Beautiful, well-groomed hair is the pride of any woman. However, modern ladies are not enough to have a smart head of hair and a fashionable hairstyle. Hair color also plays a huge role in the image. Especially when it comes to the image of a stunning blonde. The bright shade of hair is now at the peak of popularity. An increasing number of women are going to radical changes in the image for the blond curls. Hairdressers note that every third client asks to make the coloring in bright colors. Fortunately, you can lighten your hair at home. There are several effective ways to do this.
How to lighten hair at home?
How to achieve a beautiful persistent color, not burned out and dull? In order to protect themselves, you can use folk remedies, cooked at home. What is worth stocking up? Depending on what effect you want to achieve, you may need different ingredients. The advantages of folk remedies are that they will not only help make your hair lighter by three or four tones, but will also nourish your hair.
So, there are several ways to brighten hair with lemon and water, but these methods are suitable for those whose hair is not too brittle and dry by nature. But if you want to get a beautiful golden hue and strengthen the hair, then chamomile infusions will suit you. There may be different options: you can take nettle and chamomile, chamomile insist on vodka, mix it with saffron and lavender essential oil, as well as rhubarb and tea.
The most gentle masks include kefir. This dairy product can be used as an independent ingredient, and you can add other components. For example, onion juice, cinnamon, mustard, yeast. We must not forget about such a natural clarifier, like henna. Many people think that white henna is a plant, but it is not. Natural henna gives redhead hair, but if various natural additives are added to it chemically, it becomes white. And then it can be part of various masks for lightening hair.
How to lighten hair paint at home?
Of course, the dyes will give a better result than natural remedies, but how this will affect the quality of the hair is another question. It should be remembered that paints are of two types: ammonia is included in some, and it is not included in others. The first are more aggressive. They destroy the upper layer of hair, then peroxide, penetrating into the inner layer, destroys the natural pigments. Hair will be discolored. If the paint does not contain ammonia, then the effect will last, respectively, about three weeks.
How to prepare hair for home lightening?
- Before you dare to take such a step, think carefully whether your new look will be combined with the color and shape of the face. Back to the original color then it will not be as easy as we would like. And the regrown ends will now need to tint all the time. It is worth considering the fact that the hair will change its structure.
- Be careful with the choice of paint, if you have done a perm or if your hair is already very brittle. Stop for a start on folk remedies.
- Before applying the paint, do a test on a small area of the skin. If after fifteen minutes there is no irritation, then you can proceed to staining.Also in the salons are usually offered to start to lighten one strand of hair and check the effect. At home, you can do the same.
- Light tones immediately underline split ends, so they must first be cut off.
- Three weeks before the procedure, start using a brightening shampoo. This will help you get rid of the chemicals contained in your hair, artificial strands must also be removed. In the pool, be sure to use a hat, because the chlorine that has been absorbed into your hair may produce a completely unexpected color during the bleaching process. A few days before the procedure, do not use styling products.
- Rinse your hair well with the conditioner a day before the procedure, it is not necessary to lighten freshly washed hair.
Brightening hair paint
Before the procedure, prepare a towel, which is not a pity, a comb (it is desirable that the teeth are sparse) and the bleaching mixture itself. Remember that after clarification you will need to use the appropriate shampoos and balms. Before applying the mixture hair must be very well combed.
If you have never lightened your hair before, but only dyed it, you can assume that here you must first apply the mixture to the hair roots, and in about fifteen minutes along the entire length. But with clarification, this will not work. First, distribute the composition over the entire length, very carefully, without missing strands, evenly. Heat radiates from the head, and therefore the roots can stain much more intensively, so the mixture is applied to the roots only after the composition has been distributed over the entire length.
Wrap your hair with a towel, adhere to the time specified in the instructions (everything will depend on the brand of paint that you choose). Then rinse the hair thoroughly and brush it with balm, let it soak in and rinse it well again with water. Do not use shampoo right away; your hair will first need thorough care.
Home brightening hair powder
Paints are creamy, oil and powder. The powder is most effective, but does not have a sparing effect.
- To get started, read the instructions.
- Prepare a plastic bowl (do not use tin and aluminum containers), gloves, and an apron if desired.
- Do not save on the amount of the mixture: it should cover all your hair with a dense even layer, then the color will be beautiful and even. Apply it with a brush.
- For stiff hair, a larger percentage of oxidizer is used, for soft, respectively, a smaller one.
- Do not think that if you hold the powder on the hair longer than the time specified in the instructions, the hair will be brightened better. You can achieve the exact opposite effect and completely ruin your hair.
- After the procedure, do not forget to use the conditioner, let the hair dry by yourself, do not spoil them with a hair dryer and do not break with a towel.
How to lighten hair with hydrogen peroxide?
- Preparation. Hair should be healthy and strong. Shampoos, masks, balms should not contain sulfates. Try to avoid exposure to hair with hot air, discard irons and curls. Prepare a 3% peroxide solution. A larger percentage will not suit you, because the hair will start to fall out. You will also need a bottle of some spray (just rinse it well and boil it), cotton pads, hairpins, a towel. Hair should be thoroughly rinsed using air conditioning. Dirt and grease can adversely affect the clarification process by reacting with peroxide. And wet hair will help improve the reaction.
- The clarification process. Using a cotton swab, apply peroxide on a thin strand of hair, rinse off after half an hour. So you can understand how much peroxide you will need to achieve the desired result. Dried hair should be divided into sections, securing them with pre-prepared hairpins.Gradually, you will lighten each strand and fasten it with a hairpin. If you want to achieve the effect of amber, then start the brightening from the tips with cotton pads. If you want a complete hair lightening, then use a spray. After half an hour, rinse your hair with cool water.
- Enhance effect. The hair will be lighter and the effect will last longer if you lighten it gradually. Apply the solution every day, and do not use the entire bottle at once. Do not wash your hair daily. If the hair quickly becomes greasy, then stock up with a dry shampoo. Hair will become a little lighter, if immediately after the procedure for some time to walk under the sun. If your hair has become an unpleasant defiant color (bright yellow or orange), soften it with a special purple shampoo.
How to lighten hair with lemon?
In the East, these recipes have been used for a long time, and dark-haired beauties know a lot about lightening, because their hair is very difficult to make more light.
- If you have dry hair, you will need one-quarter cup of conditioner and a glass of lemon juice (usually enough to squeeze 4 lemons). If the hair is normal, then the conditioner can be replaced with warm water. The first mixture can be diluted with a plastic bowl, and the second in a washed bottle from under any spray.
For a quicker effect, you will need to spend two hours in the sun, so apply sunscreen on your skin beforehand. If you want to lighten all the hair, then use a spray or a brush (based on conditioner), if only individual strands, then use cotton pads. The next day, repeat the procedure.
- Hair will be moisturized and silky after lightening if you prepare the following mask. Take rhubarb (30 g) and half a liter of vinegar, boil it all over low heat for ten minutes. Then add the juice of two lemons, and twenty grams of chamomile and calendula, boil for another five minutes. After the mixture is infused and cooled, add alcohol (50 g) and two tablespoons of liquid honey. Using a brush, apply the mixture to your hair, tie a warm scarf over your head for fifty minutes.
How to lighten hair with chamomile?
If you need to slightly lighten the hair and at the same time strengthen them, then stop your choice on recipes with chamomile.
- In a water bath tomia chamomile (2 tablespoons), poured with two glasses of water. Strained infusion, use after each wash as a conditioner.
- Take a tablespoon of chamomile and nettle per liter of water, and also stir for ten minutes. After rinsing, wrap the hair with a towel and walk like that for half an hour.
- Red hair will get a pleasant shade and will be restored if you take half a liter of vodka, fill it with chamomile (150 g) and let it brew for two weeks. Then strain and add to the infusion 10 drops of essential lemon oil and 3% hydrogen peroxide (50 ml). Infusion can be divided into several parts and applied with a spray over the entire length of the hair.
- A glass of boiling water pour chamomile (2 tablespoons) and saffron (literally at the tip of the knife). After half an hour, add the juice of one lemon, 5 drops of lavender essential oil. Apply the mixture to your hair and wash it off after half an hour.
How to lighten hair with cinnamon?
