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The highlighting procedure is a great way to diversify your hairstyle and give it originality by highlighting a certain number of individual strands. The hair ends up looking beautiful, but in order to preserve its beauty for a long time, you definitely need to know how to care for your hair after highlighting.

Why is it important to provide your hair with proper care?

During highlighting, the hair is chemically deprived of its coloring pigment, the structure of the hair is damaged, its natural pigment is etched and the scales are exposed. Therefore, it is important to carefully and promptly care for your hair, providing it with conditions for restoration.

Care involves three points:

  1. Restoration of the damaged structure of weakened hair.
  2. Treatment of structural damage.
  3. Preservation of the resulting color.

It is not difficult to take care of your hair; specialized products will help you do this, or you can, if you wish, use natural ingredients and follow some basic rules.

What is required for caring procedures?

Hair care after highlighting involves the use of certain products.

  • Shampoo. It must be marked to indicate use for highlighted hair. Such products have a special composition that helps neutralize excess alkali remaining in the structure of bleached strands. It effectively and efficiently cares for hair and the scalp itself.
  • Leave-in care. This is a special, gentle care gel for bleached strands. It emphasizes the color, makes it more saturated and at the same time takes very careful care of the condition of the hair.

Nourishing, restorative products used immediately after washing your hair help to effectively care for your hair after chemical highlighting. In stores you can buy any specialized products for highlighted hair, or you can use folk recipes, which also give good results.

Important! Try, if possible, not to wash your hair in the first days after the highlighting procedure. It is preferable to use a selected special shampoo specifically designed for highlighted hair two weeks after chemical bleaching. If for some reason the individual characteristics of your scalp do not allow this, after the first wash of highlighted hair with shampoo, you can return to your usual product, and for bleached strands, choose a separate special mask and a suitable restorative product.

Features of gentle care

Since the strands are partially damaged by bleaching, timely hair care after highlighting must certainly be gentle and gentle.

  • It is necessary to wash highlighted hair under warm water. You can finish washing with a small cold shower for your hair - this will give it a healthy shine and strength.
  • Head massage is a good way to speed up hair growth; use a massage brush for at least ten minutes a day.
  • You should not comb hair that is too wet or damp; you must wait until it dries, since when wet it is more prone to falling out.
  • Hair needs to be protected from excessive exposure to the sun, as well as water with chlorine, so after highlighting it is better to limit sunbathing and visiting the pool. If you go out in the sun, make sure to wear a hat in advance, or apply a special sun protection spray to your hair. After visiting the pool, your hair should be washed thoroughly, as bleach can turn bleached strands green.
  • It is advisable to avoid using curling irons or curling irons, as they further damage the hair. Frequent blow-drying is also not recommended; it is best to try not to dry your hair this way at all.

Drying hair

If it is not possible not to dry your hair, you need to do it correctly, observing certain nuances.

  • First, you need to dry your hair with a towel so that it collects and absorbs as much moisture as possible. This is done to reduce drying with a hair dryer.
  • You should choose the minimum temperature, since it has the most gentle effect and has the least negative effect on the hair.
  • During the drying process, you need to carefully move the hair dryer along the hair growth line, starting from the roots to the ends, so that the hot air does not open or injure the scales.
  • Hair should be combed directly while drying so that warm air is distributed evenly around it.
  • When the hair feels half dry, you need to apply a leave-in conditioner to it, which will protect and strengthen the hair structure, and then dry it while continuing to comb it.

Competent and timely proper hair care after highlighting will preserve its beauty, quickly restore damaged hair health and structure, and avoid too rapid changes in the color of the strands. The complex effects of caring cosmetics must be combined with the basic rules of daily care, then the hair will be truly healthy and shiny.

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Care for highlighted hair

Highlighting is partial hair coloring. There are different techniques: from traditional lightening of individual strands to a creative color gradient. You should trust the creation of a new image only to a professional, and there are several good reasons for this:

  1. Regardless of the highlighting technique, some of the hair is pre-lightened. Lightening is always a serious procedure that requires the master to have deep knowledge and experience in coloring. The wrong formula can cause serious hair damage.
  2. After any lightening with powder (powder), the hair becomes more porous and empty from the inside. Therefore, after obtaining a lighter shade as a result, tinting with semi-permanent dyes follows. This makes it possible to fill the hair with new pigment and make it denser.
  3. When in a couple of months you decide to touch up your roots, you can contact the same specialist, and it will not be difficult for him to renew the coloring.

