Hheeelppp!! Is there any hair dressers on here that can advise me on what to do or even to say to her. My 15yo daughter wants to bleach her hair. The problem is she want to do a home job and she has dark hair. She thinks its ok because my sister dyes her hair at home, for the past 25 years. She has gone from bleached orange (was supposed to be blonde)to black and is now going back to blonde. What my daughter doesnt see is how my sisters hair is ruined...completely. It is reeeaaallly thin and brittle and I am worried my daughters beautiful thick lucious hair will end up the same. I would love to be able to afford to take her to a hairdresser but unfortunetly I cant. (And no my hair hasnt been cut in about 6 months and my hair dyed even longer). Any advice on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated
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Can you take her into a hairdressers for a consult? Most of them do it free they will go over what needs to be done and really focus on the importance of how it's done to prevent destroying her hair hopefully that will make her think twice about a homejob.
I was determined to bleach my own hair at home when I was teenage as well and my mum told me it would wreck my hair but I didn't listen and did it anyway and yep it was orange and wrecked and I cried and wasn't leaving the house until my mum bought me brown hair dye to change it back. She said tough luck I should have listened to her.
She eventually bought me hair dye a few weeks later as my graduation was coming up and she didn't want to look back at photos of me with my hair like that lol.
Anyway I learnt my lesson and never did it again and my hair recovered eventually.
I would take her in and they can explain and give a quote (which won't be cheap) which MIGHT make her think differently.
Maybe you could do some high lights for her?
Just use some bleach and randomly place it in strips on her hair, watch the colour and then rinse off
Apprentice or through the Tafe, tell her to save her pennies and get a student to do it for heaps cheaper.
Next door to my work isa training place for appentice hair dressers they do half price haircuts and foils just so the apprentices can practice on a real person perhaps one of these places is close to you.
I don't know about you but when I was 15 I knew everything. Let her do it and learn from her mistakes lol
I dyed my brown hair when I was 15. It was a home job, I wanted to be blonde... bright orange ? I then repeated with a lighter blonde, without seeking advice of course, guess what, even brighter orange ?
I like the suggestion of going to a TAFE or hairdressing college. Tell her she needs to pay for it though. As we all know, coloured hair needs constant upkeep.
NB I was a teen who spent all my money on clothes, funky hairstyles, etc