Q&A for How to Make Your Hair Blonder

Anything that lightens your hair—bleach, salt water, peroxide, lemon juice—does so by opening the cuticle and breaking down the natural pigments. Any of these methods can cause damage if they're over-used, but lemon is less harsh than many other lightening options.

Yes, saltwater helps to break down the pigment in your hair, which can produce a strong lightening effect, especially when combined with sunlight. It can be drying though, so use it in moderation.

You should never leave hydrogen peroxide in your hair for longer than 1 hour at a time. It usually takes 20-30 minutes to achieve any lift.

Adding vitamin C powder to your shampoo may help lighten your hair. After several washes, you could notice a difference in tone.

You can add lemon juice to a bottle of conditioner to use while you're in the shower. Let it sit while you finishing washing your body, and then rinse it out. This method should lighten your hair over time.

You can wash your hair with apple cider vinegar without needing to sit in the sun. It may take several washes over a period of time before noticing a change. You can experiment with the lemon juice, baking soda, or Vitamin C methods without the use of sun.

Most of the natural methods for lightening hair involve sunlight, which I don't recommend as a professional. Your hair should be protected from sun exposure at all times.

You can add salt water, honey, and/or lemon juice to your hair and spend some time in the sun. Repeated treatments will increase the lightening effect.

Of course. Hair is hair.

My suggestion is Chamomile, honey, lemon juice, cinnamon and coconut oil. Coconut oil helps prevent the other ingredients from drying out. If you don't have any, use olive oil.

Rather adding yet more dye, use lemons. All you need to do is two lemons squeezed on your hair, use a blow dryer to set it and sit in the sun for a bit if possible. Repeat it once a week for good results.

It depends how you light you want your hair to be. For more dramatic results, add a few tablespoons to one cup of water and spray it on your hair, and then go out in the sun for an hour. You may have to repeat this process several times, but eventually you'll see results.

Use a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide and quite a bit of lemon juice mixed with chamomile. Sit in the sun for an hour or an hour and 45 minutes.

Yes, it usually does. Just mix it with coconut oil in your hair and it will be fine.

You can keep trying the methods mentioned above. If you do them frequently, at least once or twice a week, then your hair will most likely get lighter, at least to a light brown.

If you have dirty blonde hair, try using natural hair products to lighten your hair gradually. Products like lemon juice or chamomile tea rinses will lighten your hair without major damages.

You could use some conditioner and leave it in overnight. You could also use some coconut oil when coloring/lightening your hair.

Your hair will most likely get darker over time, especially in the winter when you don't get as much sun. If you want it to be permanent, reapply.

Use a warm coconut oil and lemon juice solution all over the scalp and hair. Leave the solution in the hair for 20 to 30 minutes. Then rinse of the solution with water, and follow up with a shampoo. This process must be repeated twice a week for preventing grey hair naturally.

Correct. To be specific, first you have to bleach your hair to strip the dark color, then dye it with the desired color. However, you can reduce the damage by making it lighter in steps. Black to blonde in one go = hair loss. Also, if you put foil around your hair while the dye is in there, it will color quicker, so you have to leave the damaging stuff in shorter.

Your hair will grow out, but the portions you lightened will stay light.

The lemon works best when exposed to sunlight as the UV reacts with the lemon to lighten the pigment.

Lime juice may work similarly because of its high acidic content; however, for best results, purchase lemon juice.

Dye and lemon juice are the most effective tools for making your hair blonder.

Yes.

It depends on how dark your hair is. If your hair is black or brown, you will need to lighten it (bleach works best). If your hair is blonde, then you can use a strawberry blonde hair dye kit.

If you have black hair, it's not possible to bleach it to blonde using only natural remedies. You'll end up with a brassy color and damaged hair. Talk to a professional hair stylist about your options.

It’s time-consuming, but possible. Try lemon juice if you want nice results.

If you'd like to lighten the orange tones more, try applying lemon juice just to those areas and sitting in the sun for an hour at a time until you reach the desired shade.

If they're sleeping outside on a sunny day, you could apply lemon juice to make it lighter. But I wouldn't suggest permanently coloring/changing someone's hair whilst they're asleep (unless you use a wash-out dye, and even then the person might get really mad). In any case, unless the person is an extremely deep sleeper, they'll almost certainly wake up at some point if you try any of these methods.