Hair Stripping
Highlighting the strands of hair can be acquired naturally or chemically. To change the hair naturally, sunlight can brighten the hair depending on the color. This process takes a couple of weeks to notice a change in the color of the hair. Those with darker hair such as medium brown tend to turn to hydrogen peroxide or a hair lightener cream. When using these chemicals the artificial color pigments is removed from the hair strands, this is referred to as “stripping.” To fully understand the process of highlighting it is necessary to know the structure of the human hair, understand the pH scale, and distinguishing between the three variables in dying hair. The variables of hair highlighting are lemon juice, hydrogen peroxide, and hair lightener
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Lemon juice does lighten hair color. It contains citric acid which has performs a bleaching action on the natural pigments in your hair. When used regularly, the juice will eventually lighten hair strands and give the effect of highlights. It does not turn dark hair to immediately bleach blonde, but gives the hair some life. For a big change the “most famous hair bleach is hydrogen peroxide of peroxide blonde fame. Unlike sunlight and lemon juice, peroxide is an oxidizing bleach, and its effects are less easily undone" (4). Hydrogen Peroxide lightens hair by stripping an oxygen molecule from the hair. If you put hydrogen peroxide on a cut it bubbles because it strips an O2 molecule. The same with hair it strips the hair to color it whatever color is wanted. The effects of hydrogen peroxide is it dries it out and makes it less manageable, which can make it less pliable and make it seem less curly. If used in moderation it can be fine. Like if you just use a little and stand in the sun, but too much can completely strip the color from your hair and turn it very brassy orange or greenish, depending on your shade of hair. “Lightening the hair is usually a preparatory process for the application of a single-action, penetrating tint or toner” (5). To get a certain shade lightening creams are used. Hair lighteners were made to lighten the hair by diffusing the melanin in the
Lemon juice does lighten hair color. It contains citric acid which has performs a bleaching action on the natural pigments in your hair. When used regularly, the juice will eventually lighten hair strands and give the effect of highlights. It does not turn dark hair to immediately bleach blonde, but gives the hair some life. For a big change the “most famous hair bleach is hydrogen peroxide of peroxide blonde fame. Unlike sunlight and lemon juice, peroxide is an oxidizing bleach, and its effects are less easily undone" (4). Hydrogen Peroxide lightens hair by stripping an oxygen molecule from the hair. If you put hydrogen peroxide on a cut it bubbles because it strips an O2 molecule. The same with hair it strips the hair to color it whatever color is wanted. The effects of hydrogen peroxide is it dries it out and makes it less manageable, which can make it less pliable and make it seem less curly. If used in moderation it can be fine. Like if you just use a little and stand in the sun, but too much can completely strip the color from your hair and turn it very brassy orange or greenish, depending on your shade of hair. “Lightening the hair is usually a preparatory process for the application of a single-action, penetrating tint or toner” (5). To get a certain shade lightening creams are used. Hair lighteners were made to lighten the hair by diffusing the melanin in the