Blonde Hair Tutorial

Morning Everyone :)

Happy Friday Peeps, it's Faye here. Historically, I have found Blondes difficult to colour. It has taken me years to find colour combo's that I think look Blonde and not yellow, with other markers. But within weeks of playing with Graph'Its, I discovered one I'm really happy with, and I thought I'd share...

So, start with 1210...

Second, lay down 1230...

Then 1280 for the darker areas...

Next go back with 1210 again to fill in some of the white space and add texture to the hair...

Repeat with 1230 and 1280...

Finally add a small amount of 3110 for the darkest root and shadow areas...

Job done...

Hope you join us this week for our Blonde Challenge and don't forget you still have a few days to join our Black Hair Challenge...

19 July Week 4 - Black Hair

Thanks for joining us for another great challenge! 

This week we challenge you to make a project and colour

Black Hair

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of our Week 2 challenge which was Bright and Bold. We're so pleased to announce that our Top 3 entries are:

1.  No 1, Scatty Jan

2. No 14, Sue Bearhouse

3. No 17, Lucy Patrick

We loved all your work and congratulations to Scatty Jan who won our fabulous prize of over £30 of goodies!! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize! Sue and Lucy - please feel free to grab your blinkies from the sidebar to add to your blogs!

The winner of the challenge this week will win a fantastic prize worth over £30 which will include Graph'It markers and other stash from Premium Art Brands and Polkadoodles!

You have until Sunday 28th July at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 2nd August here on this blog. Please check our rules for all entries.

Here is the fantastic inspiration our team have for you this week....

Cara...
As I don't have the full range of Greys I would usually use to colour black hair I decided to do something a little different ..... ombre hair!!!! Had I not had these wonderful markers I doubt I would have ever tried something like this, they really do make those normally challenging projects so much easier!

Simonne...
Although Graph'It have FIVE different sets of grey markers (Warm, Cool, Netural, Pink and Green Greys), I only have the Neutral Greys, so I used these to colour my black hair this week!  I also used Heather (with wings) digi stamp and Apple Lagoon papers from the *new* Polkadoodles Bonbon Belles double CD Collection.

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 4155 4115 4125 4120....Blush: 4135 Lips: 5120 Eyes: 8220....Hair: 9509 9507 9505 9303 9501....Jacket & Shoes: 7160 7150 7140....Trousers: 8110 7210 0000....White shading: 4110 0000....Wings: 8110 7210....Flowers 7160 7150 7140 7210 1210 8260 8220

Kevin...
I have used this adorable image from the Polkadoodles Candy Doodles CD Collection, on colouring the black hair I found I could do with another couple of lighter grey Graph'It markers.

Graph'It Markers used 

Skin 4155..4145..4115..4135..4180......Hair  9909..9905..9508..9505.......Dress 8110..8240..8130

Flowers,bird & grass 1110..2140..1130..1150

Debs

I like to add a base colour when doing black hair to give nice highlights so I opted for a blue grey then built up with the neutrals and finished the deepest areas with black..

Graph'It Markers used:
Hair - 9102, 9505, 9507, 9509, 9909.....Skin - 4180, 4170, 4155, 4110, 5110....Pinks - 5120, 5130, 5255......Turquoise - 720, 7260, 7240

So there you have our inspiration this week! 

You have until Sunday 28th July at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 2nd August here on this blog. Please check our rules for all entries.

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