How much damage does bleach do to your hair?

Question

My hair is a darkish brown (naturally light brown, but i permanently coloured it black, then chocolate brown, in the same month and i dont think its going to get back to its normal colour anytime soon :S ) and i want to go blonde.

Do i have to bleach it?

My mum got all grumpy and told me it was going to ruin my hair forever :S

Ive only ever dyed it twice.

She suggested i get it streaked blonde next hair appointment, then get more streaks the next appointment, and again and again until its all blonde...

But i dont really like the look of dark hair with light streaks :S

I just want to go ALL blonde,

Then maybe fix the blonde up, by adding slightly different blonde streaks, you know,, so it looks a bit more naturally toned..if you get what i mean.. Lol.

Anyway,

Yeah, i just wanted to know if i should just bleach it and look after my hair so it doesnt go all tacky,

Or do what mum said :l

Or i had this theory (please dont laugh!) that it would be better if i did the whole lemon juice thing in the sun, before bleaching my hair, because i know when some people have really dark hair and they bleach it, it goes orange.. So if it was lighter.. it wouldnt go as orange?

Lol...

Anyways..

Opinions everyone..

:]

Answer 1

well the short answer is DO NOT DYE IT BLONDE!

lemon juice does not work. not for what you are after.

the only way in which you would be able to do it is if you slowly die it blonde by streaking it over about a 6 month period. but even then your hair may be destroyed. i have dark dark hair and when mine has been bleached before it has gone a horrid orange colour.

it will destory your hair.

the best thing to do is stay a darker colour, it will also keep your hair healthyer looking.

trust me stay dark.

Answer 2

it woudnt go orange if u buy good bleach

but dying your hair liter does damage it

it will probably be fine if u just bleach it

i have never work with the sun stuff

but bleach does work good

Answer 3

DO NOT DYE IT AGAIN THIS MONTH!!!! Okay i have dark brown hair and i just bleached underneath my hair all blonde. The next day it was SO dry i was scared to brush it out because i thought it was going to break. That is how bad bleach is for your hair. It wasn't developing right away so my mom and i put more bleach more developer and even peroxide in it :). I recommend waiting 4 weeks before your hair gets bleached because it needs time to recover, or else all you'll have as a result is orange bushy hair... and it won't help at all if you straighten it either (even if you use "no red" drops).  And when you do get it bleached i recommend going to the salon and having them do it, also it might take two bleaches to get ur hair that light. So it would take about 2 months to get a result.

Answer 4

The bleach totally strips you hair which takes the old dye out, sometimes if you put bleach in your hair your hair falls out

Answer 5

You are on your lucky day. im a dark haired person i did it and let me tell you its does damage your hair alot especially if right now its not in ultra good confition,

my hair doesnt look that bad cuz i lifted my color with a 20 vol peroxide TWICE instead of lifting it with a 40 vol peroxide which is very damaging. Use powder bleach its better than cream. yes it does turn orange the first bleaching step but in the second it will achieve a light yellow tone after that use a violet base TONER to kill any brassy tones and then dye it the blonde shade u want to make sure its ash blonde since gold tones will make ur hair become brassy with time.

To achieve the look and to get back ur hair beautifull YOU MUST have  money to spend on the best hair product u can afford cuz u need to use, after that, treatments to reconstruct the hair like joico k pak, kerastase ect  U r hair will look good but you have to be patient and dont panic if your hair doesnt look ultra beautiful right after you bleached cuz it will not. be careful to not mess alot with your hair the first days cuz ur hair will be very fragile u have to use alot of protein based treatments and moisturizing conditioners to make ur hair look like a celebrity mine now is in the road to recovery and look good my only problem is that u have to know u cant have any other chemical procedure on top or your hair or it  will fall out so make sure u dont need relaxers or perms or things like that cuz after bleaching theres no way to make those procedures without compromissing ur hair health

Answer 6

TOO LONG!

but yah it KILLS your hair. but it all depends on the blond you want it to be. the lighter the worst.

Answer 7

it kills it i bleached underneath my bangs blonde now my hair chips out

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just take the space out

it looks good but completely fries yerr hair