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Asked by alessa about 1 year ago, 35 answers.
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Im naturally quite a dark brunette. I want to dye my hair a Blonde like Paris Hilton's colour, but im worried it will go a yellowy gingery Blonde as my hair is so dark and I don't want to ruin it by bleaching it and then bleaching it again. Is there any other way?

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mee Answered by ria123 on Jan 29, 2008, 10:30AM
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what the f*ck I no loadz of people that home bleach there hair.
It depends on the condition of your hair, aslong as you dont get a very strong bleach then it shoud be okay

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Answered by glamgal96 on Oct 23, 2006, 10:32AM
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if you bleach it it will become very blonde. So blonde it will be way to bright!!!! AAAHHHH noone wants that. Instead play it safe and keep it brunette but maybe put highlights like blonde on a lighter brown. Maybe also Cut it. Get a new style without risking you're hairs colour, look, and life!!! But the blonde highlights shouldnt to bright also. and when you bleach you're hair it will be hard to get the old color back. It will look to fake because you're skin color is made to match you're hair.

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Thunder Robot Answered by funadvice on Oct 27, 2006, 05:08AM
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Bleached blonde hair looks so cheap, and it totally wrecks your hair. Trust me, if you do it you wil be very sorry! Brown hair is beautiful, shiny, and in fashion right now. The days of cheap, trashy blondes went out in the eighties. Guys like girls that look more natural, sexy, sure of themselves, and...CLASSY. NOT trashy! Please trust me on this...DON'T DO IT! I actually dyed my hair raven black, I'm beautiful, and I get more looks than any cheap blonde does. Blondes are a dime a dozen. Do your own thing, don't look like a million OTHER girls. And...it WILL wreck your hair, and it WILL look like crap.

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Answered by brighteyez on Oct 29, 2006, 08:47PM
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Bleach blonde hair is gross ( unless it's natural), dark hair is beautiful, you should leave it. However, if it really means that much to you, don't go more than 2 shades lighter at a time. Leave it a couple weeks, then dye it again until you have the colour you want. That way it won't turn orange and you'll get the results you want.

moi Answered by jennybabiix on Jan 07, 2007, 01:32AM
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GET PROFFESIONAL HELP
PAY IT
ITS WORTH IT
OR YOUR HAIR WILL FAULTER
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Answered by allison3434 on Jan 13, 2007, 01:58PM
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my hair is naturally dark but I have to pay a lot of money so my hair looks more of a natural blonde. Aveda is the best the hair dye is made from barley and it well actually make your hair healthier looking but again it is very expensive.

Answered by jen5047 on Jan 21, 2007, 01:17PM
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you CAN do this, and it can be done on your own, but it will take patience and work. don't listen to those spoil sports who are telling you what to do with your own hair. if you want to be blonde, then go for it! bleach blondes do not all look trashy. however, if your hair is very dark, it will take a long time for it to become blonde without ruining your hair. I recommend putting highlights in it (which you can do yourself with a kit or at a salon. I have NEVER had good results in a salon, believe it or not, the color is always wrong.) you can go to a beauty supply store or a drug store to get a highlighting kit, and if it's too brassy, there are toners that you can use to bring the color around to where you want it. to really lighten your hair without destroying it, you will have to gradually add more highlights with rest periods in between highlighting sessions , and you will have to seriously condition your hair. I highly recommend using kerastase's vita ciment and forcintense. it will fix your hair. period. get it off e-bay, much much cheaper! after you highlight your hair several times, you may find that you're happy with it having a lighter appearance. highlight around your face, and you'll brighten up everything. if you do decide to make it all blonde, it will be much much easier to lighten from there than to do a full head bleach application. believe me, that is not fun to do on your own. also, keep the bleach off your scalp, unless it specifically says on scalp bleach. bleach is strong stuff and it can eat right through your scalp's skin. your hair will go through several reddish phases before it gets to blonde. do not leave bleach on your hair past the 'banana yellow' stage. it will destroy your hair. rinse it immediately and add a toner to take it to the shade you want. you can also highlight further if you want a brighter appearance. and remember, kerastase!!! it will forgive all your sins. good luck, and try to recruit a friend to help you, there's nothing worse than discovering missed spots!

