How to: Strip Your Hair Colour At Home

So I've been experimenting with my hair since I was about 12.....that's a good solid decade of ruining my hair. I recently tried to bleach my own roots myself, and ended up sacking the whole thing off and going dark again......

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I really liked my blonde hair, and with summer coming up, I'm annoyed at how dark my hair turned out - I used L'oreal Casting Creme in Chocolate Brown twice and Schwarzkopf's New Colour Mask Hair Dye in Dark Brown 400. The Schwarzkopf dye is permanent and this is what led my hair to being an almost black colour, which is way too dark for my skin tone.

So I've been trawling the internet and YouTube to see if there is any way I can lighten/strip my hair at home in order to make it a tiny bit lighter for summer; I don't want to put any more colour on my hair because, quite frankly, it needs a break! So the following concoction I've come up with is non-damaging to hair, cheap and uses ingredients that most people will have lying around.

Things you will need:

1 Tablespoon Bicarbonate of Soda

Half the juice of a Lemon

1 Tablespoon of an Anti-dandruff Shampoo

• You simply mix the ingredients together in a bowl to form a texture similar to normal shampoo. You wet your hair and lather in the mixture.
• Put a shower cap over the top of your coated hair and leave on for 30 minutes. The shower cap is important, because you don't want the bicarbonate to dry onto your hair, so do not leave this step out!
• After 30 mins, wash the mixture out, and wash a further time with just the anti-dandruff shampoo. It was at this point that the dye started running into the water and I knew it had work a little bit.
• You then need to apply a deep conditioner or a nourishing conditioner on your hair for 30 mins wrapped up in a towel. Although the process is not damaging in terms of there are no harsh chemicals, it can dry out your hair so make sure you leave a conditioner on long enough to counter act this.

And that is the process! I've only done this once, so the results aren't too noticeable to others but I intend to repeat this process in a couple of days and will do a full review then :) Hope this was helpful!

xoxo