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Hi everyone.
Can anyone offer me any tips on how to lighten my hair naturally using lemon juice? I think Tlxpcr (forgive me I've spelled your name wrong) told me a few months back to squeeze a lemon in your hair and just go on with your day. Over time, your hair will get lighter in the sun. Then Mary C said it would be a bad idea. And someone else said about using lime juice instead!
Anyway, I really want to do this. I know I may damage my hair slightly, but I've been good to it for almost 8 months now. And I desperately DESPERATELY! want light, blonde looking hair, being realistic, so it won't be THAT blonde. My Sister had the same colour hair as mine, maybe a shade or two lighter, but she's used a product, a spray on, the more you spray, over time, the hair gradually becomes lighter. When I had v short hair, I tried this and it was pretty good. But I don't know wether lemon or that is more damaging.
I'm going to lighten my hair without having it highlighted in a salon anyway, so can anyone give me tips on lemon juice squeezed in to my hair, how may times a week do I need to do this, how long for, how much ect...
Comments, suggestions appreciated.
The spray stuff you speak of is 'Sun-In' and its harmless unless your hair is really brown. (It creates streaks of copper colour otherwise.) But yours is light enough.
Ive used Sun-In and it works. You dont even have to stay outside in the sun you can always just blow dry it for the same effect.
Lemon Juice works like a charm though, (The worst that could happen is that your hair could dry out some) you'll get nice blond streaks... Still not as good as Sun-In.
The spray stuff you speak of is 'Sun-In' and its harmless unless your hair is really brown. (It creates streaks of copper colour otherwise.) But yours is light enough.
Ive used Sun-In and it works. You dont even have to stay outside in the sun you can always just blow dry it for the same effect.
Lemon Juice works like a charm though, (The worst that could happen is that your hair could dry out some) you'll get nice blond streaks... Still not as good as Sun-In.
Hey Surferdude,
I've looked into this a little and it seems cool. What I want to do is just have like one little streak of lighter colored hair, nothing too drastic and like just in one spot or something. What do you think?
Anyway, let me know if you decide to get Sun-in or use Lemon Juice.
Hey Sid!
I've got many natural blonde streaks on my hair, I've always had them, being my mam's hair is Blonde, so I must have inherited it off her. I think you should be able to get away with a blonde streak. If your hair is black, or dark coloured, I'd get it progessionally highlighened instead, Sun in probably doesn't work for dark hair. I think go for it!
I think I'm going to use sun in instead. When I had short hair, I had sun in sprayed all over my head, and I only needed 1 or 2 applications and my hair was much lighter, even blonde looking. This time I intend to gradually lighten my hair, so I will spray my hair or get my sister to spray my hair every 7 days, and follow up by plenty of conditioner during the week.
I'm a bit appriehnsive to start it though, because my hair colour isn't bad either, plus it's natural.
Go to this women's long hair page and scroll down to a posting by "Igor" to find out how she wrecked her hair with lemon juice and had to start all over.
"My worst disaster was my stupid idea of bleaching my hair with lemon juice. Not even the harshest bleach I’ve used before had screwed up my hair this bad."
Just because something's natural doesn't mean it's gentle on your hair. And just because it's fast and easy (like Sun-in) doesn't mean it won't damage your hair.
I suggest you break down and buy a regular level 3 permanent hair color a couple of shades lighter than your own. Then follow the directions to the letter. I use that type of color on my hair and I've managed to keep it damage-free.
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=12357&page=2
Hey Surferdude!
Hair is so much fun and it is easily understandable to myself why you want this colour so much. Really, its a blast! :-) The following advice will NOT BE LIKED by most on this board most probably, but since you have brought-up the subject, here is what I would do if I were you:
1.) STAY AWAY FROM THE LEMONS! You will be sorry if you take this route.
2.) Go to a good Salon and pay the price for a great colouring job by a "top professional".
As for damage..............we already know that there will be some, but as I have noted so often before just look at what the Ladies do and seem to get away with!
3.) if you want to go "natural," just stay out in the Sun long enough daily and the hair WILL lighten and just might(?) reach the colour you are desiring.............but then again we come up with "damage." (Ahh, you just can't seem to win.) And then too, you run the risk of Skin-Cancer down the road.
Might as well go the professional route and end up "extastic" about the BEST! I really don't think a "one-time" colouring in your case comes anywhere near to the end of the world. Hardly. You only live once...............DO IT if it gives you inner happiness at expressing yourself.
Me thinks if you "try" and do it yourself that you will be at a much higher risk of damage. I would strongly advise against this. Your hair has been doing so fantastically..............it would be a "living Funeral" to wreck it all up now.
Good luck at whatever you decide, but PLEASE..............stay away from those LEMONS!
take care,have fun, and enjoy the new colour! :-)
Justin~
Hey man, 2 years ago i wanted to go blonde naturally and I tried everything... i read on the internet that lemons could help, so in june I began sprayin' their juice on my hair and it actually worked... but not as much as you could expect... my hair is brown (although someone says it's almost blonde, which is not true) and it became just a little fairer on the front, but really JUST A LITTLE BIT... and i also stayed under the sun for all the summer... so, don't expect miracles by lemons... what many people told you, that lemons will drastically damage ur hair, is false... it will get just a bit drier, right the same effects of sun-exposure, nothin' more... anyway, the "high-lights" that lemons and sun will provide you, are not bad at all, they look very beautiful on hair, so try it... i hope this has helped, take care!
I found that simply being in the sun and water (ocean and pool) lightens the top layer of my hair every year.
If you are a surferdude, it should get lighter just from your sport.
Man, it does! I'm down the beach every few days a week, but I want to have my whole hair fairly blonde, not just streaks.
And I don't want to bleach my hair either, I think I'll just use sun in instead. I tend to skim more than surf though, as the waves can get to 5 ft max around where I live, and that's quite rare! Skimboard, I can use it anyday, and it's just as fun.