The quality of hair depends not only on proper coloring, but also on proper care of highlighted hair at home.

Cosmetics for highlighted hair

First you need to choose the right cosmetics. There are lines of cosmetics on sale for the care of highlighted (bleached) hair - of course, this would be an excellent option for home use.

If you do not want to purchase or could not find a similar care series on sale, then you can select other products based on some recommendations.

  • Choose shampoo with keratin, proteins or ceramides - this will help restore the hair structure.
  • If you have classic lightening of some strands or highlighting followed by tinting into cool shades of blonde, you can use hair products in blonde shades. Most are produced using “color protection” technology - adding violet or blue pigments to neutralize the yellowness that can appear over time.
  • After shampoo, be sure to use conditioner. You can use products for very dry and damaged hair, as well as deeply moisturizing conditioners.
  • Once a week you need to make a nourishing mask. This can be an oil-based product or restorative masks for severely damaged hair - most of them contain proteins and restore the structure from the inside.
  • Leave-in skincare products should be moisturizing sprays and serums. Apply them to the entire length of your hair. For ends, purchase oil for extra hydration.
  • To make styling easier, especially if you're used to straightening your hair with a flat iron, look to products that smooth your hair.

Based on the fact that the hair was quite damaged during the dyeing process, there are several nuances and tips for home care.

Hair care after highlighting

The most important thing is to start washing your hair properly. The main rules are common to everyone: do not wash your hair with hot water, always use conditioner after shampoo on towel-dried hair. Rinse after washing with cool water. Do not rub your hair with a towel or comb it until it is dry. This is important, especially if the hair has been significantly lightened. There is no need to add mechanical damage to them.

It is recommended to style your hair without using a straightener or curling iron. To create curls, use curlers (not thermal ones!), and straighten with a cool hairdryer and brushing with natural bristles. Don't forget to protect your hair from moisture evaporation using heat protectants. If possible, allow your hair to dry naturally.

It is necessary to monitor the condition of your hair. Trim split ends promptly, even if you are growing it long. This will help avoid delamination and brittleness. Do restorative procedures in a beauty salon. After highlighting, it’s a good idea to carry out a hair lamination procedure - this will help not only improve the appearance and condition, but also preserve the color for a long time.

Do not perm or dye your hair with henna. This can lead to overdrying of the already damaged length, which can lead to brittleness and loss. In addition, it is not recommended to do highlighting on hair previously colored with henna and other natural dyes - you risk getting an unpredictable result.

If you decide to refresh your color, contact the same specialist who performed the procedure before. To maintain the color on the length, do tinting with a semi-permanent dye once every 4-6 weeks. Since not all hair is dyed, there will not be a clear boundary on the regrown roots. The less often you do root highlighting, the less hair will be damaged. The recommended frequency of repeated (root highlighting) is 2-3 months. This rule is especially true for thin hair.

How to get your color back after highlighting

It is very likely that sooner or later you will want to return to a solid color. Of course, the first idea is to simply dye your hair a new color. You should not do this at home. Dyes for home use are very aggressive and can significantly damage your hair. If you dye your hair, do it in a beauty salon with a professional who will select a gentle dye to cause as little damage to your hair as possible. It wouldn't hurt to take a course of restorative salon treatments, especially if you have long enough hair. This will allow them to maintain a healthy appearance.

A more suitable solution would be toning with semi-permanent dyes. Not the shade you used to maintain the color when highlighting, but a new one - darker or closer to your natural color.

Don't be afraid that caring for highlighted hair will be too difficult. Follow these recommendations, and your hair will delight you with its healthy appearance and condition.

Highlighting is a procedure for lightening or coloring individual strands. To achieve the desired effect mixtures of paint or lightening powder with oxygen of varying saturation are used. The percentage of active substance depends on the original hair color and can vary from 1.9 to 12%.

The softer the composition, the less harmful it is to the hair, but a weak oxygen agent only provides light lightening. Those who want to get the lightest shade will have to use a more concentrated oxygenant and repeat the procedure 2-3 times.

Coloring specialists and salon clients are unanimous - even the most gentle highlighting ruins your hair.

The oxygenator penetrates the shaft, lifting the keratin scales and neutralizing the natural color pigment. The more it is, the longer the procedure takes.

Eventually:

To get rid of it, the curls are dyed or tinted.

Single highlighting with lightening by 3-4 tones has almost no effect on the appearance and health of the hair. But repeated treatment, which is carried out after 3 months or even earlier, worsens the condition of the strands that were already damaged during the initial bleaching.