After such a mask will not only be clarified and moistened, but also they will have a very pleasant smell. For each mask, use conditioner to make it easier to wash off, and during application it evenly adheres to the hair. What can you use?
- For half a cup of air conditioning and olive oil, 4 tbsp. cinnamon
- Mix 2.5 st. L of oil (olive), honey, cinnamon and conditioner.
- On 2 tbsp. Cinnamon A glass of honey, conditioner and a teaspoon of lemon juice.
- Equal parts of conditioner and cinnamon.
- Bring cinnamon, whipped with distilled water, to a paste.
The process of preparing the hair and applying the mixture is the same as in the recipes that we talked about above.The mixture should be kept on the hair for four hours, and if you have such an opportunity, leave the mask on the hair for the whole night.
If oil was used in masks, they are washed away hard, so rinse hair thoroughly for 15-20 minutes. If you want to lighten your hair even more, then repeat the procedure every other day. After applying the mixture, you can feel a burning sensation, but it will pass in twenty minutes (by the way, it is olive oil that helps relieve this burning sensation). Add two yolks to your mask if your hair is too dry. Do not rub the mixture into the scalp. It is not recommended to use this ingredient for blondes, because you can get a reddish tint. Avoid contact with the skin of the face and neck, as irritation may occur. The effect will be better if you make a chamomile decoction and rinse your hair with it.
Kefir hair lightening
- This nourishing mask will lighten your hair, even if you don’t want it, so use kefir for newly-dyed hair with care. To the egg yolk, add half a cup of kefir and two tablespoons of brandy (vodka also suits), lemon juice (just one lemon), a spoonful of shampoo. The mask can be kept on the hair for two hours.
- You can not add any ingredients, just heat the kefir to body temperature. This mask can be used twice a week. After a few uses, your hair will become noticeably lighter.
- Whisk the heated kefir with the egg, add a spoon of cocoa there. Apply the mixture thoroughly to the hair once a week.
Kefir should choose natural (shelf life can not exceed five days). You cannot use an expired product. The mask is quite possible to keep the night, it will only increase the benefit.
Henna for lightening hair
It is necessary to take into account the fact that the red dye will need to be released, and therefore henna should be mixed with citrus juice. Lemon is best, but individually. First check to see if you have any allergic reactions to a particular type of juice. Do not hurt your mask olive oil. The smell of henna can be neutralized with additives from cardamom or ginger (a teaspoon of one or the other is enough). You can not breed henna boiling water. Henna is not so easily washed off.
Mixed with henna juice, leave to infuse for a day. If you are the owner of hair up to the waist, then you need 500 g of henna, then - to decrease. So, quite short hair enough 100 g of henna. In the mixture should not be krupinochek and lumps, otherwise the coloring will not be uniform. If you just diluted with henna with distilled water, you can leave the mixture overnight (this is suitable for those who want to achieve a spectacular redhead). If you used acid, you should not keep the mask on your hair for more than an hour.
Hydrogen peroxide
Advantages of using hydrogen peroxide:
- the possibility of obtaining a lighter shade
- cost savings
- with all the rules, the procedure is considered very easy,
- coloring will last on the hair for a long time, because the substance penetrates deep into their structure.
This procedure has its drawbacks:
- hydrogen peroxide dries curls,
- they are getting thinner
- not always achieved the desired effect when lightening dark hair.
Instructions for
Before starting the clarification, conduct a trial procedure. Apply the product on a small strand and look at the reaction. Perhaps the tool is not suitable for the structure of the curls.
10 days prior to the procedure, do not use products on a chemical basis, hair dryer, ironing or curling. Hair must be nourished with masks, preferably natural.
For thin, weak curls, it is better to choose a 3% peroxide solution, and for dark ones - 9-12%. 50 ml of peroxide need to add 3 drops of ammonia, it is responsible for the activation of the substance. To soften the effect of the clarifier, add some glycerin soap to it.
The mixture is diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio.Apply to hair with a sprayer. If you need to dye only some individual strands, then it is better to use a cotton pad - moisten it with a solution and apply it on the desired strand. Keep the mixture on the hair for 30 minutes. Then rinse under running water, apply a nourishing mask for 15 minutes.
If the hair clarification with hydrogen peroxide needs to be repeated, the procedure can be repeated only after 2 weeks.
Benefits include the following:
- the ability to make hair lighter by 2-3 tones,
- the curls will turn white in just a few sessions,
- it contains a lot of natural ingredients
- low cost
The disadvantages of lightening with white henna include:
- the result may not always be expected - the hair may become red,
- can not be used on gray hair and after a perm,
- the white tint is quickly washed out,
- the first time after applying henna, ordinary paint will not fit well,
- It is dangerous to increase the exposure time.
After the first procedure, the hair may become yellowish. Therefore, to achieve the desired result, it will need to be repeated again.
To reduce the effect of white henna on the skin, it is not recommended to wash your hair for several days.
Instructions for
- dilute henna according to the instructions
- apply on the root zone, then evenly distribute along the entire length of the curls,
- scalp well massaged,
- then put a plastic cap on your head,
- hold the paint for 10-30 minutes (the duration of exposure depends on the original hair color, the lighter, the less time to keep)
- wash off henna with plenty of water
- apply a nourishing mask or balm.
To fix the result, it is recommended not to wash your hair for the first three days after dyeing.
Of the advantages of washing, the following are distinguished:
- impact less aggressive than discoloration,
- fits well on hair thanks to a creamy texture,
- short procedure time.
The disadvantages of this procedure include:
- the need for re-clarification, especially in the case of very dark hair.
Stages of the procedure
- in containers made of glass or ceramics (in no case do not use metal dishes) dissolve the catalyst and reducing agent in the same proportions,
- apply the resulting product to the hair, stepping a couple of centimeters from the roots (this will prevent skin injury),
- the duration of exposure - the third of the hour,
- wash off the composition of the hair with plenty of running water,
- wash your hair with shampoo deep impact,
- blot and dry naturally.
Brightening Shampoo
Among the advantages of using a brightening shampoo, girls note the following:
- safety - shampoo does not change the structure of the hair, but rather nourishes them,
- ease of use,
- effectiveness - if you choose the right shampoo, it is possible to lighten the hair with several tones in a couple of procedures,
- availability and economy.
The disadvantages include the following factors:
- will not help lighten natural black hair,
- curls will become lighter just a couple of tones,
- the desired result can only be obtained with regular use,
- may cause too active sebaceous glands.
Stages of the procedure
The whole clarification process consists of only three stages:
- good wetting strands
- wash your hair with regular shampoo to get rid of dirt and grease,
- apply a lightening agent, lather and leave for 5-10 minutes, then rinse under running water:
- if there is a balm in the kit, it must also be applied.
Ammonia free paint
Pros:
- spare curls,
- restores health
- improves hair shade.
Cons of lightening paints:
- remains on the hair for a relatively short time (1.5-2 months),
- copes poorly with gray hair,
- the tool can lighten the curls only 2-3 tones,
- the cost of the paint without ammonia is much more than the same ammonia preparation,
- The desired result is most often achieved only in salon conditions.
Stages of the procedure
- dilute the components of the coloring set in a glass container
- cover your shoulders with polyethylene so that no paint gets on your skin
- distribute the paint along the entire length of the curls,
- massage the scalp
- put a polyethylene cap on the curls,
- wait 30-45 minutes (time depends on the source color and the desired result),
- wash off with plenty of water
- shampoo your hair,
- apply a nourishing mask for half an hour.
Use a glove during any bleaching procedure because chemicals can irritate your skin.
As you can see, there are a lot of ways to make your curls lighter at home. Modern tools help to achieve the desired shade, as well as improve the condition of the strands.
Why is it useful to lighten hair folk remedies
The constant desire of a woman to change the image makes first of all change the hair color. Regular chemical dyeing leads to dryness and loss of damaged hair.
Make your hair beautiful, give them a new shade to help folk recipes for their clarification
Caution! The use of chemical hair dyes has a negative effect not only on the hair, but also on the human body as a whole. Ammonia contained in most paints is a toxic substance that can penetrate the hair structure, skin and lungs.
