Questions about hair dye fading?

The water you wash your hair with in the shower isn’t purified so all of the dissolved minerals in it causes the hair dye to fade. I’m assuming you use the box dye? Hair dye done at the salon is much more durable. The water temperature makes no different at all. Just make sure you use color conditioner and shampoo, this should help keep the color locked in.

@Oxymoron Yeah this time its the box dye. I usually use my cousin’s hairdressing lisence thing and buy the professional dye from the place that supplies salons. I did it with a box this time for a quick upgrade before school starts again from exams.

@desiree333 – The worst thing to do is use dye boxes. They completely burn your hair out. Sometimes hair dressers won’t even touch hair that’s been dyed from the box because it’s so fragile. It’s okay though, since I’m guessing you don’t use it much often at all. Ha ha.

Use cooler water, and salon hair dye and salon products. Only buy your products from beauty supply stores, or salons. Like @Oxymoron said, don’t buy dye from a box,. But also don’t buy shampoo, conditions, etc from a drug/grocery store (even if it is a salon product such as Biolage). If your read the bottles, they will say ‘only buy from a salon’ When you buy salon brands from drugstores, they are from the ‘Black Market’.

@ violet really? Does that mean they are knockoffs or something?

@desiree333 I guess I didn’t read the whole article I sent to you (it is the opposite of what I was saying), here’s a better article about “Professional products are not sold to the mass market by manufacturers. They get there by shady dealings, and the consumer ends up paying the price.”

I agree with @Violet – my hair colorist says to use cooler water to preserve the color in my hair and to use shampoos and conditioners w/o sulphates in ‘em (that’s why you shouldn’t buy these things in a drugstore because their lines for colored hair have sulphates)...there is also a Paul Mitchell hair shine product (it’s a spritz) that I recommend to put on your hair before you blow dry it (with a thinned nozzle extension over your blow dryer and using a hollowed out round brush while you’re at it) so that your color shines.

maybe your hair just wasnt ment to be the color you picked.