We are accustomed to seeing people age and their hair change. Usually, it starts as a gradual white hair coming through, and then it looks like salt and pepper, and then as you age more, you finally have all white hair. But what if you don’t want to wait for your hair to go through the stages before it ends up with an overall look of white hair? Maybe you want to dye your hair white.

Maybe you have seen young people with platinum hair color, and I love the look! How do I achieve the look of platinum hair on myself?

Is Your Hair Healthy?

Do you have healthy hair? There are many steps in transforming hair from a darker color into bleach-white hair. If your hair is prone to breakage or split ends, bleaching will make your hair even weaker. You will want to ensure you are healthy; this is very important. Having healthy hair is a prerequisite for dyeing your hair white. Lifeless, dull hair is prone to breaking and will only become further damaged. This is due to being exposed to the chemicals in the bleaching agents.

How Do You Make Hair White?

So how do you achieve the overall look of all the hair being white? You reach the white hair look with the proper knowledge and the right products. We can give you some tips and how you can adequately dye your hair white and keep it looking white and feeling healthy.

Determining what your natural hair color is?

Light blonde to light brown shades of hair.

You are determining your natural hair color makes a big difference in determining whether you are a person who can pull off the look of white hair. When you have determined your hair is healthy for bleaching, you will decide which shade your natural hair color is. If you have naturally blonde hair to a light brown hair color, it gives you an advantage because your is already a light color; it will be easy to achieve the platinum blonde look you desire. You can bleach your hair without any worries.

Bleaching Dark Brown or Black Hair:

When bleaching, dark brown or black hair white will take much longer. This will take several appointments to achieve platinum hair. It will take several weeks to ensure less damage due to the intense bleaching process. Bleaching dark brown or black hair will mean that the hair will lift to orange before needing to be toned to white. So you need to know that your hair is willing a week or so of orange hair before the next bleaching session. It is more challenging to color dark hair white without causing excessive damage to the hair shafts.

Lightening your Hair with the Bleach:

Keratin is the protein that makes up hair, providing your hair with its shape, length, and physical form.
When bleaching the hair is a process which is called Oxidation. Oxidation is the lighting process that causes crucial bonds between molecules to break. The breaking down of the structure of the hair will reduce your hair’s strength, and you will end up with weak hair that looks brittle and breaks. This is when too much processing is done to your hair.
This can be very scary, and it will take some time to repair the damage, and you still may not achieve the white hair look you are going for.
It is better to use a small amount of bleach on the hair. This will do less damage to the hair’s melanin. Melanin is far more sensitive to the chemical reaction of using bleach. This will allow it to protect your hair’s keratin. The small amount of bleach will reduce the damage to the keratin in your hair.

Melanin is the name of the pigment that gives your hair its natural color. When the bleach is applied to the hair, it begins a chemical change. The chemical change is that the bleach causes the desired look of reducing the melanin, the color pigment to be removed by the bleach.
Bleaching the hair causes a reaction to your hair. The reaction affects the structure of two proteins within your hair, melanin and keratin. When the bleach is added to your hair, there is a chemical reaction called Oxidation.

Use Caution when Whitening Your Hair at Home!

Before beginning this process, you should be aware of some guidelines.

*Several appointments are required to achieve making dark hair white. This process requires 2-4 weeks of recovery time after each session to ensure you can avoid hair and scalp damage.

• When attempting to bleach your hair from home, it is safe to use a 20-volume developer along with a good quality purple toner after each time you bleach; this will help prevent damage to the hair.
  *It is essential to use good reliable products, using purple or blue shampoo to help eliminate any yellow or orange tones after bleaching the hair.

How to Create the Look of White Hair?

One common though is that you need to bleach your hair until it entirely removes the hair’s natural pigment (color) to be able to produce the look of white hair. This theory is incorrect. This method will likely end up destroying your hair before you can remove every last trace of the natural pigment of the hair is all removed.

Less damage when using Bleach and Toning method?

The Two-Step Method You Will Reduce the Damage Done Two the Hair.

First step:

You will add bleach to your hair and will remove the bleach once your hair is to the palest yellow stage; this is where only a trace of pigment remains. There is no way of completely removing all the pigment due to the fact the keratin in the hair will leave itself a slightly yellow color.

Second step:

Once the color has achieved a banana’s flesh, toner takes you the rest of the way to finish the two-step process. You will add a hint of violet toner, which will neutralize the remaining yellow hair. This will allow the dyed hair white with less damage.

When you choose to dye your hair white (Platinum), it is very important to use products designed for bleach hair. These products can help restore your hair while making your new platinum look fabulous.