This is the best dark hair bleaching tutorial on this app. I have seen all of them and this one's the best. Thank you for uploading!!

I'm a cosmetologist but haven't practiced for a number of years, either. I did my own blonde from a level 4 dark brown for years, but then went back to natural a couple years ago, but hate it. Hesitant to do my own again, even with my experience, but you did such an amazing job. Truly amazing! Looks great! And as someone else mentioned, it would be in the $200 range or more. You saved a ton!

Products she used/mentioned: -Coconut Oil -It’s A 10 Hair Mask -2 Color Mixing Bowls -2 Color Brushes -1 Weaving Comb -1 Regular Comb -Hair Clips -1 Color Measuring Cup -1 Color/Toner Bottle -2 Quick Blue Bleach Packets -Hair Foils -Wella T11 Toner -Wella T14 Toner -Wella 20 Cream Developer -SalonCare 30 Cream Developer -ColorCharm Semipermanent Hair Color 7A-7/1 Medium Ash Blonde

Wow blonde makes you look so much younger ....it suits you👌🏾

You did a great job! I’ve been a stylist for 16 years. Only one thing I need to correct you on.... you would of paid $200+ in a salon easy lol!

From a professional standpoint, be cautious when using SO much conditioner before a bleach/ color service. You can soften the hair TOO much and it will just melt when you apply the bleach or color. Knowing your Hair porosity is very very important!

Amateur tip: while doing this process I had a really hard time holding 2 foils in place. I used the foils with one side colored and what I did was put the colored sides together, fold one end over twice them unfold it. You now have a super long single foil to work with, which if you're not super experienced at foils like I am this was a BIG HELP! Prep your double foils in advance if you have long hair!!

I'm a professional hairdresser and you did a fantastic job! Looks amazing!

It’s the perfect bronde color. LOVE IT!

I’d call you professional. Looks SOO good. You have a ton of hair. I need to lighten mine as I have it too dark. Great job

You make complete sense to me, now I know exactly what to buy at Sally's! I didn't realize I needed toner to eliminate the orange. All this time I've been put more color on my hair and wondering why I still had orange and it wasn't shiny, because I kept putting more color on it. So thank you so very much for this tutorial, I appreciate it. I work with a woman who has orangish hair and I need to tell her about you and toner. You are saving the world 1 head at a time!!! Thanks again!!

Looks really beautiful... I'm currently dark and I'm always doing my own dye. I would love to go back to blonde.

Best one I've seen..and I've watched literally hundreds..perfect results..thankyou

Oh my gosh!! I have never been so happy with my hair! I followed your steps and my hair looks amazing! 😍Thank you for posting! ❤

Did this three months ago and got so many compliments on my hair! My hair is naturally a chocolate brown with some natural highlights in it, but I wanted to dye my hair a light purple so I used this method for a natural looking ombre that would be light enough for me to put light purple over it with semi-permanent hair dye. I liked the lightened hair so much that I left it for about a month before I actually dyed it purple. A quick disclaimer, I am no professional and have actually never bleached my hair at home before this. Somehow with absolutely no bleach experience whatsoever, my hair came out looking really great! Don't be scared, immediately after bleaching it looked a little yellow and orangey but once you add in the Wella toner that orange goes right away and evens out to a nice blonde! My friend liked it so much that she has asked me to do this to her hair as well! Definitely recommend this method to anyone looking to bleach at home! Even after bleaching, my hair feels soft and healthy with very little damage! I follow up with a deep conditioner once a week and just leave it on in the shower for about 15 minutes to keep my hair healthy. I couldn't get a hold of the It's a 10 miracle deep conditioner she suggests so I ended up going with Mielle Babassu and Mint Deep Conditioner and absolutely LOVE the smell! Definitely recommend!

