[Anastasia916]

When I went from a light brown/dark blonde (my natural hair color) to bleached platinum blonde, I used wella bleach with a 30vol. I only had to leave the bleach on for 15 min and I was platinum blonde lol. With a dark brown or black, even after 45 min (the max) you probably won't be that light. My aunt (not the one that does hair another one lol, I have a big family) she is half white half peurto rican, and she has naturally very dark hair. Once she put highlights with the wella bleach had the 30vol developer and left it on 30 min and it turned out a darker blonde, she used a toner on the hair after bleaching it, otherwise it looked orangish. I swear sometimes I'm obsessed with changing my hair up lol. I'll look back on pics with it blonde, platinum blonde, pink, etc. and be like oh I want it like that again lol but then I remember how much a pain in the butt it is lol. Eventhough the color I dye it now is a few shades darker than my natural color, it still isn't obvious when my roots grow out, which I love, so I don't end up having to do a root touch up every few weeks. When I was bleaching my hair, I had to do the roots every 2 to 3 weeks. But I would only do the roots, not the rest of the hair. Once the hair is bleached it stays that way, so that's the good part about it. When I was giving my hair a break from dying, I would use what's called Sun-In, it's a spray you spray on your hair before going into the sun or blow drying your hair, and each time you use it, it lightens your hair a little bit and it doesn't damage the hair. So I use to use that to make my hair medium blonde. Kinda missing how easy that was to do lol.