Platinum-blonde

In order to achieve this blonde we had to process twice with Paul Mitchell synchro-loft lightner, once for 45 minutes and again for another 15 because the hair was about a level 5n and wasn’t long enough to apply the lightner off the scalp in foils. You can only lift the hair 4 levels at a time safely, and the mixture of bleach allowed on the scalp with no irritation can only lift 1-2 levels.
Normally I would have the client come back another day for the second bleaching to protect their scalp from irritation but in this case we wanted him blonde and blonde NOW. Ha, ha.

All brown hair has red, orange, and yellow as underlying pigments. In order to get a good shade of platinum we had to lift the natural hair past the orange state to a pale-yellow.

After bleaching we toned with a violet-based color to cancel out yellow tones and added a blue/violet additive into that to cancel out any excess golden. This is almost a blue-gray that you add to make the hair more of an ashy silver color.

Then finally we toned again with pravana silver fox toner at a level 9.

One more visit in 4 weeks and another application and the hair would be more of a white but since this is the client’s first experience going blonde we want to keep the hair in good shape where it’s not breaking and at some point I don’t recommend it for natural levels 5 which is more if a dark brown and below(10 being the blondest, 1 being the darkest black) Or even 6 and below in some cases where the client would want to wear longer hair and not cut length.

All in all it turned out pretty. ☺️