subject: How Do I Touch Up Or Bleach My Blonde Roots At Home? [print this page] Hi, I'm Jasen James, a professional hair colorist and your HairColorHelper. I'm here to answer your questions about coloring your hair at home. A lot of you wonder how to properly bleach your roots.
Anytime you lift a lot of color at once you have to take extra precautions. It's super important to keep your bleach mixture confined to your root area. Don't go beyond the outgrowth to the hair that's already been bleached. You'll end up spotty and will have to hide under a scarf until you get it corrected at a salon.
Take your time with your retouch. Use hand-mirrors and better still, ask a friend to help you with the back of the head. Precision is everything.
After the color is applied, keep checking it to see that it's reached the desired level of lightening and that it matches the rest of the color on your head. You'll probably want to lift your hair color to the lightness of the inside of a banana. That's what high lift blond hair color is all about.
If the rest of your hair needs perking up, stay away from bleach and reach for a colored glaze or a gentle semi-permanent color. In general, using a toner or a semi-permanent hair color as a glaze is a quick color correction fix to ensure better results on bleached hair.
Tone or glaze on an alternate day, waiting at least 48 hours after you've touched up your roots.
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