5 Haircare Tips for Maintaining Your Blonde Hair Between Appointments
Tips from a Hair Colour Specialist
Do you find your blonde looks flawless after the salon, but find that it dulls really quickly?
Maybe you find split ends keep occuring. Or you’ve tried a purple shampoo potion and now your hair is grey.
Lets face it, blonde isn’t a colour. Its a lifestyle. Here are the top tips to maintain your blonde hair between appointments, from a hair colour specialist.
1. Whether you retouch every 6 weeks, 8 weeks or over 12, my top tip is don’t lighten your already blonde hair! sometimes to get a desired shade you might do a second session, but after that just tone, treat it and cut it! you will find a significant decrease in hair quality, even with your Plex system.
2. A tailored haircare regime is essential for maintaing your blonde hair. After lightening, your hair has undergone a chemical change and needs supplimenting from products to protect it. You don’t need 100 products. Just three essentials: 1, Shampoo, 2, Conditioner, 3, a nourishing mask OR leave in oil (bonus if it has heat protector! speaking of)
3. You must use heat protector if you are going to blow dry / style your blonde hair. The benefits to using heat protector are: stronger healthier hair, longer lasting styles and even longer lasting toner. Hair and Skin have incredibly similar properties. The major difference is that hair has no nerve endings. So protect your hair from heat as much as possible.
4. Routine haircuts are important to cut off split ends before they travel too far up. When this happens, blonde hair gets that ‘Straw Like’ texture. It can never hold a style, loses all its shine and youll find your hair gets shorter and thinner over time. 12 weeks maximum for maintenance.
5. Purple shampoo is a sometimes product. It should only be used once your blonde hair has gone yellow again and was reccomended by your stylist. If your hair is already a tone you love, stop using it. Purple shampoo has a high alkalinity, opening the cuticle and pulling out the salons toner to replace it with its own purple pigment. Essentially washing away the toner you paid for.
Following these 5 top tips is guarenteed to give you healthy, shiny long lasting results from your blonde hair.
Mark
