The honest answer to can you get me blonde today is often not safely.
Lightening removes pigment rather than adding it, and hair gives up pigment in a set order. Where your hair starts, and what has already been done to it, decides how far it can travel before the hair itself becomes the limiting factor.
On the way from dark to pale, hair moves through red and orange. That is not a mistake being made, it is the sequence. The question is how far along that sequence your hair can go in one sitting and still be hair worth having at the end.
Existing color, especially box color, does not lift evenly. Bands where roots and previously colored lengths meet are common, and removing artificial pigment is a different job than lifting natural pigment. Hair with layers of color history often needs the most patient plan.
Hair that has been lightened before, colored repeatedly or heated hard has less margin. When a stylist stops short of the target shade, it is usually because continuing would cost more than the shade is worth. A staged plan across appointments exists to keep the hair intact between them.
Being told up front that this is two or three appointments is the good version of this conversation. The bad version is discovering it partway through, with your hair already committed and everyone improvising. Ask at consultation what the plan is and what the in-between stages will look like.
When you look at a stylist's work, ask to see hair that started where yours is starting, not hair that ended where you want to end up. Anyone can show a finished result. Work that began at your starting point is the evidence that actually applies to you.
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