Lightening dark hair means you have to ';strip'; the pigment from the hair, making it lighter. The salons don't want to do it because they're afraid it will damage your long hair. Once that damage is done, there's no repairing it. No conditioners or treatments will make it the way it was.
You can do it at home with a HIGH volume developer you get a beauty supply store. But be prepared to leave it on for over 3 hours; more likely 4 to 5. You have to leave it on until you get past the gold stage. Only when it's pale yellow will it be ';blonde';. Thats why your friend's hair was orange, she didn't leave it in long enough.
If you're going to do it, I strongly recommend a big batch of foil highlights. Don't just ';color it blonde.'; A lot of highlights will make it look better, and help with the damage factor.Has anyone with dark hair ever dyed it/bleached it so its alot lighter? hairdressers keep telling me NO!?
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Ok I had the same problem a while back, I had dark brown hair and wanted it like, Gwen Stefani blonde, and every salon said no. Because alot of people with dark hair come in and ask, and aren't aware that it's going to really damage their hair. Personally i didn't care, and had my hairdresser friend do it. But if you want the salon to do it, tell them you would like to gradually lighten it, say you want highlights all over, and you want to come back and highlight more, then highlight the highlights, until it's a light blonde. if you put space between and do it a little at a time, it won't damage your hair nearly as much, and the hairdressers like to hear that you want to take your time with it. The people that come in and want to be bleach blonde from black hair in 1 day are the ones that make it hard for anyone else with dark hair to get it done. Also If you like it, keep it. dying it back will be hard too, because it strips the hair and it's much harder for it to hold darker color afterwards. They'll have to put in a deep red first over the blonde, then go brown, or else it'll go green. So if you REALLLY want it, go slow, and then keep it for a while.
ye i do it out of a box the whole time. i have extremely dark brown hair. leave it in for 2 hours and u should b fine
yeah, lighten it a few shades and then wait a few weeks, then go to a hairdresser, they will probably do it then.
I know someone who tried it and it did not work at all! It turned out a really weird color and she had to make a couple of trips back to the salon to get it corrected...it was expensive and didn't look good at all. If hairdressers are telling you no, then I wouldn't try it.
DO NOT DO THIS WITH A BOXED COLOR!!!
This is something that MUST be done in a hair salon.
I think the reason they don't want to touch your hair, because it will damage you hair. They will have to bleach you hair out, which will hurt your hair to no end, and then tone it with another color to take any of the brassiness out.
I've done it, and the first time was ok, but when i went to touch up the roots, i chemicaly cut my hair. ( meaning it broke at the regrowth) Bleach swells when it is processing and it swelled on to the old blond.
You will have to get retouches done at the salon.
Good luck
if you have such a lovely hair , as you say have and you look ravashing than WHY ? change if you were my G/F i would say dont do it women i like the way you are . if you do change your colour of your hair than you will not get back the colour you had and that could affect your hair and toyr head and you may start loosing hair and i am sure you do not want that . you should cahnge your pict and show your real colour . i think you look very beautiful as you are now , if you were my g/f i would adore you as you are .
good luck and think hard before you decide
It may be a lot of damage to your hair but you can do it. It will probably be a 3-step process. You need to speak to a better salon. :)
it will turn orange
don't do it
You don't say which Country you are in - there is a pokey little Town in the Midlands, called Kidderminster, and year after year a hairdresser called Lisa or Liza, is awarded the accolade of ';Hair Colourist of the Year';.
That's where I'd go if I wanted to do something drastic and could afford a good hairdresser.
On the other hand, some 45 years ago, I went to a hairdresser local to our Bristol flat and said I wanted to be blonde (from a rich reddish dark brown) and it was great. I stayed that way for about 6 years before deciding to go back to my natural colour. Had no problems at all.
i havnt done it myself because i havnt got dark hair but i know people that have.you wont be able to do all in 1 go ,youl have to do it gradually,a few highlights everytime you go to the hairdressers,your hair will instantly look lighter,but not full blonde,however itl get lighter every time you go.when your bored or it and want to go brown again just get a perminant dark brown dye,i put just a semi-perminant brown on my highlites a couple of months ago and it worked wonders.
Back in the 1980's when I was a lot younger, I wanted white hair like Billy Idol.
I too had dark hair, and used various blonde dyes without much sucess and eventually used peroxide, watching my hair turn lighter by the minute.
I ignored the time limit, and finally after an hour decided to wash my yellowy but kinda white hair in the sink, only to be able to pull it out in clumps.
The moral of the story is not to over do it.
Take your hairdressers advice.
The reason why hairdressers will not touch it is because you will likely turn the wierd carrot colour first then if you wanted to try again you would do so at the risk of your hair falling out since peroxide would be used - not a very nice chemical.
My advice buy a good blond wig and wear for two months, that way you will not damage your hair.
PS Vic Beckham did not have black hair, her natural colour being brown - she has highlights - brown hair is easier to lighten than black.
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Yes you can do it. Im a qualified hairdresser and have very dark brown hair myself. I have recently put a bleach blonde flash through i and its came out fine, its taken time though.
You do need to be careful though. Its probably better to do it over a few months and use a weaker strenght peroxide [9% for the first application then 6% for each application after that] than try to get it all the colour you want at once. It will go a yellow colour at first but just keep going over it, with the weak peroxide. If your hair gets really frzzy and damaged though then dont do it anymore. Most hairdresers wont touch it because if it doesnt come out right it looks bad on them. You jsut need to be careful and know what you doing. Make sure you keep your hair in very good condition in between %26amp; after each bleaching session, get some good conditioning treatments from a beaty store Boots or something and keep doing them. Let me know if you want any more help with this sweetie :)
Good luck.
Why don't you put in those clip in extension things?
It is possible but it would be very expensive. DEFINITELY get a pro to do it or you'll end up looking like another carrot. What they do is lighten your hair in stages, that way it reduces the orange and slowly turns it more blond. Just be aware that the process is very damaging to your hair and you won't have the same texture until it grows out.
oh em gee
dont ever do that AGAIN
You can do it... but it is hell on your hair.
The orange color can be prevented. There is a special powder that you mix into the bleaching base that will prevent it. I don't know what it is called, but they sell it at Sally's Beauty Supply.
But- the whole thing about switching to blonde and then back to your color depending on the season, WON'T work.
Once you bleach, you hair becomes porous, and doesn't want to hold dark colors. I bleached my hair, and then tried to go brown latter... it looked fine, a few days and it was back to bleached out. :(
Then I tried red, same thing. My hair will only hold light colors now.
Soooo--- if you like your hair, and don't want to mess it up. Don't bleach it.
At least first try some highlights... see what it does to your hair, and if you like it. And also how you hair will take to going back.
Good luck.
Everyone hair is different.
Yes it is true it will come out a little bit brassy! But you can make it alot lighter. i died my hair black and once it faded for 3 months i bleached it. turn orange brassy but it got lighter. then i dyed my hair a soft blonde and my hair got even and darker. and for the last dye i use a semi-permanant of light amburn. your hair will be nice, and even a soft brown blonde color. about all the damage, its not that bad. you can tell a little but deep conditon for a month and you'll be good.
idk but change you picture please its disturbing
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