on today's episode of Alyssa can figure anything out I lightened my black hair
so if you guys watch my last video I talked about how I dyed my hair darker
and I wanted mm-hmm and I lightened it and I'm just gonna kind of walk you
through that today my hair was darker than I wanted I originally thought hey
I'm the diamond hairs a little darker because my roots we're starting to grow
in and my roots are pretty light huh then right here it turned out black so I
was like I need to figure out a way to lighten this and they figure because I
just I'm in here I could just shampoo it it would be fine no no no when your hair
is almost black it's like doesn't budge so my hair is still dark it's just not
black and in different lights it looks even lighter than this right now thank
you I literally I can't wait for it to you but might not more you ever dye your
hair and then realize oh my hair look just five and actually love it now or
before huh whatever so I started panicking I was like wait I woke up in
the morning I scared myself and I was like this is not nope I was not meant
for this super super dark I think this is like the darkest I can go and I can
still rock with it making this wig a lean with a rock would I still look good
um not black and not darker than this and I will not go darker than this ever
again in my whole existence of living so anyway so I had to figure out what am I
gonna do I started googling how to lighten my hair all this stuff people
were using like vitamin C tablets all this stuff and honestly I was like I'm a
little afraid to lighten it in that way because the before and afters were it
was like black hair too orange hair I was like no no that's not what I wanted
so I was a little nervous so a lot of you on snapchat and Twitter were sending
me over so many suggestions it was like use clarifying shampoo use baking soda
lemon juice peroxide anti dandruff shampoo
Head & Shoulders all of this stuff and I was feeling a little overwhelmed I just
got in the shower and I tried to really scrub my hair out because I've done that
in the past where I had a dye job that I didn't love and I really scrubbed my
head and I could get a bunch of color out nothing was happening my hair was
just not budging I tried vinegar cuz I read online you
could use vinegar back to nothing my head just smelled bad and then I tried
baking soda with anti dandruff shampoo I just ordered some head and shoulders
stainable I put some shampoo in there I poured a bunch of baking soda in it I
didn't measure anything I just eyeballed it until it was like a thick paste i
lathered it all over my hair and I let it sit and nothing happened I put it
under a cap and everything I waited absolutely nothing happened nothing
budged and I was like this is just annoying and my hair feels nasty how did
it work so I was like all right I'm a little frustrated but you know it's fine
I'll figure it out so I did that earlier in the day and then I wash it again that
night I tried it one more time in nothing budge so last night I was
googling forever I was like there has to be something else and then I remembered
I had some leftover a developer from when I was dying right here the other
day I have a small amount of developer left what if I used that with the baking
soda because I believe that will lift the color I googled it and they said
that it could I was really nervous this is why when I was blond
I never bleached my hair I never dyed it I never touched it personally I think I
only ever used like pink shampoo on it over my like white blonde hair because I
would have a hint of color that was it and it was not dyeing it's just like
shampoo it was easy to use that was it I didn't have to bleach it like nothing I
would never I could never do that I would never trust myself about just as I
shouldn't trust myself with this but okay long story short so anyway so I was
like alright I kind of made a paste of it this morning I literally did this
this morning like 9:00 a.m. so in the cup lastic Bowl I poured in the leftover
developer and I just kept pouring baking soda into it until it turned again it's
like a thick paste and first I did like a little test strand I just did like the
end of a piece of hair and let it sit for awhile I even put the blow dryer on
it to try to like activate it and I didn't really feel like anything
was working and so I rinse it out and I was like you know what I'm just gonna do
it all over my whole head and I'm just gonna go for it because my hair so I can
be crazy so that's exactly what I did this morning I went into the bathroom
and I put it on my hair as if I was dyeing my hair I did it in layers I just
did it in layers I took the brush I did off my roots and then I pulled it down
the rest of my hair and I did that all over my head and I put it up into a cap
and it was probably in a cap for about 30 minutes by the way I just disclaimer
I'm not telling anyone to do this I'm not saying you should do this to your
hair I really strongly suggest you Jesse a professional and don't do your hair
yourself truly that's the lesson I learned this week even though I already
knew it I thought I was a hair stylist I am NOT doing that again anyway so I did
that and then I actually took my hair dryer and I was like blow drying around
not for long because I was I didn't know how I was gonna react I didn't know how
my hair was gonna turn out I didn't want it to be splotchy I didn't want you know
I just wanted to get some freaking hair dye out of my hair I got in the shower
and I rinsed in all of a sudden I just thought like brown come out and I was
like I answer my own prayer so that's what I did
I used baking soda and developer again using your own risk I am not telling you
to use it if you use and you don't like it that's not my fault that's your
father you not until you do it I literally don't know No and they
lightened my hair up it's still obviously dark because I you know I
didn't leave it on for super long and I'm not a developer and so this is what
it is now I actually really like this color I do want this to fade more and I
am excited for it to be more I'm not gonna lie but I'm gonna rock with this
for now it's still cute I can handle this I'll be fine that's how I ruined my
hair and saved it within three days so moral of the story is don't dye your own
hair don't cut your own hair go to a professional I shouldn't even have to
say this because it's common sense but I did it and I messed up and so I'm
telling you I'm warning you you guys have to be for your tutorials I'm not a
professional this is just what happened to me learn from me do as I say not as
yada yada yada boom I spent so much time on my own here Wow my hair looks thick
and luscious right now okay hello I will tell you though my hair feels nasty
it feels so dry the ends although my hair looks like full and like Vavoom
hello the ends of my hair are seriously like that it was just so sad
but yeah there you go that was my hair story I really truly hope you enjoyed my
pain and my pleasure I that's something now I will say although
I may be impulsive sometimes whatever happens in my life I always always
always always turn it around make things happen and get stuff done always I'm
just like a genie in a bubble for myself that way you know what I mean so I fixed
it I'm happy with it now I'm gonna put a little extra Tanner on get a little tan
going to you know not have this be so harsh and we'll go from there it'll be
fine but I actually really do like it nice so yes there you go I hope you guys
enjoyed this video I will be back to new videos next week let me know what you
would like to see besides the regulars have have done I honestly I need to talk
about that in different I do I'm feeling kind of in a like a weird I don't know
what I want to do with my channel it's fine I felt like that for months I think
you guys can tell but yeah that's where I'm at that's what happened I love you
guys so much thank you for watching I hope you guys enjoyed today's video
so yes I hope you're having a wonderful day and I will see you in the next one
yeah bye guys see how much lighter it looks like this is on my phone compared
to you looks so dark that looks way dark and then it looks so much lighter right
here what's the truth