no luck with purple hair

I was talking with a co-worker about the previous weekend. She was telling me how her twenty-year-old daughter wanted her to color her hair purple for her. My co-worker didn't bleach her daughter's black hair first, which explains why her purple hair didn't last more than a week. She was telling me that she used three boxes of purple hair dye on her daughter's hair, as her hair was quite long and thick.

During that week before nearly all the color washed out, her daughter received a lot of compliments. She still has a little bit of purple left, but it looks like a few highlights, which are noticeable only if the light hits it right.

I have to agree that purple hair color doesn't stay in long. I think mine lasted a month, and that's because I only washed it once a week. (When my hair isn't specially colored, I wash it more often). It was sad seeing the color flow down into the shower drain.