Why you should (not) bleach your hair.

Went through the phase of bleaching my hair. It’s a great decision to have during your 20s.

Working at a corporate setting is really getting boring and tiring me out. So I wanted to change. I just needed something new in my lifestyle.

Bleaching isn’t cheap. I spent about $1,000, including all the treatment, hair products I had to purchase, and the bleaching sessions.

I went to the stylist total of 2 times, and it took me 3 sessions of bleaching to lighten my hair up to platinum color, with a tinge of silver.

But going blonde is a job to maintain. Purple shampoo twice a week is a must, and treatments are necessary.

Plus, it’ll now cost me $$ to bleach my root, and on top of that, once you go blonde, you’ll wanna do stuffs with it.

I bought myself multiple semi-permanent hair colors like pink, blue and teal.

https://overtone.co/

^ This review is coming up.

• The Pros and Cons of becoming blonde.

Pros

1. I look more exciting.
2. It’s a good ice-breaker.
3. Braids look prettier.
4. I put less makeup.
5. Makeup colors that didn’t match with my old hair color now match.

Cons

1. I look less serious(?)
2. My hair is completely fried.
3. Costs a lot. $$
4. Makeup color that DID match with my old hair color now doesn’t match.

Anyways, here’s bunch of pics of my transformation and daily selfies taken with momentary boost of self-confidence.

BEFORE the transformation.

^ This is after two bleaching sessions. My hair isn’t as fried yet. I did the next session after a month.

^ My hair is completely fried. This is another two sessions of bleaching. I think the hairstylist used an ash toner.

My dog also got its makeover session, with a cute cone-of-shame.

My hair was done at –

Lattitude 33 at Anaheim Hills.

Stylist IG @hairbyhannah_l33

EDIT** Jan 4, 2023.

Budget for Asians to bleach.

$1000 – this whole bleaching session was back in 2018, before Covid-19. It will probably cost (probably) 25%-30% more due to current inflation.

One needs to consider that EVERYTHING needs to be changed, including your shampoos, treatments, conditioners, hair pin colors, even your MAKEUPs to match your new hair tone.

Make sure you make further purchases for things like the items I mentioned above AFTER you finish ALL process of the bleaching. First session bleaching result and your final result WILL BE DIFFERENT.