Why You Should Never Attempt To Bleach Your Hair At Home

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are hesitant to visit their Boise hair salon. To make matters worse, many are attempting to bleach and color their hair at home. While certain Youtube videos make the bleaching process look easy, it’s not. Not only can you damage your hair but your scalp as well. That’s why unDONE Salon would like to provide you with the following reasons you should never attempt to bleach your hair at home.

DIY Bleach = Major Damage

Technique

It takes a Boise hair salon stylist years of training and experience to master the perfect bleaching technique. Even as professionals, we would never attempt to bleach or foil our own hair. Instead, we would ask a fellow stylist to do this for us. Furthermore, depending on your natural color, hair type, and thickness, processing time can vary. This means you can end up with bleed marks, skunk spots, and major hair breakage.

Frosting Cap

The use of a frosting cap is harder than you think. Not only is the process of pulling the right amount of hair through the holes difficult, but you can also end up looking like a cheetah if you pull too much hair through. Even worse, a botched bleach job can result in your hair breaking off when you pull the cap off.

Yellow Hair

Many people make the mistake of applying bleach directly to their scalp. Not only does this result in overprocessed roots, but it can also lead to burns and breakage. Bleach is quick to lighten your hair and is very difficult to apply to all your hair in a timely fashion. This can result in yellow or orange hair that you will need a Boise hair salon stylist to correct.

Toning

Toning is an important part of the bleaching process. At unDONE, our Boise hair salon stylists select the proper tone by your underlying pigment and the color achieved. When it comes down to it, hair color is a science. That’s why we go to school to become licensed beauty professionals.

Color Cover Up

Many people attempt to cover up an unsuccessful bleach job with a darker DIY color. At unDONE, we want you to know this won’t result in a hair color you will love. The underlying pigment will show if your hair isn’t properly filled before applying a darker color. Even worse, the color you use will be difficult to remove when you decide to change colors. This is especially true for going back to blonde.

Color Correction

If you end up making an appointment to fix a DIY bleach job, it’s important to understand that color correction can be quite expensive and time-consuming. It can take multiple visits to your Boise hair salon and many hours of hard work to correct your hair color and achieve your desired results.

Breakage

Last but not least, it can take years for your hair to recover from the damage caused by bleach. We can’t tell you how many people have come to our Boise hair salon, pleading for help. While we can provide you with helpful repairing treatments, there’s no magic fix when it comes to damaged hair. In the end, you will have to end up waiting for your hair to grow back.

unDONE Salon

At unDONE Salon, a botched bleach job is one of our most common rescue missions. While Youtube videos make the process look easy with promising results, the opposite is often true. The directions you follow cannot properly determine your starting hair color or history of hair products and treatments. Any Boise hair salon stylist will tell you that all these things impact how your hair color will turn out.

When a hair disaster occurs, we want you to know that we are open and ready to rescue your hair. Take a deep breath and call us at (208) 287-2010 or schedule an appointment online to fix the problem.