By May 2018 I decided I wanted to go gray. It was the time when color creams that lasted weeks came onto the market.
I started with a bleach that was supposed to turn hair white with just one application. In my brown hair, this cream only just lightened it up a bit and logically, the color cream did nothing.
I bleached it twice to get highlights, but it made a mess of my hair. I asked in several hairdressers, and they told me that neither white nor fantasy colors, that it was impossible to do.
Then I went to Diego’s mom’s hairdresser. She told me that white in one session was impossible, that you had to gradually bleach it and that the root would always be half yellow.
First, I got highlights leaving the root dark. Then I decided to lighten the root too. We started applying dye as the hairdresser was afraid of applying bleach directly to the roots. I was never completely happy because the top part was darker, and the gray was only visible from the middle to the ends.
In the summer I cut my hair because it was very burnt and we continued with the dye, lightening it as much as possible.
One day when I went to the hairdresser, she told me that she had a new bleach that supposedly didn’t damage so much and if I wanted to try it. It became whiter, but always with some half-yellow parts. I got better results, but my scalp was charred.
I got to a point where I was exhausted from so much bleaching because it was always four hours at the salon, I ended up with a burnt head and my hair had lost its natural texture. My hair has always been soft and shiny, and I have never needed to treat, or blow dry it. Now it was strawy.
So, I left the root dark, and I didn’t go to the hairdresser anymore. I started using the L’Oréal color creams that don’t damage my hair so much and I tried all the colors.
So, I spent the whole summer with my head like a rainbow.
I loved the turquoise, and it looks much better than what you see in the box. A little darker than smurf blue.
I became an expert mixing color. I achieved the green by adding an almost fluorescent yellow over the smurf blue I had. I also achieved a wonderful purple by throwing a color called “burgundy” on my blue hair.
All the colors fade as you wash them, but the ones with blue stay on longer and you can last many months with light blue hair. That’s why in the end I did experiments by throwing some color on that base.
In August, before leaving for two months of traveling, I decided that the rainbow hair adventure was over. So, I went back to brown and cut my hair because it was too burnt.
Dark dye on bleached hair also falls out because bleached hair no longer absorbs well. So, during the trip, I had to put on more brown hair dye.
In conclusion:
- The first thing to be clear about is that the photos we see online are of wigs. It is impossible to go from a brown or a black to a perfect white.
- It is impossible to do it on your own at home, you need to go to the hairdresser.
- If you still want to try to lighten your hair as much as possible, you must have a lot of patience to go progressively so that it doesn’t burn as much.
- Even if you go carefully and with a professional, the excessive amount of bleaching will burn the hair and scalp. It is unavoidable.
- When you decide to return to your natural color, you will have to wait a couple of years for the hair to recover its health.
