Hydrogen Peroxide Turned Sugarberry's Hair Gold!

[geekybones]

This is actually a pony belonging to my best friend, but I just had to post this here. She's been soaking a G1 Sugarberry in hydrogen peroxide to attempt to whiten up her body. The pony was kept out of the sun during the soak and was checked everyday. Everything was going fine- I even saw the pony daily in the hydrogen peroxide while there for 9 days- and she'd been in there for about two weeks total when my friend forgot to check her for a few days. She came back to find.... this!

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Both her and I are completely shocked! There'd been no change to her hair or any signs of the color leaking out until this. Her hair hasn't become brittle or dried like bleached hair typically does. The coloring is very consistent with little to no deviations in tone. I've done some work with hydrogen peroxide and whitening ponies before and never seen ANYTHING like this! And even then I wouldn't think Sugarberry's vibrant pink hair would turn so golden yellow if bleached. Anybody ever had this happen to them?

[ponylady]

Wow she's a blond now
 
 

[Stormy31685]

Too Cool!

[SuniMoon]

:o

It's so ridiculously even, too!
That's so weird, I kinda like it, though, but I have no idea how that happened. O.O

[Oneleo1]

I'd love to see pics of her with her head on! I bet she is lovely

[Taxel]

I need a baity Sugarberry now. xD

[partypony566]

:o

It's so ridiculously even, too!
That's so weird, I kinda like it, though, but I have no idea how that happened. O.O

I would expect that to happen because peroxide will turn even the darkest hair blonde.... especially pure peroxide... in fact I would have thought her hair would fall to pieces too!

[kittybethy]

Wow!! Amazing!

[geekybones]

I would expect that to happen because peroxide will turn even the darkest hair blonde.... especially pure peroxide... in fact I would have thought her hair would fall to pieces too!

See that's the thing, this isn't the kind of peroxide like for hair bleach (though it of course has some bleaching characteristics, which is why it whitens pony bodies!). I've left ponies with dark colored hair (G1 Moondancer for example) in big tubs of hydrogen peroxide for a whole MONTH in the sunlight and had no damage to their hair at all. I've heard accounts of the neon yellow like G1 Surprise leaking out into the hydrogen peroxide, but have never really seen anything about other tones being damaged... So weird!

I'll get her to take a photo of Sugarberry all put together. Her tail was left out of the mix so it is still pink. It'll be an interesting combo!

[SuniMoon]

:o

It's so ridiculously even, too!
That's so weird, I kinda like it, though, but I have no idea how that happened. O.O

I would expect that to happen because peroxide will turn even the darkest hair blonde.... especially pure peroxide... in fact I would have thought her hair would fall to pieces too!

That's the part I don't understand... If the peroxide was strong enough to turn it blond, I would have thought it would destroy it, too. : o

[Oneleo1]

I would be interested in seeing a pic of the bottle that the peroxide was in

[cesprins]

maybe it had something to do with the "blue" dye part of the pink? Dark hot hair like sugar berry's red-pink has yellow red and blue in it. Maybe the red blue part is more easily damaged.

I know with human hair blue and green pigments are always the quickest to wash out.

[MintySocks]

That is crazy!!

[Chai]

maybe it had something to do with the "blue" dye part of the pink? Dark hot hair like sugar berry's red-pink has yellow red and blue in it. Maybe the red blue part is more easily damaged.

I know with human hair blue and green pigments are always the quickest to wash out.

This. Lol. I have teal hair and it's impossible to keep in. I'm surprised the hair is still intact! So cool.

[toralei]

I would expect that to happen because peroxide will turn even the darkest hair blonde.... especially pure peroxide... in fact I would have thought her hair would fall to pieces too!

True story- I wanted to bleach my hair in order to dye it purple once. I left the bleach in for a grand total of three hours and it didn't change it color up by my roots at all... I'm really lucky that my hair didn't fall out!!


Anyways, on topic. I think it looks kind of cool! I'm sure that you could RIT dye it back to normal if it bothers you, though.