Beauty: How to Maintain Dyed Red Hair
One of the main problems of choosing to have a hair colour which is not your ‘natural’ shade, is the inevitable upkeep. Generally speaking, at least every 4-6 weeks, you are going to have to re-colour your hair to keep the colour fresh and vibrant, and also to cover-up any re-growth.
As you can imagine, this gets quite tedious. Especially, if like me, you have been colouring your hair for over a decade! But I’m here to tell you that there are creative solutions of getting around this problem…
5 Ways to Maintain Dyed Red Hair
1. Limit your hair washes
This sounds a bit unsavoury at first (it did to me, anyway), but honestly, if you don’t wear your hair loose and ‘swooshy’ everyday, there are ways of styling your barnet to make each shampoo session stretch out! And of course, you can use dry shampoo to ‘refresh’ your hair, (or even talc, which works in the same way; just make sure you rub it in really well to avoid looking like you have white/grey hair).
2. Hats, hats, hats
Learn to embrace the versatility of a hat. They’re useful in so many different ways – they disguise root re-growth and hide dodgy hair-days (not that redheads have bad hair days)!
3. Or, snood it up
Similarly, hair snoods are brilliant at helping you style your hair, distracting from any fading colour or root show-throughs. It’s true, snoods are more of a retro-loving kinda gal’s friend, but don’t be afraid to try them out! If a snood is too ‘vintage’ for you, a hair scarf is still stylish, but slightly more modern.
4. Hair products for redheads
Henna-infused shampoo and conditioner (available in Ginger Parrot’s online store, FYI), contain natural henna plus lots of other scrummy natural ingredients to maintain your ginger barnet.
5. Intensive conditioners
Deep conditioners are great at repairing damage and keeping your hair in tip-top shiny condition – think of it like a thirst-quenching drink for your dehydrated tresses!
Red hair is the hardest shade to maintain, as the colour particles are larger than other shades, which makes the pigment more difficult to coat the hair, but nothing beats that feeling of freshly coloured vibrant tresses, so yes, even though it is hard to maintain, it is soo worth it!
By Jenny