How to Lighten Hair With a Color Stripper
Color strippers can lighten your hair and remove almost all the color to give you a fresh palette to work with. Before using the stripper, you must know how to prep your hair or the results won't be satisfying. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Moisturizing conditioner
- Hot oil treatment
- Color Fix
- Color Zap
- Water
- Moisturizing shampoo
Instructions
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Use a deep moisturizing conditioner on your hair for at least a week before you strip the color. Color stripping can leave hair dry and brittle. Hot oil treatments can also moisturize and lighten your hair.
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Use a product, such as Color Fix by Jheri Redding or Color Zap from L'Oreal, to remove the color from your hair.
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Apply the color stripper. Follow the directions exactly on the box of product you chose. You can mix color strippers with developer or water. Mixing with developer will effectively remove the color but is much more damaging. Try mixing the color stripper with water to control the damage.
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Consider applying another hair color product after using the stripper. These products often leave hair with a brassy tone that you may not like. Apply a moisturizing conditioner plus a moisturizing shampoo to help repair your hair after stripping.
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Tips & Warnings
Visit a hairdresser if you are uncomfortable with stripping your hair or if the stripping isn't effective.
If you are trying to remove black dye, visit a professional.
A hair color professional can use a toner to help neutralize unwanted colors after a color stripping process.
Never use bleach on your hair to remove or lighten color. Some old home remedies include mixing bleach with shampoo, but this is never a good idea.
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Comments
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Amber00
Oct 13, 2008
Thank you so much. This helped so much. What helped me the most was using water in place of the developer. It saved my hair. I stripped my hair before and screwed it up big time. Although I died my hair with brown hair dye and turned my hair a purple brown color that was totally dark, like Halloween. It was perfect for Halloween but I stripped it a few minutes ago using your advice, I left the stripper on longer than 20 minutes. My hair is very long and I noticed that the color was lightening quicker on the ends than the scalp area and shoulder length areas. So I rinsed and washed the ends leaving the stripper on the rest of my hair until the hair was all the same color. I used "Color Oops", and to my surprise my hair is now a strawberry blonde that is not even brassy! How lucky is that! Now this time I will test my hair before dying my whole head. BONUS: my hair is soft and safe! THANK