Thunder Robot Answered by funadvice on Mar 07, 2007, 10:54AM
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I went to an Aveda salon and went from medium long brown hair to short and bright light blonde, it took three visits to get the degree of lightness I desired. I am feeling more soft and elegant and my hair has never been more manageable. I use good aveda products and take great care of it. I think it is a lot of fun to reinvent oneself and take it up a notch just to feel alive, by the way I am 56 years old and a grandmother of eleven.....it's never to late to simply enjoy being a girl!!! When I was in my twenties I could not afford the upkeep of going light. I will probably go back to brown, maybe in the fall!!! Go ahead if you feel led, it is a sunny feeling.

Answered by april001 on Apr 15, 2007, 12:37AM
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It will not look like crap!!!! B*tch!!! My hair is a bleach blond and im not trashy nor cheap.Do not listen to her .You can have it bleached then dyed a med blonde with lblonde and realy blonde highlights that is what I do it realy looks like my real color. I get soooo many complements on it and my hair is to the middle of my back and in layers .So just but quality stuff and take care of it you will be fine and love your fresh look.Good luck.Let us know what you do... Im married and we have 3 kids . Last I checked it was not trashy. And black is just as fake looking . Also ask any hair styles and they will tell you black is just as bad if not worse!!!!!You will NEVER get your color back!!!!!!And BLONDES DOOO HAVE ALL THE FUUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!! I give my hair a break in the winter to a light brown dark blonde with highlights and spring and summer I liven it up. you will feel more alive trust me.

Answered by hurrs on May 22, 2007, 07:11PM
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Yes you do not have to have damaged hair just because you bleach it blonde and wear extentions all it takes is a good colourist and a good hair extention person that specialises in hair extentions I reccomend weaving not glued on as the extention will get longer when your real hair grows as it is weaved to your natural hair and needs tightenng every 2 - 3 mnths or so I had short hair and this is how I grew it I had it in for 12mnths and now have my very own long hair its well worth it hope this helps

Answered by lessa2205 on Jun 01, 2007, 04:23PM
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OKay I am doing this RIGHT NOW! .. I do this every summer.. my dad is from Peru and I have very dark brown hair, practically black! ... so this is what I do, and I do it by myself.. first I buy a highlighting kit and put those ugly reddish/orangish highlights in my hair that are supposed to be blonde. Then I do the all over bleaching with a kit.. that makes it a light orange/tangerine with yellow highlights (from the highlighting kit) and thennnnn I use a toner (violet takes out the brassiness -yellow/tangerine).. and then finally it looks blonde but it looks sorta store bought cause it's real whitish greyish... so thennnnnn I pick the blonde color I like.. make sure it says and for Natural.. no A for ASh cause that will turn green.. yuck.. and then I dye it the color I want.. I DON'T RECOMMENT DOING IT ALL IN ONE DAY !! cause that will way dry you out, trust me that's what happened the first time I did it... but if you are just dying to... if you take a really good conditioner and lather it into your hair and just let it sit for as long as you have to sit with conditioner on your hair and let it soak right in, it will bond to your now VERY porous hair.. so's anyway.. that's what I do.. and it looks great and it has low lights and highlights and it is very blonde.. it usually costs about thirty bucks all told. Upkeep is a byatch though.. so be sure you want it before you do it.. but it's a great summer look!!!

Answered by rachyrach07 on Jul 28, 2007, 10:45PM
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dsg

Thunder Robot Answered by funadvice on Aug 06, 2007, 02:28AM
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...don turn to a dumb azz blonde, stay brunette..if you looking fo a new hair style, look in magazinez, and c what you like...n NO, BLONDEZ DO NOT HAVE ALL THA FUN
take care

this dark Answered by jadeybubs on Aug 13, 2007, 08:55AM
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aaawww...just go 4it!!! you only live once...and hair just keeps on growin!!!
I havent really got and e advice on how to do it...all I know that I went to a salon...paid lots if money den left wiv just light brown highlights!!! so I did it at home and had chunky blonde through my hair!!!
I change my hair all da time...its fun too!!!

