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5 Must-Dos After You Color Your Hair

Keep your hair beautiful and healthy long after your color service. Here's how to care for colored hair

by Katie McCarthy | COMMENT

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Rule No. 2: Get Creative With How You Style Your Hair Heat-styling devices like blow-dryers, curling irons and flat irons literally crack hair's cuticle, which is why heat-damaged hair often looks frizzy. So you can probably imagine how much your colored hair's compromised cuticle loves getting fried by 400-degree hot tools.

Women with colored or bleached hair should cut back on using heat-styling tools, says Trujillo. "I like to show [my clients] how to style their hair in a way that requires the least amount of heat styling, based on their normal hair care routine," she says. Shampooing less frequently should help you limit heat-styling. Getting more creative with your styling routine (think: braids, ponytails and buns) will also help.

If you heat-style your hair, use tools with ceramic, titanium or ion plates, which reduce damage to hair, and avoid using them on the highest heat setting. Also use a heat-protectant; studies show these products aren't just marketing gimmicks.

Keep in mind that styling products can also contribute to dryness, tangling and breakage in colored hair. Volumizing products should particularly be avoided, since they make hair look fuller by roughing up the cuticle.

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