Bleach Highlights on dyed hair?

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Hi I was wondering if you could answer this question for me, I have recently died my hair a lighter borwn than it was and was wondering if it would be possible to put bleach blonde highlights on top of this?

― Adski, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank god you guys are back. How long has it been since someone has solicited hair dye advice on ILE? Too long, that's how long.

The short answer to your question is definitely. Bleach highlights are always appropriate, especially as we enter the magic of the summer social season. You'll look younger, thinner, and better nourished with bleach highlights.

But how to do it. Ah, indeed. It's not as easy a process as you might imagine. But fortunately, all the tools you need are as close as your kitchen. That's right, a home highlight job can be every bit as successful as a high priced treatment from a salon charging eight, ten, even as much as $12. My, how you'll laugh as you become more beautiful AND save money at the same time.

A mixture of lemon juice, sun-in, and chlorox, thickened with a reduction of heavy cream, corn starch and cake flour is your first step. Streak on the paste in concentric circles moving out from the crown. Some people like the aluminum foil method, but I recommend duct tape instead. It's literally fool proof. Wrap each strand in duct tape and wait 20 minutes. Shower off the duct tape and the corrosive mixture, et voila! Instant beauty!

― Skottie, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks very much for the advice! So even though I am bleaching already dyed hair the outcome will be the same and nothing disastrous will happen?

― Adski, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You're asking too many questions - clearly Skottie knows what he's talking about!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, luna, I'm blushing...I feel 19 again.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i also vouch for the duct tape method. the threads in the tape absorb the bleach mixture and really add depth to your highlights-- it's like highlights on highlights.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sb-photographies.com/musique/dresde/skinny/2.jpg

"Duct tape! It worked for me, it'll work for you!"

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(There was that enormous bloke that appeared in 'heaviest man har har' type documentaries, who actually did/does stick his hair with duct tape. Does this ringabell with anyone?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, you bastards. You realise this moron is going to carry out those instructions? Ahahahahahaha!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm beginning to think you people just don't understand fashion! I happen to know that the guy in the picture above didn't follow the instructions carefully. I specified the use Chlorox brand bleaching agent, which is known for its high quality. That, that, guy, used purex or some other inferior store brand. If you fail to follow instructions, one can't vouch for the consequences. That's what's wrong with most people in this ever-changing world in which we live in.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I just want to make one hundred percent sure before I try these things!...Shutup Liz you try-hard.

― Adski, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

skottie OTM. one thing i'd recommend to make sure the color sets properly is the rubbing the pulp of whole bananas all the way through to the scalp and leaving exposed to air for 25 minutes. the potassium and zogwax12 nutrients will give your hair a radiant glow.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd forgotten about the bananas... Colette is OTM about the threads in the tape.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

what about highlights for brunettes? can we use the same mixture?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure, I'd think you just have to use more bleach... Skottie might be more of an expert here, though, so I'll defer to him.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

you can, but at a packet or two of artificial sweetener to the highlight mix. it keeps teh stinging down. Seriously, James Marsters would mention this alla time in interviews, since he had to bleach his hair so much.

just remember the duct tape.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

kingfish's remarks seconded. yul brynner used a blend of 24 molar hydrochloric acid mixed with papaya juice and lye to marvelous results.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

and look how much of a star it made him!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

80s brazilian supermodel telle savalas was purportedly also a fan of a few of the procedures mentioned upthread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always enjoyed a bleach/ammonia mixture. But, admittedly, many people are put off by the lethal chlorine gas that's released. To each his own, I say.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i can deal with a couple bothersome side affects so long as it looks ravishing! ^_^

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

One must suffer for beauty.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Too true. And the more you suffer, the more beautiful you are. Except for the contusions.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that said "except for the conscience."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

...and, of course, the conscience.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, I'm in trouble, my Ogre loving friend found this thread and berrated me for using that picture. Tee hee. Notice she didn't post, though. Maybe I should find some pictures of the beautious highlights of the Dirty Delays Boys to make her feel better. ;-)

(Hi, KaliFlwr, I can see you lucking!)

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Thursday, 24 June 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that an Ogre pic? I thought it was the guy who does my tax return. He has great highlights!

― Skottie, Thursday, 24 June 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

::grumble::

;-)

― kaliflwr (kaliflwr), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I heart delurking lurkers! ;-)

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Another process that works surprisingly well doesn't involve harsh chemicals or messy clean-up. And it works especially well on already-colored dark hair in today's no-nonsense styles specifically designed for your (sexually) active lifestyle.

As any scientist, metaphysician, or rockist can tell you, darker hair pigment is carried on the exterior of the individual hair shaft. The color can literally be scraped away, revealing a much lighter tint below. Any sharp kitchen cutlery tool will work, but I find that a glass shard is faster and easier to manage.

Simple strike sharply a dark colored glass bottle against a brick or concrete surface. Personally, I prefer a small guiness stout bottle, or one of those charming flasks from Grolsch. Pick up a piece of the resulting shards, and use the thin, leading edge, to literally slice out the old color, slice in the summer highlights!

Leave all those harsh chemicals to the younger set! Enjoy the new, beautiful you!

― Skottie, Friday, 25 June 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a little annoyed that no one ever comes back with a simple, "thank you, my hair turned out beautifully." You never get a whiff of thanks.

― Skottie, Sunday, 27 June 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps they successfully tried that ammonia/bleach combination.

one can only hope.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh for God's sake.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Skottie you are a god - i am trying this tonight.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to think we'll be judged in this life for the small contributions we make--freely, openly, and with compassion--to those with less fortunate hair.

― Skottie, Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2002/2002-05-01-cyrus.jpg

Amen.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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