Answered by hanaspanner on Aug 19, 2007, 03:59AM
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I wish I was still blonde so much, I had like, platinum blonde hair for about 5 years and everyone use to think it was natural, I dyed it all the time and everyone said it was still extremely soft. I have absolutely no idea how I managed to do that haha, I took it for granted though, because I thought maybe I had started to grow out of having platinum blonde hair and I didn't want to look like a barbie doll that tries too hard so I dyed it a darker blonde, but it was still supposed to be blonde. However, it went brown, I duno why, I guess I am just crap at home dying but I did it for years and was fine so I don't see how it went so wrong this time. Now I am stuck with brown hair, and it's not even a nice brown, I really like brown hair but it just made me look really plain I thought. At the moment it is tinged greenish in some lights...so that's nice...but I am still trying, I haven't tried actually bleaching it yet because I don't dare I just keep using normal home kits. But that's probably what I'll do next.

oh and, the first time it went brown after dying it darker blonde, I tried to get it back and it wouldn't go blonde, it went greeny orange so I dyed it dark brown under the advice of my best friend who says now just wondered how it would look hahaha, nice one. But yes, my advice is to never dye your hair brown if your used to having platinum blonde, it looks weird and it's hard to get back

This is my pic. Answered by whatstoya on Sep 07, 2007, 07:17PM
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If you trust a professional to dye your hair they can tell you which blondes work for brown haired ladies. Anyone who thinks brunette should stay brunette that isn't true. People have there own choices of what they want to do and what you say can be minimal in impact on what someone wants to do with there lives so quite trying to control them and control your own life. Thank you.

mee Answered by ria123 on Sep 17, 2007, 11:10AM
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Its quite simple to dye your hair from brown too blonde,well unless you have put lots of packet dye on it like I have =[ biggest mistake ever.
I am naturally dark blonde and size year 7 (now in year 10) I have used packet dyes on my hair. a few months ago I put a black packet dye on my hair which made my hair sooo dry..I cannot belive I actualli done that.
Now my hair is brown mixed with ginger mixed with light brown and I am also trying to get my hair back too blonde.The best thing I suggest you do is buy a REALLY good conditioner and use it twice a week.
TRY YOUR HARDEST to avoid straightners because they heat up the peroxide in your hair and make your hair frie.
Go too a salon after a couple of months of thoughrouly conditioning your hair and get a full head on highlights which will make yur hair near enough blonde,and continue to do that every 6 weeks and eventually your hair will turn blonde =]

Hope it goes well for yu
Thats If yu do take my adivce
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mee Answered by ria123 on Sep 17, 2007, 11:10AM
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Its quite simple to dye your hair from brown too blonde,well unless you have put lots of packet dye on it like I have =[ biggest mistake ever.
I am naturally dark blonde and size year 7 (now in year 10) I have used packet dyes on my hair. a few months ago I put a black packet dye on my hair which made my hair sooo dry..I cannot belive I actualli done that.
Now my hair is brown mixed with ginger mixed with light brown and I am also trying to get my hair back too blonde.The best thing I suggest you do is buy a REALLY good conditioner and use it twice a week.
TRY YOUR HARDEST to avoid straightners because they heat up the peroxide in your hair and make your hair frie.
Go too a salon after a couple of months of thoughrouly conditioning your hair and get a full head on highlights which will make yur hair near enough blonde,and continue to do that every 6 weeks and eventually your hair will turn blonde =]

Hope it goes well for yu
Thats If yu do take my adivce
x

me Answered by dolly12 on Oct 25, 2007, 01:23PM
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Hey
I'm a hairstylist, if you do bleach your hair blonde and you find its very dry and frizzie its because you have just stripped out everything that was in your hair and it is now full of nothing, so what you want to do is go and either buy hair colour from the drug store or from the beauty supply store buy a blonde that you like and put that over it, I reccommend a Joico colour (they have conditioners in them). You hair will feel healthy and look it as well. If you still find that you have a yellowish tinge or gold tinge to your hair buy a PURPLE SHAMPOO, it will tone the hair, DO NOT OVER USE the purple shampoo I reccommend once every two weeks at most, if you over use the purple shampoo your hair could turn a grey colour.

