How To Do A Soap Cap

I haven't posted since concluding year quondam, but my hair was pretty much the same all summer and is but now seeing a new color.

me this summer - faded stawberry blonde hair.

more details within, but basically

if y'all've dyed your hair and it has come out a shade too dark; if yous would just like to lighten your pilus ane - one 1/2 levels; if you toned your pilus and it has turned grey/blue; or if you lot want to slightly lighten your pilus just enough to dye over information technology, READ THIS POST for a how-to on "soapcapping"...

to make a long story brusque, I got blonde highlights and dark blonde lowlights put through that color, my roots so grew out, and I went to the salon for a "tintback" - matching the rest of my hair to the 2 inches of dark ash blonde roots using semipermanent dye - and then that I could grow my hair long without dying it for a very long time. well.... they screwed up, and I didn't trust going back there for them to fix it.

this is the color I walked out with at the salon. I figured "hey, perhaps it'll fade almost 2-three shades and will actually be shut to a dark ash blonde", so I waited virtually ii weeks. finally, I decided to fade it out myself. I found some information on soapcapping, which is basically mixing a mild mixture of bleach and programmer with shampoo and conditioner and massaging it through your hair. The shampoo and conditioner serve as a buffer betwixt your hair and the bleach mixture so that damage is minimal and change is very gradual.

Here'due south what I used:
ane. packet of bleach powder
2. bottle of 10 vol. developer (you tin can probably use 20 vol, but I wouldn't recommend annihilation higher)
iii. mixing bowl and tint brush
4. deep conditioner
5. the shampoo and conditioner i usually use

Here are the steps:
ane. Pour about 2 tbsp. of bleach powder in the mixing bowl. Gradually add programmer and mix until all of the bleaching powder is saturated and creamy (no lumps or dry spots). The amount of this mixture needed is solely based on how long/thick your hair is - mine is medium length and kind of thin, so I didn't need too much.
2. Pour in equal parts of your everyday shampoo and conditioner - this mixture should be twice equally much equally the bleach mixture. For example, if you had one oz. of the bleach mixture, yous should cascade in 1 oz of shampoo and ane oz. conditioner. This 1:2 ratio is key considering it dilutes the bleach mixture and so that impairment on the pilus is minimal.
iii. Wet your hair thoroughly and towel dry.
4. Using the tint brush, apply the mixture liberally and apace all over the head. One time plenty of the pilus is covered, you can begin to employ your hands to massage it in merely as you would shampoo your hair unremarkably. There shouldn't exist whatever skin irritation, merely rinse hands after contact just in example.
5. Watch YOUR Pilus CLOSELY!! If yous neutralized the bleach mixture with the shampoo/conditioner mixture every bit instructed, it could have as little as v-10 minutes to see results. Rinse and check a strand after 5 minutes to check the progress, and go along to exercise and then every minute or two afterwards.
6. One time the desired shade is reached, rinse hair in warm water thoroughly. Utilise the deep conditioner to commencement any drying that might have occurred.

I followed the instructions above the first time with a petty less bleach powder (maybe merely i tbsp) and saw a very slight alter, and so after in the day I used more than bleach pulverisation and left it on a few minutes longer. Hither are my results:

so since the brown from the salon was warm and had red undertones, the color is now a warm dark blonde (information technology looks a fiddling more blood-red in these photos than it really is). I might tone information technology to take out the red undertones, but for the most part I'grand happy because my hair is not any worse off than before I soapcapped twice.

Pros and Cons of Soapcapping:
Pros - less harsh on hair, easier to monitor, able to exist massaged in like shampoo, little to no skin irritation, quick and relatively easy, can exist done multiple times over a week until shade is reached
Cons - results vary widely based on mixtures and ratios, some drying from bleach, fast results-need conscientious observation, difficult to know what shade it volition lighten to-look at undertones in good lighting

Promise this helps! PS - the waves above were really like shooting fish in a barrel, just use a ane" crimper iron and offset the coil a few inches from the ends so that they're still straight

~kendra

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