


But let’s be fair if you do that you’re likely to take half the house (your hair) down with it. Now we could pop a stick of dynamite under the rock and hope for the best. But ideally, we want to cause as little damage to the house as possible in the process. There’s obviously more than one way to do this.

To go blonde we’ve got to get that rock out of there. The way I’d like you to think about this process is like you’ve got a house with a large rock (the brown hair colour) in the living room. So if you want to go blonde from brown you will need to use a ‘bleach’ to do so. Unfortunately, these colour pigments cannot be lightened or changed, despite common belief, by simply popping another colour on your hair. Now let’s talk about the colour that’s on the hair.Īny oxidising hair colour that you have had in your hair will leave colour pigments in your hair (this includes ones that say they last ‘6-8 weeks’). So no two heads of hair will be the same. Pollution and any chemical processes you’ve had on it at that time such as straightening, perming and colouring will all affect your hair. Over that time it will have been affected by your health, your diet, heat styling, what shampoos, conditioners and styling products you’ve used. So the hair on your head will be a product of everything you’ve done to it over that period. That means that if your hair is straight and reaches below your collarbone it is likely to have been growing for at least 2, probably 3, years to get that long. Your hair grows at an average rate of just over a cm a month. Even if your hair is a similar colour to a friend who went blonde it doesn’t necessarily mean you will be able to. All of us are individuals and so what can work for one of us won’t work for someone else. Whilst it will vary from one person to the next, the answer is often no. Hair stylists are constantly asked if a client can go from brown to blonde in one visit to the salon. Chris Williams International Colour Director at Rush Hair tells us what we need to know about going blonde from having dark hair in one sitting.
