How to Color Your Own Hair Lighter

coloring your hair lighter

How to color your hair lighter, the most effective way is through highlighting. In highlighting what you would want to do is grab one of those home hair lighting kits. And actually, they will give you a brush in order to apply it with, and they will also give you the product that you're going to be using. You are going to simply paint them on. So you're going to grab a section that you would like for the color to be lighter. And you're going to use your brush, and paint from root to end that strand of hair. You are then just going to simply release it. Don't push it down, don't do anything like that because then you're going to get the hairs underneath which may cause striping or spotting. So you're going to go through and paint everything on.

The 2nd way is spraying lemon juice on the hair. Mix lemon juice with water in a spray bottle. Fill a plastic spray bottle with water, and add lemon juice (fresh or concentrated). Shake up to mix.

• Spray the lemon juice on the hair you want dyed blonde. If you want blonde streaks instead of dying whole areas, separate out the strand, hold the sprinter so that it's a half-inch (about 2 cm) from your  hair and spray. Use your fingers to wet the rest of the strand with the juice that's on it. If you're dying all of your hair, spray liberally and run your fingers through your hair to make sure you get full coverage.

• Apply heat or sunlight to your hair to make the color process. You have 2 options for this step:

Apply the lemon juice to wet or dry hair, and go outside in the sun for a few hours. If you choose this option, apply sunscreen that's at least SPF 15 to any exposed skin. Or Apply the lemon juice to wet hair, and blow it dry on high heat.

• Repeat the above process every 2 or 3 days. You might not see results after the first time, but you'll notice a difference in a week.

• Keep your hair healthy. While dying your hair with lemon juice doesn't require you to damage your hair with bleach, lemon juice is an acid, and will dry out your hair. Use a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner, and try not to blow dry, curl, or flat iron your hair more than 2 or 3 times a week.
  

 Tips

• Touch up your roots with more lemon juice every 2 to 3 weeks.

• You'll have to visit a salon or buy a box of dye from the store to dye your hair brown again, so be extra sure that you want it blonde.

• Consult your friends, ask if they think blonde hair would suit you. Maybe even get them over to help you dye it.

• If you're going to dye your hair lighter gradually, remember to do it over a course of months, to prevent too much hair damage.