Just think of the colour wheel if you have a tone of a colour stuck in your hair, like yellow/ gold you want to put in purple, if you have red you want green!

Hope that helps some.

me at a fashion show! Answered by xlov3dxfor3v3rx on Nov 12, 2007, 01:24PM
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Ok. This is what I think. DO NOT bleach your hair!!! Go to a high-class hair salon and have them dye your hair blonde!! I would never ever you the store bought sht for my hair. I think it ruins your hair. I am very dark haired and I have dyed my hair blonde before when I was in 11th grade. Me and my mom went to a very nice hair salon in Beverly Hills (thats where I used to live) and even though it costs about $200, I got SOOO many compliments!!! So just go to a high class hair salon and you will be pleased with the results and STAY AWAY FROM THE STORE BOUGHT CRAP!!!

me at a fashion show! Answered by xlov3dxfor3v3rx on Nov 12, 2007, 01:25PM
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Ok. This is what I think. DO NOT bleach your hair!!! Go to a high-class hair salon and have them dye your hair blonde!! I would never ever you the store bought sht for my hair. I think it ruins your hair. I am very dark haired and I have dyed my hair blonde before when I was in 11th grade. Me and my mom went to a very nice hair salon in Beverly Hills (thats where I used to live) and even though it costs about $200, I got SOOO many compliments!!! So just go to a high class hair salon and you will be pleased with the results and STAY AWAY FROM THE STORE BOUGHT CRAP!!!

me at a fashion show! Answered by xlov3dxfor3v3rx on Nov 12, 2007, 01:27PM
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why did it post twice? wow lol

I'm naturally weird like this! Answered by singergirl1369 on Dec 19, 2007, 03:22PM
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Gah! too many stupid people with stupid answers! I am naturally a brunette. My hair is medium Brown... the most perfect color of brown ever. Anyways, to dye your hair paris hilton blonde you can buy this hair dye and I think it is called COLORS. it only has 3 colors. Platinum blonde, bright red, and hot pink. great stuff. I dyed my hair pink with it once and it was bright as all get out. After that, I bleached my hair with the platinum blonde stuff... same brand. You can get ti at walmart. 1 use of this box worked for me. I have thick hair so I had to buy 2 boxes, but it doesn't give you that orangey look unless you add another color to the blonde. It stays blonde! so after that, I got it cut out, and my natural hair color did come back. As for the girl who said black hair makes your natural hair color not come back... again you're wrong. For a play at school, I had to dye my hair black cause we did the play in black and white. My hair just finished growing the black out, and my hair is back to it's natural color. As long as you dye your hair less than 3 times a year, your natural hair color should come back. I've gone through it all, I've done about every single color you can think of, and I got kicked out of school before for having blue, green, purple, pink, yellow, etc. hair colors!

Shinny hair Answered by anakicksass on Jan 05, 2008, 10:58AM
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Bleach it but just once,if you do more than three times your hair will be crappy.I use STILL bleaching powder with 8 factor(its very strong,but I have very healthy hair,so if your hair is thin be careful)NEVER USE 12% hydrogen peroxide!!I always use 6 or 9%.Then use Loreal hair colour,look for the lightest colour.GARNIER is good too,I know there are many good brands outthere.I have naturaly black hair,I have very light skin and I love my blonde colour. I am blonde for 5 years,and guys love girls with healthy hair,not blonde or black )
You must see what colour fits the best on your face.
And yeah,blondes have a lot of fun
Trust me

I see.....laundry detergent!! Answered by jello on Jan 05, 2008, 11:18PM
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every guy I know...
is attracted to brunettes over blondes,
as well as I am
and ex brunettes gone blond makes us sad D:

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me in my incubus t-shirt Answered by cantthinkofanamebiotch on Jan 11, 2008, 03:09PM
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blondes have more fun but brunnets remember what happened the night before lol

