12 Tips on How to Care for Coloured Hair to Maintain Vibrant Hair
You’ve created your client’s hair colour of dreams. Next on the agenda is keeping their vibrant hair colour on lock for as long as possible, while ensuring hair feels healthy and looks glossy.
Featuring advice on the best colour care shampoo, pigmented conditioner, and more essential products for hair colour protection - plus a deep-dive on how to protect hair from heat and dullness with tailored coloured hair treatment – give your clients a lesson on how to care for their coloured hair like a pro at home.
Keep scrolling to discover all our top tips…
1. Use an Antioxidant Colour Care Shampoo
The perfect formula for fighting shade fade? An antioxidant-rich shampoo. ColorMotion+ Color Protection Shampoo is packed with antioxidants to protect your client’s shade, as well as Free Radicals Protection Technology. This powerful tech works by encapsulating metals from water, reducing the formation of free radicals which are responsible for colour fading. Using the right kind of shampoo is key to reap the colour-protecting benefits in between salon appointments, leaving hair with a smooth, high-shine finish.
2. Apply a Weekly Hair Mask
The key to maintaining even, glowing hair colour starts with well-conditioned, nourished locks. Like using a weekly treatment in a skincare regimen, hair masks and conditioners are essential for keeping your client’s locks healthy and their colour vibrant. After washing with their go-to colour-locking shampoo, recommend they work Color Motion+ Moisturizing Color Reflection Conditioner through mid-lengths to ends to revive colour and shine. For a deeper conditioning treatment once a week, apply Color Motion+ Structure Mask to sensitised areas and stressed-out ends, which will help to intensely strengthen and smooth.
3. Wash Hair Less Often
It may sound obvious, but the more your client washes their hair, the quicker colour molecules will fade. Whenever hair gets wet, each individual strand swells and a small amount of colour pigment seeps out, which is why extending the washing cycle is a must to keep hair looking fresh. Recommend they lather up their hair less often and add EIMI Dry Me dry shampoo to their kit; a refreshing mist that keeps hair looking and feeling clean in between washes.
4. Protect from Root to Tip
Did you know? Aside from tanning skin, the sun can also lighten and fade that flawless hair shade. To protect colour in the sun, spritz INVIGO UV Hair Color Protection Spray onto damp or dry hair. The shade-saving formula contains vitamin B5 to promote strong, healthy hair, while blocking the sun from fading colour - perfect for packing on holiday or spritzing into hair during the hotter summer months.
5. Give Regular Trims
To achieve the most even-toned, healthy-looking colour possible, book your client in for regular trims alongside their colour appointments. Split ends create a dry, sensitised base for hair dye, meaning the colour may not absorb into hair properly or penetrate deep enough. Keeping ends freshly trimmed means a healthier hair base for their shade of the moment.
6. Be Gentle With Heat
When it comes to heat, be gentle on hair. Whether blowdrying, curling or straightening, heat can cause hair to become sensitised, resulting in a dry, unmanageable texture. In terms of hair colour, this can leave that signature shade looking flat and dull, as colour always looks at its best on shiny, healthy hair. EIMI Thermal Image heat protectant spray will safe-guard hair from heat while smoothing the cuticle with a two-phase system: first by protecting, second by nourishing. You can also encourage your client to embrace their natural texture by skipping heat and allowing hair to airdry, scrunching EIMI Ocean Spritz through mid-lengths to ends to boost a natural wave.
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7. Prep for Colour
Are they ready for their next appointment? Ask your client to use a clarifying shampoo a few days before heading to the salon to remove all residue ahead of their colour treatment. We’d recommend clients don’t wash their hair the day of the appointment, as natural sebum oils will help to protect the scalp during the colouring process. INVIGO Aqua Pure Purifying Shampoo will leave locks fresh, clean and prepped for their new shade.
8. Use a Pre-Colour Treatment
Often, clients may have irregular porosity on their hair, resulting in an uneven finish after colour. For these clients, spritz ColorMotion+ Pre-coloration Treatment onto the most distressed, porous sections of their hair while dry. Then, blowdry to seal the treatment before continuing with the colouring process as usual. The result? Hair will feel smooth and look shiny, perfectly prepped for applying hair colour seamlessly.
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9. Opt for WellaPlex
If your client’s hair is sensitised, apply Wellaplex – especially if you’re planning to do any lightening on hair. It will create a healthy-looking finish to any hair type. The smart formula helps to reduce damage and add strength to every strand by reinforcing the hair bonds from within. Wellaplex is recommended with all lightening services to reduce damage. If your client’s hair happens to be damaged from previous colour appointments, you can also use Wellaplex mixed with hair dye.
10. How to Care for Blonde Hair Colour
Whether they’ve gone for a rich caramel blonde or ice white blonde, INVIGO Blonde Recharge Conditioner is available in a warm or cool formula to revive your client’s shade at home. Advise they use this colour-depositing conditioner once a week to keep blonde looking fresh in between appointments. For cool blondes, recommend the INVIGO Blonde Recharge Cool Blonde Shampoo, perfect for using whenever hair needs freshening up with an icy boost.
11. How to Care for Brown Hair Colour
Over-processed coloured hair can often appear dull a few weeks after a salon visit due to daily washing and environmental aggressors. Add an extra glow to rich brunettes and classic dark shades with a glossing treatment and make sure you're using a brunette shampoo when washing. Book your client an appointment in between colour visits to add shine and refresh their colour in one. Mix up a hint of their shade of Koleston Perfect with Welloxon Perfect and INVIGO Color Service Post Color Treatment to get that gloss on lock.
12. How to Care for Red Hair Colour
To keep red hair colour as vibrant as possible, INVIGO Color Recharge Conditioner is your go-to. It comes in two different formulas for redheads – Red for cool red tones or Warm Red for warm, coppery red tones - to suit your client’s exact shade. Both conditioners feature a pigment-depositing formula, helping to add vibrancy back into a fiery red hue.
