[Sticky] Share your Bleaching Horror Stories

this was last weekend!

Give it a month and you'll start to see a lot more damage.  I can promise you this.  I literally read that with my jaw dropped ... that goes so far beyond what I put my hair through that it leaves it in the dust.

You've done this twice now ... please don't ever do it again.  If your scalp ever starts to even tingle, it's a sign that you've used too strong a bleach.  I feel so badly for your scalp ... you've given yourself third degree chemical burns.  Please go a doctor to treat them.

This is why I'm so bothered by all the people doing videos about bleaching their hair on you tube. I've rarely seen one than doesn't make me want to scream!

Oh the damage will come soon enough when you brush your hair and see chunks of the bleached hair departing from your scalp, if you are lucky enough it wont be from the roots x_X;

And at some point, you might end up like me with blisters and crusts all over your scalp D:

i feel sick after reading that =s poor hair/scalp

what the fuck :O

I couldn't finish reading it :/

TEN. I COUNTED TEN PROCESSES. GET TO A&E!!! Why are you able to see still to type?!? There should be blood in your eyes from a peeling/rotting scalp D:

I would certainly go to a&e, you may feel fine now, but I can assure you these things creep up on you.

A few years ago, I had my hair dyed permanent black and decided I wanted to start dyeing the front bright colours, so figured I would have to bleach out the black. I had no knowledge whatsoever of bleaching hair at this point as I'd never done it before, and as well as using 40vol, I applied it to my roots first and worked downward. This left me with some rather fetching stripes, going all the way through the colour scale from very dark brown at the tips, to pure white on my 2 inches of virgin roots. A couple of days later, I bought the Smart Colour Carmine Red, I think it was, the one that uses a developer although I have no idea what vol it was. Slapped that over the bleached parts of my hair, giving me a lovely vibrant red on the top half of my hair, but still dark at the bottom. About a week later I got more 40vol and went over it again. The top half turned a baby pink colour, but the bottom half just snapped straight off. I was horrified at the outcome and decided to just dye it black again, applying more Live XXL over the 3 layers of bleach and the 7 or 8 layers of dark permanent dyes I'd bleached over. Needless to say, I have well and truly learned my lesson now; my hair has been completely virgin for the past year, while I've been restoring its health in preparation for my first full-head bleach, which will be done over coconut oil, with a lower volume bleach, worked into the lengths before the roots. I really wish this forum had been around back then... 🙂

This isn't much of a horror nor a story, but it was a close call, and I think people could benefit from it.

I bleached my hair completely by myself for the first time yesterday. I usually need two boxes of box blonde dye to cover my hair, but since I had it cut I wasn't sure. - I got two anyway, though, just in case. The first box covered fine, it was -just- enough. But then I noticed, within mere minutes, that I may or may not have missed some spots.
Took the plunge, opened the second box and slathered it all on. I'd rather too much than not enough.

And thank god I did. I saved myself from patchy results!

Remember, guys. Better safe than sorry. D:

^This! Just realized that again when we dyed my friend's hair!

Another thing I learned from that: If your hair is long and thick and you're not experienced with hair dyeing, then please get 2 people to help you with applying bleach/box dye to your hair! Applying it will be over really quickly that way, which saves you from overprocessing your hair or getting a patchy colour.

I did similar, my hair went from red tinted black to silvery white in 2 days!

2 bleaches (with 40 vol) left on for 40 minutes each, then a bleach bath (with 40 vol) left on for an hour on the first day, then another bleach (with 40 vol) left on for 30 minutes and 2 more bleach baths (with 40 vol) 1st one left for an hour, 2nd one with purple shampoo left on for 2 hours on the second day, followed by 2 live XXL Max Blonde's left on for an hour each, a L'oreal Pearl Blonde left on for an hour, Colour Restore Iced Platinum left on for 30 minutes, Directions white toner left on for 30 minutes, Manic Panic Virgin Snow left on for 45 minutes, and 3 washes with Fudge purple shampoo.

My scalp was split in various places and bleeding, and 2 days later i have scabs and lumps of dry skin on my head, but miraculously my hair is only damaged on the very tips of the fringe! i had also already bleached it 8 times in 2 weeks last year in the summer, to go black to blonde, and only about 3 inches of my hair had been cut since that.

This actually terrify's me... Please let us know that your scalp is okay????

yes it's fine 🙂