This is a super easy, super cheap, super messy way to temporarily color your hair!
We used about 3 to 5 squirts of hair conditioner to 3 packets of the same flavor Kool aid. DO NOT use it with sugar, just the flavor packet. Kool Aid stains everything …so be careful!
You may need to add a bit of water. You don’t want it to drip off of your hair but it needs to be spreadable. Remember to use old or disposable cups as this will stain whatever you use. We used paint brushes to put it on our hair.
Seperate hair into sections and paint some of the Kool Aid color on to hair. Avoiding scalp and skin.
Next we wrapped the colored hair in foil to keep it from staining anything else.
It is key to leave it in your hair as long as you can…the longer the better. So we slept in ours. It does get a little itchy!
Then we rinsed it out really well and gently washed our hair.
Voila…strawberry, black cherry, cherry and blue raspberry hair color!!!
It has been almost a week since we colored our hair and since the girls went swimming a few times theirs has faded some but mine is still pretty bright. We all have really light hair so the color took well. If your hair is more brown it won’t be as dark as ours. It was only supposed to last about a week…hmmm. I may have pink hair for a little longer than expected!
cool!
i think my hair’s too dark. but i can live vicariously through you.
I wish I could do this, but I think my hair is probably too dark, too.
Love this Kristen! My hair is too dark too but what a great use for kool-aid!
And delicious!
They look beautiful!
That is awesome!
I did this (19 years ago, yikes) and I have brown hair. It didn’t look like hair coloring, but definitely had a pink cast to my hair. Every time I took a shower my mom would throw a fit about the tub. I could go check, but I’m sure her tub is just fine now.
I did this when I was a teen. I just got a huge pot and mixed in several packets of kool aid and water, then I soaked my hair in it. I think I just laid back in the tub, with my head in the pan! LOL!
I also used Black Cherry. I had a friend that wanted to do his hair blue. The only problem was he had very dark, almost black hair. So the blue kool aid only stained his scalp blue. IT was hilarious!
Love love love it. I am going to try this over the weekend.
Is it going to turn my tub pink? That should be interesting
Thanks for sharing this!!!
I took cosmetology in school and this is the worst thing you can do to your hair!
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Be very careful with the hair colour! I had my hair dyed green for a play when in grade 4 by a very well meaning teacher. We used kool-aid. I had very light blonde hair. It never came out completely. I had a tint of green in my hair until it grew out.
i think this is better then puting chemicals in ur hair!!!
We are trying this right now… thanks for the help!!!