What is crepe paper?

EmptyHorizon wrote: What is crepe paper?

xD


Um, you know...that stuff...

no :[

EmptyHorizon wrote: What is crepe paper?

its like tissue paper...
u know the stuff that everyone loved in preschool... lol but yea... thats what it is...
no other way to explain it!

crepe paper = tissue paper = crinckle paper = whatever other name you call it

i'm just about to try dying my hair blue (or red) (like, now as in 15 minutes)
but i have black hair so i bought white tissue paper too and i'll test to see if itll work instead of peroxiding my hair first!
but i might end up looking like sweeney todd.
cool. "tissue paper dye job turns harmless teenager into serial killer impersonator!"
muahaaaa. wish me luck

I want to try
Can you get crepe paper from the dollar store?

15 or so minutes later...
alas, to no avail was my crepe-paper hair dying quest
the white and the blue didn't work cos the paper was crap
BUT the red (which turned out to be cherry pink) DID EXCEPT on my black hair (not dyed, its natural black yay) it didn't show up.
and i still haven't had my breakfast....
*eats breakfast*
so i guess its back to priceline for me to try and scout the next best thing that isn't going to be resorting to my emocity-hating, industrial-strength peroxide-lovin' hairdresser. she hates me (emocity-hating, remember?) and my hair cos theres too much of it and it makes me look like ray toro's long lost daughter that nobody knew about (i have the same birthday as him too, scary).
or cousin it.

and if no-ones used the word 'emocity' before, i came up with it after some (drunk) random on the street called me an 'emo' and i yelled back 'I'm not a music genre'. then thought why do they call us emo kids, not scene kids. 'scene' is too broad to just describe an 'emo', it describes any kind of scene. i came up with emocity cos 'emoism' and 'emoist' sounded corny and cultish. we're not a cult really, more like an army (like the UN, which has the power to threaten and take military action but can't cos its made up of several countries not one) or a big family (ha) or a gang (but then comes the clicky-clique insults). what do you guys think?
and sorry for the long posts i'll shorten em next time

^maybe you can just bleach your hair then try crepe afterwards?

yes, i suppose you can. you're from canada, eh? so i wouldn't know what you have over there.
i'm from australia, so our equiv would be the warehouse (maybe too-cheap crepe paper) or priceline or and supermarket (y'now, in the little black corner that no one goes too where they keep the party supplies and when you were five you found it but by the time you were ten you'd lost it again?!)
DON'T TRY PAINT (NO NO NO WATERCOLOR OR ACRYLLIC OR ANYTHING)
and when you start your hair will be wet from the fist time, do not bother intensively drying it every go, just rub it with a towel and start again.
AND I RECOMMEND YOU PUT GLAD-WRAP(or cling wrap - THE STUFF NORMAL PEOPLE WRAP THEIR SANDWICHES IN other than al foil, butchers paper(baking paper) etc) BELOW YOU AND ALL AROUND WHERE YOUR WORKING cos when you finished you notice mysterious drops everywhere...
cover the floor, basin (i presume your doing this in the bathroom unless you want colored grass outside) and use gloves and make sure your bench is clean (move your toothbrush) and have bathroom cleaning stuff for after and soap ready for your hands (but use gloves first, disposable ones cos you don't want your dishes colorful after (i couldnt find gloves. oh noes.)) and if you haev dark hair and an angry hirdresser, theres another thread to tell you how to bleach your hair first (i havent tried it, but itll work better than white crepe paper) etc etc go experiment.
and check your parents (my mum is still asleep so i'm good, i told her yesterday and she spazed but what can she do now ha) if your a night person and you can be quiet and still have the bathroom light on with out being suspicious then go for it (dont wake up especially though, you dont have too!) and if your at a friends house, make sure you have enough TIME
but have fun (i know that seems impossible when your actually dying it but ah well)

lol thanks! I will definitely try soon enough.

Hm, as I have no crepe paper and my mom is going to be suspicious about what I'd buy it for(she doesn't want me dying my hair or changing my hair colour >.>), do you think that construction paper would work?
I know it's thicker..and it probably has more colour to it..but..
I'm gonna try it!
And I'll post if it works or not. ^^

infinitesilence wrote: Hm, as I have no crepe paper and my mom is going to be suspicious about what I'd buy it for(she doesn't want me dying my hair or changing my hair colour >.>), do you think that construction paper would work?
I know it's thicker..and it probably has more colour to it..but..
I'm gonna try it!
And I'll post if it works or not. ^^

oooh! that sounds like it would work! please tell me if it works or not!

that's great.
i'll try it when i graduate next march.
my school really sucks.

You always have to have light/bleached hair before you dye your hair in _any_ extreme colours. Crepe paper or semi-permanent dye doesn't matter.
It's just the way it is. Colours don't really show up in dark hair.

PrettyOdd08 wrote:

infinitesilence wrote: Hm, as I have no crepe paper and my mom is going to be suspicious about what I'd buy it for(she doesn't want me dying my hair or changing my hair colour >.>), do you think that construction paper would work?
I know it's thicker..and it probably has more colour to it..but..
I'm gonna try it!
And I'll post if it works or not. ^^

oooh! that sounds like it would work! please tell me if it works or not!

It failed. v___V
I was like "come on, come on." The colour didn't even budge.
But I found red crepe paper! And that worked really well.
But I was going more for a slight tint, so I washed my hair right after and the colour stayed in.
It looks natural(I have natural auburn tones in my hair already, though).