People are prone to change. Women especially prefer cardinal changes in appearance. Change of style, make-up, haircuts and hair colors are characteristic of the fair sex.
Unfortunately, regular dyeing, sharp lightening or perms lead to the destruction of the structure of the strands, which affect the appearance. Damaged strands can be repaired at home. Thanks to the beneficial properties of extracts, oils and fresh products, wilted strands can be transformed in just a few months.
Dyed hair problems
To answer the question why hair spoils when stained, you need to understand how the reaction occurs.
Each natural color hair is covered protective film, which protects it from external factors, gives shine and a healthy look. This layer consists of horny scales. During the coloring process, aggressive components of the paint lift the scales and wash the natural pigment from the hair, leaving the artificial one.
After staining the curls, the “scales” remain in the open state. With this condition of curls, the strands lose their luster and conduct nutrients worse from the root to the ends. That is, when dumbfounded, the hair cannot resist the effects of an adverse environment. That is why there are problems with hair.
With constant dyeing, the hostess gets weakened, naughty, often overdried hair, which needs careful care.
In combination with a chemical effect on the hair, improper diet and lifestyle appear following issues:
- Dry and brittle strands;
- Dandruff and skin irritation, allergies;
- Split ends;
- Hair loss.
To reduce the harmful effects and restore colored hair, you need to give them proper care and try to reduce the use of funds with ammonia.
Colored hair care
To reduce the harmful effects of paint and maintain healthy hair, you need to ensure proper care.
If you can not do without hair dye, then you should stick following rules:
- Do not carry out complex stains on their own. Better to trust a specialist. The wrong ratio of pigment and oxidizing agent can lead not only to an ugly color, but also to the fact that you badly ruin your hair. It is especially worth being careful when lightening;
- It is better to give preference to paints without ammonia. This is one of the most important harmful substances that injures flakes of strands;
- Be sure to use hair balm. It is necessary to use not only the conditioner, which is included in the set for coloring, but also with every shampoo after shampooing;
- Make full hair coloring (from roots to ends no more than 2 times a year). When using a contrasting shade from natural, staining should be alternated every other time: full staining and only the roots;
- When painting hair, you must follow the instructions.
In order for the acquired hair color to be persistent and not washed off after a couple of weeks, you can not wash your hair in the first two days after the procedure. At this time, the pigment is fixed on the curls, so when washing your hair, shampoo will reduce most of the paint to nothing.
Not recommended comb wet hair, as a sharp mechanical effect damages the structure of the strands. Ideal to comb wet hair.
As a means to care for dyed hair, you can use store cosmetics, procedures in the beauty parlor and home recipes.
In the store you can often find the following tools:
- Shampoos and balms for colored hair. You can also find products that support a light or dark shade of hair;
- Serum;
- Sprays
Dyed hair is affected not only by chemical effects, but also by thermal. Therefore, the use of hairdryers and other styling devices should be reduced.
The market has a number of products that are designed to protect hair from high temperatures. Sprays, mousses, creams will help protect the hair from the harmful effects of high temperatures and facilitate the process of styling hair.
At home, you can cook a large number of masks from natural ingredients that will restore damaged hair and make up for the lack of the necessary components.
Features of home masks for colored hair
Colored hair needs additional nutrition and hydration. The most effective are masks, which contain essential oils, fruits, dairy products and alcohol tinctures.
Masks for colored hair have a number of featuresthat you need to remember before using them, for example:
- If the hair suffers from dryness, then recipes containing alcohol should be used with caution. You can not keep the mask longer than the specified time;
- After the mask, rinse your hair not with hot, but with warm water. Elevated water temperature also spoils the structure of the curl;
- During the procedure, do a light head massage. It is especially convenient to do this when you distribute the mask in the root zone;
- Make a new mixture each time. The components of masks for colored hair quickly deteriorate and lose most vitamins within 24 hours.
- To restore strands, only masks will not help. During therapy, try to drink plenty of water, preferably 1.5 - 2 liters per day, as well as consume more vitamins.
Depending on the composition of the mask, one procedure takes from 20 minutes to an hour. If the mixture does not contain aggressive components, such as pepper or mustard, then masks can be done 2-3 times a week. In the opposite case, in order not to dry out the head and cause irritation, the procedures are carried out 1 (sometimes 2) times a week. The duration of the course depends on each recipe separately.
Masks for maintaining color brightness
The brightest hair color, for example, red, red or chestnut, is most easily washed off. In order for the color to remain saturated longer and not have to dye your hair once again, you can prepare a mask based on eggs.
For the mixture will be required following ingredients:
- 3 yolks of chicken eggs;
- 3 tbsp. l fresh lemon juice;
- 3 tbsp. l apple cider vinegar.
To prepare the mask, it is enough to mix all the components to a homogeneous mass and apply on curls. The composition should be distributed through the hair, starting from the roots, going down to the tips.
The mask can be applied 2-3 times a week after staining. If you use the ingredients in the right amount, then you can dye your hair less, about 1.5 times.
Masks for dry and brittle hair
If you want to get rid of dryness and brittle hair, you need to provide good nutrition, which will allow the strands to restore their structure and supply of fluid. Sour-milk products are excellent helpers in this. Recipes with kefir, yogurt or cream are easy to prepare and do not require much time.
