Fully green hair is restored
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manThis was my first time bleaching and dyeing my hair by myself, and the first time I tried the former, it didn't work. I reasoned that I hadn't used enough bleach, as when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ewtikins did it, I could feel the bleach attacking my scalp (a little like bathing in the Dead Sea) throughout; whereas this time I only felt that at the start. So I put on more bleach, and tried again. Now, the instructions provided for exposures of 20' to 40' to the bleach, and I ended up going up to 50' (or was it 55'? I forget). I thought I'd be okay due to the underexposure for the first half of this time, but now the sides of my scalp both look and feel a little raw. (Or possibly it was due to the fact I kept the dye on for hours and hours this time, and despite having rinsed and shampooed my hair twice in the interim, there was still a smell of bleach hanging about it.)
Hopefully it will recover of its own accord in the next day or two, now it's no longer being exposed to any nasty chemicals... and now I am finally in my dyed-hair exit strategy, I won't need to bleach it again.
In other news: fill sink with ice from defrosting fridge and freezer, cover with a layer of charcoal scraped from burnt toast, and, er, turn into Eugene Shoemaker demonstrating the process of formation of a moon of the outer Solar System on Horizon twenty years ago. :o)
ewtikins did it, I could feel the bleach attacking my scalp (a little like bathing in the Dead Sea) throughout; whereas this time I only felt that at the start. So I put on more bleach, and tried again. Now, the instructions provided for exposures of 20' to 40' to the bleach, and I ended up going up to 50' (or was it 55'? I forget). I thought I'd be okay due to the underexposure for the first half of this time, but now the sides of my scalp both look and feel a little raw. (Or possibly it was due to the fact I kept the dye on for hours and hours this time, and despite having rinsed and shampooed my hair twice in the interim, there was still a smell of bleach hanging about it.)Hopefully it will recover of its own accord in the next day or two, now it's no longer being exposed to any nasty chemicals... and now I am finally in my dyed-hair exit strategy, I won't need to bleach it again.
In other news: fill sink with ice from defrosting fridge and freezer, cover with a layer of charcoal scraped from burnt toast, and, er, turn into Eugene Shoemaker demonstrating the process of formation of a moon of the outer Solar System on Horizon twenty years ago. :o)