Particularly affected are hair that is subjected to frequent highlighting with strong lightening (up to level 10), as well as curls that are constantly discolored at the roots. The strands become lifeless, difficult to comb, and after washing the hair clumps into a shapeless lump.. In especially difficult cases, they break off right at the roots and fall off in whole strands.

What to do if your hair is damaged?

If, after bleaching, the strands do not look their best, you need to urgently begin to restore them. After highlighting, the hair is tinted with a soft ammonia-free product enriched with:

  1. nourishing oils,
  2. keratins
  3. vitamins.

The drug can:

  • remove yellowness;
  • smooth wrinkled scales;
  • protect curls from the negative effects of sunlight.

For those who do not want to use colored preparations, a transparent corrector is suitable, which performs therapeutic functions.

Toning is repeated once every 3-4 weeks. It is important to choose a drug with the most gentle formula.

  1. You need to wash damaged hair very carefully, using mild professional shampoos designed for damaged and repeatedly dyed hair.
  2. Before washing, the strands are soaked in an oil composition that deeply restores the hair; after washing, be sure to use a balm.
  3. Drying your hair with a hairdryer is strictly prohibited; damaged hair should dry in the open air.

Sometimes broken, burnt strands do not tolerate regular washing. Try dry shampoo, it is quite gentle and can quickly tidy up dirty hair without tangling it. Formulas intended for colored hair and that do not contain alcohol are suitable for processing.

How to improve the condition of dry, straw-like strands?

One of the simplest and most effective means is rinsing hair with herbal infusions.

Suitable for light curls pharmaceutical chamomile, dark highlighted hair is better treated with infusion stinging nettle or stinging nettle.

Help improve the condition of dry hair egg-based masks.

They are rich in lecithin, which restores hair shafts.

  1. Add 1 tbsp to the beaten egg. l. almond oil.
  2. Then the strands are covered with the composition, wrapped with film and a towel.
  3. The compress should be kept for 30-40 minutes, after which the hair is washed with mild shampoo.

Helps restore elasticity to strands gelatin treatment.


This procedure can be done Once a week, in courses of 5-6 procedures.

If the hair breaks at the roots or in the middle, folk remedies may be useless. Much more effective are industrial preparations that can be purchased in specialized stores for salons.

One of the most effective drugs that restores the elasticity of burnt hair is Olaplex №3. A liquid with a light oily texture is applied before washing your hair, and the strands are moistened generously. A 100 ml package is enough for 4 treatments.

  1. Distribute the product over damp curls with your hands and leave for 20-60 minutes.
  2. After this, the hair is rinsed.
  3. Then the hair is washed with shampoo and treated with conditioner.

The drug can be used once a week, the effect is noticeable after the first use.

Olaplex No. 3 slightly dries out hair, so at the same time you need to apply a deeply restorative mask with a nourishing and moisturizing effect.

After highlighting, the hair is tinted, but the soft preparation does not adhere well to porous hair with damaged texture. Helps fix color and increase elasticity of strands Kerastase Immersion Nutritive.

The oily composition is easily distributed over dry hair, and the product is quite economical. A small package is enough for 3-4 months of constant use. Advantages:


The product is applied before washing and left for 20-40 minutes. After it, the hair is easy to comb and does not form a shapeless lump.

For deep restoration of injured curls use Oribe Masque for Beautiful Color. This mask performs the following functions:


The drug is an express product; it can be washed off within 5 minutes after application. Includes:

  • valuable oils;
  • flavonoids;
  • patented keratin complex.

After treatment, the strands stop frizz, are easy to style, and acquire shine. You can apply the drug after each wash, but usually it is used once a week.

What to do if damaged curls break or fall out?

Very often, the problem of highlighted hair is increased hair loss. Rods deprived of pigment become very fragile and suffer at the slightest touch.

Helps reduce hair loss root strengthening massage.


The procedure relaxes, makes the strands more elastic and strong.

A simple and effective remedy that improves hair condition will help - silk pillowcases. Underwear made from natural slip fabric has the following advantages:

  • prevents fragility;
  • removes excess static electricity;
  • prevents the rods from delaminating.

Helps stimulate growth and ensure blood flow to the skin moisturizing wraps with fruit puree.


This procedure is best done after washing, alternating it with industrial masks.

Ready-made, professional-grade preparations can quickly strengthen strands. Very effective Kerastase Masquintense, which:

  • quickly strengthens roots;
  • makes curls silky;
  • hair becomes pleasant to the touch.

