Natural ways to lighten hair?

I'm putting cinnamon and condioner mixed together in my hair and letting my hair soak it up over night (i wear a shower cap) and then rinse it out in the morning. Last night was the first time i did it and it lightened up a TINY bit. I'm going to keep doing this untill i reach my ';goal';. I add a squirt of lemon juice sometimes but i tried only lemon juice and water mixed together on a chunk of my hair to test it out-turned orange. So i'm not using lemon juice again! Anyway, I want to know if any of you had tried this and your hair really did lighten up over time. I know that the cinnamon is supposed to bring out the blonde in your hair and make it lighter. Can you show pictures of what your hair used to be like and then what how it turned out? If you don't have pictures of the hair, can you get some pictures of hair close to your before and after color from google images? Thanks!



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P.S. if your one of those idiots who answer something like ';it doesn't work'; just to get points, you will be reported and your answer deleted and guess what? Your not going to get chosen best answer THAT way :) lol. Sorry to be a little ';rude'; but it anoys the heck out of me, when people with a case of stupid answer my question like an air head!Natural ways to lighten hair?
I don't know about how long the cinnamon will take. Have you tried hydrogen peroxide in the brown bottle. Test it on a little piece first. It will be gentler on your hair than the lemon and will be faster.

Also, chamomile tea is a rinse blonds have used for hundreds of years. I have always found lemon juice(straight) to make hair dry and brittle, but never saw any orange. Your hair would be pretty in streaks so you won't have roots to deal with.



REVISION:

You are more than a ';little'; rude.

Why don't you just go to a salon and have a professional do your hair. As I stated and also another poster, natural (lemon) do more damage to your hair than products made specifically for lightening hair.

You may be a nice person but you come across as a spoiled brat. And you will prove my point by deleting my answer, so make my day.Natural ways to lighten hair?
i use to have green ends cuz of the chlorine in the pool. and i put v8 tomato juice and lemon juice. and the lemon lightened it. and the juice removed it.so idunno wut your talkin about thats orange
hydrogen peroxide will lighten your hair, I would do a test strip before trying it all over.
spend more time in the sun.
Do not use household peroxide and add heat, it will turn your hair blond and cause your hair to turn to mush and fall out! That happened to me. Lemon juice did work for me, but the sun does a natural job, if I swim in a pool it will lighten quicker during sunny days. Some people pour beer on their hair for shine. I do not know what color your hair is, but often before hair turns blond it has to turn red first, because as the layers of your hair are eaten away by a reaction it will eat down to the red layer, then the blond layer in the inner shaft of the hair and from there the more it eats away the blonder it will get, but remember when you do this you are damaging your hair regardless what is eating it something natural or chemical. The light color is damage to the hair shafts making hair weaker and prone to split ends. Keep that in mind.
Well first of all you have to get over the idea that natural is good. Horrible, deadly chemicals come from nature. Lemon juice is far worse for your hair than bleach. Bleach has a conditioning agent in it, but lemon juice is a straight acid. You also do not understand the concept of getting lighter hair: you lighten yes, but then you have to tone it. Hair has undertones to it, colors that are exposed as you lighten: red is underneath black, oranges are underneath browns, and yellow is underneath blondes. So if your hair does lift from the junk that you are putting in it it will go straight to orange, there is not possible way for it to do anything else, that is just chemistry. You will then have to tone it, and that cannot be done with anything besides ash dye. So no food can bring out blonde in your hair, that is chemically impossibly, just orange/yellow, and it is not just lemon juice, anything that lifts levels of hair color, natural or not, will turn it orange. Your hair is warm from the color, and in third grade we learn how to use the color wheel: the only way to tone out warm is with cool, and you cannot find anything in nature that will deposit molecules into the hair shaft and tone out orange. In short, it is impossible to get hair that is anything darker than blonde to blonde naturally.



Oh, and using hydrogen peroxide is natural but is far worse than anything that we would use in a salon! And most hydrogen peroxide is not the straight chemical, rather it is a percentage with other chemicals mixed in.