Quarantine has me watching this video lol

I generally like dark hair better but this lighter colour really really suits you !!! Thanks for the vid

Seriously you should get a million likes. Not even kidding. Thank you! -1. OMG I so appreciate you using something the average person can buy! Every other video is either a licensed cosmetologist using professional products or amateurs doing something I’ve never seen before with sometimes decent results.(sometimes not) I have had hit or miss with Sally’s products but many times they work it’s just over the years I’ve forgotten which did really well. 2. That was so easy to follow and though it seems like a lot, those of us who have done this before know, that was a huge and successful shortcut. Doing the weaving how you did and then balayage-amazballs! I have similar hair as you (long) mine is a bit lighter from occasional diy highlights. So this was so great. Even your bathroom with the toys was familiar!😂 I have 2 littles 👫 and they have too many bath toys. Lol

i use to do a similar process when i was blonde i always did a balayage on my bottom half but i still used foils then i would do the weaving on top with foils. i did go to cosmetology school.

It came out beautiful. I don’t know I’m a little nervous to try it. Could you post a product list? Thanks!

I love this hair hack. The results are really impressive. The bit I didn't quite understand is when you put the T11 and T14 on your hair. I can see how that permanently coloured your bleached highlights but how come it didn't turn your very dark bits of hair orange as they weren't prelightened and you were adding a permanent lightening product on to it.

I am a stylist I love mixing the beige shade toners with the ash it always makes a beautiful shade

Thanks so much for posting this ! I’ve been wanting to lighten my hair and this tutorial is so helpful. Can’t wait to try it !

Recently ordered a bunch of these supplies! Virgin hair so I’m excited to see my results after watching your video so thank you!!

THIS is exactly what I've been looking for thank you so much!

@bradmondo! Please do a video on very successful at home color/ bleaching applications such as this one!

Hey you really inspired me to dye my hair. I have a lot less hair than you and I’m kind of confused about measuring.. what measurements did you use?

If you did need to use that semi permanent color on your roots to blend the color, what would your process have been?

Great job momma. Color is so neutral and complements your skin. Thanks for sharing!!

Girl, you are fearless! So lovely on you.

I tried this today at home after watching the video thousands of times, I've never bleached my hair by myself before, although I had the exact same hair as Melissa due to a balayage I had 8 months ago at the salon. I bought everything she listed including the wella color charm in case I needed to smudge the roots. I started doing the technique with the foils, 30 dev on roots and 20 on previous dyed hair and the rest of balayage, everything went ok except I ran a bit out of bleach+30 on one side of the head ( I have long hair and was trying to make it perfect) but managed to cover. I left the bleach for more than hour and then toned it. In the end the roots lifted very white (my hair is originally dark brown) so I had to smudge with the wella color charm (I used 10 vol dev). My hair looks great! It didnt turn orange after the bleach. I also used hair mask after the whole process as well. Thanks for the video!

Girl!!!!! Let me tell you!!! Thank you for this video, looking for a blonde with out so much damage, I found your channel!! I am a new subscriber and I’m hooked!! Thank you! You’ve just shown us how to do this without doing all the hair blonde! You are Awesome I’m heading to Sally’s now and I’m excited to see the results! Thank you doll!🦋💚

Thank you!!! thank you!!! I didn’t do 20/30 mix just 20 and it came out fantastic!!!!

Stunning color on you. Great job! Can't wait to see the same results. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 😃

I followed this to a T with my daughter's hair and she looks absolutely amazing and I have never been good at doing hair. I would love if you would help me with my other kids hair because you were on point. Thank you so much and my daughter looks fantastic thanks to you!!!!

I admire your patience with weaving on your own hair.

I'm going to do this tomorrow night. I'm terrified because I work in the morning and if it's bad I still have to go in because I'm a nurse and I can't just call in to a busy Emergency Department lol. But thank you and I'll let you know how it went. Your hair looks beautiful by the way.

you are very good in doing balayage painting on foil without anyone helping..... i cant do the thing like that on my own hair ....wow! so talented

I’ll pay you to do it for me it’s intimidating 😭😭

Make more videos!! I can see your videos doing soo well 😍😘 thank you for the toner recommendations, love

I'm going to try this technique next time I highlight. I do mine at home with eSalon. I love my color and it covers grey. The last time I did the highlights, it came out brassy. I had to get toner.

I'm so exhausted from watching this, that I've decided to just leave my hair as is, no matter how bad it looks! Where do you find the time and energy to do all this?! Looks great on u!!!

I know this is an older video but if you see this comment, I was wondering how much peroxide did you use at the end with the 2 toners? what number toner? 20 or 30 and how much? You did a fantastic job!