The mask is distributed over damp hair after washing for 20 minutes and then washed off.

Shows excellent results Kerastase Chroma Riche Masque.

  1. Apply this preparation to damp curls, lightly rubbing into the roots.
  2. To enhance the effect, the head can be covered with a plastic scarf.
  3. The duration of action of the product is 30 minutes, the procedure can be done 1-2 times a week.

How to care for your hair after dyeing if it’s burned?

Damaged hair must be treated with extreme caution. If highlighting with backcombing was used, before washing off the paint, carefully comb the strands with a wide-toothed comb.

If this is not done, after rinsing the hair will form a lump that is very difficult to untangle.

Exist light oil sprays that can quickly smooth out dull strands and give them a more well-groomed appearance. They are sprayed onto dry curls and combed thoroughly, distributing them over the entire length. Such drugs do not have a cumulative effect; it is better to remove them with a brush before going to bed.

Treatment results: when to expect them?

When using potent industrial products, the result is visible after the first use. However, a persistent cumulative effect should not be expected. Will help consolidate the result constant processing of strands. Lotions to soften the hair before washing, nourishing sprays and masks are used at least once a week.

It is very difficult to cure burnt strands using folk remedies. They are suitable for caring for curls lightened by 3-4 tones. When lightening to levels 9-10, these products are practically useless.

Having decided on contrast highlighting, you need to prepare for constant hair care. You need to try several drugs and choose those to which your curls respond especially well. An experienced colorist in the salon will help you choose the right products; interesting products can be found in professional series.

Useful video

You can learn more about products that restore hair after highlighting or dyeing from the video:

What lengths a woman will go to to look attractive and beautiful. Excruciating workouts in fitness centers, fashionable and stylish clothes, manicures, pedicures, makeup and, of course, hairstyles. Well, what would we do without it? Some people choose extravagant and elegant haircuts, while others like changing the color of their curls, including highlighting the strands.

The highlighting procedure negatively affects the hair structure. At its core, highlighting is the lightening of strands, during which chemical elements penetrate into the very depths of the hair, damaging its structure. To ensure that highlighting brings not only negative, but also positive emotions, and your hair looks beautiful and vibrant, here are some tips: how to care for highlighted strands.

Advice from professionals on hair care after highlighting

Dyed and bleached curls require more careful attention and careful care. They need to be nourished, moisturized and protected. Many professional stylists recommend the following steps to care for highlighted hair:

    Apply masks weekly, both nourishing and moisturizing, alternating them with each other.

    In summer and hot weather, to protect highlighted hair from the scorching sun, it is necessary to use products with ultraviolet protection, such as sunscreen shampoos, balms, fluids, serums, sprays.

It is important to remember that to properly care for highlighted hair, you must use products from the same series or brand, taking into account the type of hair.

Care products from one series will help achieve the maximum effect of beauty and health of bleached curls


    For washing, you must use warm water and never hot water. Never comb wet hair or rub it with a towel. This traumatizes them even more.

    Dry your curls naturally, and you can create beautiful curls using foam rollers, after moistening the strands with beer.

    You should avoid using various electrical appliances when drying, styling, and curling. They will only worsen the condition of already weakened hair.

    For normal, dry or damaged hair, a scalp massage is necessary. It should be carried out at least 2 times a week for 15 minutes, starting with light stroking, and then making circular movements, ending again with simple stroking.

Gentle care for highlighted hair at home

At-home procedure for caring for highlighted hair helps save time and money. The use of various masks gives excellent results in restoring the hair structure. Below are several recipes that will allow you to nourish damaged strands with minerals and nutrients, preserving the beauty of your hair for quite a long time.

    The highlighting procedure can cause hair loss and dandruff. In this case, it is necessary to use strengthening masks, which contain honey, egg yolk, burdock oil, or can be replaced with olive oil. Mix the yolk and 1 tablespoon each of honey and butter thoroughly and add the juice of half a lemon. Apply the mixture to your head for about forty minutes and wrap it with a towel. Then rinse with warm water. If desired, you can add half a softened banana to the mixture. This mask will actively nourish your curls with vitamins, and lemon juice will remove yellowness from bleached strands.

    To nourish and grow the roots, you can use an infusion of a mixture of herbs taken in equal proportions (plantain, sage, oregano, celandine, nettle) with the addition of honey and vitamin A, E. The mass is applied to the head for a couple of hours, then washed off with warm water. Important: using shampoo is strictly prohibited.

