How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

i've got long d.brown hair and i want to die it white blond but i dont want to be left with no hair! opinons from people with experience of bleaching

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

It is VERY difficult to go blonde from dark if you are doing it from home. In order to go that light, you have to completely strip your hair of pigment, and if you try to do it at home, your hair could turn orange. It's definitely something that a professional should do if you are wanting such severe lightening. If you go to a salon, they may take 2 sessions of lightening to get you that blonde from dark brown.

Especially since your hair is long, if you try it at home and hate it, it's REALLY hard to fix it or make it go back to how you had it if you change your mind.

It's possible to go that light, but definitely go to a salon to get a professional to do it so you don't end up with either orange hair or your hair breaking off! :)

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

If you do it yourself you will cause major damage. The amount of bleach it takes to strip off that much color will fry your hair. Salons have special color stippers that won't do as much damage, but either way bleaching hair will always do damage.

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

it will give you alot of split ends...

but you just cut those off afterwards. (about 1 or 2 inches)

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

My mom had medium brown hair, and she bleached it to bleached blonde, and the problem is that in order to keep the color, she had to re-do it every few weeks or so to keep the roots from showing. Eventually her hair got to be like straw...then she tried to perm it, and it started to melt when I put the perm solution on it.

She ended up cutting it really, really short and let her hair grow out again to get it healthy.

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

Information taken from link below:

How lightening works:

"The oxidising agents in bleaches take part in a chemical reaction with melanin. They provide the melanin molecule with oxygen from their own molecules. The oxidised melanin molecule is colorless.

Melanin is contained in the cortex of the hair. For the oxidising agent to reach the melanin, therefore, it has to get through the cuticle. In the alkaline solution of the bleach formulation, the scales of the cuticle are raised and the bleach chemicals can then penetrate the cortex."

Problems in the bleaching process:

"Raising the scales of the cuticle for penetration by the bleach is in itself a potentially risky process. Repeated bleaching can leave permanently raised scales and upset the moisture content. It increases the porosity of the hair, and this makes further bleaching

more difficult: very porous hair bleaches badly, with uneven shading. Repeated bleaching leaves weak, brittle hairs which have little shine or lustre, and which weather rapidly. Additional cosmetic procedures such as perming simply make things worse."

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

I had red hair and went to platinum and it wrecked my hair. It literally fell out, almost all of it. I was left with a few inches in places. The lesson learned is go to a professional if you're not willing to take a risk and make sure to bleach slowly. If your hair doesn't turn out the shade you want, don't go throwing more bleach in there the same day!

How much does bleaching your hair from dark to white wreck your hair?

it will damage your hair like make it dry. there are different levels of blonde hair from 1 to 8. 8 being white blonde. your hair because its dark brown wont be able to get to a level 8 blonde.