I’m super dark, went to school for hair and I have a red cast almost black hair so brass is a HUGE problem, I’ve been ash blonde in my 20s… that was a pain to keep up. I know I look good with ash blonde, now I’m getting white, I’m trying to find the best solution while my hairs going white. This is a lot of work and I’m just trying to find something after the chore of the length that roots touch up isn’t crazy.

Great tutorial, very helpful! I will be attempting this tomorrow❤ haven't bleached my own hair in a few years so this gave me a wonderful idea of what technique to do

Love, love, love it! You look beautiful!🤩 glad I found you🥰

SO IMPRESSIVE!! It looks great!

Best DIY for brunettes with blonde highlights thank you!!!

Wow perfection holy cow you did so good 😊 I can’t wait to try this , I am so excited just waiting for my order to arrive so I can dive on in and do this 😀

I’m about to try this during quarantine! Is there a specific shampoo and conditioner you would recommend for maintaining this? Will I need a purple one?

When you rinsed, did you use cold or warm water and a certain soap or no soap. Thanks!!!

Hi what was the ratio of toner and developer? I know you used the entire bottle of both toners, but how much developer did you mix in? 😊

We charge starting price for this process at $250..lol. I might try this on my own hair. I haven't gone blonde again since covid. I also like the technique for doing others hair as well. Seems efficient.

I want this color so bad!!

Thank you for this information. My hair used to be a medium golden blonde but I wanted to try a darker reddish brown to match the hair growth underneath. It looked really great on me...until the gray started growing in and then it was a nightmare. I tried to keep up with it but eventually the gray won out. So I let it grow several inches and then used an ion medium blonde to cover the gray with a 20 volume developer. Problem is that the ends are still really dark and I want a more uniform color distribution. Right now the top of my head is gray and the funky darker color is still on the bottom. With the quarantine in place and not working I figured it was not as urgent to deal with the gray. I went to the salon to inquire about the color blending and cost to do it. I was told that bleaching that bottom area would damage it and the gal at the salon suggested a weave to help with blending the 2 colors. As you said...expensive. I was quoted around $150 to have that done at Perfect Look but the gal I spoke with does not do color and suggested coming back when the colorist was there to verify the price. I do not know how to do a weave and am not comfortable doing it on my own in spite of your demo. I wish there was an easier way. :-((

Are you a hairdresser? First time I’ve seen you but this looks SO GOOD so professional!

Such an informative video. Thank you! Love your hair too

You should only use 10 volume with toner. 10 volume is for deposit only. You use 20 or higher when you want to lift the hair.

What a great job! Looks beautiful

You can use any brand developer with any brand hair dye or hair toner. Doesn’t have to be exact same brand. As long as it’s a haircolor or toner mix with a developer it’ll work- hair dresser Very impressive with you being able to weave you’re own hair lol

What i dont understand is why the toner didnt lift your roots at all I know color doesnt lift color But unless you colord your roots like a week or less before you did this The 20 volume would have lifted even the tiny bit of regrowth that you would have had

Did you use both of the quick Blue bags together? And how many oz did you put for the 20 clear and 30 cream? Also did you use 6 oz on the 20 developer when you put both of the toners?

Lmao at the cute little hand reaching for you early in the vid so cute tho

You are so beautiful! Oh and your hair turned out GREAT!!!!

I really want to try this. I do have one question though. How did you make sure the first highlighted hair didn’t over process?

You should commit to the Salon Care developer it is a good line. After my aunt stopped working in a salon she started doing bookings to her house and she has been using it for years. I've used that same developer for a while and it works very well and it's my absolute favorite.

Love this gonna do it today!! So if I already have bleached hair do I just buy the toners and developer ?

Hi Melissa! Did you use both the quick blue packets in the beginning or just one? I wanna follow your process but don't wanna mess that up. Thank you so much :)

The lighter hair looks great on you! Great video as always!

It looks great I dont know if they can dye like this even in saloon you did A nice job

How much of the developer do you use with the powder and with the toners please

Are you kiiiddddiiinggg me! This looks professional! You did an awesome job

It looks amazing!!!! 😍 You did a great job.

