Going platinum blonde
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Printed Date: July 21 2025 at 12:53pm
Topic: Going platinum blonde
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Subject: Going platinum blonde
Date Posted: March 07 2004 at 1:24am
| hey...i wanna hear other people's feedback. I want to be a platinum blonde, but i hear it's very damaging esp. for brunettes. is there a way to create a very pale blond look without too much damage (a bit is fine with me)? Which look better: highlights or all over color with bleach? I'm brunette and I look good in platinum wig. Plus, I don't plan to grow my hair long and it's like shoulder length and layered right now. it's a dyed light brown with dark blonde ends now (was bleached last year). TIA! |
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Posted By: Heratic
Date Posted: March 07 2004 at 7:55am
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A few years ago my wife, a shoulder length brunette at the time, considered going for the bottle blonde look. Her stylist agreed to do it provided my wife had her hair cropped to approximately 1" in length all over at the time. She therefore declined and went for highlights which certainly gave the illusion of being blonde without the damage to the hair - or losing the length. ------------- Its your hair, your choice and your decision |
Posted By: StyleGuy
Date Posted: March 07 2004 at 12:59pm
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It is possible to go platinum blonde from brunette for longer lengths, but it's going to depend on the skill and patience of your colorist. First, the stylist has to be careful in initial timing and application. They can't just throw on product all over, and stick you under a dryer. They have to be careful working with your hair, because when the product is on your head, that's when you hair is at its most vulnerable. They have to know which toner is appropriate. When it comes time to do a touch up, they have to be able to accurately process only the regrowth and avoid overlap onto the previously processed hair. I'd say very few stylists are capable of doing this. A license is not a guarantee. IMHO, what you should do is contact one of the local beauty suppliers for Goldwell or Joico (Verocolor) or Schwarztkopf, and see if they can give you the name of a colorist who they use for shows or education. Then, go for a consultation, to find out what that colorist thinks about your particular situation. It's probably going to be expensive, btw. Heratic, I'd say the stylist that would only take your wife platinum if she would agree to cut her hair short was putting the cart before the horse. I warn people that it may come to that, but it doesn't always have to. My guess is that he just didn't want to do it. ------------- |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 07 2004 at 2:53pm
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It depends... I've heard of a lot of people who seem to be to bleach their hair and have no trouble. Most stylists can avoid overlap, so many people can do it at home. So many people go blonde, I don't think it's quite as bleak a picture as was pointed out in the previous post. Highlights will be less damaging, but harder to keep up, and in the end it only comes down to effort anyway. All-over colour generally looks much better for a drastic change. |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 09 2004 at 1:02am
| Well, unless you want to have short hair, don't try it. Longer hair doesnt really hold up that well to such intense bleaching. |
Posted By: StyleGuy
Date Posted: March 09 2004 at 2:26pm
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Captain Japonica, what exactly is your reason for saying long hair doesn't hold up to bleaching? ------------- |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 13 2004 at 3:45am
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[QUOTE=StyleGuy]
Captain Japonica, what exactly is your reason for saying long hair doesn't hold up to bleaching? [/Q The longer your hair is, the longer it will take for the natural oils to coat and protect the hair, so breakage is very possible with heavily bleached hair. I wouldent risk it. |
Posted By: sprockett
Date Posted: March 16 2004 at 5:28pm
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im plat blonde myself, but it takes a long time. Especially for me, since i have THICK jet black asian hair. I went to yellow yellow after about 3 bleaches in a few days, and my hair was like hay. 2 weeks of mega coniditioning, and it started feeling good again, then i went for another 3 bleaches, and now its bordering on white. it makes your hair SOOOO porous though, so becareful when using toners after many bleaches. Your hair may suck up the toner too quickly leading to blue/violet hair. I use infusium conditioner both spray on as well as in the shower... its pretty good, you can defnitely feel your hair getting better. Also, you might consider going for 40 developer for the initial few times, and then dropping down to 20 volume. Also, USE FOIL. its a MUST, not an option. it speeds up the bleaching, and maintains the moisture on your hair. its not a joke... if you have short hair like me, just wrap your entire head in it. ------------- |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 16 2004 at 8:00pm
| Japonica most conditioners/shampoos and hair oils are substitutes for that, so if you use oils or condition more often it makes little difference. |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 16 2004 at 10:22pm
| But it's still very easy to fry your hair with all that stuff, no? |
Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: March 17 2004 at 3:11am
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But if you need all those oils and heavy conditioners, your hair is already damaged :-P . Plus, you can get to a point where no matter how much you condition your hair, it's still straw. I went through that at one time, not because of bleaching, but just from changing the shade too many times. I was using like four conditioners a day for a while, but it still was dry and frizzy, and stayed that way until I cut it. You've gotta be careful what you do with your hair, because once it's fried, oiling and conditioning can make it look less frizzy, but it can't restore the hair back to its original health. ------------- More awesome than a manatee! |
Posted By: PunkRawkGurl
Date Posted: March 30 2004 at 1:47pm
I have to agree with Sprockett. I have long dark brown asian hair and it took me about 4 hours to dye my hair blonde. I am currently blonde with plaitnum high lights but the next time I go in I'm gonna go full platinum >_<. I have noticed that it dried out my hair but I think couple of times of deep conditioning will help my hair out. I believe it's all about the salon you go to when you do dye/bleach your hair. Good luck! ------------- |
sprockett wrote:Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 30 2004 at 4:32pm
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if you plan to do it yourself the best way about it is use a colour stripper, if it's one with peroxide that leaves you with orange hair then thats less bleaching. skip the next step if you use a perxoide stripper. first you'll need to bleach your hair to a peach/orange colour. then condition the hell out of it. i suggest a few days inbetween bleaching. it''s really worth it, bleaching your hair twice in the same day is never a good idea and it'll leave it mulchy and yuck and with bleaching you need your hair to be in as gooder condition as you can get. after that you bleach your hair to palest yellow(the colour of inside a banana peel) then you buy a platinum toner which should remove the yellow. idealy you want your hair free of orange tones, if you have any orange bits left you may want to bleach just thoes bits using 20% peroxide with the bleach. but make sure you condition it like hell. |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 12:50am
| On Cosmo's June 2004 cover, Gwen Stefani graced the front page. What color does she use? It looks like a silvery platinum blonde devoid of yucky yellow. I want that color! I wonder if Silver Lady by Wella would give me that similar result? Please let me know. Thanks. |