i've been coloring my hair since i was aboutsixteen or so, maybe even younger. i started out with kind of just highlights and theni gradually started to do more different things, like i went darker and then i went like reddishfor a really long time. right before i went blonde, i hadn't colored my hair in monthsand so i had about maybe like four or five inches of virgin hair at the actual top ofmy head, the rest of my hair was kind of this
loreal no ammonia hair color review, carmel-y reddish brownish color, which wasnot my natural color, my natural color was what was on top of my head, which is kindof a, i would say maybe a level five ashy brown. if you're starting out with like darkerhair or even medium dark hair, you have to understand that it's not going to take onebleach session to get to the color, like this
color. to achieve this color, i had to bleachit a total of two times, and then i did two bleach washes, but i'll get into that in asecond. and then on top of that you have to tone it, which is also a little bit more productthat i'll jump into in just a sec.the greasier your hair is when you bleach your hair, thebetter off your hair will be simply because that extra oil and grime that kind of buildsup over the days helps protect your hair shaft from the chemicals that you're about to beapplying to your hair. and i also suggest coconut oil just as an extra moisturizingstep for when you're actually bleaching your hair. i read a lot online that it actuallyhelps enhance the actual brightness and bleaching effects, but i'm not, i don't have any scientificevidence that backs that up at all. i just
like using coconut oil when i bleach my hairbecause it helps protect the hair even more. after each bleach session that i did, i endedup wearing hair masks to bed and then waking up and rinsing it out, so several days ina row, i did that. make sure you load up on products that are super moisturizing for yourhair and i would suggest sleeping in them, like putting on a hair mask, wrapping it upin either a plastic bag or a processing cap and just going to bed with it in so it actuallylike has twelve-ish hours to kind of penetrate your hair that you just fried. the first bleachsession i think i had waited like four or five days without shampooing my hair so myhair was pretty greasy, it was pretty grimy at the time. i went to sally's and i got thei think it was the ion lightener. i started
out with just the packets that they have,you can get like packets of lightener. i realized a packet or two was not enough for my hair,i needed to get the entire tub. if you have hair that is at least this long, i would definitelysay getting a tub because it's just.. you're going to be doing this a couple of times andit's more cost effective to get the tub than it is to get the individual packets like fiftyof them. i also picked up the wella t-18 toner and i think i actually got two of those. igot the t-18 toner but then i also got the t-11 i think, it was just a pale blonde. ialso got a big tub, like a big jug of both twenty volume developer and thirty volumedeveloper cause i didn't know what i was going to be using, i might as well get both, becauseit's really cheap, the developers are super
cheap and those were also the ion brand. makesure you have latex gloves and a brush and a bowl that you can mix all this stuff togetherand then you just kind of jump in. what i did was i mixed the bleach with the developerso it was the consistency of pancake batter. that's what i read was the most effectiveconsistency but i guess it's more of a preference thing than anything else. the drier it is,the longer it's going to take to develop and the more runny it is, it's harder to workwith, but it develops a little bit faster is what i've heard, i don't know if true ornot, but that's what i've heard. so i mixed it to the consistency of pancake batter andi started with a strand test, which is super important just so you know exactly how longyour hair takes to develop. when you're working
with bleach you want to always start fromlike the mid-shaft down from your hair to the very ends. you want to leave like theroots and the upper parts for last because they develop a lot faster than the stuff atthe ends. i let the strand test from like the ends to the bottom, or to the mid-shaftto the bottom, iet that sit for i think about a half an hour and then, no, i think it wasmore like twenty minutes and then i did the roots for another ten minutes on top of that.and then i just shampooed it out and dried it, and the result was a little bit orange,but that's kind of exactly what you're shooting for with the first bleach session. after iknew what i was in for with the strand test, i pretty much just did my whole head. i thinki started with the bottom layer first and
at this point i was still using the packetsand i didn't have the tub of bleach so we had to like, i did the bottom half, and thenwe had to do like an emergency run to sally's before it closed and got more bleach becauseit was really awkward just running around with like half my head bleached and the otherhalf not bleached. after the bleach had been sitting for total, all around, about thirtyto forty minutes, total, i rinsed it out, i shampooed it, and then i conditioned it.i slept in like a crazy hair mask and then that was pretty much it. i did a hair mask,i slept in a hair mask consistently for about three or four days and then i immediatelybleached it again after four days had passed. you want to wait as long as possible in betweenbleach sessions just to kind of like give
your hair a chance to breathe and give itlife again, cause it takes a long time, it takes a long time to do it the "healthy" way.after those four days had passed and i slept in a hair mask for those four days, i bleachedit again. this time, i used coconut oil, i coated my hair in coconut oil and i let thatsit in my hair for about three-ish hours before i bleached it, just to give it time to reallypenetrate my hair shaft and really get in there to help moisturize and protect it. ijust repeated the same process as before. i think this time i tried to do it with atwenty volume developer instead of thirty, but it just didn't lighten as much as i wantedto, so i ended up using a thirty volume developer. after i had bleached it, i shampooed it outand i didn't condition it because i was planning
