Bleaching vs. Using Blonde Hair Color
by Nikita
Hello, my hair is naturally platinum blonde, and I've dyed it like a dark/ medium brown. Well its been a couple years now and I'm kind of bored with it. I wanna go back to platinum blonde again with black tips. Which is better? Bleaching my hair or just buying a couple boxes of really bright blonde dye?
P.S Can't go to a salon, way to much money!
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Bleaching your hair would be way faster, however its very hard to distribute bleach evenly on your own hair. You are likely to end up with sections that didn't lift properly and/or sections that are overbleached and damaged.
Therefore, using very light blonde hair color with a 40 volume peroxide would give you more even coverage and would be less harmful to your hair.
Be prepared though. It will likely take you several color applications to lift your hair to a blonde color from a dark brown color. Also, as you lift it, your hair may turn some pretty funky colors. If your hair won't lift all the way to a platinum blonde color using color, you may have to resort to bleach as a final stage. It'd be way healthier for your hair to just
highlight with bleach instead of bleaching all of your hair though.