what’s harder on hair-bleach or stripping
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Topic: what’s harder on hair-bleach or stripping
Posted By: stormee
Subject: what’s harder on hair-bleach or stripping
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 4:56pm
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Which is harden on hair-bleaching or color stripping? Or in your experience what was harder on your hair?
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Posted By: KarenNJ
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 10:05pm
Personally, I think bleaching has been more damaging to my hair than stripping color out. But maybe because I've only stripped color out of my hair a few times.
Unlike bleaching, stripping doesn't seem to take out a lot of the "red" color. You get that lovely <cough> attractive <choke> pumpkin color - which is a nice base for adding color. I think it's harder to add color back on to bleached hair. You have to worry about it turning green or violet.
So I don't know which is technically more damaging, but if you're trying to decide which one to do, I think it depends on the current condition of your hair and what your ultimate goal is.
Karen
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Posted By: meli
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 4:04am
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I would definitely say bleach is MORE damaging than stripping color by using a product such as Colorfix, which only causes slight damage comparable to that of demi-permanent hair color.
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Posted By: aubergine
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 11:29am
Colour strippers like Colorfix and Goldwell have the reputation of
being gentle strippers, and as I've tried and tested both I'd be
inclined to agree. You can't tell you're hair has been stripped
at all - I would advise anyone to try stripping before considering
bleaching if you only want to remove dye. The downside to
stripping is that if you have naturally dark hair but want to put a
vibrant colour over, then the Colorfix will only remove colour down to
your virgin colour (or near enough), it won't lighten hair.
Bleach is harsh on the hair if used a lot and without the appropriate
hair care before and after bleaching. It also depends on the
present condition of your hair and how long you're going to leave it on
for i.e if you want to get an orangey base it will be less damaging
than if you want platinum blonde hair. I would say that bleach
made my hair dry and porous, much more so than when using a colour
stripper.
Hope that helps.
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