Ladee- You are right to question other peoples advice of vitamin C method. Most vitamin C supplements have ascorbic acid, which will be slightly neutralized by the baking soda which is sodium bicarbonate (an alkaline or basic chemical). Ascorbic acid has a pH close to vinegar. Together, with the mixture of water, they create sodium ascorbate, which has a pH of 8 - which is slightly alkaline. Putting them together at the same time doesn't make sense if you want to have the full effect of Vitamin C, unless you are afraid it's strength will damage already compromised hair, which in that case, you should only add a very small amount of baking soda. It makes more sense to neutralize its strength after you strip the hair, then deep condition with oils and hair masks.
I know I am very late but I have done all my lab work with ascorbic acid lol. Ascorbic acid, vitamin C, rapidly oxidizes with the increase of pH. As you said, it wouldn't make sense to neutralize it because it would lose its power. However, it is soluble in water so it would all wash off with water plus it also oxidizes to dehydroascorbic acid with exposure to air. Therefore, I do not see the point in mixing baking soda, during or afterward.
I'm just confused as to why you rinse with cold water? The point of stripping is to pull color from the follicles.. Cold water closes those follicles and warm water opens them. (this is why you ALWAYS wash with cold water when you have fashion colors you don't want fading) Idk if the cold water in this situation really works better or not. But if try it with warm water. Should pull more color.
I think she is trying to be less damaging by using the cold rinse finish and in gradual stages of lighting the hair, a hairdresser had commented saying that this vitamin c treatment to hair can be very damaging and leave the hair open at the cuticle meaning any colour applied will be sucked up easily and hair result can be very dark after application, but dark/damaged isn't the desired result, so maybe just being mindful of keeping the cuticle not as open but still trying to fade/lighten her hair? I could be completely wrong here. Just seemed like a possible reason. But completely right the heat opens up the hair, cold water helps 'lock in' colour longer x
Ive done the vitamin c with clear shampoo alone, works fine, second time I did vitamin c, a table spoon of blue dawn, and any shampoo, I think I used head and shoulders or pantene, it wasn't clear, I know that, worked way better. I also only use about only 20 caplets. I've also done the color remover. I've only used it once and it lightened it considerably, so now I just use vitamin c and get it back to that blondeish yellow then adding pigment.
This absolutely works on “fashion” colours like blues, pinks and greens. I use this to remove my “fashion” colours instead of bleaching. Takes a couple more applications but it leaves my hair a heck of a lot less damaged.
Sammi Booger I use this method too I'm normally peacock blue but changed to pearly pink vitamin c some dish soap an shampoo a couple of times an ta dah
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I'm on a journey to strip the henna from my hair and I've watched a lot of videos, and I wanted to say that I appreciate your honesty and thoroughness in this! It's super helpful!
I happened upon your comment. I did henna only on my hair for 14 years and also worked as a hairdresser during some of that period. I wanted to let you know henna binds to the hair in a completely different way than dye. The color can be faded but the henna itself will still be attached to the hair... meaning a perm is likely not to take and many normal dyes won't make any real difference in this hair. It can be bleached assuming it is BAQ henna (that is super important! If there's doubt of it being pure henna don't bleach) and you can color your hair successfully with hilift haircolors. I used the loreal hicolor last year when I decided I wanted a vibrant red and it worked beautifully. So you can work with it and work around it but even in the salon we never found a way to "strip" henna the way you can strip a color. The mechanism of adhesion to the hair is just very unique and lasting.
Since the treatment is acidic and it helps open the cudical, after you do the vitamin c wash, you need to use a ph balancing shampoo i like using @biolage (please check them out) . it bring you hair back down 8-6 ph. It helps close down the cuticle you can also use cold water but you want something to help make your hair softer again and to look shiny and not as rough after doing color/chemical treatments to your hair. You know how sometimes your hair becomes damaged and fragile, sometime after the color treament. It also helps with with that. Plus a deep condtioner. 🙏
the shampoo is kind of water based but the lathering properties make it capable of micellar formation which basically means that bubbles can form that allow oil to become incorporating (this is why you use shampoo in the first place, the micellar properties allow an avenue for oils in your hair to leave by rinsing it with water) there is a chance that the oil would make it harder to penetrate the hair shaft allowing dye molecules to be released, so it may not work as well for that reason.
