Hair Color Fade: Avoid Hair Color Fade with Summer Hair Care Tips

Avoid hair color fade with summer hair care tips targeted to protect the hair from the sun and reduce the loss of vibrancy from your last salon service. Your hair color is precious; especially if a licensed professional properly did it, so protect your investment with the correct summer hair care products.

Whoop, whoop, happy Hump Day hotties! Welcome to Wednesday’s Q&A where Ask the Pro Stylist answers readers’ and clients’ beauty, hair and nails questions. A regular client that enjoys frequent color changes wanted to know how to keep her red hair from fading in the summer, a topic often asked, around the same time, I wrote a summer hair care piece. So, today’s answer focuses on hair color fade, specifically how to avoid it when playing outdoors.

Reds are not an easy color to keep, even with the advancements in hair color technology. I have touched on this many times before in other arenas, but to keep it simple, red, especially the high-vibrant tones, (as seen in the attached photograph courtesy of BTC and Matrix) along with the “unnatural” popular hues of the current beauty trend are prone to hair color fade as there isn’t enough of the “natural” pigmentation in the formulas. Therefore, to avoid hair color fade, the guest, or client, needs to protect their salon investment and work with the colorist to ensure enduring color.

Now the summer sun, salt water and chlorine exacerbate hair color fade, so it is best to avoid these, and if not, then protect the hair with a hat and summer hair care products. L’Oreal Professionnel Vitamino Color line is complete summer hair care comprised of sulfate-free shampoo, conditioner, gel masque, leave-in cream, and in-salon hair treatment. According to L’Oréal Professionnel Artist Suzie Bond the Vitamino Color line coats the hair to protect it from the summer elements mentioned above keeping it less porous, which prevents hair color fade. Additionally, she suggests washing with warm water instead of hot, as the hot water tends to open the cuticle, and thus allows for quicker hair color fade. Bond also swears by Mythic Oil for extra UV protections.

Hair color fade could also be avoided with the tips in the summer hair care article linked above. Switching up the hair color look to a summery one, such as a “bronde,” soon to be written about, would also help avoid brassy tones and rapid hair color fade redheads often experience, which is why the color becomes so popular in the fall.

Tune in Friday to learn what my favorite beauty product of the week is. If you have a beauty, hair or nails question similar to today’s hair color fade query, please email me at DeirdreAHaggerty@gmail.com.