If a natural blonde were to bleach their hair - what color would it turn?

[Taverner]

Would it turn white? Or would it go from Strawberry to Platinum?

Or would it do nothing?

[warrior1]

1. I'm not a sytlist

but, it would depend on a lot of things. Beach isn't the term that is used in changing the color of someone's hair. It's either highlights or dye. Also, it depends on the length of time that it's left in the hair. If you're thinking of changing your hair color, consult a stylist, and remember that the hair will grow out, leaving you with dark roots. I guess your hair could turn white if left in the hair for a long time it would also make it brittle and flyaway. Not a good look. If someone where a natural blond, I'd leave it alone.

[Chan790]

2. It still depends on the original color...

but if you're talking a hard and full-on bleaching, all hair will eventually become brittle, grayish-white and damaged beyond repair. I knew a girl in college that had to do that to her hair because she got a big huge job interview on very short notice so she hard-bleached her blue hair white then dyed it a natural brown. It got her through the interview but it was brittle and dull and within a few days it fell out. She got the job and had to wear a wig for a month.

[LeftyMom]

7. Or if you bleach too frequently, or too soon after certain other chemical treatments.

My kid sister lost all her hair that way. She's a natural blonde but for some goofy reason she dyes her hair to some shade of white-blonde never found in nature.

[blogslut]

3. Depends on the amount of red in the natural color

Red is the hardest level to lift, even strawberry is tough.

It would definitely be lighter, especially if one is using a bleach/peroxide combo as opposed to a peroxide/tint combo.

[RushIsRot]

4. Color it "gone." n/t

[kimi]

5. Natural blonde and Strawberry aren't the same

But bleach is really never a good idea, IMO. Depending on how long you leave it in, it can fry hair beyond repair, and at any length of time, the hair will probably need a lot of deep conditioning.

I use henna myself, on light brownish hair, and that's another route not to go if you don't want to do regular touching-up of roots. Also, henna is impossible to bleach out, but after I'd used it awhile and got to an odd brownish/burgundy color, I did try. Baaaaad idea, I ended up cutting my almost waist-length hair up to my shoulders. I still use henna occasionally, just cause of the beneficial conditioning nature of it.

There is a natural method of lightening hair using honey, distilled water, cinnamon and ground cardamom. I've used it before, it took numerous applications and can get messy, but it does indeed work, it will lighten most people's hair with enough time and treatments. LongHairCommunity has lots of recipes and tips on this method.

[Skittles]

6. I'd try and tell you, but I don't want to deal with light roots

no INDEED - but I'd love to be a brunette

[jmowreader]

8. A GOOD colorist could lift it all the way to white

Someone who doesn't know what they're doing would probably turn it green.

[SwampG8r]

9. my kids are all blondes

the only color i ever saw my daughter use on her hair was koolaid
short term high shock very big with the girls at the time
my fave was the lime on a blonde its an awesome hot green

[Amaril]

10. A lighter shade of blonde

Been there, done that.

[PassingFair]

11. OK, I'll say it: "A Lighter Shade of Pale"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

[RedCloud]

12. That's like powdered water.

[RebelOne]

13. I am a natural blonde.

And I started bleaching my hair at 16 because I wanted really, really blonde hair. Depending on the coloring used, you go anywhere from ash blonde to platinum. I was platinum for years. Now I am older and the gray is starting to come through, but it blends in with the blonde, so no one can even see the gray. I don't have to color it as often now.

[elleng]

14. ONCE my mother's went from strawberry to green!

But she didn't 'bleach' it, I think, had it 'colored,' for MANY years, and always looked great, except for the 'green' event!

[LiberalEsto]

15. It can happen with copper plumbing somehow

Back around 1975, I was letting my lightened blond hair grow out until I felt it would be long enough to cut off. There was about 6 inches of my natural darker blond already grown out.

I had just moved into a really crummy apartment. Took a shower, went to work. Co-workers started asking if I was turning into a mermaid or something. I couldn't figure out why everyone was starting at me.

Went to the ladies' room and looked in the mirror. The natural color looked perfectly normal, but the part that was lightened had turned a most peculiar shade of green. Something in the tap water and plumbing, maybe copper and chlorine. The hair salon I went to couldn't figure out a way to fix it so they cut off the green part. I believe they sell hair products now that will take out the green. When my daughters were on swim team, they rinsed off their hair with club soda to keep the chlorine from greening their hair.