Thinking about dying my hair blond. I'm a guy. What's the process for this? My assumption was all you had to do was buy hair dye at the store for $15 and you're set, but from asking my mother, this seems to be incorrect, and instead you have to actually go to a salon or whatever, and it costs $50-$100. So what's the deal? How do I get it done and what does it cost?
It greatly depends on what your expectations are and how neurotic you are about your hair. If you're the kind of guy that would buzz his hair off for five bucks for a joke then you can just get the box from the store and diy it but don't expect it to look like those runway models with even platinum hair. If you are neurotic about your hair then there's a big chance it will ruin your life because it comes out patchy and orange and make your hair feel like puffy straw. It's not that deep in the end and box dyes aren't that different quality wise than salon grade materials, the difference is more in knowing how to get the desired result (developer strength, consistency, hair type, exposure length, toning to the exact desired tone after bleaching etc have huge impact) and professional application. There's a lot of chemistry and science knowledge that goes into achieving perfect results without ruining the hair, there's a reason why high end salons often have a blonde expert that's basically just there to bleach hair as their area of expertise.
>>18700501Hmm thank you. I'm not overly neurotic in the sense of being picky, but if it ended up ruined and ugly, I'd cry and die inside, forever to avoid the public eye without a hat until I could dye it back and fix it.>If you are neurotic about your hair then there's a big chance it will ruin your life because it comes out patchy and orange and make your hair feel like puffy straw. Well that's no good.
>>18700508Yeah, the issue with doing it yoruself is that it absolutely can happen that you get lucky and it all goes smoothly and you get exactly what you wanted and many people do that, but there's a non negligible chance that it goes wrong and unlike a pro in a salon, you don't have the knowledge and materials and tools to troubleshoot and fix shit, you basically just get that one chance and hope that the presented developer strength and the amount of humidity/time/temperature during the process is exactly what was needed to take your hair to your desired result. Personally I wouldn't risk it with zero prior experience with the process but you could also educate yourself by watching a couple of vids on it and hope for the best. It also greatly depends on the length of your hair, bleaching short hair, like in your pic is a much smaller risk than trying to get even results on longer hair. You have to take everything into consideration when doing that, like how much heat the scalp gives off etc, bleaching is very different from coloring your hair, it's chemically a totally different and vastly more complex process since there's so many variables.
>>18700472Mad how this dude and Charlie Sheen got away with being chubsters
>>18700511I have hair like the pic, But yeah, you're probably right. Thanks for the replies and advice.
