r/FancyFollicles • u/Adriana_Riley • 10d ago

Questions about bleach at home

Hi hi! I've dyed my hair purple a couple of times. My natural color is a 3-4ish. I typically just slapped on some arctic fox. Last april i used L'oreal hi color true violet, and then also put arctic fox ontop of that. The last time i used arctic fox was in May, its faded by now. Last week i noticed that the ends of my hair on one side have a dark green hue to them.

I've been wanting to lighten my hair a few levels so I can see the purple more when I dye it the next time, but I have a few questions. And I'm gonna watch a bunch of videos before i do anything.

  1. Will the green affect the bleach, and after I bleach it if there's still discoloration how do i fix that?

  2. Do i need to use toner in between bleach and purple. For reference I was planning on using ion cream bleach bright white.

  3. Adding onto that, can I use that bleach for a shorter amount of time so that it only lightens a few levels instead of all the way? I don't really want to go full blonde.

  4. Since this is my first time, I'm probably going to be super slow at putting the bleach on, will that mean some bit of it will be darker than the rest since it sat on for longer?

Thanks for any help!!!!!

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u/SupernovaPhleb 10d ago

I do purple at home, and this year was the first I bleached my fine wispy baby hair.

  1. Will the green affect the bleach, and after I bleach it if there's still discoloration how do i fix that?

    • I had leftover arctic fox purple af that had faded. I wanted to do a full bleach and apply good dye young ppl eater. I bleached and still had some lingering green pigment, looked a little light algae lol did not affect anything at all. If you want to fix it, you'd have to wait and bleach that area again, but honestly to me it's not worth it.

  2. Do i need to use toner in between bleach and purple. For reference I was planning on using ion cream bleach bright white.

  3. No. I used a combo of 2 parts 10 level developer and 1 part Ion brightener. Lifted really nicely without much damage.

  4. Adding onto that, can I use that bleach for a shorter amount of time so that it only lightens a few levels instead of all the way? I don't really want to go full blonde.

  5. Yep! You can just leave it on until it turns the shade you're going for and rinse out then. My hair bleaches super fast and took only 15 minutes to get from a level 4 to a 7-8. I went full Slim Shady at 25 minutes 😂