Allergic reactions, itching and burning of the skin, headaches, eye irritation - this is an incomplete list of the body's reactions to ammonia. Other aggressive substances - parabens, also contained in most paints, accumulated in the body, can cause cancer.
The use of folk remedies for lightening hair at home, on the contrary, ensures the improvement of their structure. If after salon dyeing the hair is injured, then natural recipes strengthen the roots, revitalize the hair, and also relieve dandruff.
Lighten hair at home with folk remedies is easy. After studying the effect of herbs and other products for coloring, you can experimentally find your recipe by combining various components.
The use of folk remedies for lightening hair at home, on the contrary, ensures the improvement of their structure
In addition, the recipes of folk remedies for lightening hair at home do not require any special financial expenses, as when visiting salons or purchasing paints.
It is important to know! As with other experiments with appearance, the clarification procedure is started after thorough preparation.
Fundamental rules
To properly lighten hair at home folk remedies should be familiar with some of the nuances:
- If the tool is used for the first time, need to conduct a susceptibility test avoid allergic reactions.
- For the first time it is enough to lighten 1 strand.. Just making sure that the resulting shade fits the overall image, skin color and eyes, you can start to fully lighten the entire head.
- Shortly before lightening, you should take maximum care of your hair, using daily nourishing masks and balms.
- If prior to clarification, the hair was treated with chemistry for the purpose of perming, it is necessary to sustain a break of about 2 weeks.
- Owners of dark hair should be patient to achieve the desired shade. Sometimes pretreatment with hydrogen peroxide is required first.
Owners of dark hair should be patient to achieve the desired shade.
Chamomile Lightening Recipes
Among the herbs that can lighten hair at home with folk remedies, the place of honor belongs to chamomile. She is suitable for any type and shade hair.
Blond hair gains brightness, dark hair acquires a noble golden hue. Even gray camomile gives a refined ebb. For cooking tools need 1 tbsp. flowers and 4 tbsp. water.
Among the herbs that can lighten hair at home with folk remedies, the place of honor belongs to chamomile.
Bring to a boil and keep on fire for about 3 minutes. After cooling the broth, pour it into a jar with warm water and rinse the hair several times in it. Do not wipe your hair carefully. Broth should penetrate into the hair structure. In the future, it is necessary to use chamomile decoction once every 3 days, without fear of overdrying it, because chamomile is suitable for both dry and oily hair.
To avoid yellowness, as a side effect, add 0.5 chamomile decoction to chamomile. grape juice. For intensive lightening of dark hair, you need to add 20 g of pharmacy glycerin to chamomile broth. By adding calendula (50 g) and honey (50 g), you can achieve a noble copper shade of red hair.
Lightening rhubarb
Rhubarb is another popular way to lighten hair. at home folk remedies. This recipe requires 2 cups of crushed rhubarb roots, pour 0.5 liters of white wine and cook for half an hour over low heat until the mixture is half as high.
Wine can be replaced by fruit vinegar of high quality. Broth rhubarb on the water also brightens the hair, but the result will be less noticeable than when using wine or vinegar.
Rhubarb is another popular way to lighten hair at home with folk remedies.
Strain the broth moisten hair and rinse after 2 hours. To avoid sour smell, when rinsing in the water add aromatic essences. You can rinse your hair with water with lemon peels or apple cider vinegar.
Apply rhubarb daily, 7-10 days. Shades obtained with the help of rhubarb decoction, differ in a variety of palettes from copper to red, from golden to chocolate.
Recipe with nettle and chamomile
At home, a folk remedy made from nettle leaves and chamomile is used to lighten hair. A mixture of 1 tbsp. l each herb is poured with a liter of boiling water. After cooling, the broth is filtered and rinsed their hair.
At home, a folk remedy made from nettle leaves and chamomile is used to lighten hair.
Slightly dried hair is treated with camomile essence diluted in water 1: 1. An hour later, wash off the essence of chamomile infusion.
For decoction, you can use the leaves and roots of nettle, both in fresh and in dried form. The addition of honey, apple cider vinegar or white clay will enhance the brightening effect.
Lemon hair masks
Lemon brightens hair due to its high acid content, suitable for both fair-haired and dark-haired women
Lemon juice is mixed with water in equal parts and with a sprayer applied half the solution to dry hair. The sun's rays enhance the effect of the remedy.so 20 minutes is enough to dry your hair in the sun.
Lemon brightens hair due to its high acid content, suitable for both fair-haired and dark-haired women
Then spray the remaining solution and re-substitute the hair under the rays of the sun for another 30 minutes. As an alternative to a tanning bed. Then the hair must be thoroughly rinsed and applied to them with a moisturizing conditioner.
If you put on a special cap at the same time, firing out separate strands, and spray them with lemon water, you can achieve the effect of highlighting.
To lighten the hair, you can prepare a lemon mask, which is recommended to leave overnight. For a folk remedy, you need 1 citrus juice, 3 tbsp. l vodka, 1 chicken yolk and 0.5 tbsp. mayonnaise.
You can lighten your hair by applying a mixture of chamomile tea and lemon juice with the addition of 1 g saffron. Lemon dries hair, therefore, they should be thoroughly moistened after using such masks.
Honey hair lightening
About the healing properties of honey has long been known, but honey is also able to lighten hair. The lightening effect is explained by the presence in the honey composition of a natural substance of identical hydrogen peroxide.
About the healing properties of honey has long been known, but honey is also able to lighten hair. The lightening effect is explained by the presence in the composition of honey of a natural substance of identical hydrogen peroxide
Before applying the honey mask, it is recommended to wash the hair, adding 1/4 tsp to the shampoo. soda Then gently process the heated honey hair, cover your head with plastic film and leave for 6-8 hours, preferably at night.
Adding lemon juice to honey enhances lightening action. To prepare the mixture, mix lemon juice and honey in equal proportions and add olive or burdock oil.
Lightening Mask of Onion Husk
For lightening hair at home, the recipe of a folk remedy using onion peels is known. For its preparation, 200-300 g of husk are poured with water and set to roast for 15 minutes.
This decoction is suitable for blondes. After using it, rinse the hair with water and lemon juice, thus removing the unpleasant smell of onions.
Cinnamon Masks
To prepare the mask, mix cinnamon powder (3 tablespoons) with slightly warmed honey (70 g) and any hair balm (3 tablespoons). Slightly dried hair combed and put the mixture only on the hair, trying not to touch the skin. Excess cinnamon on the skin can cause a burn.
Cinnamon can lighten only unpainted hair. But even if the hair is damaged by paint, cinnamon gives a positive effect.
Wrap your head and keep the mixture for at least 3 hours. Rinse hair with shampoo. If you need several procedures to lighten the hair, the visible recovery is noticeable immediately after the first application.
You can enhance the brightening effect by adding lemon juice to a mixture of 3 tbsp. l cinnamon and 3 tbsp. l honey In this case, the mask holding time can be reduced to 2 hours.
Another shade can be achieved by adding to the mixture of honey and cinnamon egg yolk and a little olive oil. After washing the hair with shampoo, it is recommended to rinse them with chamomile infusion.
Cinnamon oil
To get a lighter tone of hair, you can apply cinnamon oil. To do this, add 0.5 tsp. oil in 50 ml of honey diluted with 100 ml of distilled water and 30 ml of lemon juice.
Another shade can be achieved by adding to the mixture of honey and cinnamon egg yolk and a little olive oil
Mix the mixture with 200 ml of any conditioner. Apply the mask and leave for 1 hour. After applying the product with oil, the hair needs to be rinsed thoroughly.
High tea for brightening
To prepare a lightening composition based on long leaf tea, 60 g of chamomile, 40 g of colorless henna and 20 g of tea are required to brew 200 g of boiling water. In the cooled infusion pour 300 g of vodka and insist 3 days.
Drain the liquid and apply the remaining thick on the hair for 40 minutes. To obtain a stable result, repeat every 5-6 days.
You can also lighten the hair with a decoction of long leaf tea
Make hair lighter can not only chemical means, but also folk recipes.
At the same time, the main advantage of home brightening is that the result is achieved not immediately, but time after time, giving the freedom to choose the color, and in case of failure, the ability to fix everything without harm to the health of the hair.
