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Long Lasting Hair Color Tips

 Posted by REFLECTIONS OF YOU Fairfax / Fair Lakes

Coloring your hair is perhaps one of the most popular non-invasive techniques to significantly enhance your appearance. In fact, it's estimated that about 75 percent of women dye their hair in some form. After a few weeks from your last coloring appointment, you may notice that your hair color has faded and your beautiful locks are looking drab and dull. Learn how to keep your hair color looking fabulous longer with the following steps:

1. Go more natural.
   When you choose a color that more closely resembles your natural hair color and less contrasts, the grow-out stage, or roots, will be far less noticeable.
   
2. Wait to wash.
   Allow two to three days after a salon color treatment before washing hair to allow color pigment to bind to the hair shaft.This also allows hair's outer layer (cuticle) to calm down from the irritating chemical process.When you do wash, use tepid water with a cool water final rinse to seal down the cuticle and keep color inside the hair shaft, where it belongs.
   
3. Cool it on the heat.
   Hot water and heated styling tools both damage hair's cuticle and allow color pigment to leak out quicker over time. Set your 450 degree flat iron down to 200 degrees and style in smaller sections for healthier hair and longer-lasting color.
   
4. Wear a hat outside.
   Keep color-treated hair out of the sun as UV rays damage the color pigments and cause them to discolor and fade. Wear a hat and use a leave-in conditioner or spray-on hair sunscreen.
   
   
5. Use haircare products specifically for color-treated hair.
   These special products will not contain the drying alcohol or sodium laurel sulfate (SLS or similar "sulfate" derivatives), which have been shown to dry out and damage the cuticle.

The key to longer-lasting color is to protect the cuticle from getting roughed up or opened up to keep color inside the hair shaft longer. Proper hair products are critical to extended color life and Surface professional hair care has all the key ingredients that prolong color up to 30%. roysalon.com


Reflections of You is a high performance salon and spa in Fairfax and Fair Lakes VA.
Our salon team specializes in hair color and advanced highlight techniques. Trained by the manufacturer - Surface & Schwarzkopf - and providing the latest in color technology and application for a truly personalized experience.
Our spa emphasizes real results for all skin types through our master certified aesthetician at our Fairfax City location.
ROY Salon/Spa is inspired by master stylist Heather Plum. Her team is comprised of professional designers who offer solutions to problems and suggestions for change.

"Everyone is beautiful, we just make it obvious."