How to lighten your hair using lemon juice

You want those expensive highlights without the high price of a salon. Now there is a way to do it naturally with the aid of lemon juice for next to nothing.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Real lemon juice not sugared

1. You will need real lemon juice for this task not the stuff that you use to sweeten or preserve a fruit salad. If you can’t find any then just use lemons. Extract the juice in which ever way suits you best. You could use a juicer or cut it into slices and squeeze the juice out.

2. Apply the lemon juice to all or part of your hair. For highlights choose small portions and coat in the juice. For the whole head dose liberally.

3. Put sunscreen on because you’re headed outside next and this may take a couple of hours to prefect the look you want.

4. Come back inside every 20 minutes and rinse your hair to check results. You may want to blow dry a piece as hair always appears darker when wet. Not the look you want? Reapply the juice and step out for a while longer.

Tips & Warnings

• Use a basting brush or a comb to make sure that the juice works down a little into your layers of hair.
• Results vary and leaving it in too long out in the sun will cause your color to bleach out completely. If you’re going to dye your hair any punk colors they take better if you bleach your hair out first starting with a clean slate.

[AbbyNormal]

on 5/3/2008 This works. We used to do this all the time when we were teens (eons ago) ...

Or ...... add some lemon juice (if you don't have lemons, use True Lemon) to some conditioner and then apply it to your hair. This way, you condition your hair at the same time with the heat of the sun!

[CCrock]

on 1/15/2008 Cool! I costs almost $100 or more to get highlights done, I'm going to have to try this in the summer (since the sun is non-existent here until then!)

[CCrock]

on 1/15/2008 Cool! I costs almost $100 or more to get highlights done, I'm going to have to try this in the summer (since the sun is non-existent here until then!)