Dyeing or lightening your hair at home allows for a quick and much cheaper change of hairstyle. When choosing the right products and proper hair preparation, you can achieve a beautiful effect. However, for this to happen, you can’t forget about the condition of the strands before the procedure.
Do you have your hair worn after other treatments? In this case, it is worth waiting a few weeks and try to improve their condition using properly selected cosmetics. Dried hair is a common problem, in this case it is worth reaching for nutrients or oils that will allow them to moisturize. It is best to adapt products to the type of hair, i.e. high porosity, medium porosity or low porosity. You don’t know what kind you have? The glass test will be helpful (it is not always unambiguous, but most cases should help). Fill the glass with water and immerse the hair in it, if it falls to the bottom, you have high porosity hair, if it submerges it medium porosity, and if it swims on the surface, the hair is low.
Hair oiling is a universal solution to ensure good hydration and smoothing. Oils with, among others from grape seeds, castor or avocado. Using such care a few weeks before dyeing, you can avoid the “hay effect”.
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In many cases, before dyeing the hair, you should perform decolorization, remember that The paint will look different on natural and differently on previously dyed hairthus, it can fall into slightly different tones, which is why, especially in the case of lighter hair, which was previously dyed darker, it is better to decolorize.
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In addition to dyeing hair, it is worth taking care of their condition thanks to the OMO method. It involves washing the hair with a conditioner all over the length, and only then wash the base and scalp with shampoo. In addition, after washing, emollient masks should be used, which will allow you to close the hair cuticle. It is good to reach for products with proteins and emollients. To maintain the color of dyed hair, choose a toner that will refresh the shade from time to time.
