This depth variation is made up of dark pigmentation such as brown and black (known by Eumelanin), as well as reddish and golden pigmentation, (known as Pheomelanin). This article will discuss how to lighten hair without turning orange. In a nutshell: the darker your hair is, the more reddish and gold pigmentation are present leading to the fact it’s also less likely that you can achieve an icy blonde without used of bleach.
Brown bases can be found in the range of 1.0 to 6.0 (dark brunette), while bases 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 as well as 4.0 are the most challenging to lighten to paler colours. They contain the most pigmentation in reddish and golden. These shades need to be bleached by eight levels to achieve a palest blonde by eradicating all these pigmentation. However, gentler lighteners or High Lifting Tints (widely known as “No Bleach Lightener”) can be used on bases 5.0 to 9.0 for a brighter blonde.
This depth variation is made up of dark pigmentation such as brown and black (known by Eumelanin), as well as reddish and golden pigmentation, (known as Pheomelanin). This article will discuss how to lighten hair without turning orange. In a nutshell: the darker your hair is, the more reddish and gold pigmentation are present leading to the fact it’s also less likely that you can achieve an icy blonde without used of bleach.
Brown bases can be found in the range of 1.0 to 6.0 (dark brunette), while bases 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 as well as 4.0 are the most difficult to lighten to paler colours. They contain the most pigmentation in reddish and golden. These shades need to be bleached by eight levels to achieve a palest blonde by eradicating all this pigmentation. However, gentler lighteners or High Lifting Tints (widely known as “No Bleach Lightener”) can be used on bases 5.0 to 9.0 for a brighter blonde.
That’s good news for those blondes who want to go blonder. But what about brunettes.
“I don’t want bleach to my hair!” When brunette clients want to get blonder, hair colourists all over the world have heard this common phrase to describe their preference to use a high lift tint to achieve blonde. However, it’s not as simple as it seems.
High-Lift Tints won’t work on artificial colour
First and most important is if your present hair colour is not your natural hair colour, then you can totally drop the idea to use the High Lift Tint. It will not lift your hair by even a single shade. Artificial depth can’t be lifted out with a colourant. If your hair was previously darkened or toned in any way, then you need to use a Decolour Remover or Stripper before you attempt to recolour it with a High Lifting Tint.
Myth: High Lift Tint
High Lift Tints are sometimes referred as “No Bleach Lighteners” but still contain a bleaching agents along with ammonia. It requires 40 volume peroxide for successful lifting. These formulations can be more complicated than standard bleach. They are also less volatile so you don’t need to use as much peroxide. High Lift tints are still as damaging as No Ammonia Bleach as well as 6% peroxide, even though they might be considered ‘Bleach Free’.
A lot of people have misconceptions about the objective and benefits of High Lift Tints. These products are often viewed as a safer option to using of bleach in the creation of blonde hair. High Lift Tints actually serve a dual objective. They are a colourant that lifts the hair and tints the hair. Hence colourists do not need colour and lift in two different processes.
High Lift Tints include pigmentation that can neutralise, enhance or improve lightening and create a blonde colour. They supposed to be capable to lighten up to five levels. However, in our experience, so far only maximum of four levels of lift are possible.
High Lift Tints have the best results when placed in foil packets or for retouch application. This is because heat in the scalp will accelerate the lift.
High Lift Tints should be used only by those with very light brown and darker to mid blonde shades. Natural brunettes are unlikely to see a change to stunning blonde with a High Lift Tint.
No Bleach High lift Tint Can Turn a Brunette to Blonde?
Are you still hopeful for a way for lightening your dark hair to blonde without the use of bleach? Although there’s a minor and rare exception to High Lift Tint’s abilities and it’s still possible with some hope to lighten to blonde. However, it will require some work.
If a dark brown applied High Lift Tint to the regrowth every ten days, it would lift the colourant up to five times the level of the regrowth. This would result in a deep coppery blonde on that grow-out hair as the heat gives out by the scalp will accelerate the colourant’s lifting to the fullest fifth levels.
The tint should be reapplied ten days later onto the next half centimetre regrowth. The new regrowth now lifts to a deep copper-coloured blonde, while the older copper-coloured blonde lifts to medium golden.
Eventually, this technique can help you achieve a blonde shade even for the blackest hair by applying a High Lift Tint to your regrowth every ten days. This is due to the scalp heat boosting the lifting process and the double-application further accelerate the depth lifting effects. While it can be tedious and time consuming to do your roots once a week, but apparently this is the only well-known technique that will allow you to make your hair blonde without using any bleach.
It won’t be icy platinum blonde, but it’ll be completely free from bleach
If you have a very dark and black hair, the expectation of this method resulting in pale icy or platinum blonde is impossible and the only well proven alternative to go as white as possible will be the used of bleach. A deeper shade will be achieved instead by applying the High Lift Tint onto your regrowth every ten days.
It might sound tedious and higher upkeep and please ensure that you are discipline enough to adhere to the routine of tinting your hair every ten days. This will ensure that you don’t have long waiting gaps between applications that will cause your even longer roots not to get lifted. Also, you will encountered that your hair shade becoming more warm which will require neutralization. This will make it necessary to use purple shampoos to neutralize any rusty tones.
Then, if you still choose the icy blonde!
This ten-day-regrowth High Lift Tint routine for darker hair bases is also used for those with the palest blondes who are also using bleach. This method can reduce the damage caused by block bleach lightening and the hair lifting is done in bleaching foils packages throughout.
The regrowth can then upkeep with a High lift Tint. This means the hair requires only partial bleaching once every few months, rather than you have to go for a complete head colouring application every one month. Your hair will thank your for it!
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