[Sticky] Bleach Bath tutorial - with pictures!

In between bleach bathes do you use normal shampoo or shampoo for coloured hair ?

I would think a toning shampoo would be best to help remove brassiness.

Thanks, what toning shampoos do you recommend 🙂

The provoke ones are fairly reasonably priced, 'provoke touch of silver'. I used both their twice a week brightening shampoo and their normal shampoo, but you could probably get away with just the twice a week one, as that's really nicely pigmented.
Obviously a purple toner is made to counteract yellow tones, I don't know if it would help with orange brassiness (I'd assume not, but I've seen people recommend it in the past, so I don't know)

probably a dumb question but its okay to use a BB mix for highlights yes? as long as you're careful it doesn't run everywhere obviously.

Can someone help?
So, I have full bleached my hair 2 times already, with a 1 and a half month between each.
Do you think a full BB will ruin my hair? Right now it's not damaged, but I think it wouldn't handle another bleach...My hair color is a very light mint green, my ends are orange/yellow and my roots are dark brown. I wanted to reach a white hair :/

Han--Yes you can use it for highlights.

Bolinho--You can use it to try to lift out the last of the staining, but I would only recommend it if your hair feels totally, totally healthy.  If it's even the tiniest bit fragile, you should just keep the bleach to the roots only.

So, how can I be sure my hair is totally healthy :P?
My hair is not breaking, it's soft, if I get one string of hair I don't need much to break it but it's not thaaaat easy... I dunno...:/

So, how can I be sure my hair is totally healthy :P?
My hair is not breaking, it's soft, if I get one string of hair I don't need much to break it but it's not thaaaat easy... I dunno...:/

You really can't without looking under a microscope, tbh.

My hair was to my collar bone.  I processed twice in two days ONE time with permanent colour before I found this forum.  That's all it took.  My hair felt a little dry to me, but it wasn't stringy or gummy.  I could still comb through it fine.  It didn't look or feel fried... it was soft to the touch and still had glossy colour.  BUT... it was snapping off.  A lot. Especially when I would blow dry.  And that was after having healthy hair to begin with.

ETA: everyone's hair is different.  I seem to have hair that is very susceptible to damage.  I now know my limits, and process as minimally as possible.  After I double processed and learn the reasons that is not good to do, I got my hair trimmed, and took better care of it.  It was doing better until I decided I really didn't like having longer hair and got the chop last month.  I didn't cut my hair because it was beyond saving... it was just time to go short again.

Just a quick question about putting veggie dyes in your hair right after a bleach bath. Should you wait a day or so, or after washing the BB out can you immediately apply a veggie dye, then when washing that out condition the hell out of it? 😀

Veggie dyes are actually moisturising, so you can apply straight after bleaching.  They take best on freshly washed, unconditioned hair.

Hi guys, I was wondering how many levels of lift I can expect from a bleach bath. My roots are quite larg and dark brown (probably a 2) and my hair post-colorOops is looking like a 4 or 5 I think... Im attaching a pic so feel free to tell me otherwise if Im wrong:
I'm doing another colorOops before BB, but I want to figure out aprox. how many BBaths it will take to a light enough blonde to tone silver (10 or 11 I guess)  *loveeyes*

Bleach baths tend to lift 1-2 levels depending on the strength of the peroxide used.

Roots process more quickly as they're closer to the scalp, so because they're darker you could apply roots first and go down the length ... one will probably take you a mid ginger, a second to a light ginger and you'll probably need a minimum of 3-4 more to get to a pale blonde depending on how much red there is in your hair ... so I'd say you're about 5-6 BBs away, at a guess.

Sidenote: Your hair's length and wave is like my dream hair--I love it!

thanks Intempestivity! About 6 is what I'd sorta thought, I think I'll quite like the ginger stages and do 2 BBs a month after my second color Oops... So excited to start!
I'm hoping to sacrifice as little length as possible and just started to do some CG method stuff and my waves are looking better already, glad you like!

I hope you lovelies can give me a good chunk of help?

I'm wanting to get the virgin rose and electric blue out of my hair...I want to do it orange and pink.

I'm reluctant to use colour b4 and jo-baz because I can't find any information on animal testing and they haven't emailed back (!)

My colour's not really too faded and isn't in too bad condition, I think! My roots are about an inch, naturally dark brown.

Am I right that my best bet is to try fade it first with a dandruff shampoo, then I can do bleach baths a week apart?

I have Superdrug's "Colour Performance Lightener", which I've just to straight-bleach my hair in the past, will this work? Mix with dandruff shampoo like in the tutorial.

I have pure coconut oil too....that goes on the hair for an hour before the bleach bath?

Sorry for the all the questions...I'm sure the answers are all in here somewhere =/ I thought I knew so much about dying my hair but this place makes me feel like an amateur ^_^

Thanks!