How to lighten hair at home

Hair coloring is a serious and responsible business. Especially when it comes to lightening from dark to light. And that happens quite often. Women are fickle creatures, burning brunettes want to turn into platinum blondes and vice versa.

We will tell you how to lighten up at home. If you know all the nuances of this process, you can do it yourself, without spending time and money on a trip to the salon.

First you need to choose the means for lightening. Ready-made kits in household chemicals stores are undesirable. They usually contain a high level of oxide, which we suggest adjusting ourselves. Such a lightening set can spoil the structure of the hair, making it hard, porous and dry.





How to lighten hair at home How to lighten dark hair?
  1. Purchase a professional dye with an oxidizer. If you are brunette or brown-haired, take nine percent oxide for the first lightening.
  2. If you're dark brown, you're six percent.
  3. If it's light brown, three percent is enough.






DepositPhotos The procedure of lightening should be carried out at least three times with a break a week. For example, light up from dark to nine percent oxide and look at the result. The color can take on an orange-copper hue. It's normal.

After a week, do the same procedure on a lower oxidizer - six percent. Look at the result, most likely this time the hair will turn light yellow. After another week, lighten on three percent oxide to achieve platinum blonde.



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  1. How to lighten your hair without Skin damage? Before lightening apply to the skin silicone indelible means on a non-aqueous basis. If you have psoriasis, abrasions and wounds on your head, heal them first and then dye your hair. It is not as scary if the paint gets on unprotected skin as if it gets inside the body. Put your gloves on.

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  2. After finishing the safety procedures, dilute the paint. Do everything according to the instructions that go to the paint. Read how to breed exactly your composition and how much to withstand it on your head. This information may vary, depending on the brand and manufacturer.



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  3. Apply the product first on the roots of the hair, starting from the back of the head. Then all the way. After application, put a shower cap on your head, wrap a towel on top.
  4. After aging, wash your head with warm water.



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  5. After each lightening the next day, ton the strands into the resulting tone of lightening. To neutralize yellowness, choose a tinted with purple, ash or pinkish shade, use a one and a half percent oxidizer.

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  6. Always use shampoo for dyed hair and balm. Such shampoos prevent the washing out of paint, and balms strengthen curls. It is also not superfluous to use moisturizing masks. Since after dyeing the hair often loses the ability to keep moisture at the same level.

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Read more about how to take care of your hair in our next articles. Follow the links.

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