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trying to get blonde roots

 
(@EmilyLlew)

Ive been using numerous different blonde box colours to try and get my medium /dark brown hair as light as my fairly light blonde hair with no luck as they just go dark blonde / yellow. Would using a bleach bath on my roots prior to box dye help this?

My hair is in really good condition, I condition and deep condition and use heat products probably once a month with heat defense.

I'm not in a position to get my hair done professionally so any tips would be really great

Thanks


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Posted : February 12, 2015 5:12 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)

Why not just bleach your roots? bleaching and then using a box dye is double processing, so not very good for your hair. Box dyes tend to only be good for hair that is already blonde.


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Posted : February 12, 2015 5:16 pm
(@EmilyLlew)

I'm a bit concerned about bleaching, my hair is in good condition but I'm afraid of the hair snapping at the point where root and previously dyed hair meets and the fact I have never used bleach before


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Posted : February 12, 2015 5:37 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)

You need to apply it carefully to avoid overlap, and use a low volume peroxide. Bleach doesn't automatically equal breakage.


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Posted : February 12, 2015 5:48 pm
(@EmilyLlew)

So you wouldn't suggest a bleach bath ans then dye?

My hair is a medium brown I would say so what volume peroxide would you suggest, my mother would be applying the mixture so I'm pretty confident she could avoid over lap, however the roots i dyed last time are a shade or 2 darker than the rest of my hair so I would I be safe putting some bleach on that?


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Posted : February 12, 2015 6:02 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)

If you want to do it that way (bleach bath and then permanent dye) you would need to leave at least a week between processes.
You could add some bleach to the previously dyed areas towards the end of the processing time. You would need to do careful strand tests to check for lift and timing.


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Posted : February 12, 2015 6:07 pm
(@EmilyLlew)

Thanks for your advice I did the bleach and I still have hair and its quite a decent colour!


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Posted : February 21, 2015 2:19 pm