When it comes to maintaining your expensive highlights or color, you should invest in quality products. Just as you would dry-clean an expensive dress rather than running it through your washing machine (even on the gentle cycle), it's worth spending a few extra dollars on quality shampoos and conditioners for your hair. Here, we rundown the best stuff on the market and tell you why it's worth your buy.
1. Best (Pricey) Shampoo for Color-Treated Hair: Kerastase Reflection Bain Miroir
Maintain your color with the very best shampoo on the market: Kerastase. This product coats strands and protects them from the stripping cheaper shampoos may do. It also protects from UV rays and pollutants.
Another great (and less expensive) shampoo for color-treated hair: Matrix Biolage colorcaretherapie. Artec also makes a good shampoo. Go to L’Oreal’s website to buy.
2. Best Highlight Activating Shampoo: John Friedda Sheer Blonde
Your bathwater likely contains both chlorine and oxidized minerals which can strip hair of color. Sheer Blonde Highlight Activating Shampoo is a gentle cleanser that removes these damaging elements from hair, preventing blonde hair from turning green, while keeping your highlights bright and not brassy. Even better, this shampoo won't alter your hair color.
3. Best Color Protector: Paul Mitchell Color Protect Reconstructive Treatment
Add moisture to colored locks with this treatment. Bonus: It adds needed UV protection. The sun can naturally change the color of your hair, so this protects strands.
4. Best Shampoo for Redheads: Frederic Fekkai’s Rio Red
Brighten locks between colorings with Rio Red Shampoo, formulated just for redheads. Contains natural red henna and ginger for a rich color boost.
5. Best Do-It-Yourself Highlights: Herbal Essences Highlights
Want blonde highlights, but not sure you want to pay upwards of $100 for them? Try Clairol's highlighting kit, which has combs that allow you to comb in the light streaks for natural-looking highlights.
6. Best At-Home Semi-Permanent Color Kit: Clairol Natural Instincts
A favorite among stylists (yes, stylists), you'll love this kit because it's known to cover gray hair and fades naturally. Bonus: It moisturizes while adding color.
7. Best Highlighting Balm: John Frieda’s Spun Gold
Got chunky blonde highlights? Make them 'piecey' and pretty with this product which shapes and highlights blonde hair with micro-crystalline gold dust particles. A favorite among celeb stylists.
8. Best (Pricey) Conditioner for Color-Treated Hair: Kerastase Reflection
A favorite conditioner for color-treated hair, this creamy product helps maintain color, it doesn't strip like other cheaper conditioners on the market. It also has 'light-reflecting' qualities specially formulated for color-treated hair.
A great cheaper conditioner: Dove Moisture Rich Color Conditioner, which you can purchase at any drugstore.
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