Purple Shampoo Gives Highlighted Hair New Life

Shampoo is generally thought of for keeping hair clean and healthy-looking. However, regular shampoo is sometimes not enough to keep highlighted hair bright, beautiful and blonde! There is such a thing as purple shampoo which helps to drastically refresh lightened hair and removes the brassy, yellow color that tends to develop over time.

Love Your Highlighted Hair?

Have you ever returned from your hair salon simply delighted by the results of your highlighting experience? Your hair is a beautiful, bright shade of blonde! It shimmers when the light hits it and looks exceptionally healthy, full of life and well-balanced all over. You look and feel great.

A few weeks after highlighting or bleaching, those beautiful blonde strands start to look tired and dull. Gradually, the brightness fades and you are left with hair that looks yellowish or brassy.

This can happen because the second level of dye starts to fade, and the yellowness of the hair underneath mixes with it, resulting in rather an unpleasant and boring shade of color. The surrounding environment is also a considering factor; weather, smoke and pollution all have a negative affect on the condition and appearance of our hair.

You may start to feel as though your regular shampoo is letting you down because it simply can’t contend with keeping your highlighted hair bright and shiny. But don’t throw out your regular shampoo just yet! You simply need a helping hand to revive those brassy locks and give them a new lease of life. Washing your hair with purple shampoo does sound strange…but it works.

Purple Shampoo is a specially formulated type of shampoo. It works simply because the purple color of the shampoo contrasts directly with yellow brassy color of the hair. Washing your hair with purple shampoo leaves a small amount of purple tinted color in each strand of hair, effectively neutralising the yellow tones and therefore refreshing the hair to a brighter, more beautiful color.

Purple shampoo works especially well for people who have blonde highlights or bleached hair and want to tone down brassiness and yellow/orange undertones.  Anyone with natural blonde, white or grey hair would also benefit from occasionally using purple shampoo to refresh and revive their natural color.

There are many products available to freshen up those boring, dull, brassy locks.

Look for purple shampoos that contain that special purple pigment which is needed to get rid of brassy hair. Also, when purchasing a purple shampoo, consider a product which is intended to be gentle for your hair, rather than just buying it because it’s purple. With highlighted or bleached hair in particular, strands tend to get damaged easily, causing split-ends or a dry, rough feel.

These purple shampoos are perfect for restoring a beautiful blonde look while caring for your hair at the same time.

Clairol Shimmer Lights Original Conditioning Shampoo tones brassiness and maintains a beautiful ash-toned color. Hair is left shiny with no residue. This purple shampoo is great for refreshing highlighted or bleached hair, and for brightening white or grey hair.

A bit more expensive but totally worth it, Clairol Professional Shimmer Lights Shampoo is a protein-enriched color enhancing shampoo that comes highly recommended for instantly refreshing tired hair, removing brassiness and brightening white and gray hair. Faded, highlighted hair is left shiny, full and with no residue. The Clairol Professional Shimmer Lights Shampoo is an absolute must for achieving exceptional results.

After purchasing a bottle of purple shampoo, it’s important to use it correctly. Follow these steps to get the very best results:-

Wash your hair with purple shampoo once or twice a week and then use your regular shampoo on the days in between.

For the first wash, lather into wet hair and rinse off right away. Check the results from the first wash before deciding to re-shampoo or to leave it in for any longer.

Hair that is overly porous tends to absorb the purple color quickly and so it is important to never leave it in for more than five minutes, or you risk leaving too much purple pigment in the hair.

Continue to visit your Professional Salon on a regular basis for highlighting touch-ups as necessary.

Purple conditioners are available as a complement to purple shampoos and boost the hair even further by shining it up, leaving it looking healthy and salon-fresh. Bleached hair tends to get dry and brittle very quickly and so using a conditioner is especially important to keep it looking shiny and healthy. Use Clairol Professional Shimmer Lights Conditioner after shampooing to get amazing results.

Toners are also highly recommended for fighting brassiness. Similar to purple shampoo in that they camoflauge the yellow tones of the hair, toners are in fact special semi-permanent dyes with a blue/violet base. They are often used in salons immediately after hair has been highlighted to protect the new shade and give it a lustful shine.

If you straighten or blow-dry your hair, consider doing so less frequently to minimise the heat damage and lessen the possibility of drying out your hair even more.

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Where to Buy?

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