An attractive hair color may enhance your personality, revive your hairstyle and make you stand out in the crowd. However, colored hair requires extra care to look as fresh and appealing as on the day you dyed it. Following these tips to care for your color-treated hair will ensure that the dye stays longer, does not harm your strands and makes you look amazing:
1/ Use a Good Quality Hair Dye
The first essential step to ensuring that your hair color does not damage your tresses is to choose a good quality hair dye. Go for a renowned and reliable hair dye manufacturing brand instead of lesser-known names. Inferior quality hair dyes can wreak havoc on your strands, causing skin irritation and inflammation, dry and itchy scalp, brittle shafts and hair fall.
2/ Use the Right Hair Care Products
Just like you choose hair care products as per your hair type and texture, you need to use special color protect shampoo and conditioner to wash and moisturize your colored hair. These products have special chemical agents that not only keep the hair dye sealed in your shafts but also provide nourishment and hydration to your tresses, so that they look soft, healthy and vibrant.
Avoid shampoos or conditioners with sulfates as well as hair styling products that contain alcohol. These products will make your hair color fade very quickly.
3/ Rinse Your Hair with Cool Water
Ever wondered why the last auburn or red hair color you got started to fade very quickly and was almost pale by the third week? Water temperature could be a big factor to weigh in! Warm water opens up the hair cuticles and allows the color to escape. Cooler water, on the other hand, keeps the cuticles sealed, allowing the hair color to stay longer and not bleed out. So, if you want your hair color to last longer, rinse your hair with cool water (not ice-cold) and see the difference!
4/ Shampoo Your Hair Less Often
Frequent shampooing is not advised for regular hair, let alone color-treated tresses. Shampoo not only strips your hair of its natural oils but also makes the hair dye run out quite easily. The more you shampoo your hair, the quicker you send your hair color down the drain. Shampoo your hair twice a week and in-between washes, spritz some dry shampoo on the roots to make them look fresh and smell great!
5/ Avoid Heat Styling
Just like warm water, frequent heat styling makes your color fade out very quickly. While it is advised to avoid using a blow dryer, flat iron or curling iron on colored hair for at least for 6-8 weeks, if you must use these heat styling tools, remember to spritz your hair generously with a good quality heat protectant hairspray so that your color-treated hair is not damaged during the process.
