How can i dye brown hair blonde?

I really, really want to get extensions and dye my hair blonde, is there any ways to keep my hair at least somewhat healthy???please help

YOU KNOW WHAT DONT EVEN TRY TO HOME BLEACH YOUR HAIR BECAUSE SO MANY THINGS CAN GO WRONG AND YOU'LL BE DEVASTATED WHEN YOUR HAIR IS RUINED.. TRUST ME I'VE BEEN THERE BEFORE. IF YOU WANT YOUR HAIR TO BE BLONDE GO TO THE SALON AND GET IT DONE. THEY KNOW WHAT THERE DOING AND THEY WILL GIVE YOU A NICE/GORGEOUS BLONDE THAT YOU WONT BE ABLE TO GET AT HOME. SO PLEASE DONT DO THE SAME MISTAKE THAT MANY OF US FEMALES HAVE DONE ALREADY AND TAKE YOURSELF TO THE SALON! WELL I HOPE YOU MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION! AND I HOPE YOUR HAIR TURNS OUT GREAT! TAKE CARE!

if you have a dark hair color, I seriously do not recommend dying your hair blonde or bleaching it by yourself, with a home kit. GO TO A SALON.!! bleaching dark hair will make it orange, trust me- I've tried everything (sun in, lemon juice, olive oil, avocado, hydrogen pyroxide, EVERYTHING) and nothing has even faded the orange in my hair. I had to go to a salon and get it re-dyed brown. I ignored all the warnings from my parents and friends to NOT dye my hair, but I ignored them and i regret it big time.

As for extensions- they look nice, but they ruin your hair. I use the jessica simpson HairDo ones, which are made with real human hair but they are clip ons, and they can be reused.
they are about 100 bucks each, which is a pretty good deal considering they stay in good shape for about 5 weeks.

Ok for anyone who has brown hair and wants to be blonde:

I have naturally dark brown hair and have always wanted to go blonde. I decided to take the plunge this past weekend and went to the salon to have it done. I told the girl exactly what I wanted...just a really dirty blonde with some bright highlights. She told me she would have to strip my hair, bleach it, put toner in it, and then highlights. So I believe her and say ok lets do it. BIG MISTAKE. This so called professional wet my hair, mixed the stripper and bleach with shampoo and put it in my hair, then set me under the dryer for 4 hours. She then FINALLY rinsed it out after it was burning the hell out of my head. My hair turned out to be light blonde in some spots and red in others. She then put the toner in for an hour. After she rinsed and styled my hair she turned me around to let me see. I was shocked at what I saw, and of course teared up. My hair was a red/orange color and just plain out UGLY. I guess she saw me tearing up and she was like oh I cant get your hair any lighter, so your going to have to come back a few times and get highlights. After ALL that and $270 later she tells me I need highlights to be blonde?? Why didnt she do that to begin with? I was so upset I just paid and left. I got to my car to look at my now extremley ugly and damaged hair and then noticed this BIATCH left hair dye all along my hair line (she covered that up with a side part) all on my ears, on the front of my neck, back of my neck, and even on my arms. WOW what a horrible experience. I went home and immediatley called the salon to talk to the manager, she was just as bad. Was not willing to help me in any way, so I called the corporate office. They are now taking care of it.
Well I went today to a different salon to get highlights all over. Thank god I actually got a professional. She told me my hair was so fried that if she put highlights all over my hair would fall off. She did what highlights she could, deep conditioned my hair, told me how to get my hair in better shape, and told me what products to use. Im really upset with my hair now because it is still really red ( and it doesnt go at ALL with my brown eyes and tanned skin) and EXTREMLEY damaged. I cant even brush it without seeing a ton of hair fall off. It gets it knots really easy, and is just a mess. Im going to be deep conditioning my hair EVERYDAY so I can get this nightmare over with as soon as possible.

To you girls that want to do the same, please, please, please, go to a stylist you trust. And you should start out with very fine highlights all over your head. Go about once a month and keep adding the highlights and you will get to where you want to be without this nightmare.

