How to Highlight With Lemon Juice and Peroxide

Get the blonde hair you want using natural elements.

If you want blonde hair like Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron, or even as blonde as Marilyn Monroe, without paying hair stylists' expensive fees, highlight your hair with hydrogen peroxide and lemon juice. This is an affordable way to get the blonde style many women pay hundreds of dollars a month to achieve. Highlighting hair with only natural elements, including avocado oil, keeps your hair from burning out with unnatural chemicals. Highlighting your hair this way is economical and eco-friendly.

Things You'll Need

• 1/2 cup hydrogen peroxide or 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup steeped chamomile tea
• 2 oz. avocado oil
• 1/4 cup cornstarch

Instructions

1. 

   Cut a small amount of hair.

   Cut a small amount of hair from the back of your head under your hair. Use this to perform a strand test before applying the highlighting mixture to your entire head.

2. 

   Hydrogen peroxide will bleach hair, but will also dry it out.

   Mix the water and hydrogen peroxide in a cup. If you want to use lemon juice, mix it with water.

3. 

   Chamomile highlights hair.

   Add steeped chamomile and avocado oil to the water mixture.

4. 

   Using cornstarch as a paste cuts down on the effects of lemon acid.

   Mix the cornstarch with the liquid mixture to make a highlighting paste.

5. 

   Apply this mixture to the hair.

   Apply this mixture to the hair in the places desired. Double the recipe for coloring all of your hair.

6. 

   After 45 minutes, rinse hair with slightly hot water.

   Wait 45 minutes, then rinse hair with slightly hot water.

7. 

   Deep conditioning sets the color in the hair and heals any dry spots.

   Apply deep conditioner. Rinse after 5 minutes.

Tips & Warnings

• To frame the face, apply around the front. General highlights come with placing the solution in small sections around the crown and face.

• Do not mix lemon and peroxide together as they are both acids and will burn the hair.

References

• The Stylelist: Save Money (and the Environment) With Homemade Hair Treatments