You know, I've heard that a lot too, but it's actually untrue for the mixture I use. I mean, I can see the color of my hair and then 3 hours later see such drastic change, so thankfully, some solutions do continue their process. And about it drying, I use processing caps any time I bleach my or someone else's because it prevents the drying out of the formula and will hold in your own body heat, which sort of causes the bleach to take on a bubbly form and foam up a bit. Due to that, the formula actually does not dry up. It would if in an air conditioned area without the cap though.

I don't really have the isssue of damaged hair, as I said in the post "may people say it damages their hair, but that's never the case with mine."

I bleached last night and now it's around 2AM and the hair turned out great! Like I said, I use a good conditioner and skip between washes after bleaching so that my hair does not damage. I guess everybody's hair is different, but I find that doing "intervals" doesn't benefit me anymore than doing it all at once. I actually didn't care much for that method, which I only tried years ago, and it seemed to more throw me off track than do any good, then I'd have to go through the whole process of conditioning again, and that just means MORE washing and drying than if I done it all at once. So I think this one fits my stubborn hair most, but I do use 30 volume creme developer, so that also makes it process probably a tad faster than the weaker volumes, which would probably take me two days (seperate intervals) to actually lift the crazy stubborn hairs.