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Different methods lightening your hair (for little or no cost).

I’m sure everyone by now has heard of the lemon juice trick, spray your hair with lemon juice and expose it to the sun. But, while that’s great for getting those summer highlights, it won’t get you from black to blonde. On this page I’ve listed some very inexpensive methods of lightening, to even fully bleaching, your hair. The list goes from get-a-few-shades-lighter down to go-platinum-blonde.

                A strand test is recommended for all techniques. Be sure to wear clothing you’re not too fond of when using these tricks. These all work best on “dirty hair,” hair that has not been washed in a day or so and has been allowed to build up its natural oils.

*1^st Light lightening technique, going from brown to a lighter brown (Super good for your hair!):

                1 cup honey

2 tablespoons cinnamon

2/3 cups conditioner

Mix honey, cinnamon, and conditioner well in a bowl then apply even to your hair. Leave on for about 2 hours. Rinse and wash out with shampoo. Rinse then condition. Your hair should be a few shades lighter.

                Why this method works: Honey is not only a great for strengthening and moisturizing your hair but it contains peroxide (the stuff used to bleach hair and whiten teeth). Cinnamon is sort of a ‘conductor’ or activator for the peroxide, telling it to lift your hair color. The condition works to, well, condition your hair and to increase the amount of mixture- allowing you to spread it all throughout your hair.

Notes: This method is safe to use twice a week. Leaving it on for more than 2 hours will not harm your hair but it will not lighten any more. To lighten your hair further, reuse this technique up to three times a week or try one of the other methods below.

*2^nd Lightening Technique, black to brown.

                1 cup honey

2 tablespoons cinnamon

2/3 cups conditioner

                ½ cup hydrogen peroxide

                                Optional ingredients:

                1 tablespoon whitening fluoride toothpaste (I use Crest 3D white)

                1 tablespoon boba milk green tea powder

Mix everything together in a bowl, apply evenly to your hair. Leave on for 20min to 2 hours. Rinse out with shampoo and be very thorough! You do not want of this stuff to stay in your hair- it could be damaging. Follow up with conditioner.

                How this method works: The honey and cinnamon work the same as the method above. The hydrogen peroxide works like the honey, but a lot stronger- allowing your hair to lighten much more. The toothpaste also contains peroxide- but it has fluoride as well, which strengthens your hair. The milk green tea powder and conditioner moisturize your hair, making the peroxide less damaging.

                NOTES: Do not leave on more than 2 hours, it could damage your hair a great deal. The longer you leave it on the lighter your hair will get. Do not use for more than twice a week or every four days, as it can really dry out your hair and make it brittle.

*3^rd Lightening Technique, Black to Blonde.

                1 cup hydrogen peroxide

                1 cup baking soda

                1 cup conditioner

Mix together in a bowl and apply evenly to hair. Leave on for 10min to 1 hour. Rise and be very thorough, I recommend using a shampoo that is soft on your hair- such as Suave’s Salon Quality line. Make sure to follow up with conditioner. If you leave it in for more than 20min I recommend a deep conditioning treatment.

                How this method works: The baking soda activates the peroxide- stripping your hair of its color. This is very much like what you would by from a beauty supply store, and what they would use in a beauty salon. The conditioner is used to protect your hair from becoming too dry and brittle.

                NOTES: This is very damaging to your hair! Do not use it more than once a week, and leave on no longer than an hour! This is just like the bleach you get in the store- meaning it can make your hair fall out.

Why Choose Organic?

Why Choose Organic?

It’s sad that GMO’s have become the normal for food, while they are generally cheaper, more abundant, taste better, and look better than their organic counterparts, they damage your body. “Are pesticides really that bad for me?” Well, yeah, they’re toxic chemicals, like rat poison but for bugs. Pesticides are nowhere near as harmful now as they were when my grandmother worked the cotton fields in the budding state of California, but they do take a chunk out of your health bar. It’s as if you were to inhale a whiff of bleach every day. You might feel sick but it’s not going to kill you unless you intake a decent amount of it. But honestly, who’s going to drinking a shot of pure pesticide? 

In case you haven’t caught on, pesticides actually aren’t my biggest argument here. GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism, an organism being any living thing from plants to animals to bacteria.  Why the genetic modifying of things we take into our body is so bad is because it modifies our own genes! Essentially, it’s kinda like eating radiation.

Do you know what cancer is? If you do, great! You can skip this paragraph.  If you don’t, let me explain. Cancer is confusion in your genes. Normally your body would communicate with its self, using your genetic code as an instruction manual, but if something were to mess with even the tiniest part of your genetic coding, something could go seriously wrong. Cancerous cells can form; these cells are abnormal from your usual cells and grow faster than they should. The fast growth is what causes the tumors; many cells build up creating a bump or lump. If these cells spread throughout your body they can confuse everything, causing complications that eventually lead to death. So, imagine if you have a sweet, cute, little Gremlin and you unknowingly decide to feed him after dark. He’ll become confused and angry and then he’ll multiply, creating more confused and angry gremlins and they’ll all run out around the town confusing the people until the whole city is burnt to the ground. You’re cells are the gremlins here, the towns people are your organs, and the city is your body. 

“Come on, GMO’s can’t really give me cancer!” There is no worldwide recognized proof that GMO’s directly cause cancer, however, they do indisputably increase your risk of developing cancer.

Cancer isn’t the only thing you should be worried about when it comes to GMOs. Other problems directly linked to these mean foods are Infertility (in women and men), immune system complications, and allergies. Oh, and don’t forget bad performance in the bedroom. 

                I’m not saying, “GO VEGAN AND NO TO GMOS!” If I did I’d be a hypocrite. But I hope that from this you are encouraged to pay a bit more attention to what you eat and limit your GMO intake. It would take some deep dedication and a lot of headaches to completely cut out GMOs. 

                Tips when buying foods: Unless it says Organic on the label it is most likely Genetically Modified. Corn syrup, cornstarch, and all Corn products are genetically modified and in almost everything. If you can, avoid corn syrup like the plague- it robs your body of nutrients and many people have an undetected intolerance to it. No Portobello mushrooms. Over the years these popular mushrooms have been so modified that they have no nutritional value. They may say it on the label, but your body can’t process them to actually get  those nutrients, so in the process of digesting them you lose quite a bit and don’t get anything back.

If you'd like to know more watch this video, it's pretty entertaining and I think it does a good job explaing what GMO's are.

Video here, it won't let me embed it for some reason