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Lightening hair with lemon juice. Tips?
I've heard that you can use lemon juice to lighten your hair but how good or bad for your hair is this, and does it even work?
I've dyed my hair far too many times so my hair is now pretty dead. It hasn't grown in roughly 2 years because of that so I don't want to risk my hair completely falling out or something by dying it blonder with actual hair dye.
Also, how much lemon juice, how often, when will I start to see a difference, and how long will it last?
2 Answers
- Linda SLv 78 years ago
Lemon juice is an acid so it also bleaches out color. that means it's not safer or less damaging to the hair than other lighteners -it will damage your hair. Being "natural" doesn't mean something is safer or less toxic or better for you. You have a couple problems: hair always grows so if your hair appears as if it isn't growing it means the dead ends are breaking off as quickly as your hair grows. Better option: trim out the dead, dried and fried ends. You hair will automatically look thicker and healthier and when it grows you'll actually see it get longer. Stop bleaching and dyeing for a while and let some healthy un-dyed hair grow out and try to get off the dye and damage merry-go-round.
As for lemon juice, it works only on hair that's blonde, dark blond, dirty blond or that washed out not really blond or brown "dishwater blonde" In other words hair that already naturally lightens on its own in the sun. It will not make a big difference on medium browns or darker browns -these colors might turn orange. It does nothing for black, raven, or very dark browns. Use the juice of one lemon mixed with enough water to make a cup of liquid. Either rinse the hair with the liquid or use a paint brush to saturate small sections of hair. Let hair dry in the sun or use the heat of a hair dryer. It takes a while, you can't use it more than once a week and it builds up gradually. It will damage your hair, the same way any sun-bleaching damages hair. Lemon juice lightened ends will become as split and frizzy as salon dyed hair -maybe even more damaged. Because the lemon juice has bleached out the color the effect will remain until the bleached part is trimmed away.
I've used lemon juice in the past and found it far more damaging than a good highlighting at the salon. Also I always make sure that dead over-dyed and bleached ends are trimmed off when they start looking ragged and broken -that makes my hair look better than all the dyes, treatments or anything else.
- 8 years ago
You have condition your hair for a few hours wash it out then put lemon juice or buy the spray and sit or lay in the sun for 2-4 hours depending on how long it would stay
