If you’re like most people, you want your hair to look its best. That’s why you may spend hours at the salon getting your hair colored, highlighted, cut, and styled. But what you may not realize is that all of that time spent in the salon can lead to short and long-term damage to your hair.
One of the biggest culprits of hair damage is coloring techniques that involve the use of a bleaching agent to lighten the hair. Some of the most popular coloring techniques include:
1. Highlights
This is a popular hair coloring technique that involves lightening the hair with bleach or another type of lightening agent.
In this technique, the lightener is placed directly onto the root in a weaving motion then neatly folded into foils and placed under heat. The longer the lightener is left in, the brighter the color of the highlight becomes.
2. Lowlights
This hair coloring technique involves darkening the hair with a hair color that is one or two shades darker than the desired color. This technique is often used to create a more natural-looking color or to add depth and dimension to the hair.
3. Balayage
Think of those commercials with golden hair that seems perfectly colored like every model had spent years in the sun of California beaches. Of course, there may be some ladies and gentlemen lucky enough to have a natural hair color with that specific flow, but most of the time, that isn’t the case.
Instead, the Balayage technique is used to achieve a natural-looking, sun-kissed look. Balayage is a French word meaning “to sweep.” It involves painting the hair with a brush or other tool adding highlights that are swept through the hair. It usually starts at the top and is slowly worked into the rest of the hair with a more even flow, so it doesn’t appear in a pattern. Kind of like the natural effect of the ombre style, but without the foil or harsher highlight contrast.
What exactly is bleaching and can it harm my hair?
Bleaching is the process of stripping natural pigment from hair to lighten it by using harsh chemicals.
Hydrogen peroxide is the chemical most commonly used to cause the reaction in the hair by penetrating the strands’ cortex breaking down the melanin inside and stripping it of its dark color.
These harsh chemicals may get the look you want but it also removes many of the proteins and natural oils and can end with thinning hair or a dry, itchy, and even flaky scalp as well as the loss of moisture and elasticity in your strands.
Without proper maintenance of your hair after the coloring process, long-term damage often includes dry, brittle hair prone to snapping off and breaking. Over time, hair may continue to weaken resulting in dull, frizzy, lifeless, unhealthy-looking strands with dreaded split ends.
What can I do to help my damaged hair?
Here are a few of our favorite tips on support your hair from bleaching damage:
1. Don’t wash your hair everyday. On wash days, use a pre-wash scalp oil and hair treatment like Nourish Scalp Oil to repair damaged hair and prevent future damage.
2. Use a good quality, sulfate-free shampoo and conditioner specially designed for color-treated hair to keep your hair hydrated and healthy.
3. Avoid using heat-styling tools as much as possible. If you do need to use them, alway use a heat protector spray first.
4. Trim chemically damaged hair every 6-8 weeks to remove split ends and to keep ends from fraying thus resulting in further damage.
It’s important to remember that whilst the process of lightening your hair is one of the best ways to change up your look it can cause a lot of short and long-term damage without proper maintenance. Thus, it’s vital to care for your strands before and after any coloring technique. Not only will this help your color last longer, but it also helps keep your hair healthy.
Fortunately, even if you’ve decided risk a little bleaching damage for that golden, sun-kissed look to your hair, AlchemyTT has you covered.
They’ve created a safe, effective, all-natural formula in the Nourish Scalp Oil that helps you get salon-quality results at home.
This product works by infusing the essential nutrients and vitamins that soothe and protect the scalp as well as strengthen and condition the hair thus transforming it into beautiful, luscious locks that’ll make heads turn.
It’s made with a unique blend of 13 effective plant oils including amla, babassu and lavender oil to hydrate your scalp and fortify your strands resulting in healthy, shiny hair that feels soft and looks great.
Just look at what one of our newest customers, Cheryl had to say,
“Ever since I got a balayage, my hair has been dry and frizzy due to the bleaching process. With the Nourish oil, my hair is soft and manageable again! I love that it doesn’t weigh my hair down, and leaves my hair smelling great, too. The packaging is beautiful and luxurious, and the dropper makes application a mess-free breeze. Highly recommend!!”
Best of all, you don’t need to only use our Nourish Scalp Oil for bleaching damage. This amazing smelling, powerful formula is a reliable year-round solution to getting fuller, thicker, longer, healthier hair, regardless of type.
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Visit our store today and pick up a bottle of our Nourish Scalp Oil. We go into detail about the various natural ingredients, including how each one serves a specific purpose for a rich, proven formula that will leave you looking and feeling fantastic.
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