Need proof you shouldn't overbleach your strands? Here it is!
. If I started seeing breakage, I would just cut off a few inches. For a while that worked. Until it didn’t.For one touch-up sesh, I waited too long in between getting my roots done, and, as a result, my hair color wasn’t lifting. I promise I wasn’t just being vain going every three weeks — there’s a real reason you have such a small window. Generally, the hair closest to your scalp lightens faster than the rest of your hair, because your scalp gives off heat and speeds up the process.
"Bleach interacts with pigment in the hair in a chemical process called oxidation. This causes the release of the pigment, explaining how it lifts hair color," says New York City–based dermatologist. "Heat may also be used, as it speeds up the oxidation reaction." So if you wait until your roots are longer than two or three centimeters, your roots will develop at two different speeds.
The rest of the night is a bit of a blur, but it went a little something like this: The layer of bleach went on the brassy section a little bit away from my scalp. We used a low 20-volume bleach so it had to sit on the strands for about 10 to 15 minutes. She instructed me to jump in the shower and rinse the bleach out, and then she would apply a toner.
And that’s when it happened. I’m in the shower gently rinsing when I start to feel chunks of hair falling out. I’ve always been a shedder, and I’m used to some hair in the shower, but these wereof white hair that weren't coming directly from my scalp. I started to panic and called my friend into the bathroom. She calmly rinsed the rest of the bleach out but admitted that, yes, my hair was breaking off. Once I was out of the shower, she combed through my hair trying to find the damage.
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