Best tips to maintain your highlights and coloured treated hairs
If you’ve recently had your hair colored—whether it’s a vibrant shade, soft pastel, or a beautiful balayage—it’s important to take extra care of your hair afterward. The way you treat your hair post-color is crucial for maintaining those stunning tones and keeping your hair healthy.
Bleaching, highlighting, and coloring involve chemicals that can sometimes leave your hair dry, brittle, and prone to split ends. If not done properly, it can also lead to over-processed hair and breakage.
To help you keep your color-treated or highlighted hair looking fresh and healthy, here are some professional tips you’ll want to follow!
1- Use in-salon service exclusively
Here is our recommendations to keep healthy hair when having a balayage/highlights done :
1- let a professional stylist perform it in salon. After a thorough consultation, they will know better the most adapted products, the dosages and how to use it. (Contact us here for a free consultation online or stop by the salon, consultation is free with no booking required)
2-combine lightening process with Olaplex solution. (Here we strongly advise to make sure your stylist is using authentic Olaplex, and not other imitation brands. The reason being that Olaplex has developed a solution to protect bonds during chemical process. Their solution has been patented and cannot be reproduced. Many brands have tried to imitate it, but without the same efficiency.)
2- Use the appropriate after care
The maintenance doesn’t stop here, the after care at home during the following weeks are crucial to keep good healthy looking hair.
Here is our main tips to maintain your highlights and coloured treated hair healthy with home care products :
– Use proper professional shampoo and conditioner. After any chemical treatment, you may need to use a proper shampoo to protect and retain the colour such as Kerastase Chroma absolu.
– You may also use a shampoo sulfate free (the use of sulfates will speed up the fading of your highlighted hair). Renowned brands such Davines or Natulique offer good quality shampoos and conditioner much adapted for colored treated hairs.
– Use proper moisturizing hair mask once a week (to this end many brands offer good nourishing results to keep your hairs from getting too dry or brittle). We can recommend here to this end the Kerastase hair masque Nutritive.
– Use proper professional shampoo and conditioner. After any chemical treatment, you may need to use a proper shampoo to protect and retain the colour such as Kerastase Chroma absolu.
– You may also use a shampoo sulfate free (the use of sulfates will speed up the fading of your highlighted hair). Renowned brands such Davines or Natulique offer good quality shampoos and conditioner much adapted for colored treated hairs.
– Use proper moisturizing hair mask once a week (to this end many brands offer good nourishing results to keep your hairs from getting too dry or brittle). We can recommend here to this end the Kerastase hair masque Nutritive.
– Regular oiling. Remember that your hair is unable to maintain its own moisture levels. The lightening chemical process may affect the natural secretion of sebum. It is a natural oil that keeps the hair healthy and hydrated. So you may want to give it some help by using proper oil to keep your outer hair hydrated and protected against elements.
– Avoid as much as possible heating tools such as curling irons, straighteners, or blow dryers.
Sleep with a silk pillow. Indeed using silk pillowcase will avoid your hair from tangles, knots or splits. Your mane will glide over silk’s smooth surface without resistance, resulting in less frizz and tangling in the morning.
3- Visit the salon for follow up treatments
Most efficient treatments to maintain the vibrance of your hair colors and the beautiful tones of your highlights will be performed in salon.
Opt for follow up treatments recommend by your stylist. We usually recommend Fusio Dose serum from Kerastase that let us choose the most adapted to your hair condition thanks to the 30 different combinations possible.
Make sure your salon use authentic products and equipment such as quality micro mist machine to let the treatment active elements penetrate deep inside the cuticle of your hair, for a most efficient and lasting result
Make sure your salon use authentic products and equipment such as quality micro mist machine to let the treatment active elements penetrate deep inside the cuticle of your hair, for a most efficient and lasting result
everything you need to know about your hair care or follow up treatment, Contact NICHE today!
At Niche Salon Bangkok, we emphasize on giving your hair a long term care. From the consultation, the service itself, the home hair care and the follow up treatments, our team will personalize every aspects of the services to cater your unique hair style and condition. If you have any questions about your hair care, or about your future style, let us know and we will guide you there.