I've been doing the deep conditioning she told me too...but does anyone know anything else that I can do to help heal my hair super fast so I can get this mess fixed? Im a bartender and its extremley embarassing to go out in public like this.

Make sure blonde is what you really want. I honestly would go back to brown but I've spent so much money so far I might as well wait to see the end result of the blonde.

Good luck!!

in my opinion it's not even hard to get brown hair blonde. i mean obviously depends whether the hair is dyed a dark colour or whether its brown naturally. i've had all sorts of browns on my hair over the past 5 years or so of all different shades and i've just got platinum blonde. i just went to the salon and got lots and lots of bleach blonde highlights through a cap, but it almost looked like the whole thing had been dyed. it was quite yellowly so i put a light blonde cream colour of the top. this matched my remaining brown bits quite well to the rest of my head. then the next day i bleached it all over again and put another blonde cream colour of the top. but it didn't really soften the yellowly colour of the blonde. a few days ago my friend suggested i try a loreal cream colour of more of an Ash kind of blonde shade, this was also one designed especially for orangy copper tones after bleach. it worked amazingly and now my hair is almost a white shade of blonde with no yellow tones in.

my hair's condition isn't even that bad. just going to deep condition it every week.

so i suggest ure hair dresser gets you started then you do the rest yourself. its likly ure hair may be in poor condition. but it probably won't fall out. you have to bleach it and colour it ALOT for that to even come close to happening no matter what anyone says.

xxx

Oh My!!! All you girls seem to have the same problems as I ! [Now I don't feel all those fingers pointing all at me]
Born a Dark Brunette and Wish to go Blonde! I Would look through Magazines
Seeing Dark-haired (like mine, which is Dark dark brown) Models Celebs
and then maybe a month later see the same person again with Reallly PERFECT
Platinum, Dirty, and/or White Hair that just looks, . . Wonderful!!!
Ok, How the hell do they get that Gorgeous hair??
Hmm, well i figured they go to Salons and pay literally Thousands to get that perfect Shade.
But is there a better way??

I just follow my Ma's Tips by using Ash-Blonde dye to get those Stubborn Orange head colours out. Ugh! Talk about Ugly!

I've been made fun of and laughed at and am so sick of it.
I already spent too much trying hard to get to the color i want , So I Started it, Now I need to END IT.

soo . . . ASH-BLONDE!

To becca83:

Oh sweet-heart, my heart goes out to you. The first thing I would do is take that so called hairstylist to court. It could've been a lot worse. If she continues working or perhaps I should say torturing, just think of all the women she'll harm. I don't know how long ago it happened to you, but if it hasn't been long, you can have a claim against them. My advice to you is to deep condition each time you wash your hair. A really good product I recommend is called (Silk Elements Mega Silk Intense Conditioning Mayonnaise). Don't wash your hair everyday!! By doing so, you're stripping all the oils away. Wash your hair every 3 days or so. Another thing I advice you is to keep away from curling irons, hair dryers and so forth if you can. Also, another amazing product I recommend is Bio Silk; it's an oil so don't use too much. Use it after you wash your hair or after your hair is dry, and mainly on the ends which probably need it most. It leaves your hair shiny and tames the frizz. Depending on the condition your hair is in at this moment, I would dye it close to the natural color and start the conditioning regimen faithfully. Another pointer I have is to do home remedies at least once a week. It's not the most pleasant thing to have in your head, but know that nature works best. In a bowl, mix 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 1/2 an avocado (preferrably riped), 1 egg yolk, 1/2 cup of real mayonnaise (can't be reduced fat or dressing). Apply all over your head and cover with a shower cap. Wrap a towel around and keep it for at least an hour. Wash your hair and deep condition. Your hair will be shiny and super soft. As for your hair falling, it's a sign that your hair is weak and brittle. After washing it, never detangle it with a brush, always use a wide toothed comb. I strongly suggest taking vitamins and minerals that contain Biotin, B-6, Folic Acid. I hope I was helpful. And to all you girls who want to look drastically different, learn, learn, learn. Not only learn from other people's mishaps but learn to love yourselves the way God made you. Think about what would happen if you went to an inexperienced hair stylist and instead of achieving what you desired you ended up with a big dissappointment and later you find out that all the chemicals used will cause all your hair to fall out. I'm sure that by that time you'll wish you had all your hair and were a brunette again. Oh and one more thing, if you are not a professional hairstylist please, please stop experimenting and being do-it-yourselfers!!!