Hi Ladee. First, I want to thank you. You are amazing! My husband tried the vitamin C and clear Pantene Shampoo mixture on me as with my Chronic Lyme Disease I cant do it myself. So I am very grateful to you Ladee and to my husband. I ha e a dark brown that I’m trying to get rid of. As I had red underneath that. Ladee: Can you please answer? I greatly thank you in advance as you are my trusted favorite go to source for 👩🦰 redheads and tips 1). Would you say a third vitamin C wash would help lighten? (we use 60 tablets crushed in nutribullet mixed with Pantene clear like you) 2). How many times do you have to do the Vitamin C wash to get your desired effect? 3). How long should I wait to recolor boxed color to Red Penny? (big mistake Olía 6.43 Lightest Auburn TURNED my red hair 👩🦰 into a dark BROWN and no bleeding to lighten it). I am an inner redhead 👩🦰 abd sorry hurts joints bc of my disease to type. I look forward to hearing back from you. I pray you are safe, healthy and well. Hugs 🤗
Today I tried this on my dyed hair. I had my dyed hair coffee bean, then I applied a dark brown that looked deep black and I didn't like it. Then I applied reddish brown but it only colored my roots. Imagine the disaster of hair I had. So I tried this, but I didn't used those crazy 50 pills. I used 3 emergency vitamin c and down dish soap with a little bit of conditioner like 1 spoon. And it worked so good. My hair is coffee bean again and the hair color is beautiful. I applied deep conditioning and hair mask cause my hair felt too dry. I'm happy with the results, but I don't think I would do this again. Just in an emergency. Way better and cheaper than bleaching or applying another color. Just keep in mind to massage with a little bit of water your hair so the product doesn't dry.
@@Mel-yv1gq does it strip colour build from decades too? My roots are grey (pretty much > 70% of my entire scalp) & been wanting to go natural grey but with 2 washes of ascorbic acid powder with H&S shampoo the demarcation of grey & dyed hair still remains. Wonder where I’m going wrong. Kept it for over an hour before washing with hot water🥵
How often were you doing these treatments? You can definitely watch the lightening progression over time. I am wanting to get my hair free of the dye build up before I decide what to do with it, but I am sure that I will need multiple treatments. I do not want to do them too often and harm my hair more than is needed.
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I found this video after my vit. c trial didn't work. . I was trying the vit. c on my bangs to see what would happen and nothing happened because I did not wet them first and did not massage it. It did dry up and I added water 20 minutes in... I guess it was done by that point. I conditioned and left in for five minutes to just finish what I started. Later I will start over making sure to follow your tips.
Boxed dye is Feria Power (or Intense) Copper. It's also called Copper Crave. Second would be Feria Deep Copper. Professional dye is Wella Color Tango Paprika BUT, since I've just dyed my hair with Wella Color Tango in Cherry and am loving it, depending on how this fades, this may win for first. :)
If you try it, good luck! 🙏 And please comment how it turns out as there are many who have the same concern as to whether a dye that's been in the hair a while can be removed.
I just use the head and shoulders it did a little better on my hair it was real black so it softened the black down but I’m afraid to even try this vitamin C I feel I’m going bold so much washing and rinsing 😩
I got best result with head n shoulders shampoo & vitamin c. I once used dish soap, another shampoo, and vitamin c mix, and it was VERY damaging. I wouldn't use that mix again 😅
Hello! Great question! I did put it on my roots but this doesn't work as well at lightening your hair on virgin hair. It works best on previously dyed hair.
I glad I found your video because today I put Ion Color Brilliance Medium Light Brown and mixed it with a Light Copper Brown, well it came out black :-( My first thought was to run to the store and find a lighter color, then I thought, I don't want to put on any more chemicals on my hair. I started searching on RU-vid and yours was the first one that popped up. I glad I had Vitamin C crystals already in my cabinet :-) and the shampoo. Thanks for explaining every step Ladee!!!
