Your advice on home bleaching thick curly hair please!

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DD wants to bleach her longish curly light brown hair. She wants to be able to put crazy colours in it over the summer. She's willing to risk wrecking the condition, because yolo. I know a salon is the best bet but she can't afford it and doesn't want it. Can anyone advise me on what products are best/safest while being effective?

Hmm. Think she'll have to budget just in case she needs to visit a hairdresser to put it right. I'm no expert but if her hair is light brown she won't want too high a strength of peroxide.

Is she prepared to have orange hair?

To have hair blonde enough to put colours on, so they are visible/vibrant shes talking about very light to white blond hair. Which means bleaching it long enough to fully strip the pigment out. Generally at home this means people wash the bleach out too soon and are bright orange. Or leave it on too long and hair breaks off.

Could she try doing a few strips of hair rather than whole head?

Or pay for a few strips to be done? You cannot underestimate how badly wrong this can go . Bitter experience

Thank you. That is sound advice, I am going to dissuade her/help pay for salon job.

Yeah....I'm all for YOLO but she might not be thinking that when she's a mass of bright orange hair (that she still can't dye crazy colours) or when it all snaps off around the top of her ears.

Tell her to YouTube or Google 'Home hair bleaching gone wrong'!

I've done it . Went to Superdrug and got amazing advice from an experienced home bleacher. Gave me confidence. We are at the final stage...it has purple toner in it. I can see there are quite a few patchy bits that didn't get bleached around the scalp but I reckon it should be ok.... will update once it's dry.

....update OP?

Hope it's gone okay!

Picture please. (And at the end of the day....it is only hair and will grow back. - I used to love dying mine as a kid. Started with toners and shaders, then the harmony tubes, then there was the year of orange due to Sun In, I also dyed my scalp green once - should have bleached first then hair would have been green not scalp! I wish we could have googled it!)

Well... from my perspective it went well. It's not orange, it's reasonably even, and none of it has snapped off. However I think she is experiencing dyers remorse, which is heart breaking. She's put a very brave face on it for me, as she nagged and nagged me to do it despite my warnings. But the inevitable social media show and tell has not been entirely positive. Not sure about pics, will see what I can do. Am sure she'll get used to it, it was just hard to watch her fake cheeriness last night. And she can do some great colours as soon as school ends.