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Brightening with chemical paint
With the help of ammonia paint can be easily brightened. If natural hair is blond, after the first application of the composition you can achieve the perfect blond. Those who have dark hair, lighten up several times. It will be hard for the girls who used to dye their hair reddish to whiten the strands (it is especially difficult to wash off the color of henna).
The chemical method of lightening with paints is not gentle. The composition adversely affects the hair, destroys their health. The negative effects of chemical staining include:
- thinning hairs, increasing fragility,
- noticeable loss
- strong pereushka rods (hair becomes to the touch, like straw, tow),
- strands hard to comb,
- rod scales do not close to the end of the procedure, which makes the hair defenseless,
- curls dull, require mandatory recovery,
- after the first procedure, the hair can turn out with an unpleasant yellowness,
- skin injury can not be avoided.
Chemical paints are available in several types:
- powder (the most aggressive, do not spare hair) are used by hairdressers for highlighting,
- cream (conveniently applied, do not leak, do not hurt the strands),
- oil are considered gentle, with their help it is recommended to lighten dark curls.
Before in practice to carry out clarification by a chemical method (especially it concerns dark hair), it is worth weighing the positive and negative sides of this procedure, contraindications. If no item is out of suspicion and nothing confuses, then you can safely begin to lighten the hair with the help of the selected dye.
Lightening at home chemical composition is carried out according to certain rules and strictly in stages. Before the procedure, you can not wash your hair for several days. The fat content that appeared on the curls will help to slightly protect the rods and skin from aggressive chemical attack.
- Prepare everything you need for a home hairdressing: ceramic or plastic (do not use iron), comb, comb, disposable shower cap or plastic bag, brush for applying tools, gloves.
- Put on the old, which is not a pity to stain clothes (you can use a hairdressing salon). Put a towel over your shoulders, put on disposable gloves.
- After reading on the packaging, how to prepare the paint, prepare the mixture. It is important to mix the ingredients quickly.
- When combed, split the hair in the middle of the head.
- Separating the strands, apply a quickly lightening mass, each curl well combed. First cover the hair on one side, then go to the second half. Proper fluff the roots.Pay special attention to the temporal, occipital.
- After applying the brightener on all hair, additionally moisten with paint roots.
- Wearing a hat and wrapping your head with a terry turban, wait for the time specified in the instructions.
- Rinse with warm water several times. Before the last wash, apply balm on the strands, hold it for a few minutes.
- It remains to wait until the hair is dry, and admire the work done.
Somewhere in 3-5 weeks a dark border will appear at the roots. This is the hair industry, and they require regular coloring. Especially striking lack of aesthetic hair, if native hair is dark in color. It is not necessary immediately to clarify them in a new way. It must take some time between treatments to restore the strands.
To hide and lighten the regrown roots a bit, you can use a variety of popular recipes. Of course, to bleach perfectly after the first manipulation from the realm of fantasy, but by 1-3 tones the roots will brighten.
How to lighten hair with honey
Unique fact: an enzyme is present in honey, a small amount of hydrogen peroxide is released. This means that the bee product is able to brighten the hair. True, you have to have patience to achieve results. If the hair is dark, then the effect of lightening the curls can be noticed by the eye after 4-6 procedures. During home manipulation strands will receive an additional portion of moisture and nutrition.
To be clarified with honey, you must first wash the hair, dry it with a towel. Apply on the principle of a mask product on a moist head. If the honey is too thick, you can add some warm water. Warming is not advised. Keep sweetness on the head under plastic and kerchief for at least 10 hours. Rinse with shampoo.
If damaged and tired from regular exposure to thermal devices lighten hair, honey, it is advised to combine in equal quantity with olive oil. In cases where the hair is strongly split, add chopped banana pulp to the mass.
Soda clarification
Baking soda, they say experienced, you can significantly lighten dark hair for 2 months of regular manipulation. If a woman is naturally blond-haired, then it is actually 3-4 weeks to lighten up for a couple of tones.
To prepare the brightening mass, you need to dissolve 8 tbsp in 100 ml of boiled and cooled water. l soda After dissolving add 100 ml of everyday shampoo. Stir, but try so that the mass does not foam too much.
Wash hair several times a week with the prepared mixture. As soon as the home brightener has covered the hair, you need to wait a little (about 10 minutes), rinse.
3 recipes ginger clarification
It turns out that ginger not only saves from cold and helps to lose weight. He is still able to whiten his hair in the most wonderful way. Lightening agent is prepared as follows.
- 2-3 grind fresh, filled with juice, ginger roots. It is convenient to do this using a meat grinder, grater, or in a blender with a special nozzle. Grinding is necessary for the magic root juice to give up all its usefulness during the next stage of preparation of the remedy.
- Pour the water into the saucepan with the ginger paste so that it is lightly coated. Put on the burner with a small fire heated. Half an hour later, remove the decoction from the stove.
- Cooled down the brew. The magic clarifier is ready.
- The resulting liquid must be applied daily to the hair, while the curls do not brighten.
On the basis of ginger there is another recipe for the preparation of natural homemade hair clarifier. He is preparing a little for a different recipe.
- Chopped ginger, only cooked lemon juice and 200 ml of beer (use live light), combining, beat until thick foam.
- Put a few drops of jojoba oil into the mass. This component will heal the curls, give them shine.
- For 2-3 hours to cover the mixture with hair, and then rinse with room water.
Wanting to lighten up, it is worth conducting an experiment, based on this recipe.
- In equal quantity, it is necessary to prepare citrus peel and finely chopped ginger. Combine, fill with water, so that the ingredients are immersed in the liquid at 1/3, leave for 20 hours to enjoy each other's company.
- After infusion, add 200 g sour cream, 10 drops of lemon tree oil or lemon. Mask for lightening ready.
- Apply it on hair. Create a thermal effect to the head.
- After 2-3 hours, you can go to the bathroom to wash off the home brightener. Manipulation is repeated until the hair brightens to the desired tone.
Homemade hair lightening without peroxide
Blondes, accustomed to achieve the perfect blonde with the help of chemical methods, can not believe that at home you can prepare paint, after the application of which the result will please. It is difficult to prove in words, it is better to conduct an experiment and demonstrate the bleached hair. Just have to repeat the following recipe. It is unique in that it is suggested to be clarified without the use of peroxide.
For cooking clarifier will need:
- 50 grams of medical pure alcohol,
- 20-30 grams pharmacy calendula,
- 0.5 liters of apple (exclusively!) Vinegar,
- 3 tbsp. l honey
- 30 grams of rhubarb root,
- 50 ml of lemon juice,
- 20 grams of pharmaceutical chamomile.
After collecting all the necessary components, you can proceed to cooking.
- Chop the rhubarb beforehand and pour it with vinegar. Put on the hob, boil and reduce the heat. The mass should then stew for another 15 minutes.
- Gradually and alternately, chamomile, calendula, alcohol is injected. Continue quenching for another 7 minutes.
- As soon as the time is up, remove from heat, cool, strain.
- Add the norm of honey, lemon juice, mix.
- The prepared paint should be quickly applied to the strands. Hold for about 40 minutes, rinse using shampoo.
To maintain hair color, it is advised to apply this brightening mask before each hair wash. With its help, it will be possible to strengthen the roots, eliminate split ends, increase the radiance, shine of each strand.
2 recipes peroxide clarification
In the mid-twentieth century, beauties used hydrogen peroxide, hydroperitol, to lighten hair. The method should not be called gentle, but even very dark hair was bleached several times. After this procedure, the hair looked like straw, it was difficult to comb, fell out, and the injured scalp itched terribly.
Although modern hairdressing offers a lot of gentle methods of lightening, yet among the beauties there are those who like to lighten up with hydrogen peroxide. For comparison, it is worth trying, of course, and this way of becoming a blonde.
For the brightening mass, you need to prepare 300 ml of water, 100 grams of pharmacy chamomile, 50 ml of 30% peroxide.
Preparing the mixture for about an hour. Send chamomile to boiling water and leave to infuse for 40 minutes. Strain, add peroxide. That's all the preparation of the clarifier. It remains to apply the mass on the head for half an hour, then rinse it off. Fix the result with vinegar or lemon water.
