How to preserve color after dyeing: secrets of proper home care

The last thing you want is for your flawless hair color to fade or lose its vibrancy too soon after investing time and money to achieve it. The proper at-home care regimen is essential to maintaining the vibrancy and longevity of your color.

You can extend the duration that your hair looks salon-fresh with a few easy tips and modifications to your hair care regimen. It all comes down to selecting the appropriate products and understanding how to shield your hair from harm.

This post will provide you with some useful tips for maintaining the luster and vibrancy of your newly dyed hair for several weeks.

How to keep your hair color after dyeing: 5 rules from colorists

Dyed hair is like a capricious child: immediately after a visit to the hairdresser, the color looks great, no matter what shade you choose, but over time and with each hair wash, the color treacherously fades, and now it"s time to make an appointment with your stylist again. If you have dyed your hair at least once, then you understand what we are talking about. And you know that coloring in a salon is a rather expensive and time-consuming service, so it is unlikely that among us there will be those who want to go to restore the color every two or three weeks. The easiest option that allows you to maintain your hair color after dyeing is to properly take care of your hair. This is quite enough to preserve the salon effect for several precious weeks. In the best case scenario, the shine and beautiful shade without unwanted tones will stay with you for about two months. What you need for this? We tell you!

Do not wash your hair for 48 hours after dyeing

After seeing the colorist, it is best to wait two or even three days before using the restroom. This will facilitate the color’s absorption into the hair. The opulent shade will disappear from you much more quickly if you break this rule.

Wash your hair correctly

• You should not wash your hair every day, optimally – once or twice a week. If the head is getting dirty quickly, use from time to time dry shampoo. In addition, every time you take a shower and do not wash your head, close it with a towel or a plastic cap: water even without a cleansing agent can contribute to leaching of a shade.
• As for the choice of shampoo, for colored hair, choose mild cleansers, and after them, be sure to use conditioner. Some sulfates contribute to leaching a shade, so it is useful to study the composition before buying. The temperature of the water when washing your hair should be warm or slightly cool: hot showers are contraindicated for dyed hair.

Do not use deep nourishment and hair restoration products

Deep restoration and nourishment are necessary for dry and damaged hair, but these treatments are not appropriate for recently dyed hair. The most intensive care you can do in the first few days after a salon visit is use masks with antioxidant, protective, moisturizing, and toning properties because too oily and rich textures can cause color fading. These products are typically created especially for colored hair.

Our specialists advise starting restorative care as soon as two weeks following coloring. This advice is especially important for hair that has been lightened or bleached.

Use special cosmetics

With ease, we now transition to the most important maintenance guideline that will support preserving the coloring’s brightness. In addition to preserving the color as long as possible, specially formulated cosmetics that were created with colored hair in mind will give the hair all it needs for elasticity, shine, and smoothness.

What should I put on the bathroom shelf? Shampoo, conditioner, mask, light oil or serum, and heat protection agent are the ideal ingredients. While some items can be crossed out, the first two cannot. One of the most important ways to maintain the color at home is to use cleansers and balms made especially for colored hair.

A week before coloring, undergo restorative procedures

It is important to moisturize, nourish, and restore the hair strands as much as possible prior to coloring them at a salon. Remember that regular use of hot tools for styling and even blow drying your hair with a regular hair dryer can have just as detrimental effects on them as chemical ones. The hair will get shinier, smoother, and thicker after a brief but intense restoration process.

Furthermore, reconstructive surgeries show to be a highly effective prophylactic against strand sensitivity and dryness. Experts at SalonSecret recommend using Matrix’s Total Treat mask as part of a restoration regimen. The creamy-textured mask only needs to be applied for five minutes to give you luscious, nourished, and moisturized shiny curls. This product is incredibly simple to use. It works even better as part of an express reconstruction salon treatment.

Protect your hair during a vacation in hot countries

Fresh coloring’s sworn enemies are sun, heat, humidity, salt or chlorinated water. Prior to a trip, you should avoid lightening or permanently coloring your hair; it is preferable to wait to visit the salon. If this isn’t feasible, wear a head covering or use UV-filtering products when you’re in the sun. Additionally, when swimming in a pool or the sea, make an effort to wet your head as little as possible. We recognize that this is very challenging, but as you are aware, beauty demands great sacrifice.

Crucial! Tinting dyes without ammonia are only desirable right before a trip. Under the effect of UV light, the shade will rapidly fade, but the hair will remain safe from harm. These kinds of dyes coat each hair in a thin layer of cellulose, mitigating the damaging effects of external elements.

How to maintain the shade of hair for a brunette with the Dark Envy range?

Gamma Dark Envy arrived just in time. These days, it’s fashionable for people with cold brown hair, but these hues—dark wood, chocolate, coffee—are rich, deep, sophisticated, and extremely fickle in terms of maintenance. You must take extra precautions to keep your complexion cool brown.

