3 Tips for Coloring Your Hair Without Damage

Coloring your hair can be a fun and exciting way to change up your look. If you’ve been craving a makeover, changing up your hair color is a great option. Unfortunately, coloring your hair can do a lot of damage, and leave your soft, shiny locks looking and feeling dry and brittle. Repairing damaged hair after coloring is not as simple as removing bunions with procedures from The Bunion Cure, so it is important to do what you can to prevent damage before, during, and after coloring. 

Choose Coloring Conditioners 

Hair color contains stripping, damaging ingredients such as ammonia that can cause breakage and dryness, no matter what color you are going for. Instead of using harsh, chemiecal hair dye, try to color your hair with a coloring conditioner which hydrates your hair without causing further damage. These highly pigmented coloring conditioners from brands like Overtone and Keracolor can be used after shampooing your hair just like a normal conditioning product, and deposits brightly colored pigments into your hair. These products are available at beauty retailers such as Ulta, Sephora, and Sally’s Beauty, can also be used over time to prevent your hair from fading after being colored. 

 

Mix In a Conditioning Treatment

When putting color in your hair, many hairdressers recommend mixing conditioners or leave in oils such as Olaplex #1 into the dye in order to reduce the amount of damage it is able to do to your hair. Alternatively, for a cheaper way to combat damage and keep your locks feeling silky and smooth after coloring, you can cover your hair and scalp with coconut oil prior to applying color. 

 

Seek Professional Help 

While coloring your hair at home can be a fun project and can be significantly cheaper than the coloring services of a professiona, sometimes it is better to head to a salon for coloring services. Hairdressers have years of experience in the industry and are able to take proper precautions in order to prevent damage and ensure that hair is colored as gently as possible – plus, professional hair stylists often have access to exclusive, salon-quality products that contain better ingredients for your hair and therefore cause less damage. If you are making a drastic color change, seeking the help of a professional stylist might be worth the splurge. 

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