How to keep your Holiday Hair Color!

First you have to avoid the fade. The wrong shampoo makes haircolor fade fast. Make sure the shampoo you’re using is sulfate-free. This makes for a mild and gentler cleanser that won’t make you loose your new haircolor.
If you don’t have time for a full color appointment, a clear gloss can put life back into your hair. The clear gloss will also condition and enhance the sheen. Are you worried about your haircolor fading this winter/season? A time-saving solution is to add a few highlights to your hair. Highlights don’t take nearly as long as a touch-up appointment and strategic placement adds contrast that will make your color pop all over again.
Refreshing your color can just be from a shampoo that contains color in the wash to restore your hairs dulling hues. These shampoos are handy for extending the life of hair that has been dyed red.
If you’re worried about financial demands this season, I will try to come up with a Holiday haircolor plan just for you. I will try to save you time, money and unnecessary frustration.

How to love your Curls again!

"Love your curls"Let me help you learn how to embrace your curls! There is a proper way to style and care for your hair. On the Hollywood red carpets the last couple years, women are starting to let their curls be shown after a lifetime of straightening them. Curls are usually a love/hate relationship with my clients. I think that my clients get frustrated with the curls because they don’t know how to manage them. Curls right now are very big and undefined. Running fingers through your dry hair with a pomade will break up the curls. Whatever the style of your hair, hair health is important. Big and messy hair is good, but Big, Messy and Dry hair is not good. One must do in-home and in-salon deep conditioning treatments to KEEP YOUR HAIR LOOKING GOOD between cuts to smooth the cuticle. Haircuts can be scheduled between 6 to 8 weeks. Remember moisture and shine are the keys to beautiful curls. Hair Helpers! Products used for curly hair Deva Curls, Unite Boing Curls, Smoothing Shampoo from Unite.

The Process of Cleansing and Conditioning the hair

To maintain healthy hair you have to wash it on a regular basis. This doesn’t mean washing you hair every day. You do not want to dry out your hair or scalp. It is very important to “open up” the cutical layer of each hair (which is what cleansing does) so the cutical layer can properly absorb conditioning and styling products. I recommend using a really good shampoo. A good shampoo will get way down into the hair and remove all of the oils, dirt and build up from other products, without stripping the hair itself. Shampoos you purchase vary in their formulas. The formulas can range from baby fine to thick hair formulas.
Hair has a combination of qualities. For instance, hair can be baby fine and it can also be color processed. You can always use more than one shampoo at a time to take care of these different shampoo on alternate days.
Lather does not clean your hair- it is mainly for show. Have you noticed: the dirtier your hair the less the shampoo with lather and the cleaner your hair the more the shampoo with lather.
When you have a combination of hair needs such as chemically processed hair that goes limp at the roots you need to clean your scalp and give it some lift. But you also want to avoid stripping moisture from the rest of your hair. Before you shampoo apply a conditioner along the length of your wet hair to the ends. Then place the shampoo at the root area allowing only the shampoo run off during the rinse, to wash over the rest of your hair. This should help get the bounce back into your limp, chemically processed hair.

Got Frizz?

 

Some of my clients ask me how come there hair is so frizzy. I ask them what styling products they use and how they are towel drying their hair? They usually take the towel after showering and wrap the towel around their head. Then they take the towel and rub, rub, rub until the hair is almost dry. Their hair is dry but however they damage their hair after so much rubbing. To correctly towel dry the hair is gently sqeeze the water out of the hair section by section. Move your head one side to the other until your hair is damp, not wet. Rubbing your hair with your towel is definately roughing up your hairs cuticle. The cuticle is the outside portion of the hairs shaft. By rubbing your hair with the towel is just creating more frizz. when you are dealing with curly hair, it’s better to let your hair dry naturally rather than using a diffuser or blowdryer. If you do decide to use a blowdryer you tend to get flyaways, and frizz. Find away to style your hair curly and let it dry naturally.

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