Just donвЂ™t! Again, itвЂ™s bad for your roots and can cause unwanted damage to your hair. By using hot water instead of lukewarm water to create a solution, you can render the active ingredients in bleach ineffective, making it totally useless.

After you have left the bleach on your hair for the desired amount of time, get into the shower and rinse the bleach out of your hair using lukewarm water. Unlike standard hair dye, which deposits color onto the hair strands, bleach disperses the color molecules in the hair shaft, which is what lightens the hair. The color you want to go for is a pale blonde or till it looks pale yellow вЂ“ donвЂ™t worry if it looks a little crazy вЂ“ youвЂ™re going to tone it! Wash it with lukewarm water You want to let the bleach really sit in your hair and do the trick! Keep it in with the bag wrapped around your head till you really start to see it lighten. It can take many trials and errors to find out what works best when bleaching hair, but the plastic bag is known to do the trick on the first try! Doing this will also keep it moist and prevent drying out your hair. This is because the heat helps open the cuticle so that the bleach can penetrate better. Also, ditch your regular hairbrush and opt to use a wide-tooth comb or a special brush designed for wet hair once youвЂ™ve washed out the bleach вЂ“ but, we arenвЂ™t quite there yet. Your bleached hair is extra vulnerable! If youвЂ™re not careful, youвЂ™ll experience a lot of breakages, so try to avoid rubbing your hair, brushing it, or combing through it as it could cause a lot of unwanted damage. To avoid these things, start with the rest of your hair by working from the bottom up, wait 10-15 minutes, then apply the bleach to your roots. Also, your roots lift way quicker than the rest of the hair on your head. Your roots are the most sensitive area on your head вЂ“ the longer you leave the bleach there, the more irritation you will get from the bleach itself. Therefore, to bleach all parts of your hair to the same shade, you should start with the hair farthest from your scalp. Doing this will help the bleach near your scalp work at a much faster pace than the bleach on the rest of your head. When bleaching your hair, it is so important to start from the bottom up! Why? So you donвЂ™t get patchy orange spots that no one wants.

It is recommended вЂ“ by Brad Mondo вЂ“ to use 30 Vol in general, but if you want to do it in steps, you can use both for the different sections of your hair. No, the developer is NOT bleach вЂ“ but to get the right bleach to developer ratio (1:2), use 20 Vol for the regrowth area, and when you need to lift by 1-2 levels, use 30 Vol for the lengths.

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