Lightening my hair ... as much as possible, platinum, help a n00b save a kitten?

Oh wow a full head of forum hair if always exciting!

If your hair isn't really dark you should be able to get to a pretty light blonde with one 30 vol bleach session. You will have to use bleach to lighten your hair.

For timing, normally the bleach packet will have suggested timing instructions you can go by. If you want to be more sure of your result you can do a stand test and see how long it takes for one small part of your hair to get as light as you want.

When you're dying you want to make sure your head stays swarm and your hair doesn't dry out, so put a plastic bag or dying hair thing over your hair followed by a towel and be in a warm room if you can, this will make the bleach work better. You can check the lightness as it's going by scraping bleach off of a bit of hair to see the colour. And wash it off when you need. I have medium warm auburn hair and I normally only need 35 minutes in a warm room. We can't really tell you the exact time you need because so many little factors affect it.
You need to leave at least a month between full bleaches 🙂

Thank you so much! Did it today, but I kinda freaked and rinsed it off a bit too soon perhaps.
Came out highlighter yellow and the tips are a more caramelized tone *blush* N00b~
Now if only toning it could make it look less like gold wire...

Yep it can, you want to get a violet dye and dilute it a load with cheap white conditioner to tone the yellow bits and a blue dye diluted a ton to make a toner for the orangey bits 🙂