Hi! I used your video tutorial to do my hair about 2 months ago and am getting some serious roots. I want to try to hold out a bit longer before touching up to avoid too much damage. I also want to go a bit more blonde next time and I noticed that in your new videos your hair looks a bit lighter which is what I want to go for too. Is there anyway you can post a video of your touch up technique?Thanks so much for posting this video by the way. My hair turned out great and your technique was the best and most doable (to me) of the dozens I watched on KZfaq before deciding to just do it! Haha

Could i do this on just one side of my hair so i can have blonde and brown split hair?

After watching this video it has given me that extra push and I am currently getting ready to head Sallys .. lol finger crossed it turns out as good as yours !

Thank you for this great tutorial. You remind me of Blake Lively, the actress. Thanks again.

Thank you soo much I've been using henna but miss being blonde & definitely don't want to go back to chemicals as it ruined my hair.

Okay, you're so pretty!

Wow it came out really nice. You are brave, doing this and to long thick hair is really risky, congrats.

I love the results! i was wondering if you or anyone else would recommend another deep conditioner that isn't so heavily scented? I have major problems with fragrances namely florals or sandalwood types but unscented or fruity do not cause problems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

With how long your hair is I'd say itd be closer to 200 dollars maybe more. Good job

20 and 30 mixed together to get what volume? 25? Btw, hair looks amazing!

Could you maybe list the products in the description or comments???

Your hair looks absolutely amazing

An updated video on how I touch up my roots is now up. The link is in the description or you can find the video on my channel under DIY Root Touch Up Blonde Hair. Thank you for all your comments and positive messages on this video. Im so glad its been helpful to so many of you. You can always find me on Instagram if you have any questions. Melissa

Can you list all the products you used

Great job! I have a question for you-how can you prevent toner from lifting the rest of your unlightened hair when using a 20 volume developer? I typically use a 10 volume so it just deposits, but sometimes I’d like to get a little extra lift without messing up my darker sections. Hope that makes sense.

Wow! Beautiful! Would I still need to use a toner if once I bleach it like you did , I can use a purple hair dye?

My hair is virgin so far for several months. I’m going to color dye it medium golden brown. It’s a nice color that suits me. But then I want to do this process you did. I bought the products: I’m ready .. I’m thinking maybe waiting a few days before starting the bleaching. My virgin hair is dark brown as of now. Should I color it medium golden brown , and when doing so will I make it look weird with the process you did? Like red or pink ?

Question!!! (I’m ordering all the supplies online right now to do this lol) just wondering what you used when washing out the bleach, before toner. So regular shampoo? Did you condition as well and then follow up with the toner? Also did you shampoo and condition after the toner? 😅 any info on this part would be helpful!! And maybe even suggestions on what kind of shampoo/conditioner I should be using during the rinse

I like your new look, but your former, darker look was gorgeous too.

Hi ya, this is amazing. I wanted to do the same to my hair but having difficulty finding the same exact products coz I'm based in Europe. Is any hairdresser here based in EU can recommend same product easy to find brands in EU please ? Much appreciated. ☺️

It turned out so good!!!❤️ I think highlights look so much prettier on long hair. You're so lucky! I'm 50 now and wish I had the long Shakira-thick hair I used to have! 😭 Now it's all short and I can't get it to not be coarse anymore. Any tips for coarse hair? Thank you.

Very pretty! I really like the blonde brown mix look. It suits you!

It looks natural and you did such a good job. My hair is pretty short so I’m gonna have to touch up monthly lol but this is an amazing look. Btw do I have to use the bleach? Can I just mix the dyes and apply them to my hair?

Good job missy! It turned out so nice!!❤

Does it matter which developer you use

You did a beautiful job, came out great!!😍👏

Hi. I usually buy drug store hair dye but i came across your video and wanted to give your method a try. Im scared to use actual bleach specially doing it by myself. Although you made it looked so easy. I had my hair professionally bleached about 2 years ago and i just keep retouching my roots with regular drug store hair dye. (Ive been dying my own hair in many years so i somewhat know how to do it but im not professional) So my hair isnt too dark but almost like dark blonde with brown roots. I found a quick blue bundle on amazon with wella T18 toner and 20 volume developer. Its a bundle so i figured its a good deal. On your video i saw that you had that big developer bottle and 2 small developers, but im wondering if I can use the same developer on quick blue and wella? Is it necessary to have different ones?