The easiest way to revitalize dry strands is pure kefir mask. Kefir has protein, calcium, vitamin B and E, which are necessary for the normal functioning of the body and, in particular, hair and skin.
To apply kefir as a mask, just warm up a little 400-500 ml liquid and apply to the hair along the entire length. The procedure is carried out for 20-30 minutes and kefir is washed off. Such masks can be done 2-3 times a week.
To enhance the action of useful components and accelerate the appearance of the result, it is recommended to add other components to kefir. Egg yolk and olive oil are ideal.
Mask for clarified hair with a banana
Lightening does maximum damage to strands. To revive them, you need to monitor hair care and take comprehensive measures. First of all, you need to use balms for bleached hair, as well as protect the hair from ultraviolet radiation. Masks containing oils, banana or yolk will help.
The simplest masks consist of one or two components, for example,banana and eggs.
To prepare the mask, you need to grind 1 banana in a blender and mash with a fork, mix it with 1 yolk until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The mask should be applied to wet hair, spreading from the root to the ends. Keep the composition on your head for 30-40 minutes.
Such a mask can be used often, since it does not contain aggressive biological substances (2-3 times a week). Wash off the mask in warm water, using hair shampoo if necessary.
Mask for the restoration of weakened hair
Blond hair suffers from a lack of vitamins B and E. Mask of avocado can be called miraculous, as it allows you to restore curls that have weakened after clarification. B vitamins stimulate the growth of colored hair, giving them shine and a healthy appearance. Vitamin E in the composition moisturizes and nourishes the strands, and also preserves the hair pigment.
AT structure masks include the following components:
- Pulp 1 avocado;
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable or olive oil;
- 1 yolk;
- 1 tbsp. l vinegar.
To prepare the mask, you need to mix all the ingredients and apply the mixture on your head on 30-40 minutes. In order for the mixture to carry a more effective effect, you need to wrap your head in polyethylene and a towel. Mask data can be done 1-2 times a week a course of 1.5-2 months.
Yellowness masks for blondes
Pretty hard to get rid of yellow hair freshly painted blondes. One of the few products that can help fair-haired beauties is honey. This ingredient nourishes and restores hair well, removing excess pigment.
For cooking, you need only a few tablespoons of honey. The liquid must be heated to a liquid state and distributed in strands. While the mask is on the head, a slightly elevated temperature of the liquid should be maintained. To do this, the head should be wrapped in a bath cap and towel.
The procedure is carried out for a long amount of time - 3-4 hours. Apply the mask no more often than Once a week.
Rinse off very carefully, since honey has a sticky structure that is difficult to remove. When rinsing the head, use shampoo for dry colored hair.
Mask for hair loss with protein
In order for dyed hair to stop falling out, care should be taken to strengthen the hair follicles. It is necessary to provide hair with magnesium, potassium, calcium and other trace elements that are most necessary for bones, skin and hair after dyeing.
To strengthen the roots and accelerate the growth of dyed hair, a folk recipe using egg and yeast protein. The protein in the composition of any hair mask plays the role of a building material for tissues and cells, therefore, with a lack of this substance, the skin and hair suffer: hair loss and loss of hair shine begin.
Protein is especially needed for colored hair, since useful components cannot reach the roots to the ends of the hair due to a violation of the sheath of the hairs.
The mask contains:
- 10 gr. yeast
- 1 chicken protein.
To prepare the mixture, you need to pre-prepare the yeast. Soak yeast in a small amount of warm water or milk. Yeast infuse for 40-60 minutes depending on the temperature of the water and the form of release of the yeast.
Ready-made yeast must be mixed with protein until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then apply the mask to the hair with massaging movements. The procedure lasts up to an hour, depending on the degree of dryness of the damaged hair.
Rinse off the mask with warm water using a shampoo. It is recommended to use this mask 1-2 times a week until the desired result is achieved.
Tea moisturizing mask
Everyone knows that tea has beneficial properties for the body. It is an equally important product for hair.
In tea contains a large number of:
- Minerals: fluorine, copper, potassium, manganese, calcium, etc .;
- Tannins, which serve to strengthen hair and eliminate dandruff;
- Amino acids that actively nourish dyed hair;
- Alkaloids, due to which blood circulation improves.
Tea is an indispensable plant that has a complex effect on the hair and scalp.
For tea mask will need:
- 1 tsp tea. Blondes should use green tea, and brunettes should use black;
- 1 tbsp. water;
- 2 tbsp. l gelatin;
- 4-5 drops of orange essential oil.
To prepare a moisturizing mask you will need make tea in a glass hot water. Then the liquid should be cooled and pour colorless gelatin into it. When the product swells, the mask must be melted in a water bath.
Then the liquid is again cooled to room temperature and a few drops of orange or grape oil are added. The finished mixture should be evenly distributed over the entire surface of the hair and left for 30-40 minutes. It is recommended that you put on a shower cap and wrap your head in a towel. The procedure can be applied no more than 2 times a week for a month.
If you follow all the rules while performing the recommended procedures, as well as reduce the amount of staining and thermal effects, then hair can be restored in 4-6 months.
