I think I'm too much of a newbie in haircare to dye it myself, I don't want to ruin it I'm especially scared to bleach my own hair, I've watched too many of Brad Mondo's reaction videos to know it might not come out great, lol.
I have no idea about dying hair, there's like bleach, and toners, permanent, demipermanent, then semi-permanent (which I'm still not sure how demi and semiare different, aren't they the same? Idk, halp!) and it all seems really confusing and difficult I had no idea hair dyes also had bleach in them. I feel clueless, unless you have some useful tips for coloring my own hair and not mess it up
I'm also kind of not into the idea of the colors just washing out of my hair after a few washes and a shitload of money. I know they would wash out anyway and probably faster than natural colors, but dang, I want crazy colors on my head for a bit longer xD
There's so much research to do
I was thinking about teal/dark blue/dark green, like forest/emerald green, but I'm afraid I might not look good with cool toned hair. My skin is kind of neutral with warm undertones I'd say.
Ooh, I'd like to try natural red color, but right now I feel like going crazy XD

I love opals too but Ash kinda hates them. The multitude of colors annoys him xD I'm a sucker for any gem/crystal, even pink tourmaline. I love watermelon tourmaline, it's gorgeous

memoriam wrote: I have no idea about dying hair, there's like bleach, and toners, permanent, demipermanent, then semi-permanent (which I'm still not sure how demi and semiare different, aren't they the same? Idk, halp!) and it all seems really confusing and difficult I had no idea hair dyes also had bleach in them. I feel clueless, unless you have some useful tips for coloring my own hair and not mess it up
I'm also kind of not into the idea of the colors just washing out of my hair after a few washes and a shitload of money. I know they would wash out anyway and probably faster than natural colors, but dang, I want crazy colors on my head for a bit longer xD

Okay let me see if I can help :D
So, I'm not sure of the difference between demi and semi either XD Probably just degrees of permanency? First thing you need to know is that there's not such a thing as permanent when it comes to the 'fashion colours' (according to my old hairdresser, that's the name of the bright colours that aren't natural haha). No matter what, they will wash out fast. Even when I was having them done professionally, they lasted three weeks and then would be pretty pale again. But the good news is that if you use a very vibrant colour on top of bleached blonde, it will stick around somewhat for ages - for example when I had fuschia hair, I would end up with like bubblegum pink by the time of my next appointment 6 weeks later.

All I really use is bleach with a purple toner shampoo, but then again I don't mind brassy colours so much (see: dying ginger rofl). Basically your bleach will make your hair a yellowy blonde, and toner will bring it down to a more natural colour or even a grey depending on what you want.
In order to make your hair lighter, the dye has to contain bleach. If it doesn't, it won't work. That's why if you dye your hair when it's dark, and you try to put colour on there, you won't be able to see it (@Moi, that's probably what happened with your greys ^^). But if you already have lighter hair, you can get a bright colour just fine without bleach. Without bleach, you can always make your hair any darker colour.

So, for example, for me as a dark brown hair: pink on my natural hair doesn't come out at all. A mahogany red tone did work very well. With bleach my hair comes out quite a bright yellow/orange, and I can then put pink on top or use toner to make it look more natural blonde.

@Moi: yessss I love that holographic fabric toooo!

@Moi: Yeah, at least that first time I think I should at least leave the bleaching to professionals. Especially that I want a variety of dark and light colors so I wouldn't know what to do with my hair while bleaching. So I'll probably spend a ton of money at least that first time and then we'll see XD

If it came out yellow then you either put too little bleach, or kept it on for too short (and there's also foil required for the right temperature I think) or you just needed another bleaching or maybe just a toner would do. Depends on how bad the yellow was. Yes, I took that knowledge from Brad Mondo because I watch too much of that guy and I'm still not sure if what he says is true, although it kind of checks out

Lol, I'll tell him he can have it, but I'll probably snatch it from him anyways XD

@jacob: Ah, yeah, I suspected there's no 'permanent' in crazy colors I always wonder if shampoos for colored hair even work, maybe they actually wash the color out? XD I'm not even sure the colors would survive two weeks with me. I've only began working on washing my hair less often (I'm already at day 4/5 instead of 2 ). Maybe I should wait a little bit until I see that my washes are pretty consistent.
I wouldn't know where to start with bleaching XD My hair is pretty dark, but not too dark. Everybody's always telling me I'm dark blonde, but when I look in the mirror, I'm light brown dog dammit, stop with the lying XD I cut off most of the lightened hair I had previously, there's some random dark blond ends here and there, but nothing too drastic. And I'd like to have a pretty dark blue/purple root, go through pink to red/orange and to yellow/gold (basically I want that picture on my head XD) and so, it would seem like I don't have to lighten my roots at all or that much, since they're already dark. But then, when the colors fade, will I look ridiculous, you know? That's a problem for me, even in quarantine/lockdown situation XD I'm not sure if I can ask about all of that to the hairdresser. Besides, should I first go to the salon and ask what colors they have and maybe get a short consultation on that. Because I have no idea and I don't want to make an appointment, the hairdresser either won't understand me or I'll be too shy to ask important questions and then I'll look ridiculous and woooooow, my thoughts are spiraling down, I see it! xD Basically, I think I don't trust hairdressers but I also can't trust myself with such a big hair job

I just realized going to a hairdresser to me is almost the same level of terrifying as the dentist. But at least hair grows back, y'know? ;>>