Brunettes after the first test a little brighten. Hair will get a golden shade. If you want to clarify one more tone, repeat the procedure no earlier than in 3 days.
Another recipe, according to lovers of natural home lighting, is worthy of attention. Preparing a tool with 150 g of chamomile, 50 ml of 30% peroxide and 0.5 liters of vodka.
These components are mixed in a glass jar, close tightly with a lid and leave to infuse for 2 weeks. In tincture add lemon oil ester (8-10 drops). The clarifier is ready. After it has been applied to the hair, wrap the head for 45 minutes.Wash off with shampoo, rinse with vinegar.
Each woman will independently decide how to lighten her hair. Methods using chemicals cause significant damage to the hair. But this does not stop many women. For beauty, they are ready to make sacrifices. Those beauties who value the hair and the health of curls are a priority should in practice experience the effect of numerous popular methods on how to lighten hair at home.
How to start lightening hair
Having decided to lighten the hair, you should know what needs to be done before the procedure. First you need to decide on the desired shade. To make it faster, you can download to your computer a program that will select several options for hairstyles. To do this, you only need to upload your color photo, which will clearly show the oval of the face. If there is no computer at hand, you can conduct an experiment using the phone. There are many applications that can pick up not only hair color from a photo, but also makeup, hair and haircuts.
What you need to do before lightening paint
After downloading a photo with your favorite hair color, you can safely go to the hairdresser. When deciding to paint at home, he should ask what paint you can get the desired shade. Sometimes, to achieve a certain color, several staining procedures are required. Or a complex technique of mixing coloring ingredients. After receiving a detailed consultation with a specialist, you can go for a lightening hair dye to the store or buy it directly in the salon. In addition to paint, you will need disposable gloves, a bowl, a brush, a comb for combing hair and baby cream. Having prepared all the tools you can start home painting.
Useful tips before lightening
Before you choose a way to lighten and rush to shopping in a cosmetic store, you need to think about many of the nuances. Lighten hair is a serious step in changing the appearance and, of course, a huge stress for the hair. Therefore, to avoid possible mistakes, you should follow some rules:
- Try to choose a more gentle way of clarification. Give preference to natural masks and herbal rinses.
- Before you lighten your hair from black to light brown, you need to calculate whether the desired hair color will be combined with eyebrows.
- A few weeks before clarification, stop using curling, ironing and hairdryer. The better the quality of the hair before dyeing, the less they will be damaged.
- Do not weight the hair with styling products, silicone balms, sprays and masks. It is also better to abandon shampoos with an aggressive composition.
- If the scalp is irritated by dandruff - cure it.
- Girls with light brown hair can achieve a light shade using homemade recipes from the products.
- Before you lighten the black hair is worth paying attention to the paint. Brunette help only professional means.
Having studied all the nuances of this difficult procedure, you can proceed to action. The main thing - to avoid components that may cause allergies, as well as precautions.
Lightening with homemade recipes
This method is perfect for fair-haired girls. Thinking about what better to lighten black hair, you will have to immediately reject natural masks. On dark hair, the use of homemade recipes can only contribute to the appearance of red or even reddish sheen. But fair-haired ladies, on the contrary, can make the hair whiter by a whole tone. Considering the fact that hair will grow and recover from natural remedies, even such a small result is great. Of course, after the first use of the hair will not brighten. You have to wait a few weeks or even a month before the effect manifests itself.But, despite the long wait, the hair and scalp will be healthy, and the curls will become lighter and stronger.
Camomile Brightening
A good method to lighten hair without harm. Many women do chamomile rinsing to enhance hair growth, eliminate brittleness and dryness. Chamomile decoction suitable for use on dry, damaged hair prone to tangling. It also helps to get rid of scalp irritation, eliminates dandruff. After rinsing, the hair strengthens from the inside, starts to shine and comb well. Lightening in this case seems more like a nice bonus than a goal.
- For a strong broth dry chamomile flowers will be needed. They can be purchased at any pharmacy. Two tablespoons of chamomile, you must pour two cups of boiling water. Put on low heat and boil for about 10 minutes. Then cool the broth and strain.
- There is another recipe: pour two cups of water into the pan, pour a tablespoon of dry nettle and the same amount of chamomile into it. Boil for 15 minutes, cool and hold through a strainer.
- Romashkovy broth can rinse your hair after each wash, the main thing - do not forget to cool it to room temperature.
Kefir Lightening
This dairy product has a beneficial effect not only on the body, but also helps to lighten the hair. Kefir masks are suitable for owners of curly, naughty curls. They also suit blondes well. The mask for bleached hair on kefir basis makes them not only lighter, but also softer.
Use of kefir mask:
- Fatty-haired girls should prepare a glass of kefir itself and 20 ml of vodka. For dry and damaged in a glass of yogurt will need to add five tablespoons of olive oil.
- Mix the mass in the glass, distribute it evenly over the entire length of the hair, including the roots.
- Wrap hair in a shower cap and wrap your head with a towel. In a warm environment, the mask will act more intensively.
- Keep the mask from 30 minutes to 1 hour, then rinse with gentle shampoo without sulfates in the composition.
When thinking about whether it is possible to lighten black dyed hair with kefir, it is necessary to remember that this recipe will help lighten the hair no more than a tone. It is necessary to apply a mask 2-3 times a week. Kefir nourishes hair, intensively smoothes, gives silkiness and shine. For the scalp, it is also a source of beneficial, life-giving substances.
Cinnamon brightening for brownies
A good way to brighten dark hair and give them a beautiful glare. Before you lighten black hair with natural products, it is worth remembering that they can not drastically change the color. However, cinnamon based masks are very useful and effective.
- Pour in a deep bowl 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons of liquid honey, 3 tablespoons of cinnamon powder.
- Beat all with a mixer until smooth.
- Apply the mixture to the hair, while avoiding the scalp.
- Spit the braid or fasten the strands in a bun.
- Wear a shower cap and top with a towel.
- Keep the mask for 1 to 2 hours.
- Rinse hair with shampoo.
Mask for lightening for this recipe can be done 1-2 times a week.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon powder into a bowl and mix with 1 tablespoon of your favorite hair balm.
- Apply the mask to the hair and insulate the usual way.
- Wait a few hours (the use of the mask is not limited).
- Rinse hair with water.
This mixture can be applied after each hair wash.
Bleaching masks based on oils
Natural, vegetable oils - the best care for hair of any type. Oil masks regulate skin balance, relieve dandruff, dryness, and damage. Regular wraps can replace professional salon care, the main thing is not to forget about the procedures and give them enough time.
Oil masks have one more advantage - they lighten the hair and actively wash the paint out of them. Mask for bleached hair based on oil makes them even lighter. In addition, if the staining in a dark color is unsuccessful, such wraps are a natural replacement for the wash at the hairdresser's. Before the oil wrap does not need to wash your hair with shampoo. They will be enough and washing after the mask.
- Half a cup of olive or coconut oil is heated in a water bath.
- Comb your hair and slightly moisten them.
- Apply to strands. When oily type of hair recede 5 cm from the roots.
- Fix hair and insulate.
- Leave the mask on for the night.
- Wash hair with shampoo.
If it is not possible to leave the oil for the night, 1 hour or more will be enough. The main thing is to warm the hair well, the sauna is considered an ideal place for oil wrapping. Asking how to lighten the hair after the black paint, you should pay attention to the oil masks, which are intensively washed out of the hair color pigment.
- Mix 3 egg yolks and 4 tablespoons of castor oil in a cup.
- Apply to hair the entire length.
- Warm and hold for at least hours.
- Wash off the mask with shampoo.
- Mix in equal parts olive and burdock oil.
- Heat and apply to damp, combed hair.
- To warm and wash off after 1-2 hours.
If you leave the oil mixture overnight, it is necessary to fix the hair in a shower cap or cellophane. Due to this, the oil penetrates as deeply as possible into the structure of each hair, and the bedding will remain clean. However, you should not pinch your head and squeeze the skin. From this, blood circulation can be disturbed, and in the morning the head will be very sore.
Brightening saffron and rhubarb decoction
This herbal elixir will help lighten hair half a tone, make them golden and shiny.
