Tips to Save Your Colored Hair from Damage

Hair dying is one of the most popular hair styling trends right now especially during the summertime. From balayage, to pale pastels and funky multi-colors people of all ages are looking for ways to showcase their trendy hairstyles. While dying hair is a fun and creative way to show off your personal style it’s also very easy to overdo it and damage your hair.  Here are some important tips on ways to protect and maintain colored hair so you can make fewer salon trips and spend all the money you saved at the next big music festival or on your next vacation destination.  New England Associates® offers the products and solutions to help you keep your hair healthy!

Wash Less Often

After you dye your hair, your stylist will typically recommend not washing your hair for at least two days. While this may seem gross it’s important in maintaining color for the long haul. Washing your hair every day is unnecessary, whether you color your hair or not, but if you sweat a lot or tend to have greasier hair using a dry shampoo is a great alternative. If you want to preserve your new color only wash your hair when necessary.

Conditioner is Your Friend

Bleaching hair opens the cells in your follicles which makes it harder for your hair to hold onto moisture so it’s important to regain and maintain that moisture. On a wash day, wet your hair, put a moisturizing conditioner  through your hair, and then shampoo directly on top of the conditioner. Doing this puts a barrier between your color and the shampoo while still removing excess natural oils. Famed NYC stylist Shaun Surething also suggests using a weekly hair conditioning mask and putting coconut oil or a thick conditioner on the ends of bleached or colored hair before getting in the water to protect your color from salt and chlorine.

Avoid Heat

The chemical process of bleaching your hair makes your hair very fragile. Applying too much heat can cause hair to melt and break off. After washing it’s best to pat excess water from your hair with a microfiber towel or cotton t-shirt and let it air dry. If you absolutely must use heat to achieve a certain style apply a generous amount of a heat-protectant styling product before using heated styling tools to guard your hair from thermal damage.

If you have thinning, damaged hair from over processing or need to strengthen colored hair come to New England Associates. We offer the best and latest treatments in hair restoration and replacement! Our line of pharmaceutical-grade products are specifically designed to cleanse the scalp and strengthen hair follicles which can improve results of chemical processing.

These are tips and suggestions.  What is best for your hair?  The proper treatment program for you is a phone call away.  Contact us today to schedule your FREE private hair and scalp evaluation or visit our website to learn more.

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Hair Care Myths that can be Contributing to Your Hair Loss

We’re sure you might know a lot about your hair and how to care for it but is every tip you’ve picked up along the way true? There are a ton of false hair care tips out there that men and women have believed for years to be true. Your “popular” hair care routine can be doing more harm to your hair than good. We can pretty much agree everyone wants full, healthy hair so it’s important to know what is right and wrong for your locks.

1.Your hair is self-cleaning

This is certainly not true! Your hair and scalp will only become dirtier if you don’t wash it. Excessive sebum and dirt build-up clogs hair follicles, slowing hair growth, and can increase breakage and hair loss. However, the frequency with which you wash your hair depends on your hair type and how oily your scalp is. Switch to an every-other-day or every-third day shampoo, if you can.  If you work out or sweat a simple rinse is effective.” For maximum effect try HairStart® DexPan™ Scalp Preparation. It revitalizes your scalp by making it clean and removing excessive sebum oils and debris that can block the follicle, restricting new fragile hair from coming through the scalp.

2.  Dry shampoo is better than regular shampoo

It’s okay to use dry shampoo but it doesn’t actually clean your hair. New York City dermatologist Francesca J. Fusco, who consults for Unilever, notes that the scalp needs to be hydrated and washed with shampoo. “It is fine to use dry shampoo in a pinch, but nothing replaces… water and wet shampoo.” When shampooing, make sure to gently massage the scalp and not just focus on your hair. You’ll know when you scalp and hair is clean, when you produce large, foamy bubbles. Use shampoos that are sulfate-free and that have ingredients designed to clean your scalp, like tea tree oil.  Shampoos like HairStart® Gentle Cleanse™ are free of sodium laurel sulfates and DEA, two harsh ingredients found in almost all commercially available shampoos.

3.  Fine hair shouldn’t be conditioned

Many believe conditioners weigh down fine or thin hair and often forgo this vital step. All hair types need conditioner that moisturizes the hair and scalp. Conditioner, like HairStart® Condition25™, provides your hair with essential vitamins and minerals for fuller and healthy-looking hair. A properly moisturized hair and scalp gives hair a beautiful shine and increases elasticity. It’s also especially important for detangling and preventing split ends. To prevent thin hair from getting weighed down put conditioner on the ends of your hair strands and use a lighter leave-in conditioner such NEA Silkening Conditioning Mist.

4.  Cutting your hair makes it grow faster

Your hair goes through a cycle of phases. The speed of your hair growth depends on the time your hair follicles spends in the anagen phase (growth phase) or telogen (resting) phase. “Cutting the hair shaft itself has nothing to do with the hair follicle that is located within the skin or the dermis,” says hair surgeon Ken L. Williams Jr. However, regularly trimming your ends can get rid of split ends and can help make your hair appear longer. Celebrity hairstylist Paloma Rose Garcia suggests trimming your hair every 3 months at a minimum. In between trim appointments use NEA Frizz Control and Gloss to tame split and frizzy ends and protect against heat damage.

5.  2 in 1 Shampoo and Conditioner is just as effective as 2 separate bottles

While it may seem like a great time saver this works for very few hair types. Shampoo and conditioner serve two different and specific purposes. Shampoo cleans dirt and excess build-up out of your scalp, while conditioner helps retain moisture and shine caused by the good naturally occurring oils produced in your hair strands. “When they are done at the same time, it strips away the shine and healthy look that you get when done separately," says Temur from Sharon Dorram Color at Sally Hershberger. However, don’t get 2 in 1 shampoo/conditioners confused with moisturizing shampoos. When followed by a creamy conditioner, moisturizing shampoos are great for thick coarse hair. Fine, thin hair needs a good scalp cleansing shampoo followed by a light weight conditioner. Applying a normal multi-step hair care regimen can save you time in the long run from having to hide thinning or unhealthy hair.

To find your healthy hair care routine and solve your hair loss come to New England Associates®! Schedule your FREE microscopic hair and scalp evaluation with us today or find more information on our website.

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Look as Good as You Feel!™

Make New England Associates^® Your First Step to a Better Looking Future!™

Since 1982 New England Associates^® has known hair loss is as individual as you are. New England Associates^® offers all of the procedures that work to repair, replace, restore, and grow hair. We are members of the American Hair Loss Council and the Better Business Bureau. Locations include Wakefield, MA and Manchester, NH. Our hair restoration options include hair and scalp treatments, non-medical hair replacement, laser hair therapy treatments, hair transplants, and shampoos and vitamins for fine and thinning hair.

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