Hair Tips & Treatment Advice

Hair Tips and Hair Treatment Advice 

Here at Hair 1 Direct we know how important it is to look after the hair and scalp. This more often than not means you have to tackle two problems at once.

Over the following weeks we will be putting supplying you with all the information you will need to re-educate your approach to your hair and scalp regime. Plus, we've put together exclusive bundles designed for you and based on our working knowledge from our salon.

Week One, Coloured Hair:

Hair that has been coloured needs to be looked after and treated to maintain the colour and keep it fresh. There are 3 dimensions of human hair colour in terms of changing; Colour fading, colour shifting and colour freshness.

Colour fading is when the colour appears ‘washed out’ and ‘more transparent’ in comparison to the original colour. By reducing this, the vibrancy of the colour will be preserved and last longer. Colour shifting is the tonal changes of the colour, so a neutral brown can shift to a reddish-brown or a greenish-brown. Colour freshness describes the vividness or dullness of a colour, by decreasing the colour depth, the colours purity is more lost.

There are many things that can cause the above scenarios, researchers have implicated that the sun/UV light plays the biggest factor in not only drying the hair out but causing the colour to fade. Finding a product with UV/light and antioxidants protection will help the hairs condition and colour. UV filters minimise the amount of UV light that reaches the hair and reduces the number of excited molecules in the hair which can lead to degradation/damage. Antioxidants neutralise free radicals in the hair. Free radicals are very reactive, aggressive molecules generated from excited molecules, oxygen and water can damage the colour and/or the hair itself.

The Wella Colour Save line introduces the first 3D protect technology which gives coloured hair noticeable longer intensity and brilliance. It is also able to act in reduction of colour fading, colour shifting and colour less of freshness. Ingredients in this 3D technology are:

·         A combination of Polyquarternium 7-Panthenol-Beeswax to help lock the colour pigments inside the hair.

·         UV Filter delivers additional colour protection against UV-light.

·         Olive leaf extract, this is a colour retaining benefit against bleaching.

All these ingredients are used to help protect and prevent your colour so it will last for longer, it is important that after getting your hair coloured in the salon that you take care of it at home by using the right products and if you are spending time in the sun to make sure you are protecting your hair with a product that contains UV filters.

Products for all your problems with Coloured Hair