- Add 2 tablespoons of dried chamomile, 1 tablespoon of saffron to the saucepan, pour boiling water over everything.
- Leave the liquid to infuse in a dark place for 40 minutes.
- Strain, squeeze the juice of one lemon into a decoction, add 4 drops of lavender essential oil.
- Apply the mixture to wet hair and wrap in heat.
- After 30 minutes, rinse with water.
- Prepare clean rhubarb stalks, grind them in a blender.
- Two tablespoons of milled stems pour two cups of boiling water.
- Boil on medium heat for 10 minutes.
- Cool, let stand.
- Rinse the hair. Thinking about how to lighten the ends of the hair, it is only necessary to wash the broth.
Broth rhubarb need to wash hair every day for two weeks. He will make the hair lighter, healthy and strong. If you use rhubarb from your land, you must carefully separate the stems from other parts. Use for broth can only be the stems.
Lemon water clarification
Lemon is an effective bleaching agent. It is the basis of many cosmetics for whitening nails and skin. If a reasonable approach to use, lemon will help in lightening hair.
To make curls a tone lighter, you need a large and fresh lemon. You can not cheat and try to use citric acid. It will not help improve and lighten hair. For rinsing, you need to squeeze a lemon in a liter of water, warmed to room temperature. After each wash, wash your hair with lemon water. The effect will manifest itself in a few weeks - strands noticeably brighten.
Lightening colors
The most effective way to change the image at home is to buy a lightening hair dye in the nearest cosmetics store. It is worth choosing from a series of the means which are not containing ammonia. The kit of paint from the store usually already includes everything you need for the procedure, including instructions.
Before starting to paint, it is necessary to lubricate the skin near the hair with a greasy cream. The easiest baby cream is perfect for this purpose.Also, before lightening it is necessary to carry out the procedure to identify an allergic reaction to the paint. To do this, it is necessary to lubricate a small area of the skin behind the ear. If after 40 minutes the skin did not respond, you can safely proceed to the procedure.
Hydrogen peroxide brightening hairs on the body and face
Excessive vegetation on the body and face is considered a mauve, and deprives a woman of self-confidence. Salon methods are used for hair removal: hair removal, shugaring, laser procedures. High-tech techniques can effectively solve the problem, but, as a rule, the modern rhythm of life does not leave a woman time for trips to salons.
How to lighten hair at home? As an alternative to expensive techniques, clarification with conventional 3% hydrogen peroxide is used. Of course, the hairs will not disappear, but will become hardly noticeable, and the procedure itself will not take much time and will save considerable funds.
Before carrying out the procedure, make sure there is no allergy. Apply a small amount of peroxide fluid or prepared mixture to the back of your wrist. If redness and itching are not observed for 30-40 minutes, then hydrogen peroxide discoloration is your method!
Body Brightening Treatments
How to lighten hair on hands and body with maximum effect? First you need to decide on the intensity of the pigment, the structure of hairs, their thickness. If the hairs are pale and thin, then peroxide 3% will perfectly cope with its task, otherwise a more concentrated liquid will be required. It must be remembered that increasing the amount of ammonia may give the hair a reddish tint. So, mix 50 ml of peroxide with five drops of ammonia, apply the prepared composition and leave to dry completely. Rinse the mixture with warm water and lubricate the skin with any oily cream.
Very dark hairs are not amenable to lightening with hydrogen peroxide from the first attempt, therefore several procedures with an interval of 5-7 days should be performed to obtain the desired result. Use the recipe:
- 6% hydrogen peroxide,
- ammonium bicarbonate,
- shampoo.
Mix the ingredients in a ratio of 1: 1: 1, in this case, 1 tbsp. l and apply to the problem area. Leave to dry, then rinse with warm water, acidified with lemon, apply a nourishing cream.
Mixtures with hydrogen peroxide are prepared only in glass, ceramic or plastic dishes.
Facial hair lightening
Dark hairs above the lip, in the chin and temples do not add attractiveness and positive. How to lighten facial hair properly, without harm to delicate skin with minimal financial cost?
Hydrogen peroxide bleaching is the most affordable and effective method that does not harm the skin. Systematic procedures lead to discoloration of the pigment and thinning of the hair shaft. For the procedure in different variations you will need 3% hydrogen peroxide, cotton pads, baby cream, ammonia, liquid soap or shaving foam.
Soak a cotton pad with hydrogen peroxide (peroxide) and apply a compress on the area exposed to hair, leave to affect for 3 - 5 minutes. If the hair shafts are too rigid, then the procedure must be repeated several times.
A milder effect will be a mixture of peroxide with shaving cream, which is applied to problem areas and held for at least 20 minutes.
Perhydrol ointment prepared from vaseline (8 g), lanolin (10 g), perhydrol (2 g), a few drops of ammonia and liquid soap works perfectly. Beat the components until smooth, apply and allow to dry, then rinse with warm water.
Clarification of curls with hydrogen peroxide
Brunettes are recommended to carry out the procedure of coloring with professional paints in the conditions of the salon. Lightening with home remedies will not disappoint fair-haired beauties and blondes.Toning dark hair without harm to health will help hydrogen peroxide, and respect for the proportions of the mixture.
Light toning is carried out with the use of 3 - 5% peroxide. Wash your hair with shampoo, apply a balm on your hair. Pour hydrogen peroxide into the spray bottle and, separating the strands, gradually apply the liquid to the areas you want to tint. Put on a cotton scarf and wait 20 to 25 minutes, then rinse your head with slightly warm water, apply a caring conditioner.
For deep bleaching you need 40 ml of 12% hydrogen peroxide mixed with liquid soap or shampoo in a ratio of 1: 1. Next, add 2 tbsp to the mixture. l water and 1 tbsp. l ammonium bicarbonate. The composition is applied to dry unwashed curls, starting from the temples and the back of the head, gently painting all the strands. After 20 minutes, the product is rinsed with warm water and shampoo, after which it is recommended to apply a nourishing mask.
With deep staining should not wear a warming bandage, otherwise you can get a skin burn and damage the hair structure!
Before dyeing with hydrogen peroxide, it is desirable to conduct a test. To do this, a little hydroperit is applied to the hair strand and left for 20-30 minutes to be applied. If the tone suits you, then you can proceed to the clarification procedure. It is important to remember - the longer the peroxide remains on the hair, the lighter shade will be obtained at the end of the procedure.
Natural clarifiers
The beauty industry offers a record range of hair dyes in any price range and color range. But many of the fair sex prefer to tint dark hair with folk methods without harm to hair and health. How to lighten hair without dye - an urgent question for those whose curls were subjected to too frequent thermal and chemical effects. Let your tired hair relax and pay attention to time-tested homemade recipes that consist only of natural ingredients.
- Lemon - fruit juice destroys the color pigment, while not harming the skin and hair shaft. Lemon brightening without softening additives is suitable for highlighting individual strands and only on greasy hair. To lighten the entire volume of hair using a mixture with lemon, decoction of chamomile and honey. The combination of natural remedies softens the effects of citric acid: honey nourishes and softens, chamomile prevents inflammation and protects curls from drying out.
- Henna is a natural dye from the leaves and stalks of a Lovesonia tree. If you like a piquant shade with redhead - this option is for you! Depending on your own hair color, henna dyeing is carried out in the range from 5 to 20 minutes. Coconut or castor oil is added to henna to soften the effect of the dye, as an alternative, use beaten egg yolk.
- The camomile pharmaceutical - is recommended for giving a chestnut shade to hair of a light-brown shade. It copes well with oily and dry seborrhea, suppresses inflammation of the scalp, nourishes hair follicles.
- Bee honey is an ideal remedy, works great in a mixture with cognac and lemon, which enhance the magical effects of a natural product.
- Cinnamon - quickly lightens dark hair by several tones, stimulates blood circulation and awakens hair follicles.
- Kefir - a comprehensive means for hair care. The product is saturated with useful trace elements (vitamins of group B, A, E, C, magnesium, potassium, calcium), and lactic acids lighten curls quickly and without harm to health. Suitable for brunettes and blondes!
