White hair requires some maintenance to stay shiny. Here is the essential gesture of a hairdresser.
Letting your hair whiten naturally has never been so popular. In hair salons, coloring and balayage techniques to enhance and accompany silver threads are flourishing: gray blending, French blending… All allow you to take on your new natural color while giving it shine. But to maintain this shine, there is one point that should not be neglected: home care. They are the ones who will determine the frequency of visits to the hairdresser to refresh the color and boost hydration. There is also a very common error according to Romain Colors, founder of the eponymous salon in Paris and specialist in plant coloring. Zoom.
“For white hair to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible, you need two things: having it in a harmonious way, and good maintenance at home“, begins by explaining the professional. In order to prevent coloring from becoming a disaster, we use creams and shampoos which will help to lighten the lengths. But be careful, to maintain their shine, white and colored hair need products specially formulated for them. “You should always prefer sulfate-free shampoos. This allows you to have a gentler detergent, which will not pick up the pigments.“, assures Romain Colors. Indeed, this component is very aggressive with the color and makes it bleed more quickly. Therefore, avoid it.
In the absence of sulfates to strip the fiber, the hair scales remain smooth and retain water better. This is essential, because white hair is naturally more porous and tends to dry out very quickly. At home, we therefore rely on highly nutritious masks. The hairdresser will only have to refine the work.
If you take care of your balayage or color, then only two visits a year to the hair salon can be enough to refresh the locks and make the gray shine with highlights. Enough to display luminous, modern and resolutely liberated silver hair.
Romain Colors
8 rue de l’Arcade, 75008 Paris
