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    Posted: September 30 2007 at 4:31am
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I am going to be growing out my hair for the next year or so and I have a crazy plan on bleaching it. My hair is currently about 2 inches long and is solid black/dark dark brown. My plan is to bleach it every month or two for about 5 minutes each time with 30 volume peroxide. What do you think it will look like in a year if I were to do this? In one year, the last inch or so of my hair should be a light shade of yellow.  There should be a gradient on each strand of black roots to yellow ends right?
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I hope you don't plan on bleaching all of it every month.  I think hair can take three bleachings.  It's really best if you plan to go blonde, to bleach it all and then just touch up the roots.  Really think the once a month for 5 min plan is not a good one. 

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Going blonde isn't really my plan since my goal is to create a gradient from dark to light (dark roots to lighter tips). I have no desire to have my hair longer than 6-7 inches so I doubt my hair will get lighter than a light orange/blonde color. Try reading this page http://www.pg.com/science/haircare/hair_twh_92.htm and this page http://www.pg.com/science/haircare/hair_twh_93.htm 
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I agree it is better to go lighter in steps. It gives the hair time in between to suck up more moisture and calm down.If the bleach is only being applied 5 minutes at a time (when some home bleaching kits can be used up to 90 minutes at a time) Then I dont see how it could damage the hair that much.
Of course,if you begin to see breakage or have overly dry/course hair you may want to stop.
I think it could work though.Good luck.airhorn
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Thanks for the input! It looks like I'll have to start this in a week or so put I'll make sure to post results in a few months unless this experiment fails. My hair handles bleach pretty well so I'm not too worried about it becoming damaged. I've bleached my hair in the past to achieve bright red hair with manic panic and it takes about an hour or so to get my hair to banana yellow.
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i'm with rebekah- she posts on a few different forums and really knows her stuff.
the bleach is going to damage your hair no matter what, so you may as well do it all at once. i'm not even sure 5 minutes of bleach would lighten at all.
you may want to do a bit more bleaching research before you start this one!

good luck in whatever you decide to do~
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The goal is not to go blonde, only to gradually lighten the ends. Of course bleach damages hair! I just said my hair handles bleach well.
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