The benefits of using natural ingredients
The paints presented on the market are created on the basis of hydrogen peroxide, which for a bright and resistant color destroys the hair structure and provides deep penetration of the coloring pigment.The constant impact of aggressive compositions leads to drying of the scalp, destabilizes the sebaceous glands and turns the curls into lifeless, dull and unruly strands.
How to lighten the hair on the hands, head, face and body correctly, without causing damage to health? Use folk remedies based on natural ingredients that:
- do not change hair structure,
- have a complex effect and lighten without harm,
- restore blood circulation in the scalp and awaken dormant hair follicles,
- give the curls shine and return elasticity.
Of course, using folk remedies, it will not be possible to turn from a burning brunette into a dazzling blonde, but lightening the hair with a few tones with lemon, chamomile, cinnamon or honey is quite a real task!
Lemon hair mask
The mask with lemon and vodka effectively brightens the curls by 1 - 2 tones, stimulates their growth and gives a healthy shine, suitable for oily hair type. Mix lemon juice and water in a 1: 1 ratio and apply the mixture under a warming bandage for 25 to 30 minutes.
Fresh lemon juice is suitable for bleaching facial and body hair. To do this, it is enough to smear problem areas with a lemon, and if there is an opportunity to substitute the body under the sun's rays, the effect will exceed all expectations.
Cognac + lemon
- low-fat kefir - 50 ml,
- Cognac - 30 ml,
- egg - 1 pc.,
- liquid soap - 1 tbsp. l.,
- ½ lemon juice.
Mix the components, apply the mixture over the entire length of the hair, cover with plastic and a towel, leave to act for several hours. Mask with lemon and brandy heals the skin, restores the hair structure and gives them a beautiful cognac shade.
An excellent means to lighten colored and weakened curls: strengthens hair follicles and stops inflammation on the scalp. Prepare a mixture of the following ingredients:
- green tea - 1 tsp. with a slide,
- white henna - 50 g,
- Chamomile - 2 tbsp. l.,
- vodka and water - 250 ml.
Brew tea and henna with boiling water, bring to a boil and steamed over low heat or a water bath for 5 minutes. Cool the broth, strain through cheesecloth and combine with vodka. Place the mixture in a cool, dark place and let it stand for at least a week. Apply the tincture on dry hair 30 - 40 minutes before washing. Regular use of the product not only tones the curls, but also has an anti-inflammatory and firming effect.
Cinnamon + Honey
The recipe is suitable for brightening dark curls - partially neutralizes and reduces the intensity of color, and with regular use (at least once a week) will strengthen hair follicles and increase the intensity of growth. Before carrying out the procedure, wash the curls with a mild shampoo, with a pinch of salt. Next, mix the cinnamon, honey and balsam - rinse in a ratio of 1: 1: 2, massaging the mixture over the entire length of the hair, with special attention, paying the roots and tips. Leave on for 40 to 50 minutes, then rinse the hair as usual.
Chamomile + glycerin
A gentle recipe is suitable for imparting a golden tone to chestnut and light brown curls. Make 3 tbsp. l chamomile 0.5 liters of boiling water, let it brew, strain and add a few tablespoons of glycerin to the cooled broth. The decoction is stored in the refrigerator and applied to washed, damp hair. After a quarter of an hour, the product is washed off with warm water without detergent.
To soften the hair, just before applying, add lemon juice to chamomile broth. Toning with lemon and chamomile is the most popular, gentle way to lighten and care for fat-type curls.
Home remedies with kefir perfectly lighten light and tint dark-colored hair.Lactic acid penetrates the hair structure and destroys the dark pigment, so you can change the color of the curls by several shades and partially neutralize the effects of dark dye. You will need:
- kefir - 100 ml,
- egg - 1 pc.,
- vodka or cognac - 30 ml,
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l
Beat the egg, add the rest of the ingredients. Apply the finished product under a warming bandage for 5-6 hours, then rinse your hair in the usual way.
The article presents the most simple and affordable methods of lightening hair with hydrogen peroxide and natural folk remedies. Homemade recipes are careful and do not harm the health of the hair. To achieve maximum results, be patient and understand that only a systematic approach will help give your hair strength and the desired shade!
Let's start the clarification!
It is worth noting that after you get the necessary blond, do not be zealous with a visit to the swimming pools and water parks. After all, everyone knows that the owners add chlorine to it. And chlorine for bleached hair is the main enemy. After all, the active substance reacts and gives them an unpleasant greenish tint.
Now that each girl is familiar with the list of all the necessary actions and knows what problems and why they might arise, we got to our top. Top best ways for home lighting is as follows:
- Full color change, or more simply work with cosmetic paint,
- Partial change of shade, 1-2 times, in the case of hydrogen peroxide,
- Tasty-smelling brightening recipes using cinnamon,
- Limestone clarification.
Folk remedies will allow you to lighten hair a couple of tones
Brightening paint
Using a special paint is quite simple. To resort to a cosmetological dye is simply necessary if the task is not just to lighten up on one or two shades. The use itself does not conceal any secrets. The main thing that should be done is to take the choice of dye as seriously as possible, you should not save on the health of your hair.
- It is better to buy paint for three hundred rubles more, and be calm for your head. Than to get cheap paint from an unknown brand for a hundred or two hundred rubles, and get a accompanying bouquet of diseases.
- After you have purchased the paint, open the package and carefully study each item of the manual, you should not lose sight of anything.
- As for the composition of the substance, it has long been studied along and across.
Any dye contains a highly aggressive active additive. This active substance, when used, reacts with the hair and blocks the natural, natural coloring pigment.
This effect can only be achieved with chemical dyes.
It's time to start coloring
The first step will be the preparation of hair. All professionals advise to lighten with paint only unwashed curls. So how exactly when staining the dirty head can protect the structure of the curl. During this period, a kind of protective film is formed on the head, which will save your hair from destruction. Before you apply the paint yourself, but it is better to ask a friend to do it, because it is very difficult to apply high quality with your own hands, cover the shoulders and bare areas of the body with some cloth. This will protect not only your body, but also clothing from falling into the dye composition.
Few secrets
Also, if you do not want to get the effect of irritation and rash, before applying a small test for compatibility. To do this, apply a little paint on any part of the head or on the elbow and hold it for half an hour, then rinse with warm water. Not only will this method allow you to identify all sorts of allergic reactions, it will also show what your hair will look like, namely, it will reveal the color of the dye. In the end, you will understand whether this color suits you.
Today, manufacturers produce paint in various forms. The technology is striding far forward and, consequently, prices are also not lagging behind. That is why do not buy paint in the subway or on the market. The tool is best purchased at a specialty store. For self-blonding is better to use paint in the form of cream. This method will allow the most evenly apply the substance to the entire head. The paint is also quite thick, so it does not spread like liquid. Coloring shampoo will pleasantly please the girls, because in order to lighten up you just need to wash your hair. And the color of this procedure will wash off after about two weeks.
Hair dye with blonderan spoil their structure
You can summarize as follows. It is necessary to resort to coloring agents if it is necessary to lighten up by 1-2 shades brighter.
Process description
The usage algorithm is as follows:
- Buy paint with guaranteed quality marking,
- Unpack the package, carefully read the instructions,
- Make sure your hair is a little dirty,
- Prepare a spot for staining,
- Find a cloth or towel to protect clothing and exposed areas of the body,
- Dilute the paint if necessary. But in most cases, manufacturers do everything for you, they specially pack the ingredients in sachets. You just need to shift everything in some capacity,
- Apply paint evenly, leaving no empty spots,
- Next you need to wait for the time specified in the instructions. It usually does not exceed forty minutes
- Carefully wash off the paint with warm water, one to two times,
- Enjoy the effect.
After you wash off the paint and get the desired color of the blond, you need to flavor the roots with nutrients. This can be done with a special cream mask. But this procedure has a home alternative. To create a homemade mask using kefir, gelatin and honey.