This profile picture looks very similar to my hair but not the color right now lol, my hair is actually purple violet right now , but I'm going to dye my hair that color in 2 weeks in a half once the color is out on the top of my head area towards bottom but not all the way. I'm currently sitting with the vitamin c treatment with dawn dishsoap and a shower cap.Ill let u know if it works. The longer u let it sit the better your results that much ik and the longer u massage before u put the shower cap on also gives you better results. But if u dont use hot water it definitely will not work, also I have done this treatment with other colors in the past, bright red hair, rose gold, black red, dark black blue hair , brown hair, strawberry hair .
@@thetypewoman I did it , and it does work but I will say that it's not completely damage free with darker colors such as purple . But its alot more easy going , and it throughly gets the job done versus bleach just burning it all off , or even having terrible splotches, and stringy hair instead with bleach etc. I hope this helped!🤗
I have done it about 2 months ago as i had a dye fail where it turned dark red instead of bright red....they have discontinued my dye 😢😢😭😭...but i only left it on for 15mins as got scared..so may leave it on for longer as have decided to try a new dye i really dont think i can not dye my hair having not seen its natural colour which is light auburn for about 6 years 😁😁 Thank you ...love your video's and your last hair colour was amazing!!
It's the pits when your dye is discontinued! They did that to Feria Power Copper, but brought out Feria Intense Copper and I'm hearing it's the same...but I'm still sad they removed it to begin with! I hope everything works out for you!
how did the purple shampoo work with the orange-ness of the vit-c tabs? curious... probably looked like a shade of brown. Was the lightening tinted with blue?
Nicky Grace if you’re trying to lighten your natural hair it won’t work. this only works for people who have dyed their hair recently, unless you’ve done a step wrong.
i actually ended up having to bleach my hair.. it wasn’t my natural hair , my hair was a bright red and it didn’t work for me, i think i had too many coats of red dye in my hair
Hi, I was wondering if you have had any experience with henna or if you know anyone who managed to strip henna with vitamin c. I tried once and it worked pretty well, but I suppose I’m gonna need at least 3 applications because henna never fades 😭
I’m still currently watching the video but if it isn’t mentioned ..does anyone know if it will work on my hair I last dyed it black few months ago and it’s like faded already but I would like to strip it out and go light ..
I died my hair black, it takes ages to wash out, use a stronger shampoo like tail and mane once a week. with any other shampoo i got to about 5-6 tries with anti dandruff shampoo and it still left it patchy :(
Thank you for your information. However, I find, MOST RU-vid videos just talk and talk without stopping or getting to the point, which makes one just quit...please use this for next segment.
Its me again the know it all hairdresser . ... i don' t understand why you felt the need to strip your hair if you are going to use 7 rr......this colour is a base 7 with red obviously so it would go on top of your hair quite well with the base you had to start with , the vit c is not needed in your case ...@its very damaging to the hair shaft it opens the cuticle of the hair which can lead to oxidyation ...which means your hair will suck up anyrhing you put on it and in turn ive seen cases where it can turn really dark ...so thats my thoughts take it as you may xxx
Thank you for this information! Of course I never thought of it that way. LOL. Therefore, I appreciate your comments! My thoughts in doing this was because when I put the 8RRV over my level 7 hair, it darkened to a level 6 (which I didn't mind). So I was worried the 7RR over my hair would turn it a level 5. I figured any lightening to my hair would help it from being that much less of a dark red when I apply the 7RR. But if you've seen cases of it turning out really dark, yikes! I'm glad you mentioned that so I know what I may possibly be running into.
I died my hair black, i tried this treatment 5-6 times, my hair is patchy now, im slowly noticing a difference but i now wash my hair once a week with a stronger shampoo which helps more than anti dandruff shampoo. Think mine was just too dark to come out or fade as quick as yours
My hair is very dark, and I have about a half inch regrowth. I want to try this just to get a level lighter, but don’t want my roots to be even lighter. I see you have an inch of regrowth. So did this lighten your natural hair color, or just what was colored?
They're very drying to your hair and can hurt your scalp if you're not careful. So to answer your question, yes. But not as bad as bleach in my opinion. But then again, I'm no expert and I'd love to hear from someone who would have a better answer for this! 🤗
Vit c wash ur doing wont make ur hair absorbd vit. C but just intense washing of oil in ur hair and scalp. Thats what baking soda or citric acid do in any wash. Plain and simple but diffrent goals and effects depends on how u do it with diffrent hair types color. still intense washing. Healthy once 2x a month
