lemon juice hair dye

[Guest]

hey, so the lemon thing works if you put lemon juice in your hair and then blow dry it?

[guest2352464]

ok i want to do this but i have brown hair... what would it do to a brown haired person???

[guest2352464]

i'm the same person that asked the question about the brown hair thing.
if some1 reads it can they please try to respond as soon as they can, thanks

[Guest]

I had like light - med brown hair and I put lemon juice in my hair and then went out in the sun and it just gave me very little natural looking blonde streaks... but i put it in and went outside for like 2 hours but you could really tell like a week later... so it doesnt work to its fullest right away

[guest2352464]

ok thanks so much for responding!

[blonegirlie]

okay first off.. if u have brown hair.. and put lemon juice wouldnt it turn orange? lemon juice may turn ur hair lighter but itll turn all dull and orangey after a couple months.. it wont permanetly stay the same..

[guest6565879]

ok if u wanna put lemon juice in ur hair.........put it in a spray bottle 3/4 lemon juice and 1/4 water (if u want ur hair really light put no water in it) then spray it in ur hair and BRUSH IT threw so that u don't gte splotches all over!! persoanly it worked good for me and i hope it does for u guys another WONDERFUL thing about lemon juice is if u put some on a cotten ball and whip it on ur face before u go to bed it lightens ur freckles I love freckles i just do that because it makes ur face smother and helps get rid of acne if u have it i don't but yeah well when u use it for ur face do a lil bit on one space of ur face and see how ur skin reacts to it

[boring hair]

ok i wanted to do something with my hair to make it more exciting because i'm getting sick of my boring brown hair. I am considering using lemon juice. In the summer i sometimes get natural highlights so would it just enhance those or would it look really fake? also would the change be significant? when my hair begins to grow out after would the roots be ugly and obvious? or would it kind of fade into its natural color again?
My friend from school tried this one day and she had med. brown hair and i thought it looked really good, but i'm still nervous to try it. should i have anything to worry about?


please respond

thanks

[Guest]

hey im 12 years old and i wanna know if you put lemon juice in your hair to make it lighter how long at the least should you leave it in the sun and how long at the most should you leave it in the sun to have the proper effect????

[Kristen]

This is my first time on these boards. I found it because I was searching for alternatives to using lemon juice to make one's hair blonder.

I have used lemon juice before, with a fair amount of success. However, this was something I did consistently, spraying it onto my hair every day throughout the entire summer. Also, I was a young teenager then, so I didn't have to work and I was able to spend all day out in the sun. By the time the school year started, I did have some fantastic golden highlights. It wasn't quite the same intensity that would have resulted from a salon treatment, but it wasn't bad.

It's worth noting that my hair is long and curly, so if there were any inconsistencies in the way the color appeared, it would be difficult to notice. My natural color is medium brown. I used Sun-In once before, to my ultimate peril. My hair turned bright orange, and my mom wouldn't let me fix it for months. (Please note that I am still bitter about this -- you can imagine the comments I got -- so parents, if your young daughters ever make the mistake of using Sun-In and turning their dark hair orange, allow them to dye it to a normal color! It will save years of future resentment, ha.)

So the purpose of that digression was to let you know that lemon juice is much less likely to make your hair turn a bad color than Sun-In or other dyes.

I'm currently using special "blonde formula" shampoo and conditioner (by John Frieda? Perhaps? I don't know the brand, I just know what the bottle looks like). I'm having very subtle results with this -- my hair seems slightly lighter with daily use.

Finally, and this is unrelated to the topic at hand, I want to mention that some of the above posts are utterly incoherent. I don't understand why it is necessary to totally abandon proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. I know it's the Internet, and I don't expect everything to be perfect (after all, this post undoubtedly has an error or two in it) but I couldn't even decipher some of these replies. My younger brothers type this way sometimes too. Maybe it's a generational thing... although I'm not even 22 yet, so it's not like I'm that far removed from teenage culture. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that typing in such a manner makes the message of the post ineffective, and more than anything I wanted to vent my frustration at the way butchering the English language has become the hip thing to do.

P.S. If I post this thing in the wrong place, I apologize. Like I said, it's my first time here, and I'm not totally sure how the forums work.

[Guest]

So if I rub some lemon juice in my hair than blow dry it would it make my hair lighter?

[Guest]

omg i just put some lemon juice on alot of the streaks in my hair and i have dark brown hair,, so i'm sitting here and reading this and i read that if u have dark brown hair it'll turn orange! i dont know what to do, becuse i was out in the sun for about 30 minuets then i came in and blowdried my hair. is it really gonna turn orange?

[Vmd17]

ok i have dark brown hair and i dyed it chesnut reddy color 2-3 months ago.......i wanted to lighten the ends of the hair cuz i wanted to dye the tips of my hair blue......or bright red.What will happen?

[amanda.....]

oh my gosh i totaly ruined my hair this weekend and it turned like a really dark brown and my hair is ligh brown and i was wondering does lemon juice work on dark hair! please tell me im in a major crisis!!! thanks

[Guest]

omg i just put some lemon juice on alot of the streaks in my hair and i have dark brown hair,, so i'm sitting here and reading this and i read that if u have dark brown hair it'll turn orange! i dont know what to do, becuse i was out in the sun for about 30 minuets then i came in and blowdried my hair. is it really gonna turn orange?

no, it won't turn orange. u were only out in the sun for 30 minutes and that isn't enough time. plus, even if u were out longer, it mite turn just a little orange, but after a couple of months. don't worry about it.