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How can one preserve the color of their black hair, or any other dark shade? If you treat it with care and don’t make any mistakes, this kind of pigment is fairly long-lasting. Naturally, the coloring of chocolate, coffee, dark blond, or chestnut will change over time; the dark pigment will still fade and turn red or scarlet. A line called Dark Envy by Matrix was developed specifically for brunettes and brown-haired women to either stop this from happening or delay it considerably.

There are three items in it:

• Dark Envy shampoo — contains pigments to neutralize red tones and enrich your favorite dark color with deep cool tones;
• Dark Envy conditioner — adds depth to dark tones, moisturizes, and also gives shine and manageability to hair;
• Dark Envy mask for in-salon care — contains dyes that neutralize red tones. The mask perfectly nourishes and adds shine.

All products work well on colored and natural hair in tones ranging from 1 to 4. Neutralization is achieved by a gray-green pigment-based direct dye, giving the hair a rich, ultra-trendy cool shade.

If you dye your hair in brown shades, then you know that a red undertone appears a few weeks after dyeing. These are the laws of nature: where there are brown shades, sooner or later a warm red appears. And not so long ago, brown-haired and brunette women had to go to a hairdresser for color correction with toning paints in such cases, because home neutralizing care for dark hair was rare even among professional brands. Now, correction can be postponed for two or three months if you have the Dark Envy range. Before introducing it into your care, consult with your hairdresser about how often to use shampoo and conditioner to maintain your favorite color.

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Maintaining a cold blonde with Brass Off

After coloring, how can I keep my hair looking light brown or light colored with a gorgeous ash undertone? It’s no secret that colors can vary, even in the most natural shades—dark blonde, light brown, ash, and so forth. A few weeks later, the hair starts to take on copper and orange undertones that require immediate neutralization.

Products that contain a blue-violet pigment with a direct action are the only ones that can retain color depth and brightness. These belong to Matrix’s Brass Off range. This range works well for keeping and neutralizing cold tones on strands that fall between the light brown and light blonde color spectrum, or the fifth and eighth tone levels.

• Brass Off Shampoo. Purple shampoo neutralizes the orange undertone, and also returns the blonde to a cold shade and shine.
• Brass Off Conditioner. Transforms, moisturizes and nourishes dry hair, restores its elasticity and delightful softness.
• Brass Off Cream. Leave-in care is designed not only to soften curls, but also to protect them from the negative effects of hot tools during styling. The cream seals the cuticle and shields strands from thermal damage.
• Brass Off Mask. Available exclusively for in-salon care. The product intensively restores damage and revitalizes brittle hair, and also neutralizes unwanted light orange nuances and returns the blonde"s cool glow.

Line Brass Off works best when used a few times a week to keep cool shades looking "straight out of the salon."

It’s critical to follow a proper at-home care regimen that includes using color-safe shampoos, avoiding excessive heat, and shielding your hair from the sun in order to maintain the vibrancy of your newly dyed hair. The shine and depth of your color can be preserved for longer by taking easy measures like washing your hair less frequently, rinsing with cool water, and using nourishing masks.

How to remove yellowness with the So Silver range?

Yellowness is the issue with the lightest strands. How can I get rid of it and keep my dyed hair looking bright and cold for a long time?

Although they appear very lovely, silver, light wheat, honey, cream, and milky hues sadly have a tendency to yellow and fade. If special care is neglected for even one week, luxurious platinum can become an unsightly canary. Use purple-pigmented specialty cosmetics, is our advice. As in the Matrix line "So Silver," the dye used in this composition needs to have a direct action.

The pigment used in the series’ products is blue-gray-purple in addition to purple. This indicates that the range can be used to slightly lighten gray or gray strands, as well as to neutralize yellow undertones and give light hair with tone levels 8–10+ a silver tone.

• So Silver Shampoo. Gently cleanses and corrects unwanted yellow tones, and neutralizes warm tones on very light, highlighted and gray hair.
• So Silver Conditioner. Ideal for brittle and dry colored hair, and also works well on gray hair. Nourishes, restores and smoothes hair scales, giving it smoothness.
• So Silver Mask. Professional salon care to enhance and neutralize silver shades of blond. After application, the tone of light hair becomes colder, and platinum shades and gray hair acquire luxurious silver nuances.

After coloring, maintaining brilliant hair color necessitates regular maintenance and the appropriate strategy. You can prolong the look of your color by using color-safe products, avoiding heat styling, and shielding your hair from the sun.

It’s also critical to modify your washing schedule by using cool water and spacing out your washes. These minor adjustments can help maintain the health of your hair and stop your color from fading too quickly.

You can preserve your gorgeous, vivid hair color for weeks, keeping it looking as glossy and rich as the day you left the salon, with a little work and the appropriate techniques.

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