Day 46: Red Hair Secrets

Red Hair is very popular these days, but not at all easy to maintain.Red hair comes with many secrets and tricks to maintain the color and avoid it fading to an unwanted orange or copper color. These tips can be used on any shade of red hair from bright fire red to a deep cherry red.

Tips:

• Wash hair with cold water, the warm water will drain the color out
• purchase a special shampoo and conditioner, either for red hair or just for colored hair
• Stay away from heat products, it can fade the color faster. If it is necessary to use heat tools on your hair use a thermal protecting product
• Shampoo is your new enemy, shampoo can easily strip color so shampoo less, and condition more!
• The water supply you have can also aid the fading process, stay away from chlorine additives in your showers by purchasing a special shower head
• Stay away from swimming pools (chlorine)

Sources:

http://blogs.smarter.com/fashion-beauty/2008/05/14/how-to-keep-red-hair-from-fading/