Brunette colours are popular, beautiful, versatile and easy to live with and love. While they are easier to maintain than red or blonde colours, every brunette can benefit from a few colour boosting pro tips.
These ten tips from our hair colourists will help keep your brunette colour and condition beautiful.
1 INGREDIENTS MATTER
The key ingredients to avoid in colour products are ammonia and PPD. Ammonia will dry and weaken your hair and can irritate your eyes and nose with its harsh smell. Ammonia used in industrial cleaning products and it shouldn’t be in your hair colour. Leading breast cancer researchers advise reducing or avoiding PPD exposure, so let’s take their word for it.
Our colour range is hypoallergenic and is free from ammonia, PPD and parabens and is suitable for sensitive skin.
2 DEEP CONDITION – QUALITY COUNTS
Get ahead of process-worn locks with a Rebuild Protein Treatment and regular deep conditioning treatments such as Tsubaki oil treatment and Repair Mask. Hair is mainly made up of protein and if your hair is lacking in protein it will be dull, flat and weak. Protein treatments return protein to the hair, leaving your hair soft, strong, shiny, fuller and more resilient. Deep conditioning treatments infuse your hair with the moisture it needs to strengthen your hair, minimize breakage and repair damage and also leave your hair beautifully soft and shiny. We recommend rotating botanically based hair treatments to maximise the exposure to a range of beneficial active botanicals, and the benefits to your hair.
3 THERMALLY BOOST TREATMENT BENEFITS
Adding gentle heat to your oil or deep conditioning treatments with a thermal cap will allow the active ingredients to penetrate within the hair, maximising the benefits and outcomes. Applying some gentle heat with a thermal cap will soften and lift the outer cuticle of the hair, allowing the active ingredients to be fully absorbed. The effect can be quite transformational. Thermal caps are reuseable and can be used with any almost any hair treatment – we recommend pure, botanical based deep conditioning products.
4 SKIP THE SUDS
Daily washing dulls hair colour. You can slow your fade by reducing washes which allows your natural oils to hydrate and strengthen your hair between washes.
5 NO LIFT DEMI’S/SEMI’S/TONERS TO BOOST COLOUR, TONE & SHINE
If your brunette colour goal is a finish without any warmth in it at all, try a toner in between permanent colour applications. A toner is a cool-based colour blended with a 5 or 10 vol developer. Toners deposit cool tone and shine only, leaving a high-shine, super soft tonally balanced finish. We recommend selecting a toner which is a level lighter than the lightest colour in your hair. We have toners for all colour levels.
If you prefer richer, warmer tones in your hair, a golden or copper based semi-permanent colour will boost colour, tone and shine. Semi-permanent colours are also a great way to experiment commitment-free with copper, mahogany or golden tones. Select a 5 vol or 10 vol developer with any warm based colour to add semi or demi-permanent warmer tones to your darker base.
6 CONDITION TO SWIM
Avoid the drying and tonal impacts of chlorine or salt water by wetting hair with tap water and adding conditioner before you take a dip, which can help protect your hair from the drying effects of salt or chlorine water.
7 COVER IT UP
We love it, but the sun isn’t always the best friend to our skin and our colour, and it does cause colour fade. Pop on a wide brim hat to extend your colour and protect you from sun damage.
8 STICK TO YOUR ROOTS
Reduce processes by applying permanent colour to your roots only. Permanent colour will cover greys, so this approach is a great way to stay on top of regrowth and reduce processes in the lengths of your hair. Boost tone, colour and shine in your lengths with a toner or semi or demi-permanent colour. That’s how we colour our hair. We call it Colour Perfection and it could just be the perfect colour approach for you too.
9 LIFT OUT OLDER PIGMENTS
Consider lifting out older, darker pigments annually with an annual Colour Pigment Removing treatment. This is helpful if you have colour build-up or older, layered colour which leads to darker, duller colour results. If you have some built-up colour, removing some colour pigments before you reapply colour will give shift older pigments and give you a fresh colour start.
10 HANDLE WITH CARE
Reduce or avoid using heated styling tools as much as possible. Lean into your natural texture. If you fight it you might just win the battle but lose the hair health and condition war. Repeately applying heat directly to your hair will make your hair more porous, and that means it’s more difficult for the strands to retain colour.
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