Bleaching

Bleaching
 Posted by SH on December 16, 2002 at 07:42:52: Previous Next

Hi, a lurker here..

I think I asked this question quite some time back, but I totally forgot what you guys said. I've got just slightly past waist length hair (only a few locks reach past it so far). I've been thinking on and off for a long time about bleaching my hair, and then toning it to ice white or light silvery grey. The color it's at now is light brown/dirty blonde. Sort of a tarnished brass/bronze color? (I never have been able to figure out the diff between light brown and dirty blond.. i hear different things from different people). Or actually, my hair is currently dark purple, since I dyed it recently with a semi-perm dye. But it is fading now. I have never bleached it before.

Anyway, what kind of damage would I be looking at here? I would not be averse to keeping it well conditioned with oils and the like, if that's necesssary, seeing that I often go a week or two without shampooing my hair anyway, so it already gets fairly oily to begin with.

Further, if I did decide to go ahead with it, where would I go to have this done? I simply don't trust myself to do it, nor do I trust any old run of the mill hair care person. It'd have to be someone who really knows what they're doing. If I do this, I suppose I'll test it out on only one lock of hair first, to assess the damage and see if I even like the color. But even then, I don't want to completely ruin that lock of hair. It might not be much overall, but it'd still be very noticable if I were to have to cut it off or something. Or perhaps I'd just go with the single bleached lock alone. Would certainly be less of a P.I.T.A. to do the roots on every few weeks than a full head of hair.

And for that matter, what about eyebrows? I know it's generally said to be a bad idea to bleach them, but I have heard there are special bleaching cremes made specifically for that. Anyone know about these, and if they work well? Or if they really even exist?

Thanks!



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