Monavegas
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I’m bleaching a client’s hair from a level 3 to 9-10 (she wanted to go as platinum as possible for her south asian hair) and her hair refuses to lift past a level 7-8 on the mids and ends. I’ve never seen anything like it. Lifted evenly from 3 to 5 (20vol, no foils) then from 5 to 7 after a month (30vol, no foils), and on her 3rd session I applied 30vol for 45 min in foils but may as well have thrown water on her ends. Weirdly her dark regrowth lifted beautifully all the way to a solid level 9 with one round of 30vol!!!!
I asked her to come back in today and did a strand test with 30vol in foil again + 2-3 mins under heat and still nothing!!!
Her hair was pure virgin (never even used heat on it before, talk about a colorist’s dream) with no history of coloring before she came to me so we were both pretty confident her hair would lift without any issue and I feel like I’ve let her down.
any ideas as to why this might be happening, and what i should do? I find it particularly odd that it’s only her ends that won’t take the bleach. Should I use more heat the next time around? Her hair is still in good condition, touch wood, so it is possible to do another round. I’ve never had to reach for the 40vol before and don’t know if her hair could take it considering all the lightening it’s been through already.
Thanks for the help!!!
I asked her to come back in today and did a strand test with 30vol in foil again + 2-3 mins under heat and still nothing!!!
Her hair was pure virgin (never even used heat on it before, talk about a colorist’s dream) with no history of coloring before she came to me so we were both pretty confident her hair would lift without any issue and I feel like I’ve let her down.
any ideas as to why this might be happening, and what i should do? I find it particularly odd that it’s only her ends that won’t take the bleach. Should I use more heat the next time around? Her hair is still in good condition, touch wood, so it is possible to do another round. I’ve never had to reach for the 40vol before and don’t know if her hair could take it considering all the lightening it’s been through already.
Thanks for the help!!!