When and how can I dye my hair after lightening?

Lighten their curls women in two cases - after unsuccessful staining, when you want to change the color of the hair, or to give its natural shade lighter tones. Lightening is performed with the help of rather aggressive chemical components, as a result of which the hair structure suffers in the absolute majority of cases - the hair shaft is overdried, broken, falls out. In addition, it may happen that the expected result will be completely different from what you would like to see on your head.

It is best to lighten natural strands of hair. If you want to lighten up after persistent permanent dyes - the result can never be accurately predicted. A competent and responsible specialist is unlikely to agree to provide you with a hair bleaching service, if they were affected by henna or basma.

On natural strands after clarification with a problem, there is usually yellowness. If the previously dyed hair is subjected to bleaching, then it can become of any color — green, blue, brown, red. In such cases, go to another stage of clarification, many women do not dare, and try to paint over the unfortunate shade with persistent dyes.

After receiving unsatisfactory results of clarification in women immediately the question arises about how soon you can paint curls in a different color. Of course, any woman would like to quickly look beautiful, but not everything is so simple. First of all, you need to assess the condition of your hair after lightening. If the strands are dry and brittle, it is possible to influence them with chemical dyes no sooner than in 10-14 days. Neglecting such a timeframe can lead to total hair loss - they just break off and fall off.

So that during these two weeks you may feel more or less calm, not hesitating to go out, experienced craftsmen give a number of useful tips.

• Use shampoos - they will help not only to eliminate yellowness, but also slightly tint your curls into any shade of your choice. Tint shampoo does not dry out your hair even more than it already happened, but will help to correct their color. In addition, the resulting shade after a few shampooing procedures using regular shampoo will be washed off your hair. Another advantage of tint means is that after them you can safely paint the strands with any resistant paint. These two tools do not come into conflict - the paint will fall perfectly on your hair and will block the shade that remained after shading with shampoo.
• Prepare your hair for the next coloring - for the two weeks that need to be taken as a pause between clarification and subsequent persistent staining, you need to try to restore your curls. To do this, they need to provide proper care and treatment. Pay attention to shampoo - now sulfate-free products are best for your hair. Water for washing the head should be used soft - filtered and boiled. After washing, rinse the curls with decoction of herbs - chamomile, nettle, sage, mint, burdock roots. Be sure to twice a week apply nourishing masks and oils.
• During this period, you will have to abandon the use of a hot hair dryer, ironing and curlingthat you used to use for drying and styling hair.

After two weeks of care for a couple of days before dyeing, your curls should be moistened. To do this, fit a special moisturizing mask of industrial production or homemade.

After you have prepared your hair, you need to decide on the color and tone in which you want to dye them. For strands damaged after brightening, experts recommend using semi-permanent dyes. The difference of such paint from permanent analogues is that in semi-permanent products there is no ammonia, and the coloring process is started with the help of 6% hydrogen peroxide in their composition. Coloring will look bright and saturated, but the durability of such dyes is much lower, but they do not destroy the already damaged hair structure.

If you are a supporter natural dyes, then after the lightening procedure they may behave in unexpected ways on your hair. Therefore, those who are accustomed to dye their hair with henna or basma should abandon them. When staining, henna and basma may get stained, or as a result you may not get the same shade you expected..

To paint over bleached strands of hair, It is necessary to carry out the procedure carefully, adhering to the following rules:

• hair is divided into 4 working areas and we apply paint first of all on the root area of ​​the hair, so we do it with each area;
• now you need to quickly distribute the paint over the entire length of the strands;
• to evenly distribute the dye, we comb the hair with a comb with rare teeth;
• we maintain the necessary time for the effects of paint on the hair according to the instructions;
• 5 minutes before the end of the paint aging period, it needs to be emulsified - the hair is slightly moistened, and we distribute the paint over it with massage movements;
• wash off the paint with water using shampoo;
• Apply a nourishing balm for the entire length of the hair.

Further, it is undesirable to wash the hair for up to two days, since during this period the dye is fixed inside the structure of the hair shaft.

Dyeing hair after lightening can be both in the direction of even more lightening, and in the direction of transition to a dark color.

In order to achieve clean shades of blond, you will need clarification with a special powder, and after that, to give the desired shade of hair tinted paint. Only in this case it is possible to paint in blond, ashen or honey blond. You can remove yellowness to bleached hair with non-ammonia paints. To solve this problem it is necessary to take ashy shades.

There are some rules that colorists use when it is necessary to make the color transition to a lighter shade:

• clarification should be done at a time not higher than 1-3 tones;
• if the original hair color has a yellow undertone, then the paint should be chosen with the content of violet pigments;
• we determine the initial shade - warm or cold;
• For a cold shade, choose colors of the cold spectrum, for warm shades - a warm spectrum.

Lighten previously dyed hair sometimes comes in several stages - the procedure has to be repeated at two-week intervals.

If you are disappointed in the shade of hair after lightening and want to regain the dark color, maybe not as radical as it was originally, but just a little darker than the one that turned out after bleaching, you need to perform pre-pigmentation procedure. Pre-pigmentation is needed in order so that your hair after dyeing does not suddenly become green, blue or brown due to the yellow pigment.

The pre-pigmentation process is that the hair is treated with a special compound that contains a combination of red, yellow and orange pigments. There are compounds containing only one of the three named pigments. Only after the pre-pigmentation procedure, the master dyes your curls with a persistent ammonia dye of the selected shade.

To properly dye the hair after the lightening procedure, hairdressers-colorists advise to follow simple rules.

• Coloring bleached strands in a darker tone is best to start with ashy tones. Only after that you can go through repeated stages of painting, and already apply dark shades. If you start immediately with dark tones, there is a risk that the paint will be stained, and will not stand firmly on the hair.
• After clarification, choose shades of natural tones, avoiding radical - black, red, copper-red. On dry hair, these tones look bad, often lie unevenly, and can give unwanted shades.
• If you want to return your hair to a natural color, then after lightening the paint should be chosen 1 tone lighter than you expect to receive as a result. The fact is that on bleached hair, the usual tone will look a little darker.

In order to successfully cope with the task of correcting unsuccessful staining, it is best to confide in a competent colorist. Do not act on your own, as you may permanently ruin your hair, but not get the desired result.

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