lightening without bleach (pics)

Hey it's me again! I left off trying to get my hair a cool blonde shade at the salon. I went through 4 rounds of highlights, 3 toners, 2 rounds of low-lights all since September. I am currently what I think may be a level 8/9. Here are the pics:

My stylist does not want to highlight my length again, just touch up roots and lowlight. But I am not quite at the color I want yet. This is my ideal color:


So, i was wondering..... I have some Goldwell colorance in 10P and 10BS, and some 10 vol developer. If I used the 10P and got either 20 or 30 vol. developer, applied it all over, would it possibly get me to the color I want? I need it to lighten the dark bits, tone them, and I am assuming the random highlights that are already a level 10, it will just tone?

I just wanted some opinions before I bought developer, of course I will strand test first. [IMG]smileys/smiley2.gif" align="middle" />




Edited by jender - February 02 2009 at 5:26pm

Even if I am already blonde? I was hoping it would give me like 2 shades of lift. I don't know how to bleach myself since I have highlights and my stylist won't do it. Is there any other way?

Does anyone know why the picture upload/links aren't working?

yay! my pics are working!

My hair is actually in pretty good condition. See my stylist says she doesn't want to overprocess me, but then follows it by saying, I won't look good blonder because my eyes are brown and my natural color is brown so I will never get the blonde I want.

So I really don't take her words too seriously. Obviously I don't want to damage my hair too much, but I think her opinion is playing a huge part in it.

But seeing as I don't know how to highlight my own hair, I guess I am stuck with something I don't want, until I can figure out what to do. Any other suggestions?

you can not lighten hair with out some kind of chemical process. Even "natural" techniques  still changing the chemical bonds of the hair strand to give it a lighter  color.

Thanks for all the replies!

Yeah, my hairdresser and I don't agree on the level and tone I should be, even though the pic of how I want my hair is a picture of me and looks great...go figure.

I try to take pretty good care of it, though. Most of the time I am walking around with dirty hair, unless I have somewhere nice to go.

Krystlegarrison, i use that Oscar Blandi dry shampoo stuff and i don't know how I ever went without it! It's awesome and it smells like lemons!

bikertammy, you said you just paint on the bleach? Does that work? Do you have to cover it like with foil or highlighting paper so it won't dry out? And what bleach do you use? At my salon they use Wella products so should I stick with those?

Maybe I will do that. Just paint a few highlights very gradually, and once I get the dark bits to the level I want, tone everything with the Goldwell 10P. Does that sound like a good idea?

I will probably still go to the salon to get my roots done though, I don't think I am skilled enough for that!