What's the best way to go blonde?

Question

I naturally have very dark fine brown hair with red undertones. I've been very blonde once before but my hair was like straw and felt terrible. I know it's not good for your hair but what's the best way to go from dark to light and is it possible to keep your hair silky?

Answer 1

Any type of lightening of the hair will cause damage.
The best way would be for you to go to a hair salon and ask to go blonde.
Otherwise, you can try bleaching your hair yourself, you'll probably have to do it once or twice, depending on how dark your hair is. And then follow up with a toner to give it a light blonde color, and take out the red/orange tones you usually get after bleaching.

After that, condition the hell out of your hair, try putting olive oil in your hair, wrap in a warm towel, and then rinsing it out 15 minutes later.

Remember that you'll have to bleach our your roots every month or so, too. Will it be worth the hassle?

Answer 2

OKAY!! I am a cosmotologist so let me plese tell you how to do this. The best way of course is to go to a salon. This way they garentee there work and if they dont get it right the first time they will the second. You say your hair is dark with red undertones, well this may create a problem. Red undertones on brunettes tend to make hair lightening difficult. You are going to see orange and red as soon as you begin to lighten it. You can lift color with color but it must be 2 levels above the original. I worked for Paul Mitchell and I attended a Paul Mitchell school so I do know what I am talking about. Either way if you want really nice blonde hair you must sacrafice some of the health. They will use "bleach" to lighten it. When they get it to the desired blonde (a nice sunny yellow) You will need to have a conditioning treatment. You may want to try to go platnum. If so you will need to use something with a purple or blue base tone. These colors sound awful but this is the only way to cancell out red and orange tones on blonde. After all is done and over with please go out and spend some $$. If you want the soft silky hair you must pay for it after lightening. Paul Mitchell caries wonderful moisturizing products some with tea tree extracts. You may want to go to www.paulmitchell.com and take a look at there shampoos conditioners (leave in as well) and the tea tree products. Paul Mitchell demands that his products make you happy. The company spends alot of time to make sure these products will completely satisfy the customer. I hope that this helped and if you like to you may email me for more info.

Answer 3

Go to sally's beauty and pick up a few bleach packets & a big bottle of 30 volume developer. I use 20 volume to bleach my medium brown hair, but since yours is darker, you probably need 30 vol. It will take longer to bleach the color out with 30 vol, but it will do less damage than 40 vol. Next, do some strand tests to time how long it takes for your hair to bleach to a pale yellow. hair goes through bleaching phases and DO NOT stop bleaching once it's orange or gold, you cannot tone those with a light color! It should be about the color of the inside of a banana. Depending on the color you achieve, (if it never gets past a brassy gold, you may need 40 volume developer), but that is unlikely unless your hair is almost black.

Clip your hair into sections & start in the back underside of your head where it's darkest. **Leave about an inch for the roots (you'll go back in and do roots later, otherwise you'll have hot roots). ***

after the rest of your hair is orangeish, apply the bleach to your roots (this should be a little more than half of the time your strand test took to go pale yellow). again, start in the back.

Once all your hair is a pale yellow, rinse & shampoo. you'll need to tone it or it will look pretty raw/bright. I like using permanent color to tone & it will make your hair feel silky again. You have to know the color wheel to know which shade blonde you want to be (to counter act any unwanted colors in your hair)

my hair is bleached and is nice and silky. I use sally generic shampoos/conditioners, wash every other day & only blow dry once in a blue moon.
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Answer 4

Question: Why do you want to go blonde, if you have lovely dark hair with red undertones? Women pay money to get that look. If you know it's going to damage your hair-Just Don't Do It! Good luck anyhow!

Answer 5

I have fine dark brown hair and I have blonde highlights, and where my hair is blonde it feels like straw. I condition like crazy but it doesn't seem to help. When I straighten my hair I put it on the lowest setting and use tons of heat protection spray, yet my hair is still brittle.

I really don't reccommend it for fine hair, maybe you can go blonde in stages, like gradually getting highlights.

Answer 6

You have to strip your dark natural color off with bleach products either from salon or beauty store. Then you can put a color in. To keep it silky, you have to use conditioning treatments for the first few weeks and maybe every so often afterwards.

Answer 7

you have to go to a salon and get foil highlights. easiest
then condition condition condition. the bleaching can dry it out but i found that using ion deep conditioning treatments from sally beauty helped me a bunch. i was blonde all summer. i just died myself a chocolate caramel color 2 days ago... i still plan to get lighter highlights put in

Answer 8

More than likeley if you have dark hair and are going blonde your hair is gonna go thru some major damage. go to a saloon. you will probably have to get it bleeched and dyed.

Answer 9

Go to a salon and get it highlighted. Do not do it yourself, you will be sorry!