The Disadvantages of Bleaching Your Hair (2)

Kylie Jenner with bleached blonde hair — Kylie Jenner - Photo: Tinseltown/Shutterstock

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Along with the pain and poof, there are many more disadvantages when it comes to bleaching your hair. With bleach being so harsh, get ready to experience some breakage of the hair, leaving you with short, dry strands. If your hair is long, that won't be a good look and you'll have to find a way to tame the shorter hairs and that may not be something that you want to put up with.

There are products that a stylist can recommend to coat the cuticles of your hair and give the illusion of healthy hair. However, these are just temporary fixes. If you choose to stick with the platinum look, any new growth that is otherwise healthy, will immediately be destroyed by the application of root touch-ups.

Because of the damage caused by bleach, keep this in mind: you may end up with so much follicular damage, split ends, and regular environmental damage that you might be forced into cutting your hair off. Not a bad option, but if that is not in your plans, it is something you should consider beforehand. To add to the chemical damage that the bleach has caused, do not forget the damage you will incur from blow drying and flat irons. Heat damage can harm virgin hair, so imagine what it does to altered, chemically treated locks?

The touch-ups should also be taken into consideration. You will need to return to the salon every six to eight weeks. Maintenance can be time-consuming and expensive, and it is definitely not something you want to do at home, straight from a box. If you do that, you are in even more danger of extreme hair damage and discoloration and you could end up with multicolored hair.

Michelle Williams with her hair in a bleached blonde pixie — Michelle Williams - Photo: Tinseltown/Shutterstock

When you are forced to rush to a stylist, the reconstructive process may take hours and might not even be possible, and it will be extremely costly. And if you do decide to go darker after you've gone platinum, that color process will be just as time consuming to avoid any hair transparency.

Going beachy platinum, icy blonde like Elsa in "Frozen" or old school Christina Aguilera is extremely fun and exciting, daring, and fabulous. However, there are a lot of things that you need to take into account before you take the leap and you have to understand that this is a damaging process. You will have to do a lot of upkeep, spend money, make time for salon appointments, buy the best products, and prepare for the painful commitment.

But, if this is something that you desperately want to do, please consult your stylist who will give you the best advice as to how to adjust to the new look and better prepare for this drastic change. Return that boxed bleach ASAP. It is not a good idea. It is a very bad idea! So again, consult a stylist to plan this transition.

Good luck!

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See also:

Hair bleaching problems

How does bleaching hair work?

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