    To smooth and eliminate dehydration of hair, use a mask containing kefir (100 ml) and burdock oil (1 tablespoon). The ingredients are mixed and applied to the hair along the entire length with massage movements, then wrapped in film and left for 40 minutes. Then the mask must be washed off with warm water.

If the hair is of the oily type, then the oil can be replaced with cucumber juice in the same ratio.

Following the above tips care for highlighted hair and proper use of homemade masks will help girls maintain healthy and beautiful hair for a long time.

Women go to great lengths to enhance the beauty given by God. Epilation, losing weight/rounding in the right places, nail extensions, plucking eyebrows, hair dyeing, blow-drying, highlighting, finally - this is just the beginning of the list of all those procedures with which we daily/weekly/monthly try to embellish ourselves and our bodies. But all of them are not as safe as we would like to think!

Take, for example, highlighting procedure. Yes, it’s hard to recognize your hair right after leaving the salon: shiny, flexible, more voluminous. But what do we see in a couple of weeks?

Dry, brittle, split ends, sometimes yellow strands that even your best friend would be ashamed to show. And all because we did not follow the basic rules care for highlighted hair. Beautiful and Successful, with her characteristic omnipresence, is in a hurry to correct this glaring omission.

How to properly care for your hair, or everything you wanted to know about the hair highlighting procedure

Before getting into the intricacies and rules of caring for highlighted hair, I would like to understand the procedure itself and its effect on the hair structure. After all, understanding the essence of the problem, as usual, greatly simplifies the search for the shortest ways to solve it.

So, highlighting is a procedure for lightening individual strands of hair, produced using special chemical clarifiers. Those. during the process, her hair, albeit partially, is subject to bleaching, which means it automatically falls into the “Damaged” category. After all, not only their appearance changes, but also the structure itself (lighteners penetrate deep into the hair, etching away its native pigment and thereby making it empty; scales open up, metabolism is disrupted).

This is why it is so important to begin resuscitation of your favorite locks in time.(the alkali included in the lightening dye continues to have a negative effect on the hair long after it gets inside) in order to minimize the consequences of this procedure.

At the same time, hair care after highlighting should be gentle and carried out in three directions at once:

  • recovery,
  • treatment,
  • color preservation.

In fact, there is nothing extremely complicated about this (as you might think :)). Caring for highlighted curls is not much different from regular hair care (with the exception of a couple of nuances, which will be discussed below): ready-made cosmetics will come to your aid, which you can buy right there from your hairdresser (he, like no one else, knows your hair and is able to recommend the most effective care) or at the nearest professional cosmetics store/any cosmetics department of a supermarket.

You can also take advantage of Mother Nature’s gifts and prepare at home one of the masks we offer below to restore and maintain the health of highlighted hair.

Subtleties of caring for highlighted hair

1. Shampoo for highlighted hair

A well-chosen product will help restore shine and strength to your hair. special shampoo marked “For highlighted hair”. This shampoo has a more acidic environment (compared to regular shampoo), which allows it to neutralize the effect of alkali, and the presence of protein components in the composition helps restore damaged hair structure.

In addition, it perfectly cleanses the scalp and hair, gives it a more intense color and makes it visually healthier, stronger and silkier.

Note: Starting the first stage of the program: “Care for highlighted hair ", it is important to consider main thing: it is selected according to the condition of the scalp. Therefore, if you decide to take the path of least resistance and buy, say, shampoo for colored hair (so what, your hair is half colored 🙂), then we advise you to think hard first. After all, if you have oily scalp, then by definition color-preserving shampoos are contraindicated for you (due to the high content of nutritional components in them).

Therefore, remember once and for all: highlighted hair requires different care than dyed hair (unless it is a special shampoo intended for both dyed and highlighted hair). AND it is shampoos for highlighted hair that can give it, acting purposefully!!! on strands treated with dyes, making them elastic, smooth, bright and shining, as if you had just left the salon (even if more than 3 weeks have passed :)). And it is with this product that you should wash your hair immediately after the highlighting procedure - this technique will allow the treated strands to retain their new color bright and rich longer and will protect them from unnecessary injury.

