Re: How can I dye my hair lighter?
Hey marwah
I myself have very dark brown/black hair and I had never dyed my hair before. So I wanted to dye my hair a dark blonde colour. So I went to Sally’s Beauty Supply and bought a brown and 30 developer and it did nothing my hair, my hair was still black. And so I went back to that lady who recommended that colour and I told her how my hair was virgin and I dyed my hair with the colour but still nothing happened. So she said " maybe your hair is very strong in pigment and it wont get lifted easily". So she basically told me that I would have either Bleach or use a stripper to stripe my hair from the dark colour. So then I asked her what’s more damaging? and she said bleaching is worse then stripping for the hair. And the stripper has almost the same effect as the bleach. So I went home and I was thinking if I should really dye my hair? anyway’s I thought about colouring my hair that way but then I was like no, I like long hair and if it get’s too damaged then I would have to get it cut, so I never did it.
btw my hair didn’t get lifted from anywhere but my roots were a brassy orange colour, I don’t know why that happened. Anyway’s I had to live with that ugly orange roots for a while.
So Maybe try the stripper instead of the bleach since it is less damaging and gives similar results.
I think you made a good decision. I’d rather have long dark hair then short lighter hair. I had the brown root problem a couple of months ago too =/ looked terrible. And yes, after reading all these replies i’m leaning more towards stripping. (lol)