| your hair color fade within days after you have hair | | | | iron on my freshly color treated hair." |
| color? You're not alone...most hair color fades about | | | | Roots: |
| 20% with the first shampoo. Look at the following | | | | Hair color starts to oxidize with time. After shampooing, |
| "reminders" to help keep your color looking radiant and | | | | it will show up as fading throughout the hair, but more |
| healthy, everyday of the month. | | | | on the ends. If your hair is in poor condition, it will lose |
| Shampoo First: | | | | the color pigments much faster than hair that is in good |
| One of the easiest ways to help keep the color lasting | | | | condition. Even though there isn't really anything |
| is to shampoo and dry your hair before you color at | | | | permanent about hair color, the color will last much |
| home or have the salon service. I know some of you | | | | better if you keep your appointments a month apart. |
| are thinking... " but I just can't rinse the color it will dry | | | | When you wait longer, the over all color is flat and dull |
| my hair out." Keep in mind that the only reason you | | | | because of the color oxidation. You can use every |
| shampoo is to cleanse and remove product from the | | | | conditioner made and it won't bring back the shine and |
| hair. The hair color product that is being used on the | | | | the look of health that fresh hair color will. Conditioners |
| hair will not make your hair dirty, so it really doesn't | | | | help retain the moisture in the hair so the hair color |
| matter when you shampoo to cleanse. It can be | | | | retains its shade value longer. |
| thoroughly rinsed and conditioned and the color will | | | | In Between: |
| retain the shade value and last longer which is your | | | | This is an easy way to keep your hair color beautiful |
| ultimate goal. | | | | all month long. Using Semi-Permanent colorants will |
| Turn Down the Heat: | | | | allow your hair color to last longer than any other |
| When you're shampooing use tepid water rather than | | | | in-between product. This product comes in the same |
| hot water. In most cases, it is not necessary to | | | | shades that your permanent hair color does. The |
| shampoo twice unless you are cleansing your hair to | | | | Semi-Permanent colorant will only last about 6-8 |
| use a product that requires a first shampoo. Use a | | | | shampoos. These will deposit color pigments into the |
| professional shampoo and treatment line to help retain | | | | hair shaft without coating so they can be used weekly |
| the moisture which will help the fresh hair color last | | | | if you want. You can also use color shampoos which |
| longer. These products can be purchased in the salon | | | | will sometimes coat the hair, so I suggest not using |
| or in the beauty supply. | | | | them near your next color service. Both these |
| Hair Spray: | | | | products will help to extend your hair color. You can |
| If you need to use hair spray, always spray at a | | | | match or brighten your blonde, red and brunette hair. |
| distance (about 10 inches). Hair spray coats the hair | | | | These can be used over natural or color treated hair |
| shaft and suffocates the hair leaving it dull and dry. | | | | every week or once a month. All salons have them |
| Often women spray so close that the hair looks like | | | | for the normal color service, which will cost about as |
| pastry crust when it dries. This chemical dries out the | | | | much as the permanent color service. Or, you can buy |
| hair so much that it lifts out the hair color molecules | | | | them to take home from the salon or at a beauty |
| from the hair shaft. Or, coats the hair so much, the | | | | supply. |
| molecules can't penetrate into the hair shaft, which will | | | | Dead Ends: |
| cause an uneven deposit of color in the hair shaft. | | | | It is also important to keep your "dead end" cut or at |
| When using this with other high-volume alcohol hair | | | | least trimmed, to help the ends not to look so faded. |
| styling products, use sparingly. Also, be sure to rinse | | | | The whole strand is really dead once it grows from |
| every day with warn water if you don't shampoo. This | | | | the scalp so by the time it grows 4-8 inches, they are |
| will help to remove the daily build up. | | | | generally drier than the mid-hair shaft and need to be |
| Hot Appliances: | | | | trimmed off. You will often see women with flat color |
| My heart often stops when I watch women using hot | | | | on the ends of the hair because often times the hair |
| appliances to either curl or straighten out their hair. | | | | has not been prepared properly to accept the color |
| When the hot smoke comes up off the hair when | | | | formula being used. Therefore it is the first to slip down |
| they are being blown dry, I have to step in and ask for | | | | the drain with the shampoo. This can also be |
| the heat to be turned down. These small appliances | | | | corrected with the above Semi-Permanent colorant. |
| can do more damage to color treated hair than any | | | | Last word: |
| other thing used over hair color. Generally, when hair is | | | | Good hair color takes work. If you want beautiful hair |
| broken off or frazzled on the hair shaft, you can | | | | color you must make a commitment. Keep your hair |
| almost be sure the hair dryer or flat iron was too hot. | | | | appointments and have treatments in the salon or do |
| Often the stylist is more concerned with the outcome | | | | them yourself at home. You will be glad you did and |
| of the style than the hair color lasting, so you must | | | | you will notice a big change in your hair color. |
| remind them. Simply say, "Please don't use such a hot | | | | |