Another recipe :) For dyed hair haha :)

Here's a non-traditional recipe :) My oldest likes to dye the underside of her hair red--and she has quite darkish light brown hair (does that make sense?)  Through trial and error we have discovered what works for her hair.  She dyes it with Kool Aid and it stays for a LONG time!

Our hairdresser has said that it is not bad for her hair either (and it's very inexpensive!)

So how do we do it?  We mix 10 (yup! ten!) packages of cherry koolaid (the little paper envelope packages, with no sugar in them) with about 2 cups of water and heat it to boiling.  Then we let it cool down to touchable temp. 

We pour it into a glass bowl and she dips the amount of hair that she wants dyed into the bowl...and stays there for 30 minutes or so! (She usually lays with her head over the bowl and reads a book while waiting!)  After 30 minutes we run cold water over it in the sink till it runs mostly clear and then she takes a cool shower (brrr).  After that, all of her showers are usual, with shampoo and conditioner, she doesn't have to baby it.

The color stays dark nicely for quite a long time (months!) -- I will warn you, though, that it turns her pillowcase pink, even months after dye-ing (she washes her hair at night so goes to bed with wet hair).