Taking care of dyed hair - Conditioning

One of the main concerns of a lot of people who are thinking of dying their hair is the damage it may cause, and whilst yes there will always be damage as you are changing your hair make up, this can be limited to be almost unnoticeable.

After a few disasters in my time, I've had to find good ways to bring frazzled hair back to life. The best way I found was the conditioner wash method.The basic premise is to wash your hair with conditioner rather than shampoo and then use shampoo once a week to remove the conditioner build up. The process goes like this:

1, Wet hair and use a cheap (you know the sort, 99p apply home brand conditioner?) conditioner in the same way you would a shampoo. Massage into hair from room to tip, there won't be a foam but pretend there is. Rinse thoroughly.

2, Use a thicker conditioner. Personally I love Treseme Antii Breakage conditioner. Most intensive conditioners will do the same job but make sure you get one that has silicone in it, the natural products like body shop and lush unfortunately aren't strong enough to give back the strength you need to repair.*

3, Leave the conditioner in your hair and wrap in a warm towel. Leave for 20-30 mins before rinsing. Style as usual.

4, Once a week use a good shampoo for colour treated hair to get rid of the conditioner build up.

Within a week or two you will notice a very big difference in the strength and condition of your hair. Obviously, you will never have the same feel hair as you would with non treated hair but you can still have healthy, shiny and fabulous hair.

*If you wish to use the non animal tested, natural products my suggestion would be to use them for longer periods (maybe an hour wrapped in a warm towel) but the results will not be useful on very dry hair but suitable for once or twice died hair.