Bleaching dark hair. Options

[lovesahoax]

I want to bleach the underneath portion of my hair blonde. My hair is currently a dark brown and my mom is worried that it will turn orange. A few months ago, I went to Chicago 29 and got my hair stripped, and they tried to color it a light brown, and it turned out orange.

My question is, does dark hair always turn orange when you bleach it? Because I've seen other girls with dark hair bleach theirs, and it turns out just fine. Did the hairdresser just do it wrong? I want to go to a lady here in town that's more professional, but I don't want my hair to turn orange.

Help? :]

[transcendentalis...]

I have black hair and I just bleached parts of it a couple months ago. It's not going to turn blonde right away, especially if you do it at home (if it does turn blonde right away, chances are you've destroyed your hair).

It will probably turn orange after your first session, so just do it gradually. I bleached little by little once a week (40 vol, one hour each) for four weeks and did crazy deep conditioning/reconstructing. My hair's at a decent shade of blonde (only because I ran out and haven't bought any more, lol).