Lightener on ginger hair?

It depends on which bleach you are using. I think you may be able to get the hair to yellow or pale yellow if you make sure to process long enough and to saturate all of the hair completly with bleach 🙂

Has your hair been lightened before? The best route for going light or platinum blonde is to bleach the hair to pale yellow (yellow works for medium blonde) and then apply demi permanent toner.

Good luck 🙂

I'm not too sure about which bleach it is, I just bought a couple of boxes of hair lightener from Superdrug, I didn't go anywhere professional to get it.

And when you say yellow do you mean an attractive yellow or bright yellow?

My hair hasn't been lightened before so I don't quite know how to go about it haha!

Thanks for your help! 🙂

It'll be a bleached yellow, which isn't all that attractive. Buy a bottle of toner, superdrug do a nice cheap one for about £1 which will neutralise the colour, making it a blonde yellow (much more attractive) instead of a brassy colour.

The actual shade you achieve will depend on the amount of time you use the bleach. Before you apply it check the MAXimum time allowed for development, do not exceed this time! The time starts from when you start to apply the bleach. If ou only want a little colour lift check it after 15 minutes then every 10 minutes after that until it's the colour you want. It will appear darker because it's wet so you'll need to take that into account.

If you want it much lighter or as light as it will go then leave it on for the maximum time (usually 45 minutes but please red the instructions) and that will do all it can.

Thank you so much for your help! 😀

yellow is a little lighter than the outside of a banana, pale yellow is like the color on the inside of a banana.

Ooh now that's a useful picture! Thanks elumen!