When and how can you dye your hair after lightening?

Women lighten their curls in two cases - after unsuccessful staining, when you want to change the color of the hair, or to give their natural shade lighter tones. Lightening is performed with the help of rather aggressive chemical components, as a result of which, in the vast majority of cases, the structure of the hair suffers - the hair shaft dries up, breaks, falls out. In addition, it may turn out that the expected result is completely different from what you would like to see on your head.

Natural hair strands lend themselves best to lightening. If you want to lighten after persistent permanent dyes, the result can never be predicted with certainty. A competent and responsible specialist is unlikely to agree to provide you with a service for bleaching hair if they have been exposed to henna or basma.

On natural strands, after lightening, yellowness is usually a problem. If you expose previously dyed hair to bleaching, then it can become any color - green, blue, brown, red. In such cases, many women do not dare to go to another stage of lightening, but try to paint over the unsuccessful shade with the help of persistent dyes.

After receiving unsatisfactory lightening results in women, the question immediately arises of how soon you can dye the curls in a different color. Of course, any woman would like to look beautiful as soon as possible, 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, they can be exposed to chemical dyes no earlier than 10-14 days later. Neglecting such terms can lead to total hair loss - they just break off and fall off.

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

• Use tinted shampoos - they will help not only eliminate yellowness, but also slightly tint your curls in any shade you choose. The tint shampoo will not dry out your hair any more than it already has, but it will help correct its color. In addition, the resulting shade will be washed off your hair after several shampooing procedures. Another advantage of tinting agents is that after them you can safely paint the strands with any permanent paint. These two products do not come into conflict - the paint will perfectly fit on your hair and overlap the shade that remained after toning with shampoo.
• Prepare your hair for the upcoming coloring - for those two weeks that need to be taken in the form of a pause between lightening and subsequent persistent staining, you need to try to restore your curls. To do this, they need to be provided with proper care and treatment. Pay attention to shampoo - sulfate-free products are best for your hair right now. Water for shampooing should be used soft - filtered and boiled. After washing, rinse the curls with decoctions of herbs - chamomile, nettle, sage, mint, burdock roots. Be sure to apply nourishing masks and oils twice a week.
• During this period, you will have to stop using a hot hair dryer, iron and curling iron.that you are used to using for drying and styling your hair.

After two weeks of care, a couple of days before dyeing, your curls need to be moisturized. For this, special moisturizing masks of industrial production or homemade are suitable.

After you have prepared your hair, you need to decide on the color and tone in which you want to dye it. For strands damaged after lightening, experts recommend using semi-permanent dyes. The difference between this paint and permanent analogs is that there is no ammonia in semi-permanent products, and the coloring process is started with the help of 6% hydrogen peroxide included in their composition. The coloring will look bright and rich, 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 can behave on your hair in the most unexpected way. Therefore, those who are used to dyeing their hair with henna or basma should refuse them. Henna and basma, when stained, may stain, or as a result, you may get a completely different shade that you expected..

To paint over bleached hair strands it is necessary to perform the procedure carefully, adhering to the following rules:

• we divide the hair into 4 working zones and apply paint first of all to the root area of ​​the hair, we do this with each zone;
• now you need to quickly distribute the paint along the entire length of the strands;
• to evenly distribute the paint, comb the hair with a comb with rare teeth;
• we maintain the time required for the instructions for exposure to the dye on the hair;
• 5 minutes before the expiration date of the paint, it must be emulsified - we slightly moisturize the hair, and distribute the paint over it with massage movements;
• wash off the paint with water using shampoo;
• apply a nourishing balm to 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.

Hair coloring after lightening can be either in the direction of even greater lightening, or in the direction of transition to a dark color.

To achieve pure blonde shades, lightening with a special powder will be required, and after that, to give the desired shade, the hair is tinted with paint. Only in this case, it is possible to paint in light brown, ash or honey blond. You can remove yellowness to bleached hair using ammonia-free paints. To solve this problem, you need to take ashy shades.

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

• lightening should be done at a time no higher than 1-3 tones;
• if the original hair color has a yellow undertone, then the paint should be chosen with the content of purple pigments;
• we determine the initial shade - it is warm or cold;
• for a cold shade we choose colors of a cold spectrum, for warm shades - a warm spectrum.

Sometimes it is necessary to lighten previously dyed hair in several stages - the procedure has to be repeated at two-week intervals.

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

The prepigmentation process consists in treating the hair with a special compound that contains a combination of red, yellow and orange pigments. There are formulations containing only one of the three named pigments. Only after the prepigmentation procedure, the master paints your curls with a persistent ammonia dye of the selected shade.

To properly dye your hair after the lightening procedure, colorist hairdressers advise you to follow simple rules.

• Dyeing discolored strands in darker tones is best to start with ash tones. Only after that, you can go through repeated stages of coloring, and already apply dark shades. If you start with dark colors right away, there is a risk that the paint will stain and not stick firmly on the hair.
• After lightening, choose shades of natural tones, avoiding radical ones - black, red, copper-red. On dry hair, these tones look bad, they often fall unevenly, and can give unwanted shades.
• If you want to return your hair to its natural color, then after lightening the paint should be chosen 1 tone lighter than you expect to get 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 trust 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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