on toning it. i used the wella t-18 tonerwith a ratio of 1:2 with the twenty volume developer that i picked up. i started withmy roots and i just kind of painted it all the way down my hair. and it does turn yourhair purple while it's developing but that's kind of the point because what the tonersbasically do is it kind of counteracts it. it's purple, so it counteracts yellow tonesin your hair. and then i let that sit for about thirty minutes or so, then i rinsedit, shampooed it, and moisturized it, conditioned it, let it dry, and then i ended up trimmingit a little bit because the ends were getting a little bit drier than i wanted it to be.i waited about a week or week and a half with that hair, and then i did a bleach bath. ipicked up a new tub of bleach. i was using
the ion brand before but this time i hearda lot of good things about prismlites, so i got the prismlites bleach in "violet". colorreally doesn't make that much of a difference at all, in my experience it didn't make adifference at all. i mixed that bleach with a thirty volume developer as i did beforeso it was like the consistency of pancake batter, and then i mixed about double thatwith shampoo. i had the bleach mixture about half of the purple tub that i was using andi pretty much filled it all the way up to the top with shampoo. and if you are goingto be using a shampoo, make sure the shampoo you're using is either white or like, i useda white one and i wouldn't suggest white, i would suggest a clear shampoo. if there'sany sort of color to the shampoo, it has the
tendency, it could possibly stain your hairthat color and that's exactly what i didn't want so if you're going to be using a bleachbath, make sure you get a shampoo that's clear or white, and really white, like not, notwith any tones to it, it has to be white. i used the organix coconut milk shampoo andfilled it all the way up to the top, mixed it in, and it was like the consistency offlubber, it was really weird, it was bouncy but it was really stretchy at the same time,it was so weird. the reason i did a bleach bath this time was that i heard that it wasa lot more gentle because you're basically diluting the bleach down, so at this point,i wanted to be really gentle with my hair because i didn't know, like, my hair's limit.i didn't know what i was doing and i wanted
to be as gentle as i could, so i used a bleachbath, i used shampoo. you can also use conditioner but make sure your conditioner, again, iswhite with no tones to it otherwise it has the tendency to stain your hair. i appliedthe bleach bath mixture the same way i did regular bleach. i started with like mid-shaftdown, let that sit for probably like twenty-ish minutes or so, and then i did my roots, ilet that sit for another ten minutes and i looked like a purple monster. i rinsed it,i shampooed it and then i got out and toned it like i did before with the wella t-18 toner.i slept in another hair mask and then i waited ten days. i did a bleach bath number two exactlylike i did before. i mixed up the lightener with the developer, thirty volume developeruntil it was the consistency of pancake batter,
i added in more shampoo until it was likeflubber all over again. i let it sit on the orange-y spots in my hair. i had a couplestripes right on top of my head that were a lot darker than the rest of my hair andso i let the bleach bath sit on those pieces for ten minutes starting out. once those tenminutes had passed, i applied it to the mid-shaft down to the ends, let that sit for twentyminutes and then for the remaining ten minutes, i did my roots and everything closer to myhead. total, on the pieces where it sat the longest, it had been on for about forty minutesor so but most of it had been sitting for about a half an hour. after that, i rinsedit, i shampooed it and i dried it. i didn't condition it at all, and it felt so dry simplybecause i didn't condition it when i got out
of the shower. i think the problem with thewella toners with me was that my hair wasn't light enough when i was using them, and becauseof that, the toner just didn't really stick all that well in my hair, so this time i didsomething a little bit different. i basically got that purple tub out again, i mixed a hugeamount of conditioner with three different manic panic dyes, a blue one, a purple oneand an actual like toner one. the conditioner was actually a yellow color and so as i saidbefore yellow is counteracted by purple so i added a ton of conditioner that was yellow,i kind of cancelled it out with the purple dye, the manic panic dye, just a tiny tinybit, and then i added a little bit too much blue dye to that, so i added more conditionerand then i added the toner, the virgin snow.
so the conditioner mixture kind of turnedinto a light bluish-grey and i had probably a cup, cup and a half total of the mixturebecause i wanted to coat my entire head with it. i did a strand test, i did, i think itwas, yeah, this piece back here, which is definitely a little bit bluish-grey now becausethat's where i did the strand test. the strand test ended up being a little bit too muchgrey for my taste, so i added a ton of white conditioner to it, you can use any white conditioneras long as it's white. and i diluted it with that a little bit and then i applied it tothe rest of my hair. and i got the color, finally, that i had wanted, which was thiscolor, what you're seeing right now. so yesterday i slept in a deep conditioning treatment,and this is the finished result of all of
that and i'm actually really happy with howit turned out, all in all. considering the amount of horrible things i ended up doingto my hair, it's actually in pretty decent condition. i would have probably applied coconutoil to my entire head before i bleached it the first time. i didn't do that the firsttime, i did it the second time, and i think it did make a difference in the overall conditionof my hair. i would not have toned it after the second time bleaching it because it didn'treally do much of anything because it wasn't light enough. there is no point in toningyour hair if it is not light enough. the color of your hair has to be the color of the insideof a banana, a very very very pale yellow, and at that point, then you can tone it andyou should see some results. but my hair was
just not light enough so toning it just kindof wasted time and i used that twenty volume developer which isn't that harsh on my hair,but considering it didn't really do much it probably, i probably shouldn't have done that.i would have checked the color of the conditioner before buying it, with the manic panic dyes,i would have checked and made it white. tresseme makes a cheap white conditioner that manypeople use, so that's something you can look into if you're wanting to do this yourself.if i could do it all over again, i would have bought a mirror, a hand mirror, because ididn't have one until the last bleach bath and it would have made my life so much easiergetting the back because i was doing it all myself. that's pretty much it. if you haveany other questions, then be sure to send
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