In order to go blonde from brown you will have to bleach there is no escaping it what I recommend is doing a double process bleach blonding by using the Clairol Born Blonde Ultra Blue followed by the Clairol Born Blonde Extra Light blonde toner to get rid of the rawness. Don't worry these products are safe and won't damage the hair. First Bleach your hair with Clairol Born Blonde Ultra Blue and leave it on your hair until it is lightened to a yellowish color which will take around 2 hours . Pre toned bleached hair usually looks like a rusty gritty yellow no worries after you shampoo and towel dried your hair what I recommend is using the Clariol Born Blonde Toner in the Extra Light Blonde leave it on your hair for no more than 15-20 minutes. In less than three hours you will have the blonde of your dreams. To keep your color vibrant do a lot of deep conditioning and use the John Frieda Shampoo Conditioner plus colorglaze platinum to Champagne for lighter shades of blonde hair.

ive been doing the wrong thing then.hehe.woops.what i did was i got a bleaching kit and i dyed it about 3 times at first then i dyed it every 3 weeks.DONT FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE! it makes your hair fall out. but anyway it was too much of a hassle so now my hair is red :D

hey all! well i have always had really blonde hair, white bleach blonde! and i love it!recently i decided it would be fun to dye it brown for a while, it looked nice! but i missed being blonde. a few weeks later decided i wanted to dye it back! i used a 30% creme developer and bleach power, left it on for about 35 minutes, then toned my hair with a blonde toner from the supermarket, but because my hair had red tones in the brown it went orange and i used too much toner it had purple streaks through it!! obviously i freaked out a little! anyway i applied a nice and easy 'light natural ash blonde' colour over the top and left it for around 30 minutes. after this my hair was very blonde, it was still a little yellow but alot better than the orange it was before, i left it like this for a few days then thought i would try and get it a little whiter so i applied a 'natural beige blonde' again nice and easy and left it for 25 minutes, then used the same toner ( just a little bit this time tho) . now my hair has no yellow tones and is the white blonde it once was! suprisingly it still looks and feels healthy! just remember to condition, condition, condition!!

I am naturally blonde and have dyed my hair very dark brown twice now. It took a while to get back to the nice natural blonde after the first time I dyed it, but I actually wish I had never gone to a salon in the first place... Usually, going to a salon is the best option if you don't know how to do stuff yourself. I had always cut my own hair and done highlights with Sun-In before, and I would have done it right. I told the lady I wanted to go back to blonde and she put in bleached blonde highlights. I was so annoyed because it looked sort of salt-and-peppery and afterward it would have been a bad idea to bleach it all (the highlights, I feared, would break off entirely).

IF you trust yourself with your hair, just buy the ingredients from a Beauty Supply store- color stripper (if you've dyed it dark) and bleach. Buy a good deep conditioner there as well and condition a lot before and after each treatment. Don't be afraid to let your hair look kind of greasy around these times. (My friend got her crazy-curly hair straightened with that Japanese method and she had to keep it greasy-looking for like a week so her hair didn't fry off) You'll need two or three bleaching sessions before you are back to blonde too, not all at once. Then of course it will just be one plain color that does not look natural if it is very light, so you'll have to probably go to a salon for highlights/lowlights, etc.

When I dye my hair back eventually I will do it this way, and probably just to dark blonde so that it can naturally lighten with the sun and/or lemon and it won't look trashy.

wash your haif blow dry it and wash it again and dye it while you washing it .

