When is it better to dye your hair: before or after keratin straightening?

Modern society dictates strict rules for appearance. Girls succumb to these trends and constantly change their image. For example, if we consider the fashion for hair color, then 2015 is a solid color, 2017 showed such a technique as balayage, but in 2019 fashion critics recommend returning the natural hair color. All these changes are bad for the hair. The keratin straightening procedure helps to tidy up the hair and create a noble look. When asked when it is better to do the procedure: before painting or after, we will answer in this article.

Keratin, which is found in the formulations for the straightening session, helps to smooth the hair. In addition to straight strands, clients gain many more advantages:

• shine along the entire length;
• ease of combing and pleasant structure;
• clogging of split ends.

Keratin biopolymer allows you to achieve a similar effect, since it is the main element in the hair structure. This element creates the integrity of the hair, and with the help of heat-setting forms a protective layer.

Let's consider how the straightening process takes place.

1. Before the session, the hair is washed with a special shampoo.
2. Be sure to make 3 uniform beams, with which they will work in stages. This allows you to evenly distribute the alignment preparation.
3. Distribution starts from the roots, indented by approximately 2 cm in thin rows.
4. After applying the entire preparation, the hair is combed to distribute it evenly.
5. Using a hair dryer and a styling brush, dry the strands.
6. To form a protective layer, heat treatment is performed with a rectifier.

To complete the session, you must pay approximately 4 hours. Within two days, the drug is still doing its job, therefore during this period, the hair should not be washed and hairstyled with it.

Before proceeding to the main question, it is worth understanding what happens to the hair structure at the time of dyeing. The main composition of the paint is hydrogen peroxide and alkaline elements. The first component oxidizes and develops pigment. The second helps the coloring pigment get into the hair scales.

During staining:

1. the master distributes the coloring mass from the roots to the ends of the hair using a special brush;
2. alkaline elements contribute to the ingress of paint into the flakes;
3. hydrogen peroxide allows hair to lose its natural color;
4. the hair takes on the expected shade.

The principle of coloring is chemical penetration into the hair structure, which leads to a color change. Now you can start to deal with the question of the time of staining, if there is a desire to do keratin straightening.

There are several options for how to deal with hair in preparation for keratin straightening.

The first option is to dye your hair after the procedure. Of course, in this case, there are many nuances that need to be taken into account.

It must be remembered that immediately after the session, the hair should not be exposed to any physical or chemical influences. You cannot wash your head, you cannot do hair, especially curls. If you disobey this rule, then there will be no expected result.

The straightening procedure acts on the hair structure in such a way that the scales are closed. To change the color of the hair, the hair follicle must be opened as much as possible, which will be facilitated by the chemical elements in the paint composition. If this does not happen, the hair will remain the same color.

After this time, keratin slowly decreases its function, and the protective layer of the hair disappears. The hair scales are ready to receive the dye chemicals again. Accordingly, if you do the staining even later, the result will be more effective.

The second option is to color the hair before the procedure. This option is considered more favorable. With the help of a straightening session, the color will be sealed inside the hair and will retain the effect for a long time, it will also be saturated.

But, as in the first option, there are certain nuances that must be observed. There is a requirement for staining time before the procedure. If the color is carried out in natural and dark shades, then before the session at least 10 days must pass. If it is necessary to achieve light shades, then the keratin straightening procedure can be carried out not earlier than after 20 days. Longest recovery after staining (30 days) is needed after performing the highlighting technique.

Preference should be given to paints without ammonia. This will avoid deep damage to the hair follicles, as keratin fixes all the elements under a protective layer.

Everyone chooses the method that suits him. One has only to know that a color option is possible both before and after the procedure. Both will fulfill their functions. It cannot be said unequivocally that the first alternative is better than the second, and vice versa.

In order for the hair to have a rich and shiny color after changing the hair color and the procedure for leveling with keratin, the following rules must be followed.

• Use only ammonia-free paints to change the color of the strands.
• You can buy basma and henna.They consist of natural elements and do not damage the hair structure.
• If a decision was made to radically change the image (from black to light color or vice versa), then the keratin straightening procedure is performed no earlier than 3 months later.
• Do not overexpose the composition during staining, strictly follow the instructions.
• If a tint tonic is used in everyday life, then a few weeks before the procedure, it should be abandoned. The reason for this rule is that when the hair is heat treated, the shade of the tinting agent will change. It is impossible to predict what color will turn out in the end.
• If the choice fell on the procedure in the Japanese technique, then henna and basma cannot be used for staining for a year before the session.

If hair coloring is required, then the above rules must be followed. In this case, the maximum effect of the two procedures will be obtained. In short, if the color is done before the procedure, then a period of 2 weeks must be observed, and if after, then not earlier than a month later.

However, do not forget that the quality of the paint has a strong influence on the reduction and extension of the time frame. That is why, having decided on an expensive straightening, you should not save on paint.

The technique of staining and keratin straightening in one day is given below.