7 Pink and Purple Hair Ideas for a Mermaid Mane

1. Ombre Pink and Purple Hair

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Have you ever seen an ombre like this? Combining hot pink painted roots with muted purple lengths, it segues seamlessly from magenta to mauve and bold to soft with the help of Color Fresh CREATE. The ammonia-free, semi-permanent colour is all about vivid hues that pastelise from wash to wash, so you keep the essence of the colours even as they soften over 20 washes. When you leave the salon, don't forget to take the Color Fresh Mask in Pink and Lilac Frost home with you. In 10 minutes, these tinted treatments top up your ombre to keep the colours bright.

2. Pastel Pink and Purple Colour Block

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Bold colour blocking gets a pastel twist in this pink and purple look, featuring pearlescent panels of soft lilac and blushed rose painted side by side. The perfect combination for light-reflective mermaid hair, it combines swathes of peachy warm and cool purple hues, creating a look that works in harmony with all skin tones and eye colours. Your colourist may need to pre-lighten your hair first – a task for BlondorPlex's bond-strengthening formula, which gives you up to 9 levels of lift and 97% less breakage¹. Then, they can recreate the soft pink pastel purple hair colours with a SHINEFINITY Color Glaze, giving you a zero-damage, zero-lift, translucent veil of colour with a healthy shine you can feel.

3. Bright Pink and Violet Unicorn Hair Colour

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Talk about a power pony. This half-pink and half-purple hair look is giving unicorn, thanks to the brightness of the vibrant coloyrs and the sleekness of the style. Get the look with demi-permanent, vegan and ammonia-free Color Touch for a true-to-tone finish. Across 90+ shades, it harnesses Metal Purifier to neutralise metals in your hair, so you enjoy the richest, most vibrant and reliable results. Then, style with ULTIMATE SMOOTH Miracle Oil Serum; a hair oil-meets-serum that nourishes hair in 30 seconds while giving you smoothness that lasts up to 3 days².

4. Pink, Purple and Blue Hair Colour

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We are floored by this multi-tonal masterpiece. Breathing new life into a platinum blonde base colour, it's a statement spectacle that (almost) rivals the Northern Lights. Coveted hair shades of blue, pink and purple catch the light through the lower layers, and show just how bright our semi-permanent hair colour, Color Fresh CREATE, can get. It's your answer to low-commitment, vibrant colours that make hair bright then fade to a pastel tone over time. Ask your colourist to create the look for you, and then you can maintain it with the Color Fresh Mask in Pink, Blue and Lilac Frost in between salon visits. Simply apply the mask to clean, damp hair, let it develop for 10 minutes, and rinse for a speedy shade refresh.

5. Lilac Hair Colour with a Hint of Pink

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If you're all about purple shades but you still want a pink pop of colour, try peekaboo highlights with hints of fuschia painted through your lower layers. The lilac hair colour can be achieved with our demi-permanent Color Touch, with more than 90 shades to allow your Wella colourist to mix up almost any combination of pink and purple colours. And, if you're lucky enough to be blessed with curly hair like this – natural or not – don't forget to style with NutriCurls Curlixir Balm for a shine and shape boost in one.

6. Surreal Pastel Hair Colour

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Do you keep finding incredible colour inspiration only to find out it's made with AI? It's a problem our colourists are facing too, as their clients head to the salon with unreal references (literally). That's why we created the Surreal Colour menu; a collection of six signature services inspired by AI, and now brought to life by professionals using Wella colour products. You're getting a sneak peek at the Surreal Pastel look, an iridescent blend of pink and purple hair tones so ethereal it looks like we dreamed it up. (We didn't – what you're seeing is real.) Now, your Wella colourist can create the look with new, zero-damage, zero-lift shades of SHINEFINITY, painted with a colour melt technique to veil strands in a hyper-real pastel glow.

7. Vivid Pink and Purple Hair Inspo

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Is it pink? Is it purple? This show-stopping ombre is just the right balance of both, teaming a platinum blonde base with a burst of vivid hair colours that blend in harmony. This look was created with BlondorPlex to lift and pre-lighten hair, providing up to 9 levels of lift and 97% less breakage, plus an anti-brass complex that keeps yellow tones at bay. Then, hair was painted with shades of Color Fresh CREATE for a power-packed, pigmented dip-dye. This really is the colour product you want when low-commitment bolds are your dream, so head to your nearest Wella salon to try it. Festival season is calling, after all...