Hey. My natural hair colour is blondey brown, and a while ago my hair was blonde. I got sick of regrowth so I got it dyed professionally at a salon, and it was dark brown with blonde chunks. Now it's light brown with blonde in it because the colour has faded. I'm getting it dyed blonde tomorrow at hairdressers but I want a natural caramel/ streaky blonde. AH. Im scared it will go orange. Will it go orange from going blond to brunette and now back blonde?! What do you suggest I ask for?

bleach it blonde

My hair has been dyed multiple times, because I have a fairly short attention span when it comes to my hair. At the moment its got several colours on top of each other, though I haven't used permenant dye in about 7 months and haven't used any kind of dye in about 5 months, and at the moment its a fairly light brown. I was originally planning on going to a salon to go blonde (because I want to go crazy blonde) but have recently cut most of my once mermaid hair off and think I can do it on my own. I've been adding hairlights on a weekly basis by mixing bleach with a tiny bit of semi permanant blue hair dye (this works suprisingly well for taking out any orangey or yellow tones, and doesn't makes your hair blue unless you add too much) but I'm getting impatient with this. I suspect any day now I will give in to the temptation and blonde my entire head of hair. This is insanity isn't it? Though otherwise I'm like to get too impatient with this gradual thing and just make all of my hair darky dark brown again, and then regret it in a few months when I feel like being blonde again.

I'm natrually mousy brown but recently died my hair black and liked it. now I really want to be blonde. HELP. what can I do? I dont really want to wait for ages to grow it out and I dont really want to bleach it as I think it badly damages your hair. Any advice ?

you can try and tint it or a bleach bath works too and it dosn't damage your hair as much. maybe you should dye your hair a light brown to start with then go blonde!

if you have dark brown hair use a transition color such as auburn or light brown
CONDITION CONDITION CONDITION they have deep conditiioning treatments at the salon
then bleach it. thats what I did.

still dont forget to CONDITION wicked important

I do the dark brown hair in winter and bleach blonde in summer- have always done it myself and hd no problems, I also have hair extensions and my hair is in fine condition- you pay for the quality and profesional work.if you will get rows of self glue in hair then your asking for trouble, get them done by a pro and you are fine, schwarskof livecolous- absolute platinum blonde hair dye to bleach your hair back. give it two weeks maybe with two applications and then condition condition condition- v05 hot oil is good as a leave in butobviously you cant treat hair with leave in conditioner with extensions.try and limit how many times you wash your hair so its natural oils come round again to help

I am a teenager. Im Caucasian and African-American. My hair is thick, curly and somewhat long. My natural color was a medium-dark ash brown with red undertones and yellowish low- lites. I wanted to be blonde so I bought over the counter dye which was a dark golden blonde (brassy) My roots and ends got a blonde tint but the rest of my hair stayed the same. After that I died it over 10 tens at home with all different shades of brown. Tried going blonde again in the summer but I looked gross so I died it dark again and than red (which loooked great) and than dark again. AFter that I got extensions glued in.!! They looked awesome but than the glue made a lot of my hair fall out. I have so much hair though so it didnt make a difference to me. After that and then a soft black. Long story short I now have blonde hair. I went to the salon to get a chocalatey color.. the hairdresser told me I needed to bleach it so I was like fine I might as well go blonde... I wanted it light golden blonde and now its a strawberry reddish - honey blonde color.. I cant blame the stylist cause my hair was so many different colors.. im going to go back and have a light ash blonde put it cause of the brassiness

I now know a lot about hair cause of my mistakes
so heres my advice... if you want to do it at home yourself for not a lot of money.. YOU dont have to bleach it unless you want it bleach blonde..Natural hair takes best to dyes so make your first shot worth it.. buy loreal preference dye.. that says it is for people with dark hair only.. the shade is light ash brown.. leave it in for way longer than it says (it doesnt damage your hair because the dye stops activating after a while)1 hour or more ...

after that deep condition (use a african american product ; it adds more moisture )wet a towel and put it in the microwave then wrap your hair with it while the conditioner is in

wash it good about a week after and condition again
!! CONDITION CONDITION CONDITION - I cant say it enough

Another week after that get african american dye such as dark and lovely and get a light shade of blonde that says its a lightener... leave that in for longer than it says also .. about an hour

CONDITION

VOILA! you will probably have a nice shade of blonde hair

the reason why you being a caucausian using african american products is because they are stronger since their peoples pigments are deeper..

GOOD LUCK... wait about a month to get extensions and get them sewn in NOT GLUED!

bleach it