Therefore, keep a list of the best, in the opinion of Beautiful and Successful, shampoos for highlighted hair:

  • Shampoo-shine for highlighted hairLuminoContrastfromL’ Oreal— restores the lipid balance of highlighted hair, preserves the color inside the hair, nourishes the hair structure from roots to ends, carefully and thoroughly cleanses curls, prevents fading and drying of strands.
  • Shampoo for highlighted hair Illumi Lights from Schwarzkopf Professional – It qualitatively and very carefully cares for highlighted strands, giving them a beautiful shade, removes unwanted pigments, gives the hair multi-dimensional shine and radiance, and reliably protects it from solar insolation.
  • Shampoo for highlighted hairLifetexColorprotectionfromWellaProfessional — nourishes and preserves the brightness of the color of bleached strands, gently cleanses the hair, protects it from the effects of free radicals.
  • Shampoo for gray and blond hair Solutionist So Silver from Matrix - prevents the appearance of yellow and copper shades on the hair, gives curls a natural shine, highlights and emphasizes lighter strands.

Note: ideally, a special shampoo should be used for another two weeks from the moment the strands are bleached, but if your scalp requires another product (shampoo for sensitive scalp, anti-dandruff shampoo, etc.), then you can immediately after the first wash return to your usual product, and to care for highlighted strands, choose either a special mask or leave-in care.

2. Leave-in care

They will help you consolidate your success after using a special shampoo. leave-in fluid gels for highlighted hair. Thanks to the substances included in their composition, they smooth out highlighted strands, give them a natural shine, emphasizing the contrast and color relief of coloring, and restore the lipid balance in hairs treated with an oxidizing agent.

So, gel-fluid for shine of highlighted hair Lumino Contrast from L’Oreal Proffesionnel copes well with all of the above tasks, restoring each highlighted strand from the inside, nourishing and moisturizing it. As a result: hair becomes smoother, shinier and more elastic, and the exquisite color of bleached curls is emphasized.

3. Masks for highlighted hair

You should not neglect the special ones designed to care for hair depleted by highlighting. Such masks act selectively, providing deep care for each hair separately (nourishing highlighted strands with all the necessary substances) and are able to restore the normal level of the lipid layer of the fibers in a short time; protect bleached curls from premature fading and the formation of a yellow tint; Give hair extra volume and natural shine.

So, shine mask for highlighted hair Lumino Contrast from L’Oreal Proffesionnel acts in several directions at once:

  • nourishes highlighted strands without weighing them down,
  • restores lipid balance,
  • not allowing the color to quickly wash out from the base of the hair,
  • smoothes hairs, creating an invisible protective film on them,
  • fills curls with vital energy, gives them shine, smoothness and silkiness.

Lovers of homemade masks can take note of the following recipes:

  • Yolk mask – Separate the yolks from two eggs, mix them thoroughly and apply to highlighted hair. Cover your head with cellophane and a scarf. After half an hour, wash off the mask with a mild shampoo.
  • Mask with fruit acids – mix one kiwi with half a banana, grapefruit or tangerine, mix thoroughly and distribute on your hair. After 15 minutes, rinse off the mask with warm water and restorative shampoo.
  • Kefir mask – mix half a glass of kefir and one tablespoon of olive oil, apply the resulting mixture to your hair, after half an hour, rinse with warm water and shampoo.
  • Mask made from sprouted grain oil. Rub sprouted grain oil into your scalp using massage movements, and after half an hour, rinse off the mask with warm water.

4. Care, styling and preventive measures

All of the following activities have been described by us more than once, because they form the basis of mandatory hair care for absolutely all types. We will not be too lazy to repeat once again the main points of the preventive program: “Beautiful curls.” After all, as they say, repetition is the key to healthy hair :)

  • and definitely warm water. Finish the procedure by dousing your hair with cold water (the benefits of a contrast shower for shine and shine of hair can hardly be overestimated).
  • Daily for 10 minutes massage scalp using a special massage brush (stimulates hair growth).
  • Comb your hair only dry and only with a high-quality comb with smooth teeth (hair is especially prone to injury when wet).
  • Follow all preventive measures to protect your hair from drying effects. UV rays and chlorinated water.
  • If possible give up the hair dryer, tongs and curling irons. If the hair dryer procedure cannot be avoided, do it in the most gentle way: cold air on pre-towel-dried hair.
  • While drying your hair with a hairdryer Direct the air stream along the hair growth - this will close the scales of the strands, thereby creating the effect of glossy smoothness and shine.

This is where we finish teaching you the wisdom :) I think all of the above will be more than enough to do care for highlighted hair easy, consistent and, most importantly, effective.

Wishing you beautiful, healthy and shiny hair!

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