Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Method 1. Use purple shampoo. A number of purple shampoos--literally, the shampoo is purple--are available at salons and drugstores, and they work to counteract brassiness in blonde hair.
It results when the blue molecules in hair begin to fade and leave the yellow and orange molecules to shine through more strongly. Purple shampoos work by restoring blue tones to the hair, helping to prevent brassiness. Install a shower head filter. Use a toner. If your hair is taking on a brassy tone, make an appointment at the hair salon to have toner applied or buy toner at a drugstore and apply it yourself. Get hair wet before going in the pool.
Spraying your hair down with tap or filtered water before going in the pool will help prevent it from soaking up chlorine in the pool water. Use an acidic hair rinse to counteract green tones.
If your hair begins to take on a greenish cast after swimming in a pool or because your shower water contains higher levels of copper or chlorine, you can help tone down the green by using an acidic hair rinse. An acidic hair rinse will remove the buildup left behind by styling products and mineral deposits that can cause changes in your hair color. After shampooing, rinse your hair with the vinegar mixture and let it sit for about 5 minutes.
Rinse your hair again and style as usual. Dissolve aspirin tablets in a glass of warm water and rinse your hair with the solution. Let it sit for minutes, then rinse out the solution. Method 2. Apply lemon juice and sit in the sun. To keep your hair from darkening, mix equal parts pure lemon juice and water or olive oil and spray it into your hair.
Sit outside in the sun for about an hour and the lemon will help lighten your hair naturally. Follow the lemon with a conditioning treatment, as lemon juice can be drying to your hair. Apply hydrogen peroxide and sit in the sun. Like lemon juice, hydrogen peroxide can help lighten hair, particularly when exposed to the sun. Fill a spray bottle with hydrogen peroxide. Spray the peroxide through your hair.
Go outside and let your hair dry in the sun. Apply a conditioning treatment afterward, as hydrogen peroxide can be drying to hair. Repeat weekly until you reach your desired shade. Use a camomile tea rinse. Camomile tea--the same stuff you drink--will give a warm golden glow to your hair when you use it as a rinse. Steep the tea bags for minutes. Allow the tea to cool. After shampooing and conditioning your hair, pour the tea through your hair, or, alternatively, fill a spray bottle with the tea and spray through your hair.
Leave the tea rinse in and let your hair air dry. Sometimes there maybe a few traces of melanin in our body that will show up as partially gray to white strands of hair. But when we age, their power to divide vanishes and the production of melanocytes are lessened. You can either pour some honey in your conditioner and use it after a sulfate-free shampoo for blondes.
Honey has the ability to lighten hair and is also healthy for your scalp. Take three tablespoons of cinnamon and mix it with three tablespoons of conditioner. Apply the paste to your hair thoroughly and leave it for three to four hours. Cover with a shower cap or a cloth.
Cinnamon also can lighten your locks without causing any damage. To do so, boil a cup full of water and add four chamomile tea bags and let it steep for 15 to 20 minutes. After the tea cools down, add about 2 tablespoons of natural yogurt. Apply this mask on your hair and keep it on for an hour.
You can try this method twice a week to see a noticeable change. If you are blessed with very good genes, you would want to cherish you hair and keep it well-maintained. However, if your hair is starting to get darker, you call still follow the methods provided above and many other commercially available methods to keep your blonde hair.
Stay away from harmful chemicals and always give preference to natural methods. Your email address will not be published. Light hair color or tone-on-tone hair color Permanent dyes Lightening shampoos and sprays Bleaching powder. You can buy a tone-on-tone dye or get a light color to lighten your hair.
Other good options are shampoos and lightening sprays such as Sun In or Sun Bum. Ammonia dyes and bleaching are the fastest and extreme way to permanently lighten your hair. No matter what solution you choose to lighten your hair, remember that melanin produces those pigment changes in your hair color. Also other factors could be contributing to the darkening of your hair.
That natural oxidation process that lightens your hair and occurs in the summer months stops in the colder months. It could be another possible cause of your hair color change. Over time, your hair also begins to age, and the production of eumelanin increases. Our hair color can change in ways unrelated to our genes! Harsh chemicals such as bleach and chlorine can change the chemical makeup of our hair. This can make our hair change colors! When you go to the salon or bleach your hair at home you are exposing your hair to very reactive chemicals.
The main ingredient in hair bleach is hydrogen peroxide. Have you ever gotten a nasty cut and put hydrogen peroxide on it and felt a stinging sensation? When you put hydrogen peroxide on your hair, it reacts with the melanin pigments and makes them colorless. Hydrogen peroxide reacts faster with eumelanin than pheomelanin. Have you ever spent the entire summer in the pool and have your hair turn green? This is from the chlorine in the pool water. Chlorine is also a very reactive chemical and will react with the copper pipes that flow water in and out of the pool.
Chlorine is so reactive that it will dissolve some of that copper into the pool water. When that copper gets on your hair your hair will turn green! When we age our hair eventually turns gray and sometimes white. This occurs because our melanocytes the cells that make melanin wear out. Melanocytes can also die.
The new hair that grows in will be gray too! By Trisha Chong , Stanford University. Can hair texture change?
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