Comments on: How to Get Great Hair Highlights At Home

on 6/30/2006 For me, it looked amazing. I've read a lot of your complaints about it, but if you have medium brown hair, it will bring out reddish blondish tones. Yeah, it doesn't look the greatest when it grows out, but what permanent dye does? You can always touch it up, and it's only about $4 or $5 a bottle. Don't use a drastic amount, like the entire bottle in one sitting. Make it gradual, like I did. Hope this helps!

on 6/30/2006 I had tried a couple of things (with no extreme results), then I tried mixing up a couple of tips. I put hydrogen peroxide, lemon juice and actually a little benzoyl peroxide (acne medicine, but it's also a bleach) into a spray bottle and sprayed it all over my hair. I waited an hour and blew my hair out and I was surprised at how much lighter it got. Then I left it in over night and in the morning it looked lightened, highlighted and healthier.

on 6/30/2006 I am 19, born with corn silk blonde hair, and as I get older it gradually gets a bit darker. However, every summer I look forward to the sun lightening my hair with a bit of help. When I was 8 or 9 I convinced my older cousin to buy Sun-In for me, I used it one summer and I remember my Mom yelling because my hair got very brittle. I've heard bad things since then.

When I was 13 or 14 I began getting subtle highlights twice a year. Then the miracle lightener was created. John Freida Beach Blonde Lemon Lights (the gel-like one with the lemon pulp in it; not the one in the green bottle).

That stuff was unreal. It didn't mix funky with the chemicals I had used when I had my hair highlighted (they never used bleach on my hair; so beware I don't know how it would work otherwise). My hair was now beach blonde. I loved it. Of course they discontinued it at the end of last summer (2005) and I am desperately looking for a replacement - but I do think that lemon juice mixed with conditioner in a spray bottle would do the trick - if you already have blonde hair! I find it almost moronic when people with dark hair use lemon/citrus based lighteners, it warns of an orange outcome.

on 6/30/2006 Put some lemon juice into the shampoo! If you use a shampoo that you don't normally want to use, then that will work. Condition hair also! And use that shampoo and wash every day for a week. After that week, only use it once a month to keep the color. I used this technique and it worked well because it did not bleach nor dull my hair!

on 6/30/2006 I have sandy blonde hair. I was wanting my hair lightened, so I put 1/4 cup of lemon juice and 1/2 cup of conditioner in a container. I stirred it together, put it in my hair, and sat in the sun. After 30 minutes, my hair was lighter. Don't forget to put on sunscreen!

on 6/30/2006 I tried a spray bottle with two parts peroxide, 4 parts olive oil (I used extra virgin, Pompeian brand), 1 part yellow food coloring. My theory is that the food coloring makes this work three ways: the peroxide and olive oil lighten the hair, the olive oil keeps your hair from drying out, and after the hair is lightened, the food coloring gets through. My hair started out chocolate colored and went to copper colored.

on 6/30/2006 You have to use Sun In until you like the color (brown hair always goes through the orange stage), then leave it alone until you get roots. Then use it again only on the roots, until it all matches. If you don't like the orange, keep using it until it gets past the orange stage. Hair goes through stages when it's lightened. If you don't want a bleached blonde color, don't use products that will give you a bleached blonde color (like Sun In)! If you just want to lighten your brown hair a little, see a professional, or they now make dye for brunettes. Sun In, lemon juice, peroxide, etc. are all made for bleaching your hair. And obviously use a good conditioner or your hair will dry out. Any changing of color will dry your hair out, that's common sense.

on 6/30/2006 I have naturally, light brown hair and I wanted to go blonde for the summer. I tried lemon juice and it really dried out my hair and made it only slightly lighter. So then I tried peroxide. It worked so much better and it didn't dry out my hair, if anything it made it softer! A few days later people were saying how my hair looked lighter and it looked good! I definitely recommend it.

on 6/30/2006 I like getting my dose of vitamin D naturally. I had my Banana Boat tanning oil (without sunscreen) and was putting it on my skin when I thought "I wonder if this will lighten my hair the way it helps darken my skin." So I sprayed it in my hair, it made it feel very oily (as it does contain mineral oil and coconut oil). I stayed out in the sun, once finished, I washed my hair with Pantene Blonde Expressions shampoo and conditioner (I have medium blonde naturally curly hair) towel dried my hair very well, and let it finish drying naturally (blow dryers are horrible on hair). I was very impressed at how my hair lightened up and the softness (I can guess from the mineral and coconut oils) was so amazing that I couldn't keep my hands out of my hair.

on 6/30/2006 I have almond to dark chocolate hair color. I used 1/4 cup of lemon juice and laid out in the sun for about an hour and a 1/2. The lemon juice worked great!! I got beautiful looking blond highlights. I made a mistake by letting some of the lemon juice drip on my skin. I got awful huge blisters on my shoulders! Don't make that mistake!

on 4/1/2006 I've been reading through the tips, and there are mixed reviews on Sun-In. But what I've noticed is that the light brunettes seem to have the trouble with it, while the dark blonde's don't. I have blonde hair, and I've used Sun-In occasionally if it darkens in winter or something, and it works great! I think it really is geared toward lightening up already blonde hair and is not so effective on darker shades - that's when you end up orange!

on 3/30/2006 Henna is not going to lighten your hair. Yes, there is blonde henna out there, but it will only work on what's already there (if you have blond in your hair). It is a great conditioning agent for darker (or any) hair, but won't affect darker colors; it'll be neutral. However, it's great for natural blonde's to adjust their existing shade or for application after bleaching.

on 3/22/2006 What I did was create a mixture in a spray bottle of chamomile tea, lemon juice, honey and a little peroxide. I sprayed this on my hair every day 30 minutes before I took a shower and there are highlights in my hair now! It's very noticeable!

on 3/16/2006 I have really light blonde hair and I used Sun In. It was great! My hair was lighter and blonder. But now I wish I hadn't done it. I have horrible roots because Sun In is permanent! It looks really bad and during the winter you can't touch it up!

on 3/16/2006 My hair is naturally light brown with gold and reddish tints. I wanted to even out the color of my hair (it's lighter at the ends usually), so I got some Sun-In and it really works. I have a strawberry blonde color going on, and my hair is very oily naturally, so it didn't hurt it much (plus I don't have to put it in very much, only about once a week). If you're really worried about it, then get the conditioning Sun-In and use a product that helps fight split ends; like Garnier's Long and Strong. That stuff really works.