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Will bleaching your hair cause it to whiten more quickly later on?
I want to get hair streaks but I heard from someone that when you bleach your hair, it gets white easily afterwards. Sort of had the implication that bleaching your hair kills it?
4 Answers
- AG_ManLv 66 years ago
No. Bleached hair doesn't get whiter or lighter unless you are using some type of bleaching agent to make it that way. The sun is a bleaching agent so perhaps that's where your friend got the misconception.
- Andy CLv 76 years ago
Bleaching your hair kills the current hair.
As far as killing your hair later, I'd say no.
I bleached my hair in college at 20. Multiple times.
At 31 I lost most of my hair due to something medical.
As I recovered, my hair grew back. So, bleaching your hair has no effect on your hair presence or color later in life.
It can burn your scalp if you leave it in for too long.
Source(s): I left it in for 2.5 hours. I have blonde hair. I did not get the platinum color I desired,nor do I get dandruff anymore; ) - ?Lv 76 years ago
Hair is not alive, it is dead anyway. It's the follicles that are living. Bleaching with pure bleach (or diluted) will destroy the hair eventually, if not straight away. Repeated use of products that contain peroxide will cause long term damage to your hair and its follicles, thereby increasing the possibility of killing the follicles so that hair growth from the affected follicles stops (going bald)