Use of peroxide as a clarifier
Use hydrogen peroxide for home brightening steel for quite some time. The substance is quite popular and cheap, and the effect of the use is positive. It is thanks to the peroxide that you can blonder dark hair. And this will appeal to more dark-haired brunettes who are so eager to become an incendiary blonde. But, like any remedy, the active substance hydrogen peroxide has its undesirable side effects. The tool can destroy hair follicles and hair structure. Such phenomena contribute to the loss of brittleness curl. The drug can be purchased at any pharmacy. As a result, peroxide has one plus and one significant minus:
How to use
This method will definitely help every girl who wants to become a little lighter. The action algorithm is quite simple, includes not many points. If you intend to be clarified with peroxide, then prepare to do the following:
- The first thing you need to thoroughly wash your hair and comb,
- After you have combed your curls, make sure that there are no tangled nodules on your head. This factor may affect the final result. So get to the point of combing as hard as you can,
- Next, you take a pre-purchased peroxide solution. The ratio of active substance to one vial is thirty percent. Depending on the desired result, the substance can be diluted with water, but this should be done in equal proportions,
- Apply the substance can be a variety of methods. The most popular are the use of a spray bottle and cotton pads,
- Treat curls need for the entire length, leaving no gaps, the mixture should be applied evenly over the entire scalp,
- After the application step is completed, you should wait between 30-50 minutes,
- At the end, wash the active substance from the head.
Another homemade peroxide bleach
Any mixture must be washed off on time.
Peroxide is a universal substance, it can be mixed with various components for blonding. We offer another effective method that will help lighten curls, without the help of experts. For the manufacture of this clarifier you need:
- Peroxide,
- Chamomile,
- Vodka.
Further, after you have acquired all the components, for preparation, arm yourself with a glass container and mix the substances in it in the following proportions:
- Water purified from impurities - 500 milliliters,
- Chamomile flowers or powder - 200 grams,
- Hydrogen peroxide - 1 bottle or 50 milliliters.
Also, to give a more subtle effect, use essential oil, for example, lemon. It perfectly nourishes the skin with essential substances. Also lemon oil is famous for its brightening properties. After mixing the ingredients, place the container in a dark, moist place for a period of fourteen days. After the expiration of the period, you can get a vessel and begin to use a home-made clarifier. It is necessary to apply means for 30 or 40 minutes. As a result, from a hydrogen peroxide, chamomile plant flowers and vodka you can make a rather effective remedy for home brightening.
Brightening hair at home with cinnamon
Cinnamon can slightly lighten dark hair
In addition to the use of products of industrial and medical production, there is also the opportunity to lighten the hair at home with the help of cinnamon. Oriental spice was used as a clarifier in ancient times. Cinnamon for branding gives strands of hair a lighter shade of hair.
In the world of cinnamon for clarification used in various ways. There are a lot of recipes, each of which is good in its own way. Use spice alone as well as mixed with other drugs. But with confidence we can say that cinnamon as a home brightener is perfect for girls with dark hair rather than blond. The simplest recipe of cooking means combines the use of water and cinnamon, in combination one to one. In order to prepare the mixture, you just need to mix both components, and then mix until a creamy mass is formed in the pot. Once everything is ready, you can proceed to the immediate clarification of the lock.
How to apply
Before beginning, go to the bathroom and rinse your hair, and then dry it. But do not overdry. After the dyeing essence, apply on the hair in the entire length, do it very carefully, so as not to miss a single strand. After that, when you finish this process, put a shower cap, a bag on your head, or just wrap a plastic film around the head surface. The substance should be kept on the hair for a long time. The ideal option would be to put cinnamon in advance half an hour before bedtime, leave overnight. And in the morning to poison in the shower and thoroughly rinse hair for three or four times.
Regular ground cinnamon will do.
Variations of the use of cinnamon as a clarifier quite a lot. You can use this ingredient yourself, as well as mix it with others to enhance the effect. An alternative to the first recipe is to mix cinnamon with honey. But do not take solid honey. But if you do not have another, take the existing one and heat it in a water bath. Or, alternatively, dilute the honey with boiled water. Mix components should also be in equal proportions. As for the principle of application, it is in no way different from the first recipe. And for those who want in addition to lightening hair, still take care of them should use the following recipe. It consists in using three ingredients:
- Olive oil,
- Cinnamon,
- Honey.
All components must be mixed into a homogeneous mass in the proportion of 3-2-2, where the first cinnamon.Apply the substance is also necessary for washed and dried hair. Use time is six or eight hours. Everything is curled from the desired clarification.
Other homemade ways to lighten hair
In order to maximize your health, you should use more ecological methods of home lighting. The ideal organic method is the use of kefir. Fermented milk product can be applied both in natural form and diluted using cognac. You should add one tablespoon of brandy or lemon juice in order to enhance the brightening effect. Also, many of us have heard about the benefits of ginger, but not everyone understands how to properly use it for clarification. The recipe is quite simple and effective. To create a substance, you need ginger root, beer, lemon juice. Beer should preferably be light, and the juice recently squeezed. All ingredients need to be mixed and let it brew, the mixture can be applied to the hair.
Folk ways to lighten hair at home
Multi Tone Brightening
So, we have already figured out that going to the salon is fraught with the following disadvantages:
- Too expensive price tag for the procedure,
- Significant harm from the use of cosmetic paint.
That is why over the past two years, and this is the main gap, when the excitement began on lighter shades, home methods have become popular. The benefit of such methods abound, and everyone can not only lighten your hair, they also enrich the entire scalp with necessary nutrients. It was noticed that the use of clarifiers prepared at home by women, after a few procedures, got rid of the problems:
- Brittleness
- Dropping out,
- Excessive dandruff and other problems.
Girls could forever forget about this brittle and weak hair.
Homemade recipes have a huge number of variations. The most common ways are as follows:
- Use of hydrogen peroxide,
- Cinnamon,
- The use of decoction of:
- Daisy flowers
- Lemon fruit,
- Bee honey
- Glycerin, or more simply means nail polish remover.
- Ginger, less effective, but also an important way
- Use of industrial paints.
As we have already understood, the benefits of such clarifiers are much higher than when using non-natural dyes. Having resorted to these methods, you will not only get a more lightened shade, but also protect your roots and the entire structure of the head as a whole.
What you should know before starting a home lighting
There are many ways to lighten hair
Any procedure whether it is homemade or made by experienced stylists has its own small but important nuances. Before proceeding to the procedure for obtaining color, it is necessary to arm yourself with knowledge of all the possible problems associated with home lighting.
Girls hair color, which is closer to the dark pigments, do not zealous, and in many cases it is better to refuse this procedure altogether. Remember, if you are a representative of women with color, for example, a detachment of brunettes, the home lighting is unlikely to give you the desired curls effect. Moreover, the result can be completely unpredictable:
- You can lose your natural shine, and for a long time lose the charm of your hair,
- The color of not only the tips, but also the curl itself, for girls with thick and dense curls during the clarification of the house can be unpredictable. The idea is that in the process instead of a blinding blond, you can get something completely different, and even terrible in terms of the beauty of color.
- It is not necessary to resort to all these methods independently, and because girls with dark hair can spoil the structures of their strands. And to return the former strength will be quite difficult.
Of course, the latter is due to the fact that often the women after the first time do not get the desired shade, and in the second they are already overdoing the dosage.The golden rule "Everything is good in moderation"
Secrets of home lighting
As for beauties with lighter shades, then there are no special conditions. The main thing is to follow the instructions clearly and not overdo it with the dosage.
Another important factor is that before starting the procedure you should eliminate some problems. What problems are we talking about, probably, you have already guessed yourself, split ends can contribute to incomplete clarification. Therefore, before the start of home cosmetological actions, bring your strands in order. Avoid all sorts of problems that may interfere with high-quality clarification. Therefore, hair treatment should be your priority action. After making sure that the curls are in perfect order, you can begin changing the shade.
How to lighten hair at home
How to lighten hair at home and how to lighten damaged hair.
Each of the above methods of home lighting is good in its own way. The final result is largely influenced by hair factors. It's about color, density, strength and thickness. That is why it is not advisable to single out any one method. Each girl should make her choice individually, relying only on their personal characteristics. The main thing to remember is that home lighting will give you a shade of one or two tones lighter than you originally had. But if we are talking about a complete change of color, then without the help of experts can not do. Especially experimenting and overdoing home-brightening is not worth girls with very dark hair. Indeed, in pursuit of the desired, you can stumble upon a serious problem. Follow the above instructions and do not exceed the dosage. May the beauty be with you!
