I paid $440 to bleach my black hair to almost-white at a salon. Perhaps predictably (I am East Asian) they only got it to a medium-light brown across 7 hours. I am not inclined to go back again after that cost to return ratio, and would prefer to finish the job at home.

I have bleached (strips of) my hair at home before and consider myself decent at it. I expect I am 1-2 dye jobs away from getting it to the really pale color I want. My only reservation is that I haven't done my whole head before.

I will either go to a salon or whiten my hair at home in the next 30 days.