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Velvety leave-in hair treatment with UV and heat protection used prior to air-dry or blow-dry styling.
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Whether you love to highlight your blonde hair, lighten dark brown hair or sport a new, vivid hair color like baby pink or mint green, it’s likely that hair lightener will be part of your hair color plan. Bleaching your hair is a must to achieve many hair color results. If you currently bleach your hair, or you’re toying with the idea, the pros at Matrix are ready with the answers to all your hair bleach questions.
A hair lightener is generally comprised of a combination of ammonia and hydrogen peroxide. Working together, these elements first open up the cuticle surface of the hair strand, then penetrate the inner strand. Once there, they break up the natural hair color, giving the hair a lighter appearance.
Hair lighteners are the most effective way to lift your natural hair colors for a highlighted appearance. In order to see the new hair color, you must also pre-lighten your hair in order to create a light “canvas” before toning it with a pastel or bright fashion color, unless your hair is already naturally quite light.
The number one safety rule is to leave hair lightening to the pros. An experienced hair stylist will understand exactly how to mix and apply the lightener, and how much your hair will or will not be able to take. For example, when touching up bleached hair, it’s important not to apply fresh bleach over the previously-bleached hair. Doing so puts too much stress on pre lightened hair.
Hairstylists understand that while bleach is breaking down the pigment in your hair, it’s also breaking down the structural bonds that give hair its strength and elasticity, or ability to hold its shape. Therefore, a pro will be able to assess the condition of your hair and will refrain from doing anything that will push it too far. Also, many hair pros use special bond-protection additives in their bleach formulas. These bonders do two things. First, they protect the existing bonds from severe damage. And second, they repair and restore the bonds that have already been damaged.
Anyone with extremely fragile or damaged hair should proceed with caution. It’s also not advisable to bleach hair that has been recently relaxed or permed. And keep in mind that it often requires several sessions of lightening to achieve a desired effect, particularly if your hair is darker. In those cases, it’s important to space out those sessions by every six weeks or so, over the course of several months, to allow your hair to recover between lightening applications.
No matter what the end result, lightened hair requires loads of TLC, from the moment you leave the salon until your next appointment. Here are some bleached hair care rules to live by:
Finally, remember that one bleach, or bleaching service, does not fit all. Your stylist should create a personalized bleaching program--tailored for your hair type, condition and desired outcome—that will keep your lightened locks strong, healthy and resilient.
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When the seasons change to fall and winter, damaged hair feels the transition too. With the waning of summer comes an end to the sun’s harshest rays, the excesses of long days at the beach, afternoons at the pool and long play days outside—all of which can damage hair. However, the onset of fall also brings a whole new set of potential damaging affects to hair: cold, harsh weather is around the corner, heaters will soon be blasting and the holiday season with all its overindulgences is not far off. Don’t fret. The pros at Matrix are here to give your damaged hair hope for revival, no matter the time of year!
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Read NowToday there are so many fun things you can do with your hair. You can put it in adorable French braids, pull it up into a messy bun or command your hair stylist to give you rose gold hair color. One day it’s beach waves, the next day sleek and smooth glass hair. And then it’s Saturday, so why not try balayage? By all means--try it all and express yourself with your fabulous locks. But beware! Over-styling, over-lightening or just plain overdoing it can cause your hair to become damaged, brittle and broken. To prevent those things from happening, or to repair your hair if it’s already damaged, follow this advice from the pros at Matrix.
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