see if this Smokey Steel shade turns
out to be more of a gray, or if it comes
out looking almost like a dark black.
This model clearly has like a dark
silver metallic hair shade.
It looks awesome on her.
Hopefully, it will look awesome on me.
The instruction leaflet that
came inside the box is really simple.
My hair is unwashed.
I haven't bleached it recently.
It's like a tiny little
paragraph here that says to part a
section of your hair using the
applicator bottle tip.
I'll be applying
the majority of this mixture to the root
area of my hair and leaving that on for
20 to 30 minutes.
And then I'll do the last 5 to 10
minutes on the ends of my hair. We'll see
how that goes.
It took me six minutes to apply this
product to the roots of my hair.
I think it's a good sign that it looks purple
and not black.
I'm going to go ahead and
get some baby wipes and wipe the product
off of my face so that it doesn't stain.
And then I will apply what's left in the
bottle to the ends of my hair in about
20 minutes.
It's been about 20 minutes now, and I'm
feeling a little sensitive that the
color is going from a lighter purple to
a really, really, really dark purple.
Because I don't want this to turn out
too dark, I'm gonna go ahead and put the
remaining color on the ends of my hair,
and then we will leave it on for an
additional maybe five minutes, and see
what it looks like.
I have definitely
used every drop of what was in that
bottle, so if you're gonna be using this
hair color, and your hair is any longer
than mine, I would strongly consider
picking up two boxes of this.
Yeah, it's starting to look dark.
It's been a total of 30 minutes. I'm
gonna go ahead and add some water to
this, rinse it out, condition it, and we'll
see what it looks like.
I've towel dried my hair. The next step
is applying the color after treatment
that came inside this kit. I'll leave it
on my hair for two minutes and then
rinse it out.
Aaron's gonna help me do my
side shave trim. I use a Phillips Bikini
Perfect trimmer for this, I have for
years. It's awesome, and I highly
recommend it.
Yeah, wow. It's definitely
like so close to black. It's really in
the black family. Nobody would look at
this and go, "Oh, look! Gray hair."
Not even close.
This is a very dark purple, but
it's definitely purple. Like, when I'm
looking at it right now, it's almost like
multi tonal black-purple. Yeah, so I need
to get the hairs all off, and I'm gonna
have to wash down the sides, but I would
say maybe in a couple of washes it might
look good. We'll see.
Well, it looks good
now actually. Oh, thank you.
I mean, if you're going
for a black-purple, it's perfect. Okay.
It has been almost two weeks since I
colored my hair. I've water washed it
five times. Aaron and I are going out on
a date, and we're running late. But look
at this! It looks blue. You can see, I'm
wearing a blue shirt.
This actually is turning into more of a
navy color on my hair. Which, I love.
It's been about six weeks since I applied
that color to my hair, and it's finally
really fading into a nice silver gray
shade.
You can see, especially over here on this
side...yeah, I mean, that color there, that
is so nice. It really is more of what I
was hoping for when I first applied the dye.
I'm pretty sure that this is
happening only because I previously
lightened the ends of my hair, and so it
just didn't hold color as well as say
the roots. So, if you're applying this
color to hair that hasn't previously
been colored, it might not lighten this
way. Whatever I apply to my hair, it
starts to gradually fade over time, and
generally speaking, it's a really nice
transition. But, yeah. Definitely, a nice
smoky steel color.
It's very pretty I
would say that if you were looking for a
gray, obviously, this is not the route to
go. Because it's not gray by any stretch.
Unless you mean, like, a gray mixed with a
dark blue. That's about the only way this
could ever be considered a gray. But, I
like it very much.
