How To Bleach Curly Hair Without Damage | Going Blonde

Hello, beautiful people and welcome back to my channel. If you are new here, my name is bree. I make beauty, health and adventure videos every week. I hope that you will stay a while, and i hope that you enjoy this video today. I'M sharing with you five tips on how you can go blonde with the least amount of damage to your precious girls. So let's go ahead and jump into the video disclaimer. I am not a professional, unfortunately, but i'm sharing these tips with you guys, based on my experience in trial and error. I'Ve had, unfortunately, a lot of errors errors, but i've also had some success stories, so i'm sharing with you sharing my experience, letting you guys know from what i've done wrong from what i did right all of that jazz. If you want some more background information on exactly what i'm talking about, go ahead and watch my curly hair journey that i posted about two years ago, it's pretty updated. I'M gon na have to make a new one, but i haven't really done too much since then. Other than this, but actually no, i have done a couple things you should watch it anyway, we'll put that up here and i will link that down in the description box below, for you guys to check out so tip number one is set realistic expectations. I personally had a lot of hopes for how i thought my hair would be if it was blonde and this that and the other, and i just honestly i set these unrealistic expectations for my hair and i became disappointed and discouraged and it's just not a good Feeling so if you are coming in with a good, realistic expectation of everything, you will be that much happier with your results, so the first expectation to set is to realize that bleaching or lightening your hair will cause a measure of damage to your natural hair. There'S no getting around that, like it's gon na happen and you can ask any professional, they will tell you if you're gon na lighten your hair, it's going to be a measure of damage. There are ways that you can decrease the amount of damage, but it's still going to change your hair, so you have to kind of expect that and be okay with that. Another expectation that i had to set for myself is that it's going to take time and it's going to take money. Nothing good ever comes quickly. So just keep that in mind when going about lightening your hair and getting it to a point where you want it to it's, going to take you some time and in turn, you're going to have to spend some more money doing it. But if you go with the healthy route and lightening your hair, it's going to be worth it in the long run. Tip number two hire a professional. Do it do it? Just don't try to do it yourself. You may be able to do a wonderful job because i personally have done great jobs at lightening my hair by myself, using professional products because i'm an aesthetician and i can get stuff. But i don't understand the science as i should, because i haven't gone to school. For it, you're trying to get your hair lighter without the damage put it in someone's hands. Who has the experience? Don'T do it yourself? You will just damage your hair, also, when you're hiring a professional make sure that they're a blonding specialist. This is important because every hairstylist has their strengths and their weaknesses, not every hairstylist that is out. There can do a good job with lightening or bleaching hair vet them out really make sure that they know what they're doing and really look for that term. Blonding specialist. It is a thing, there's actual hairstylist that specifically just do blonding and like balayage, and that kind of stuff so check them out, find that person in your area to be able to do it for you, and you will not regret it. You will get it done. The right way when you find that hairstylist, you find your specialist talk with them in depth, about your expectations and stress to them the need for you to be able to keep the health of your hair intact, especially if you have naturally curly hair. It is so important to do that because if you don't it kind of will get lost and i've done it quite a few times with professionals where it, i just didn't stress it being important, and i ended up getting damage to my hair in a way that Could have been avoided had i stressed the importance of wanting to keep my hair intact. That moves into point number three pretty seamlessly. Take your time spend the money. If you want to do it the healthy way, you're going to have to have multiple visits with your hair stylist, sometimes when you think about oh, my gosh, if i'm gon na have to have like four different sessions, that's a lot of money, but i'm telling you The health of your hair is worth it lightening. Your hair can't be one and done it won't happen in one session. If you don't want to damage your hair like crazy, i mean it can be done, but it's not going to be the healthiest for your hair. It was explained to me by a professional that you want to lift the hair slowly so that it decreases the amount of damage to the hair follicle for your hair, depending on how dark your hair is and how light you want to go. That'S all factored in there. It'S going to take time, though, and it's going to cost you money, especially if you're going with a good hair stylist. So just keep that in mind. For me personally, this took me two sessions, so i'm not incredibly crazy light. I am light and i still have some dark pieces in there, but it took me two sessions, the first session that i did took me eight hours. The second session took me six. That is an incredible amount of time. I know i was willing to do it because i didn't want to mess up my progress when it came to my hair. It might not take you that long. My hair was really really dark and it had a lot of red tones in it and it took a long time for it to lift, but that's just kind of what my experience was tip number four resist the urge to use heat. If you have naturally curly hair like myself, usually right after i get done into salon, they usually will do a blowout. And i that's like my favorite part, because it feels so fresh and clean and beautiful and you get your hair nice and pretty. But don't do it if you want to keep the health of your hair after you bleached it leave it alone, like don't even blow dry it like let that hair be have your hairstylist put some product in your hair while it's wet towel dry, it whatever and Get out don't go home and straighten it. Thinking that it's enough time, let it be until you're completely done with all of your sessions that you have in bleaching your hair. This has been a huge help to me and i've definitely seen a big difference when i've done this, because always in the past, i would always straighten my hair immediately after because i just felt like. Oh, i want to see what it looks like straight, and you know this just don't it's not worth it take care of your hair, let it be let it heal and don't put the heat on it. So the fifth and final tip is baby, that hair tlc. It needs it, it will thank you for it and you will really feel your hair. Thank you. Live in hair masks. Do protein treatments for your hair that will really help it out into helping those curls bounce right back, especially if you've noticed a change in the texture. Because that's what happened with me, i noticed that the curls were a little bit looser and i was like. Oh no, but it was okay. After maybe a week of doing, hair masks and just keeping hair masks. In my hair i was set, the curls came right back bouncy and beautiful. So that's what i recommend also space out your sessions, because if you are doing multiple sessions and bleaching, your hair then make sure that you just space them out, so that your hair has a time to heal. I had three weeks in between my first session and then i went to the second session. So during those three weeks i didn't put any heat on my hair. I just treated it really kindly, and then i did find that after the second session it was a lot better and it could handle the bleach even better the next time and it wasn't so much damage your hair will. Thank you a lot. If you just baby it - and you treat it kindly, especially because you have curly, hair and curls can be so fidgety, they can really be annoying, so just treat them with love and care, and they will thank you for it. Those are the five tips that i have for you guys i feel like they really helped improve my whole process of going blonde, and i hope that you guys will be able to benefit from it as well. I obviously don't think that my hair is the epitome of health right now um, but i feel like it's a lot better than what it used to be when i would go blonde. So i'm happy and that's all that matters, so thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope that you enjoyed it. I hope that you found it helpful if you did. Please leave me a comment in the comment section below. I hope to see you in the next video bye, hello, whoa. No, look! I really really: okay, hello! You tore that apart, okay theo you're, there's the handstand. 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