Minimize breakage when coloring hair

Minimize breakage when coloring hair

How can I minimize breakage when coloring my hair?

Hair dye can be used safely by all when used as directed...but when you use permanent color on your hair, it’s important to take special care for your color-treated hair. Hair breakage can occur with color treated hair, especially if you already have damaged hair. Here are tips to avoid breakage:

Color your hair within 3 levels of your natural color
Do not leave hair color on for longer than recommended in the instruction booklet
Just touch up your roots each time you color, and do not repeatedly color the mid-lengths and ends of the hair
Wait 14 days between hair coloring and applying perms or chemical hair straighteners
Apply a conditioner following a shampoo to decrease hair tangles.
Comb and brush your hair as little as possible, especially with wet hair. Wet hair is much easier to break than dry hair
Try to air-dry your hair when possible, but when needing to dry your hair quickly, use a water-whisking hair towel. Blow-drying and other heat tools can be damaging to hair.

You can also read through our blog posts from Dr. Zoe Diana Draelos, MD, a research and clinical board-certified dermatologist with over 30 years of dermatologic research experience. Her articles include:

All About Ammonia-Free Hair Color

How to Care for Your Hair When Coloring

What Causes Hair Loss? Reasons & Solutions, Explained

For more information about the benefits of Radiant Hair Color for the hair and scalp, as demonstrated in a clinical study published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, please click here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocd.15212