Tips to Lighten Your Hair

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1 Hair Lightener Recipe
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Hair Lightener Recipe

Ingredients:
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups chamomile tea
- 1 tablespoon of parsley
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
Boil all the ingredients and let it simmer for 15 mins.
Strain out the tea bags and parsley (make sure to remove all of the parsley) and let it sit till room temperature.
Poor on to hair over a sink and rinse two or three times.
Your hair should be smelling nice and looking lighter!

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How to Lighten your Hair

Don't apply all the hair color to all of your head.
Apply color first to the roots, for a specified period of time. Then, apply the lightener to the rest of your hair.
Use a brush and section the hair. Its much easier to apply the lightener evenly this way.
Use clips to keep the rest of your hair out of the way whilst you work on each section.
Hair needs to be in reasonably good condition to take peroxide based lighteners, especially if you are going for a look that is a lot lighter than your natural or base hair color.
Use protein treatments to strengthen your hair first, if its not in good condition. Or go for a few highlights to complement your cut instead.
And remember to use intensive moisturizing treatments afterwards, as well. You can alternate the two every week for a few weeks.
Then, if your hair no longer needs strengthening, stop using the protein treatment. You will most likely need to use the moisture treatment still, though.
If you want a sun kissed look - go for a color that is only 1 or 2 shades lighter than your natural hair color.
Get a friend to help you, and 'weave' the highlights through your hair.
The trick is not to have the color looking too chunky.
You could try going for a weave effect by mimicking the way a loom moves through a rug when it is made.
Using the end of a long comb or hair coloring brush, move it over and under a section of hair, picking out the hair that is left on the top of the handle.
Then, with a piece of aluminum foil handy, put the hair on the foil and apply the hair lightener.
This is what hairdressers do to get a subtle and blended effect.
If you want to go quite a lot lighter than your natural or base shade, you may need to do it gradually.
Dark hair can be difficult to lighten, at least if you want to keep any sort of condition and length to your style.
So you may need to compromise first and go for more of a caramel color, and then go through a process of using protein and moisture treatments weekly for a month to strengthen your hair again.
When applying lightener the first time, follow the instructions on the packet, and test your hair at regular intervals.
You'll need to test both for color and condition. Rub the ends of part of your hair to see how light it is getting, and also to see whether it disintegrates at all.
If it starts to disintegrate or break off, you'll need to wash out the hair lightener, no matter how many gold or orange tones are left.
Apply this all over your hair once you've washed out the peroxide based lightener.
Then use two treatments every week, a protein and a moisture treatment, for about a month.
Follow the instructions for applying color to regrowth otherwise you will severely damage your hair.
Don't sacrifice too much hair condition for lighter hair. Work with your hair so you end up looking a million dollars, instead of ten!