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mee Answered by ria123 on Jan 17, 2008, 12:17PM
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you dont have to keep on bleaching your hair, once you have bleached it once, all you have to do is dye the roots which you can do yourself and thats not peroxide.
Your not gunna get your hair from brown to blonde in one go unless you bleach it

Mehh. Answered by torileigh on Jan 24, 2008, 08:18AM
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Go to a professional and tell them you want a lot of platinum blonde highlights. thats how I did it. there is no way you can do it at home.
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Me beside a mirror Answered by deborah_p on Feb 16, 2008, 08:58AM
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GO 4 IT!! im in the same bout as u,, im a dark brown, and about 2 wks ago I decided I wanted to go blonde. eveybody told me that it would be a mistake and itll fry my hair and that itll take to much time. But I went ahead and went to the salon and got highlights. they really arnt as light as id like them to be, so I think im going to buy a home kit and put more blonde in it myself... just think, if it turns out bad you can always go back to the beautiful brown, you once were. and by the way I've been brunette and blonde... blondes dont have more fun, and BRUNETTES are just as pretty, I just decided I was ready for a change!

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Answered by crazybabe on Feb 26, 2008, 07:38AM
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hey babe my advice is to seek proffecinal help. you dont want to f**k your hair up and FYI babe you dont want to go platnuim blonde iam and it costs so much money to keep it blonde especially if your dark brunnette your roots will c*m through within weeks. why dont you keep your lovley dark brunnette hair and if you really want sum blonde get highlights its cheaper,nicer and dos not wreck your hair. hope I helped good luck!!! xxx

I <3 HK Answered by drop_d3ad_g0r930u5 on Apr 10, 2008, 09:12PM
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oh theres this stuff you can get that makes your hair lighter. if your hair went wrong and turned yellow, you can put some of the stufff in your hair that wont look ike you coloured your hair with a texta...but dont use too much of it, I heard of a story about someone who used too much of it and her hair went really white. she mustve looked like she had cancer. oh and by the way, if you have a really light complexion, dont go blonde otherwise you will look really sick.

Answered by xalaskax on Apr 14, 2008, 11:55PM
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Ohhh I bleached my hair at home less than a year ago and it was a disaster for the first few days. I tortured my hair because I went from dyed red to blonde. I bleached it once, then it was gold/red, so I did it again- in the same day. My hair was like straw, it took a few washings and A LOT of hair products to smooth it out- my hair is very long, then I dyed it a natural blonde color at home. I'm very pale so it looked horrible and after a month I dyed it back to red. I would get the professional opinion of a hair stylist and shop around for quality work at an affordable price. I would not suggest doing it at home!

Answered by magnetaflash on Jun 04, 2008, 07:56AM
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I have naturally medium brown hair and I tried to get blonde hair at home, its too difficult to do if you are not a professional.

You can start out with a heavy weave ( when they bleach sections of your hair ) and during the next visit get more highlights.

Dont go all blonde at one time, it will make you self conscience and very sad if you can't handle a drastic change.

Change slowly and don't go darker than a dark blonde. Just have the dark blonde with platnum highlights. When your roots grow out it's not going to be pretty, so be sure you have it in your budget to get touch ups, keeping your hair blonde can be expensive. I would say about $150 a month.

I say go for it, do blonde. I was blonde but decided that my skin is too pink for blonde, my hair looked great but it wasnt harmonous with my skin tone and eyes. So I am light bronze brown and it makes my pink skin look bronzy and tan! I love it! Good luck!

Blues Hill of Scotland Answered by alexa_570841 on Jun 16, 2008, 06:55PM
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ummm... I'm a natural blonde... and I dyed my hair brown cause after a while, you get bored of blonde.

believe it or not.

=]

Glam Fresh Answered by fade_out on Jul 03, 2008, 11:03PM
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Don't do it! I've tried by using 10 At-Home Boxes and 1 professional last year and ALL DiD NoT Bleach my hair One Bit! It turned out an ugly Uuugly Dark and Uneven toned Orange.

Now this is this Year, and my hair is finally back to its original colour after harsh treatment, Had to Chop it all off Because it was very dead, and I shed Everyday like mad cause my hair is trying to shed off that dead hair and get back on its feet to Health!

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