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My (Failed) Attempts At Lightening My Hair
15:57Disclaimer: This is a post from my previous blog. Okay so my hair is dark brown almost black and I wanted to strip my hair and make ...
Disclaimer: This is a post from my previous blog.
Okay so my hair is dark brown almost black and I
wanted to strip my hair and make it lighter so I did a bit of research into how
to doing it and I came across a few interesting techniques and I tried two
different processes. I didn't want to use bleach and I wanted to use products,
which were in my house at the time because it was at night I wanted to do this.
Probably not the best spur of the moment idea seen as I had college the next
day but oh well what's the worst that could happen.
This is my hair before:
So the first method I tried was without using
peroxide. I used a mixture of lemon juice, baking soda and toner shampoo
(because I didn't have much regular shampoo left). I mixed a generous amount of
each product in a bowl and left it on my hair for about half an hour to 40
minutes. This process didn't work, I saw no initial change, so I decided to
scrap this and go onto using a different method.
My second method was using developer, which comes in
packet dye. Like I said before I was doing this at night and I was only using
products I had in the house. I wasn't going to use and sort of peroxide, as I
didn't think I had any until I remembered that I had a spare box of box dye,
which was a L’Oreal Casting Crème Gloss. I researched the volume in the
developer and found out that in box dyes they use a 20-volume developer, which
I know is weaker than usual developer used for lightening hair. So with a bit
of advice from a friend who did hairdressing and the good old Internet I
decided to give it a go.
What I found out is that you need to leave a 20 vol on
longer than a 30 or 40 vol as it is weaker and most videos on YouTube that I
have seen people using just developer use a 40 volume. So I found out that I
should leave the 20 vol on my hair for about 30-40 minutes and that it is not
advised for much longer than that. I decided to leave the developer on for 30
minutes.
What I Used:
•
Gloves
(mine came with the box dye)
•
20
volume Developer
•
Clip
•
Towel
or bag for your head. If using a towel, one which you won't mind getting a bit
messy.
What to do:
First I sectioned my hair using a clip.
Next getting fairly big sections of hair.
Apply the developer to each section.
Keep repeating this until you have covered all of your
hair.
Make sure you rub it all in, I did it like I would rub
shampoo in my hair.
Clip all the hair on top of your head.
Cover with bag or towel.
Leave for 30 minutes.
Rinse and see your results.
I set a timer for 30 minutes on my phone and kept
checking my hair every so often to see how it was doing. I then made my self a
brew (coffee for those who don't know what a brew is) and sat down and made a
start on this blog post.
I didn't see much of a difference on the majority of
my hair apart from my roots, which went a considerable amount lighter. I
decided to leave my hair for about a week before I tried any other methods and
because I had a university interview so I didn't want to do it and turn up with
my hair being a mess.
The other method I tried after this was using the
Colour B4 Extra Strength. I followed the instructions correctly however because
my hair was close to black and I had previously dyed it red I ended up bright
ginger after I blow-dried it. However the next morning I woke up with the top
half of my hair ginger with black ends, I resembled someone who had badly dip
dyed their hair.
This is how it turned out when I first did it:
After the disaster I woke up to the next morning I
rang my hairdressers and basically said to them 'I've messed up, do what you
want just fix it'. I was happy with my results after the hairdressers, I came
away with light brown hair with blonde highlights on top. I am going to keep
going to the hairdressers until I fully have lighter hair. I am planning to go
dark blonde/ light brown.
This is how it finally turned out:
Thank you for reading,
hopefully this helps you out or you just enjoyed reading my plenty of failed
attempts to lighten hair. :)
