The Ultimate Guide to Maintaining Vivid and Creative Hair Colors
Do you love your bright, creative hair? We create stunning vivid color transformations daily at Assort Amsterdam. Bright, alternative colors are our absolute passion. However, keeping those edgy colors fresh takes real work at home. Whether you have a solid neon color or a complex chunky pattern, proper maintenance is key. Therefore, we want to share our ultimate vivid care guide today. Let us teach you exactly how to protect your expensive new hair.
The Universal Rules for Vivid Hair
First, you must completely change your daily shower routine. Hot shower water is the absolute worst enemy of bright hair dye. Specifically, hot water opens your hair cuticle wide. Consequently, the bright color simply washes right down the drain. Therefore, you must always wash your creative color with freezing cold water. Ultimately, the cold water seals the hair cuticle shut and locks the bright dye safely inside.
Furthermore, you must avoid cheap drugstore shampoo. Harsh sulfates strip vivid colors out of your hair immediately. Thus, you must invest in professional, sulfate-free products.
Maintaining an All-Over Vivid Color 
Next, let us talk about solid, all-over vivid styles. Maintaining a full head of neon orange or bright magenta requires specific care. Because the color is uniform, your biggest enemy is overall fading from the sun and daily washing.
Fortunately, we offer an amazing, custom solution directly in the salon. Specifically, our stylists can create a personalized color-depositing treatment just for you. We simply take the leftover dye from your appointment or mix a fresh formula. Then, we blend it perfectly into a professional shampoo or conditioning treatment. Consequently, you can take this custom color bomb home for around €37. By using this special mix in the shower, you deposit fresh dye back into your hair every single week. Therefore, your all-over color stays perfectly vibrant for months.
Maintaining Patterned Styles 
Finally, let us discuss complex, high-contrast color placements. Styles like Calico hair, Raccoon Tails, or dark ghost roots look incredibly cool. However, because you have pitch-black dye sitting right next to pure blonde, color bleeding is a massive risk. If you wash these styles normally, the dark dye will run straight into the blonde. Consequently, it creates a terrible, muddy mess.
Therefore, you must wash the different color sections completely separately.
The “Separate Wash” Method
1. Section and clip the hair. Before turning the water on, locate all your light blonde or pastel sections. Carefully pin them up at the top of your head with a strong claw clip. Keep them completely dry for now.
2. Wash the dark sections first. Next, apply your sulfate-free shampoo strictly to the dark or vivid sections. For example, only wash the black and red pieces of your Calico pattern. Scrub the scalp gently without splashing the clipped hair above.
3. Rinse while leaning backward. Tilt your head far back like you are in the salon sink. Rinse the dark sections completely with cold water. Ensure the colorful water runs straight down your back. It must never touch the clean blonde hair above it.
4. Wash the light sections last. Finally, drop the blonde sections down. Quickly wash them with a gentle shampoo and rinse immediately. Apply a hydrating conditioner all over, leave it briefly, and do one final icy cold rinse.
Ready for Your Vivid Transformation?
Are you ready for a bold color change? Truly, our team loves painting unique, vivid masterpieces. Plus, we will always teach you exactly how to care for your specific style before you leave the salon.
If you want a fresh, creative look, we can definitely help. Indeed, we just need to get you in the salon chair.
Assort Amsterdam
📍 Kerkstraat 99A, 1017 GD Amsterdam
✉️ info.assortams@assort-hair.com
📞 +31 6 15416994
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