I absolutely can't modify by physical means the appearance of my hair.
I started with stuff like lemon juice and vinegar and other lighter stuff to try to lighten my hair, being on the cautious side.
It never ever worked though.
So one day I decided, fuck it, I will just start using bleach. I read up some guides on the internet and I decided to use a bottle half-full with distilled water and half with bleach and to spray it on for less than the recommended time.
After doing that several times, it never worked, and so I increased the length. I went from like 15 minutes to an hour which was the time recommended in the guide I found online. The woman even had a vid of her bleaching her hair and she succeeded in 1 hour.
So I went past that time to about 2 hours of diluted bleach sitting on my head.
It STILL did not work at all. I read that I should be experiencing my skin turning red, some burning sensations, etc.
So I stopped using coconut oil and other stuff in my hair and instead used soap to strip all the oils I could from it and hopefully make my hair more vulnerable.
Well, guess what happened then? Fucking nothing.
So I started using just fully concentrated undiluted bleach. This stuff is hardcore. It drips on my towels and instantly discolours them. It did the same to one of my pants, just seconds of exposure and it went from black to a red rusty colour.
Again, starting with less time, and then increasing.
Still — nothing. So I started wearing a latex cap over it, hoping that would help.
After hours of sitting around with bleach on my hair and a latex cap, the only thing that got bleached was the latex cap. So I repeated again immediately, thinking maybe the issue was spacing things out every couple days or weeks, and just rebleached my hair again on the same way.
STILL - NOTHING.
Bleach doesn't do anything to me. It can't burn my skin. It can't even SLIGHTLY lighten ANY of my hairs. The fumes as well do nothing to me.
I want to lighten my hair damn it!!!!! Why is the bleaching not working at all? Why am I invulnerable to bleach?
I can still cut my hair with titanium scissors btw. So my hair hasn't become invulnerable to that kind of modification. Bleach and any other chemicals I might try can't do a single thing to my hair or scalp though, besides clean it I guess. No pigment comes out of my hair and my skin doesn't burn.
Any chemical means of modifying my hair color completely fail always.