Hair dying 101: Sorting your roots

This goes for all colours really but prmarily for those wishing to bleach dark roots to obtain a bright colour. As usual, by bright colour I mean one of the semi permanent colour wheel colours not a toner or natural colour.

One of the things a lot of people worry about when dying bright hair is the constant bleaching and whether this will fry hair passed the point of repair. Well heres an easy way to get around this. Take a look at this post first as it will give you the basics on what you will need to have. What you essentially are going to try to do is bleach your roots evenly whilst leaving the rest of your hair untouched.

1. You will need to section your hair several times to get to the roots so have plenty of clips available. Start at the base of your hair (neckline) as it can take a little time to do this and this hair is the most healthy due to decrease sun damage, chemicals and general wear and tear so can take a little more bleach.

2. Once ALL your hair is pinned up so just the underneath is exposed and you have mixed up your normal bleach solution, get your brush and dip it into your bleach then run from the base of your hair upwards about 1 inch (Longer if you have more roots) Do the same along the whole hair line.

3. Once you have your first line done take down roughly 2 inches of hair (thats distance from hair line to where the next hair line will be) and pin back up the rest. In a downwards motion repeat the last action, stroking the bleach 1 inch down the hair and then repeating by going 1 in up the hair that is still tied up. repeat this action the whole way up your head.

4. You should end up with your hair sticking out like a scare crow with just bleach on the roots and normal colour on the rest. Leave for the set amount of time, best to try and remember how light you got the rest of your hair and go from there. It doesn't matter too much if its a little lighter but try not to leave it a little darker or you will end up with a sort of skunk effect after a few bleaches.

5. Rinse it out thoroughly and leave to semi dry for an hour or so. You can hair dry it but try not to unless you are on a time limit as it adds extra damage to hair that has just been treated. Once it is semi dry, add your normal dye to the whole hair and leave as normal.

You should end up eith evenly dyed roots and most of your hair will only get bleached once so should remain happy and healthy!

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