Lifting the Color of Mid-Grade Hair Extensions

The wet and wavy sample weft in the picture above is a mid-grade hair. Definitely not remy hair, but it is human hair.  Typically, you would not lift this type of hair extension.  Only the high-end virgin, unprocessed, remy hair that comes in one color is supposed to be safe to lift.  However, with the mid-grade hair being marked down to really great pricing, it may be worth purchasing and altering the color as needed.

 So I chosed the Goldwell Silk Lift High Performance Lightener - regular with ammonia.

I pre-treated the hair with the White Sands "The Fix" Porosity spray first before applying the lightener.

 I used clear cellophane foil, and it took at least 45 minutes to really start to see a lift.  I even heated the cellophane sample with the blowdryer for a few minutes to get the lightener going a little faster.

Clarifying shampoo was a definite to make sure the dark color molecules got washed away.  I like the new subtle brown color.  Higher quality hair should take less time, but you will probably accidently skip pass this brown color phase of the lift process and end up with red or orange or blonde.  I was pleased with the final color.

Solomon Islands: Natural Blondes with Brown skin

Apparently, there is a "blonde hair" gene different from the typical European blonde gene that gives dark skin people blonde hair.  5 to 10 percent of the Solomon Islands natives have blonde hair.

Learn more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2139462/Riddle-Solomon-solved-Scientists-South-Sea-islanders-blond-hair-didnt-come-Europeans-evolved-separately.html

The exposure to the sun does naturally lighten most haircolor. However, a rule of thumb, is that the lighter your hair starts out naturally, the more natural highlights the sun will bring out.

Gardening, hiking, and other extensive outdoor activities often spark natural lightening of the natural hair.  If you are starting off with brunette or black, typically, off-black to darkest brown is the lightest the hair will lift naturally.

Lighter colored hair is often associated with lighter colored eyes.  Thus colored contact lenses often accentuates a new haircolor change for those with darker eyes.

Photo credit on pictures: Alamy, found at website: www.dailymail.co.uk