How to Lighten Your Hair With Lemon Juice?

Okay, my daughter is eleven years old and she's hoping for a new 'look' when her school starts again. She wants her hair to be lighter, she has dark blonde hair but since she was a baby it was completely white. She wants it to at least be a little lighter. I told her that I was not letting her dye her hair because she is so young and it would damage her hair a lot. So I thought if she really wants to lighten her hair, she should go outside in the sun - but that hasn't exactly worked... So I told her there's another way to lighten your hair, using lemon juice. So we bought a lemon yesterday, since it's raining today, we're going to wait for a really sunny day and put it on her hair. Do you think it will make her hair blonder or is it a good idea? She really wants this so I can't say no because she's asking me everyday and I thought it wouldn't hurt to try. I've read articles on other people's experiments with lemon juice, they say it could go orange or red, I'm afraid that my daughter will be going to school with red/orange hair and being laughed at. So, do you think we should go for it (when the sun is shining)? If so, how do we do it? Do we just get lemon juice and put it on her hair or do we add something, please help! Thank you very much!How to Lighten Your Hair With Lemon Juice?
Hi!

okay, so you want her to lighten her hair without using chemicals that are in dyes like ';nice and easy'; Lemon juice may work, it's currently what I'm trying but its winter here so I haven't seen results yet;



1. Boil some water and put it in a cup with chamomile tea bag or loose dried chamomile.(if you use loose chamomile don't forget to strain it)

2. Let it cool down and put it in a spray bottle.

3.Squeeze at least 4-5 lemons(depending on size) until you have about a half cup of juice

4.Put it into the spray bottle.

5 If you want you can add Olive oil to make it more conditioning, or just add a bit of water.

6.shake it all up!

7. next time she goes out anywhere in the sun make sure she sprays it in her hair all over changing her hair-parting each time.(Don't forget the sunblock!)

8. put the spray bottle in fridge so it keeps longer!

9. Give your daughter a hydrating shampoo/conditioner this may dry her hair out a bit.



Since your daughters hair is dark blonde it shouldn't go orange, that should only happen if she was a brunette or red head. If for some reason she does get some red/orange tones in her hair she doesn't like you can always remove them with a shampoo that removes brassy tones.



OR else you can use Hydrogen peroxide. I dont know much about it so you should do a bit of research if you want to go that way.How to Lighten Your Hair With Lemon Juice?
I'm not sure, but I'd evenly disburse it throughout her hair. Also, fold it over, like rotate it, so the sun can get at it all. You can also get pure lemon juice, to save trying to squeeze it out of one lemon. It might make things a bit easier. I'd really be cautious of it going blotchy; make sure things are evened out.



At least it will make her lemony fresh!
Using Normal hair dye would be the better option, either way It will get damaged but its not major damage. It will become a little dry is all but you can fix that by using blonde exel hair shampoo.



Lemon Juice would make it blotchy and would be rather embarrassing.
Please do not use lemon juice. Citric in its natural state is very damaging to the hair. The best thing to do is just to let her get highlights. It does not have to be a drastic change, depending on the width or ';chunkiness'; of the highlights.



This way, you will get the results that you are hoping for. Either way is damaging, but at least highlights can be fixed if they are not what you are aiming for.