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 your hair, or to give your natural shade lighter tones. Lightening is performed using fairly aggressive chemical components, as a result of which, in the vast majority of cases, the hair structure suffers - the hair shaft dries out, breaks, falls out. In addition, it may turn out that the expected result will be completely different from what you would like to see on your head.

Natural hair strands are best lightened. If you want to lighten after persistent permanent dyes - the result can never be predicted accurately. A competent and responsible specialist is unlikely to agree to provide you with a service to bleach your hair if they were exposed to henna or basma.

On natural strands after clarification, the problem is usually yellowness. If the previously dyed hair is discolored, it can turn into any color — green, blue, brown, red. In such cases, many women do not dare to go to another stage of clarification, but try to paint over the bad shade with the help of persistent dyes.

After receiving unsatisfactory results of clarification in women, the question immediately arises of how soon you can dye curls in a different color. Of course, any woman would like to quickly look beautiful, but not so simple. First of all, you need to assess the condition of your hair after lightening.If the strands are dry and brittle, you can expose them to chemical dyes no earlier than 10-14 days. Neglecting such terms can lead to total hair loss - they simply 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 lightly tint your curls in any shade of your choice. Tinted shampoo will not dry your hair even more than it has already happened, but will help to adjust their color. In addition, the resulting shade after several shampooing procedures with an ordinary shampoo will be washed off your hair. Another plus of tinting agents is that after them you can safely dye the strands with any resistant paint. These two tools do not conflict - the paint will perfectly fall on your hair and block the shade that remained after tinting with shampoo.
• Prepare your hair for the upcoming dye. - for those two weeks that you need to take 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 provide proper care and treatment. Pay attention to shampoo - now sulfate-free products are best for your hair. For washing your hair, you need to use 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 abandon the use of a hot hair dryer, ironing and curling ironthat you used to use for drying and styling hairstyles.

After two weeks of care, a couple of days before the moment of staining, your curls need to be moisturized. For this, special moisturizing masks for industrial production or home cooking are suitable.

After you have prepared your hair, you need to decide on the paint and tone in which you want to dye it. For strands damaged after lightening, experts recommend using semi-permanent dyes. The difference between such a paint and permanent analogues is that in semi-permanent products there is no ammonia, and the coloring process is started using 6% hydrogen peroxide, which is part of them. Staining will look bright and saturated, but the resistance 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 clarification procedure, they can behave on your hair in the most unexpected way. Therefore, those who are accustomed to dye their hair with henna or basma should abandon them. When stained, henna and basma can stain, or as a result, you can get a completely different shade than you expected.

To color bleached strands of hair, it is necessary to carry out the procedure carefully, adhering to the following rules:

• we divide the hair into 4 working zones and apply the paint first of all to the basal region of the hair, so do with each zone;
• Now you need to quickly distribute the paint along the entire length of the strands;
• for even distribution of paint, comb the hair with a comb with rare teeth;
• we maintain the time required for instructions to expose the paint to the hair;
• 5 minutes before the end of the exposure time of the paint, it must be emulsified - the hair is slightly moisturized, and massage the paint over them with massage movements;
• wash off the paint with water using shampoo;
• apply a nourishing balm to the entire length of the hair.

Further, up to two days, it is undesirable to wash the hair, since during this period the dye is fixed inside the structure of the hair shaft.

Hair coloring after lightening can be both in the direction of even more lightening, and in the direction of transition to a dark color.

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

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

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

It’s sometimes necessary to lighten previously dyed hair in several steps - the procedure has to be repeated at two-week intervals.

If you are disappointed in the shade of hair after lightening it and want to regain the dark color, maybe not as radical as it was originally, but just a little darker than the one that turned out after bleaching, you need to do 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 process of pre-pigmentation is that the hair is treated with a special composition that contains a combination of pigments of red, yellow and orange. There are compounds containing only one of the three named pigments. Only after the pre-pigmentation procedure, the master stains your curls with a persistent ammonia dye of the selected shade.

To properly color your hair after a lightening procedure, colorists advise you to follow simple rules.

• Dyeing bleached strands in darker tones is best started with ashy tones. Only after this, you can go through the repeated stages of painting, and already apply dark shades. If you start right away with dark tones, there is a risk that the paint will stain and not stick firmly to your hair.
• After lightening, choose shades of natural tones, avoiding radical ones - black, red, copper-red. On dry hair, these tones look bad, often lie unevenly, and can give unwanted shades.
• If you want to return the 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 can permanently ruin your hair, but not get the desired result.

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