Comments on: How to Get Great Hair Highlights At Home

on 7/28/2006 Try soaking your head in hydrogen peroxide, but be careful that the peroxide doesn't get on your clothes or skin. I was careful about my clothes, but now, around my neck and shoulder I have weird bleached spots on my skin. You can see exactly where the peroxide dripped down or splattered. The lines and splotches aren't worth the lighter hair. So be careful!

on 7/24/2006 A lot of people have mentioned peroxide; it can lighten your hair, but it won't bleach your hair and will damage hair. Especially if your hair is already dry or damaged. Also, if you have dark hair peroxide will turn your hair orange. If you want a dramatically lighter shade, or if you have naturally dark hair, you just need to go with a hair product. They contain a higher concentrate of peroxide and other agents than you can buy otherwise.

on 7/23/2006 I am naturally blonde, but was looking for a way to lighten my hair without salon/ boxed highlights or Sun In.
I bought a jar of lemon juice right before going to the beach, poured it in a misty spray bottle, and squirted it in my hair each day at the beach. It really worked! My hair is much lighter now, and it looks great! I definitely recommend lemon juice for natural highlights!

on 7/21/2006 I noticed a lot of people mentioning that products like Sun-In turned their hair orange.

If you have medium or dark brown hair, peroxide/bleach/chlorine can turn your hair bright orange! If you want to lighten your hair, read the ingredients on the product you're interested in, and make sure it does not contain peroxide.

on 7/19/2006 I have naturally blonde hair, but in the winter it gets dull, so I go to the beach a lot during the summer. Getting in ocean water for a few hours makes it lighten up.

on 7/18/2006 Sun In does work, if you know what you're doing with it.If you have dark or medium brown hair, it's obvious not to use it. There is peroxide in Sun In, which is like bleaching your hair. The bottle says not to use it everyday, read all directions and do some research.

I have used Sun In and I have had no problems with it.

on 7/9/2006 If you want subtle golden highlights without spending a lot of money, here's how to do it.

Spray 1/4 cup of lemon juice onto your hair with a spray bottle. Leave it in there for roughly 2 hours and spend 30 minutes of those 2 hours outside. To keep your hair from getting dried out, first use a 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner, next use a moisturizing shampoo, and finally a moisturizing conditioner. Towel dry your hair, then blow dry.

on 7/7/2006 Mix together olive oil, rhubarb juice and lemon juice in a spray bottle and spray generously on dry hair. Sit in the sun for 2-5 hours, then shampoo, soap and condition.

on 7/6/2006 I just got back from the salon. I found out that I have to wait 2 or more months for my hair to grow out enough to put some streaks in. I thought using Sun-In would keep me from having to go to the salon, but it ended up creating more problems in the long run.

They did a test section for adding highlights and my hair just started breaking off where it was really light. Thank goodness they checked first!!

Suck it up & see a stylist if you want to do something to your hair -you deserve to have a professional treatment!

on 7/5/2006 Henna will not make your hair lighter. The dye particle (tannin) dyes in the red/orange/brown range. That's it. It can't make your hair lighter. The dye is translucent, meaning it's like looking at your hair through a piece of stained glass; it's the same base color, but with a very red/orange shade to it. It certainly brightens things up, but it won't make you blonde. There is no such thing as neutral henna; it is a misnomer for Cassia Obovata.

on 7/3/2006 My friend went to the beach with Sun In applied to her natural honey/dirty blonde hair and professional highlights. She returned with blah, single colored, ugly shade of orange colored hair. It looked totally unnatural. Any teenage girl who gets oily hair should not be afraid to use basic lemon juice and a hairdryer or go out in the sun for an hour or two. Chamomile tea also helps, too. I did it and my hair is natural. And as long as you condition your hair normally, nothing should go wrong.

on 7/1/2006 I mixed 3% hydrogen peroxide into a bottle of Infusium 23 Leave-In Treatment spray for Color Treated hair. It worked and kept my hair from getting too dried out. I also use Joico K-Pak Reconstruct once a week to prevent split ends. Lemon juice does work on any shade of hair, but with dark hair it takes a few days before you'll see any real results, and you should try to do it on a day when you can keep it in all day long and be outside. Mix it with conditioner!

on 7/1/2006 I'm a darker blonde, so in the summer, I like to see a more natural, lighter blonde. I recommend lemon juice. Shampoo your hair like normal, then comb half a cup of lemon juice through your hair, and go out in the sun for a couple hours. Your hair will lighten up and will look so natural. Just make sure you deep condition at the end of the day.

on 6/30/2006 For all those people out there who used Sun-In and came out with copper red hair; The reason why that happened was because you probably have red highlights instead of golden highlights, which turned your hair red. You could probably do another application of Sun-In, which may turn it lighter. For the people who have not used Sun-In before and want to, you can first do a test strand. Hope I helped. :)

on 6/30/2006 This recipe is great to use to make soft hair from your dried out hair caused by excessive dying and hair-straightening:

1 egg
1/2 -1 cup mayonnaise (depends on hair length)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda

Mix these together and you will have terrific results! The egg and baking soda will make your hair shiner, the mayonnaise conditions, and the vanilla kills the mayonnaise scent. Just leave this in for a half hour and wash out.