Does bleach at home (the kind you use on clothes) work on your hair?

Ok I have a story of everything I've done to my hair over this past summer. First of all I'm naturally blonde, and I have fair skin and blue eyes. I thought brown might look nice for a change, so I dyed it light brown. I kept that for about 2 weeks. Then I decided to go darker. So I then dyed it dark brown but it looked almost black. I thought it looked really bad, so I bought some highlights for dark hair. I used them, and it turned my hair a brassy medium brown colour. After a while it started to fade to a reddish colour, so I dyed it dark brown and eventually got used to it. Then in late August I wanted to have it light again. So I bought this stuff that removes all colour from your hair, only it turned mine a very light orange, and it was white at the roots. So I dyed it medium blonde, but it stayed this yellow color. Like when people with really dark hair dye their hair blonde, it has that yellowy look. So I got it coloured profesionally light brown, then got highlits. But it didn't look right with my skin and eyes and everything, so I bought highlights at the store. Only when I did that it turned orange. It looked horrible. So I dyed it light brown and it finally looked alright. So my hair lady won't highlight it because she thinks it's too damaged. She did to the very top layer, but it's too dark yellow looking. You could probably guess that my parents won't let me do anything else to my hair, because they spent so much money on it all. But I really just want my blonde hair back! If I use bleach, the kind my mum uses on clothes, only on the top so I won't do it all, will it work?

This is what it looked like back in June before I did anything to it. This is the natural colour


do you think I can ever get it back??

Susan's right...

OMG...do not use liquid Chlorine bleach....It will eat your hair and your scalp...If your stylist couldn't get you corrected it's not east to do.

I don't think that adding more pigment even from a color shampoo will help much, especially if you want to eventually get lighter.

You have layers and layers of color on your hair...you have continuiously assulted it...you may need to be patient here and get some cut.

Hello Emilie!

Others have told you already - don't do it. I understand the reason why you wanted a change and why nobody understands you wanted it in the first place.

Should you want your natural colour back ASAP, there's only one (harsh) cure: cut it. The shorter you go, the more painful it is, but the quicker you'll have your natural colour back.
Your hair looked wonderful but after 10 attacks with dye on a mere 5 (?) months, it is undoubtably overtreated. Maybe the realisation that your long hair is damaged helps a bit to swallow the bitter pill.
In any case, indulge your hair with a lot of keratine rich conditioners (they do cost more than regular ones), don't blow dry, don't use alcohol based gels that will dry your hair out even more, be very gently on your hair combing, washing and brushing and don't colour it for the coming months.

Next time, first look for a good professional hairstylist, then talk with her/him, then dye. A lot of people think DIY is cheaper, but in your case unfortunately it wasn't. Keep in mind hair is very fragile: colouring and perming uses agressive chemicals that change your hair, ends split very easily, ...

Hang in there, stiff upper lipp and such and look at it as something that made you stronger and wiser. And in a few years, you'll tell this story laughingly to new friends.

For further advice you can always bMail me.

do not bleach your hair with clothes bleach your hair will disintegreat i mean it will completly diapear. a lady on this forum tryed it on the hair she cut of her head and it was all gone from the cup she put it in in about 10 minutes so dont put bleach on your hair