You may notice that your wavy hair feels a little different than it did before if you recently bleached it. Particularly for wavy textures, bleaching can leave hair dry, brittle, and prone to breaking. Taking good care of it is essential to keeping its bounce and health.
The proper products to use and a nourishing regimen to follow are essential when taking care of bleached hair. It must be kept moisturized and shielded from additional harm.
We’ll cover pointers and recommendations in this post to help you maintain the best-looking and feeling bleached wavy hair. These pointers will assist you whether you’re new to bleaching or simply need a reminder.
| Issue | Advice |
| Dryness | Use a sulfate-free, moisturizing shampoo and conditioner to hydrate your hair. |
| Frizz | Apply a leave-in conditioner or light oil to control frizz and define waves. |
| Damage | Trim your ends regularly and use a deep conditioning mask once a week. |
| Breakage | Avoid heat styling tools and harsh brushing, and use a wide-tooth comb instead. |
| Color fading | Protect your hair from the sun by wearing a hat or using UV-protectant sprays. |
Extra care is needed to keep bleached wavy hair healthy and looking its best. It’s critical to use nourishing, gentle products that not only hydrate hair and stop breakage but shield it from additional harm caused by environmental factors or heat styling. To keep your waves vibrant and healthy, regular trims and deep conditioning treatments can help preserve softness and bounce.
The history of my hair
I was among those who, despite combing my hair more frequently than girls with straight hair, was constantly asked if I had done so today. There was no Internet back then, and I also didn’t really purchase any hair products. Girls with straight hair had neat hair when it was loose, which I envied. However, if I lowered my hair, I would have an odd, incomprehensible shock on my head. I used a crab to secure my hair instead of wearing it down. You can see that they were scrawny, fluffy, and constantly pin-up in old pictures.
You already know what happened when I soaked them with water.) Things worsened when I started using Blondex at the age of 14. Since my hair was already unsatisfactory by nature, I didn’t feel ashamed when I burned it with 12% oxide; rather, my friend and I were relieved that Blondex didn’t burn on our scalps, indicating that it was a good burn. It didn’t matter that part of my hair fell out and the rest fell out, even though I was overjoyed to be a yellow blonde.
At that time, my hair care included Schauma shampoo and conditioner.
This continued until I was 20, then I came across Kapus products and sat on them for 10 years. I liked them the silicone content of their products and their cheapness made the hair softer. The length stood still, but I was generally pleased with my hair and most importantly – color. Photo on a bicycle from that period – even despite the poor quality of the photo, you can see what kind of fluff-feather I had on my head. I didn"t know that you can"t apply 12% oxide to the lengths, as well as the roots. And every month I dyed everything at once with Fara. It"s strange that I didn"t go bald at all.
Time for experiments
I became interested in different "hair" forums when I was thirty years old. Then I entered a phase that most people have gone through. I began buying up everything I was told in groups, and they frequently gave me advice that contradicted one another. For instance, it was thought that a dead blonde like you required active care, but they later informed me that you had over-treated your hair with a lot of products, so why do you need a million jars? Instead, you should arrange your care.
However, how should this care be organized?
For instance, I purchased Hydra after reading recommendations that it was a moisturizer for dead blondes, but it ruthlessly dried out and frizzed out my hair. And I didn’t know why I bought what I thought was generally appropriate for me. Some said that hair like this would never look good without silicones, while others advised giving them up. While some people praised oils, others believed they were drying out.
The time of buying everything is generally over because there were an excessive amount of products and the hair was becoming worse. In fact, I don’t think anything, not even Lanza and TD, can bring life back to dead hair. The dead, as they say, cannot be raised from the dead. I’ve tried a lot of products, including mass-market ones and those from Kaaral, Insight, Angel, Estel, Kapous, Brelil, Biosilk, Garnier, Bonacour, and Indola.
I then realized that minimizing the trauma to my hair is the best thing I can do for it.
With the Kaaral Jelly mask and the transition from blond to light brown, the almost complete absence of an iron – over the summer by the middle of last fall I grew, of course, not the length, but – I finally for the first time overcame that the enchanted point just below the collarbones. And what did I do? I wanted to do a little highlighting at home. In general, without going into details, the highlighting did not work out, I decided to just lighten my hair and hastily applied 9% oxide to the length. Well, and it, naturally, fell off. We are starting to grow it again (photo November 2021).
How the condition of the hair changed. Curly method
It’s wintertime here. I used the curly method to style my hair:
March. I still apply the curly technique. As you can see, I’ve grown hair:
March appears to be as well. Using an iron, I straightened my hair:
I realized three months ago that I wanted length and was willing to give up blonde and iron in order to get it. The image shows May using an iron to straighten:
The identical May, curly method two to three days post-washing. These gentler waves appeal to me, but they’re not always successful:
Generally speaking, I knew that only two points could be achieved with my weak, blond, straightening hair type. And I reasoned that the length that had been immobile for years was the cost of having light hair that fit me and having my hair straightened, which also worked for me. I became fixated on the length at this point.) My hair is usually light, so I reasoned that I will look less dark overall and cause less damage to my hair if I stop coloring the growing roots and instead begin toning the emerging red hair with 1.5% light brown.
As a result, I have not dyed the roots for 3 months and do not use oxide higher than 1.5%. I don’t know how much it helped.) I also try to use a hair straightener less often, no more than 1-2 times a month (I really like straight hair). I am not friends with a hair dryer and a brush and I probably won’t be able to. Also, not because I really like it, but out of necessity in the absence of a hair straightener, I began to practice the curly method. My hair gets wavy from everything, from an elastic band, braids, humidity. The hair in the photo with waves is all kgm.
Although I enjoy the way the waves appear, I don’t feel very good about myself when I’m in them. The length is significantly decreasing, and I’m beginning to resemble a type of person I don’t want to be. I like long, wavy hair that reaches my elbows, so if they were longer, I would totally refuse the iron. However, not the kind that gets cut short due to waves that fall just below the shoulders, making me resemble a Soviet bartender.) I am aware that the length will grow more quickly the less straightening there is. However, I still use the iron occasionally because I am powerless.
Intermediate results
The hair grows as a result, but slowly. Right now, I’m receiving CGM and silicones to straighten my hair.
For CGM: Taft gel, Garnier superfood masks with banana and aloe, Yves Rocher salt-free shampoo, and Livin from them.
I use Angel shampoo and conditioner for straightening (I used Kerasis previously; it’s very silicone-based, not bad, but the hair stays in a film). I also use their leave-in cream and spray to make my hair softer. the ends are also Indola fluid. Brelil with Shea is another mask that I adore. Three more hours before washing, I apply oil masks (argan), aloe juice masks, and occasionally a glycerin + aloe juice + tocopherol mixture for the 15 cm length of the ends.
In addition, I use a compliment mask with pepper and spritz my scalp with mint tincture from the pharmacy because I want to grow. Does this imply that I am doing everything roughly right if my hair is growing more generally?
September of 2022. wavy approach. It’s too wavy for my taste.
September of 2022. Straightened hair:
While bleached wavy hair necessitates a little more care, it is completely manageable with the correct products and regimen.
Make sure to moisturize your hair frequently to avoid breakage and dryness. To nourish your strands, use hydrating masks and oils on a regular basis.
Avoid overdoing the heat styling, and whenever you use hot tools, make sure to protect your hair. When possible, let your hair air dry to preserve its natural texture.
When detangling, always remember to be gentle and use your fingers or a wide-tooth comb to prevent further harming your waves.
