"This stuff is the absolute SHIZZLE... I'm a guy, and I'd be all over makeup, glitter, all of that! I honestly can't think of anything that feels really ME though... only someone else I'm not. Great fun on Halloween, but for a metal\/rock festival (where I bask in 5 days of being able to be 100% my genuine self 24\/7) I can't be anything other than me. I'm already wearing a firefighter turnout jacket as a coat (I\u2019m ex-fire service, and it\u2019s cool when it needs to be, warm when the cold comes, big enough to add 4 layers when it gets down to 4 degrees C and a wind picks up at 4am). Gives people the confidence to start a conversation with me too, otherwise I've come to the conclusion that people find me difficult to approach. People who pick me to talk to tend to be my kind of people!\r\n\r\nSo I finally found my hair colour, Schwarzkopf Cosmic Blue, and pairing that with a Project Mercury\/Gemini\/Apollo flat top, I walk out of my barbers feeling absolutely ME, nothing like it.\r\n\r\nThese days everyone seems to have blue hair at Download Festival in the UK... so upped my game. Black hair, with an iridescent finish! I know the marketing says Peacock (and with the amount I put on, I was expecting to be accosted by actual Peacocks at some point...) but I'm a Crow Person. I love my Corvids, and most of them have a mildly iridescent blue to their feathers, especially ravens and Crows. Barely visible, but Magpies? The thugs of the Corvids, they have the iridescent tail feathers to flick up and down to show who's boss, along with the machinegun chatter. Magpie.\r\n\r\nTook some getting used to, I used too little initially, and I've yet to find the right application brush, but I got by for the festival with a basic \"gentleman\u2019s comb\", with the 2 sets of larger and finer teeth. It washes out cleanly in the morning fine (made a mess of my pillow, but this is a festival, I wake at 10am with my 3 season sleeping bag soaked through with sweat in 52 degree C heat, up from 3 C at 3am). Zero residue with 10 litres of cold water (bliss in the heat), blow-dried my flat top into shape with one of those air mattress pumps with D cell batteries that last 6 years, then get set applying it as if it's a runny hair product. My method was using a 1 centimetre wide paint brush to evenly coat the teeth of the comb, then brush it through as fast as possible (turns out that\u2019s the reverse of the recommended method, buy hey, I\u2019m applying this myself). Letting any dry ends up with more matte patches, and\/or flaking off. One time I then painted loads directly onto the fully shaped flat top, and I don't know if it reduced the iridescence, or just made it appear blue, like the liquid\u2026 perhaps it looked better, I must experiment! Gloves are absolutely essential, it stains skin pretty badly unless immediately washed off. Avoid getting any on scalp (with short hair) or hairline! I found my medical pack 70% Isopropyl Alcohol wipes made short work of any on skin that hadn\u2019t sat for too long.\r\n\r\nAll this is one thing with long hair, but I'm probably doing it wrong, with the wrong brush! Either way, I blow dry the end result to the max with the pump-hairdryer cold, and boom.... I don't know if the heat of a hairdryer sets it? Activates it? It does change colour under that extreme heat, but I found cold blow dry worked fine. The moment the sun started heating my hair, boom! Instant iridescence!\r\n\r\nI can't do 5 days drinking alcohol, I just do school Amphetamine Sulphate, so I can hear every word around me in and ADHD hyperfocus blur... and with everyone being drunk, people weren't exactly subtle when they noticed my hair wasn't green... or turquoise... or blue... it was all of them, and ever changing! My friends were absolutely blown away, said it looked stunning! I think the odd person might have wanted to ask what the hell was up with my hair, but they didn't and I wasn't in the mood for making a million friends this year, I needed some quality time with my own. Rock\/metalheads can be a bit awkward socially too, this ain\u2019t Glastonbury or Reading! Make no mistake, wearing Julbo Drus mountaineering sunglasses people will stare at you (partly because there the real version of the cheapo knockoffs that are all the rage, mine aren\u2019t steampunk for fashion they\u2019re for stopping actual snow blindness), assuming your eyes are pointing in the direction your head is, but I could see a LOT of staring, pity I can't see my own head, it clearly looked stunning! 10\/10! The 50g bottle lasted 5 days of possibly excessive festival use, and one trial at home, so while it ain\u2019t cheap, it\u2019s not like it lasted 2 days! And quality never is cheap!"
