Wash Your Hair
Aside from how to use the new shade, the biggest factor that exacerbates or reduces fading is how you choose to wash your hair after coloring your hair. This includes the type of shampoo you use, how you use it, and how often you wash your hair.
Choice of Shampoo
The shampoo is great for cleaning the hair as it emulsifies the oil and all other dirt, allowing it to be carried away from the hair by water. Unfortunately, this also applies to hair dye, and every time you wash your hair, the shampoo tends to cause some new colors to be washed off.
Part of the problem lies in your dye application, as shampoos are washing away dye molecules that are not properly fixed inside the hair and contaminate the outside of the hair. So, before you solve your shampooing habits, solving the problems in the app will already help you. However, over time, some permanent dyes break down slightly and wash off the hair.
Types of shampoos that are more likely to cause hair fading include:
- Purifying shampoo
- Chelating shampoo
- Anti-dandruff shampoos and certain other kinds of medicinal products
- A shampoo specially designed for oily hair
This is because all these shampoos are very effective in cleaning the hair. They’re designed to remove build-up of oil, debris, and hair care products, but it also means they have a greater impact on your new hair color too.
If possible, you should avoid such shampoos and instead use shampoos designed for coloring hair or shampoos that have a gentle cleansing effect, unless your hair is of the oily type and really needs extra strength. For certain shades like gold or red, you may be able to use a toning or color freshening shampoo that matches your tone and reduce fading by adding pigment to your hair every time you wash your hair.
How Often Do You Wash Your Hair
In addition to the type of shampoo used, the frequency of washing hair will also directly affect the speed at which hair fades.
Almost no one needs to wash their hair every day, but this happens often and causes the hair to fade and dry. A simple tip is that if your hair is dry and it improves with the time it goes on, you may be washing it too often. For most people, washing your hair every other day is ideal.
Obviously, if your hair is naturally very oily or you do a lot of physical activity due to work or play, causing your hair to be exposed to sweat, salt water or moisture, you need to skip this advice. In these cases, it is very important to wash your hair more often to keep it clean and beautiful, and you just have to accept the fact that hair fading will also increase.
Luckily, there are other methods you can use to reduce hair fading.
Heating and Styling
Exposure to high temperatures, especially when using styling tools such as hair dryers, hair straighteners, and curling irons, is another important factor that affects how quickly hair fades. In this case, over time, the heat generated by such tools breaks down color molecules, making them easier to wash off from the hair.
This doesn’t mean you need to avoid heated styling, but you’ll reduce a lot of fading if you can. Still, if you prefer to use these tools regularly, one of the best ways to reduce their effects on hair color is to always use a heat protection serum or spray before heating, which will not only help reduce fading, but also help prevent hair fading. Reduce damage.
Another important thing to note is that hydrated hair is less prone to fading or damage due to heat and other factors, which means that if your hair is dry, you should try using products like leave-in conditioners or serums to fix this or curl your hair before straightening it.
Finally, when using any heating styling tool, you should always use only the maximum amount of heat that can create the look you want. In many cases, people default to using a hair straightener or curling iron at the highest temperature, which can cause great damage.
Unless your hair is very coarse, thick, and strong, the maximum temperature is too high for you, and even in these cases it can still be too high because many hair straighteners can set the temperature to 230°C (446°F) for use with keratin treatments, which should not be used in addition to applying these treatments.
Sunlight and Humidity
Environmental factors are another important consideration to slow down fading, as the sun’s ultraviolet radiation can have a bleaching effect on hair color. In this case, sunlight chemically alters the artificial color of natural pigments and dyes, directly causing fading.
Just like using sunscreen to protect your skin from the sun, some shampoos and hair care products contain UV filters that can reduce the damage of sunlight to your hair, and you should look for such products if you are often outdoors for long periods of time.
Pool and Beach Water
Water containing salt or chlorine can also have a significant effect on hair. Salt dries the hair, it takes away moisture and color molecules in the hair, which accelerates fading, while chlorine in pool water has a bleaching effect that can directly lighten the color of the hair. Over time, mineral deposits can also give hair a brassy or green color, which can change the color of the hair.
If possible, it’s best to avoid contact with both waters, but if you can’t avoid it or just don’t want to, be sure to follow up with a quality chelated shampoo followed by a suitable conditioner or conditioner. While chelating shampoos usually accelerate fading, in this case it removes salt, chlorine, and minerals from the hair, thus reducing fading more than allowing these substances to accumulate.
Humidity
Finally, if you suffer from severe fading, humidity or lack thereof humidity is another relevant consideration. Moisture balance is very important for the condition of the hair and maintaining the color for longer.
Anything that upsets this balance can lead to increased fading, which means that if you are exposed to high or low humidity, you should use products that prevent moisture imbalances, such as hair serums.
Fresh Hair Color
It’s never too late to take steps to reduce the fading of new colors, but if you’ve already experienced noticeable fading, the best way to fix this is to update your hair color. This can be done in several ways, including:
- Colourful refreshing shampoo
- Semi-permanent or semi-permanent dyes
- Color washing
- Staining modification
Colourful Refreshing Shampoo
This shampoo is tinted and re-colours hair with each wash to delay or reverse fading. If you have blonde hair, you may be familiar with such products as toning shampoos also fall into this category, but the range of refreshing colored shampoos is much wider, with some products suitable for brown, red, and even burgundy hair.
Dark products can not only slow down the rate of hair fading, but can actually reverse the fading process of light hair, but it depends on the color of your hair and the shampoo you use. De Lorenzo’s Nova Fusion collection is a great example of a quality product with many different shades.
Semi-Permanent or Semi-Permanent Dyes
Semi-permanent hair dye does not cause any damage to the hair, while semi-permanent hair dye does little damage to the hair but lasts longer. Both products can be used to refresh your hair color and reverse fading.
To do this, you need to use colors that are close to your hair color, and these dyes can help your hair look good longer between permanent dyes without causing additional damage.
Color Washing
Color washing is an age-old trick where you mix a little dye with shampoo alone or with a small amount of color developer and use it to wash your hair. It can be used regularly between regular washes to slow down or even prevent the occurrence of hair fading, but it is also great for restoring lost color.
As with the previous option, it will only cause very minor damage, but it may dry the hair slightly, so it is necessary to use a good conditioner.
Embellish
Hair color modification is simply re-applied with the same dye to completely reverse the fading. This is the most extreme way to reverse fading, but it also guarantees a quick and decisive action to make your tones look their best. It has greater potential damage, but this is still less than full dyeing because it doesn’t touch the hair for long.
Ideally, when your roots regenerate long enough for treatment, it should be modified. First, first apply permanent dye only at the roots, then mix in some fresh dye and apply it to the ends and ends of the hair in the last 10 minutes of dyeing to restore the faded color of these areas.
