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I always like reading stuff that people who do their own hair write about doing hair. I'm actually a licensed hairstylist and have been for a few years now. So let me give you all a few tips if you color your hair regularly:
1) Using a shampoo and conditioner from CVS or the grocery store is going to make your hair fade quickly. It has the do with the properties in the shampoo as compared to a salon brand. And no, buying the salon brand name, like Paul Mitchell, in the grocery store is not the same. They are not the actual product and are watered down and far more expensive than if you went to a hair salon.
2) red's fade. you can't stop it. same with blue, green, purple etc. why? because "party colors" as they are called are semi-permanent. they only coat the top layer of your strands of hair and do not penetrate any further. I do not wash my hair everyday. One, because it dries your hair out if you over wash it and two my color stays longer.
3)Don't bleach your hair at home. The bleaching kits you by at Sally Beauty supply are not professional bleach and they give you universal directions. There is no such thing as universal directions for hair color. That's why people mess their hair up and have to come to a hairstylist to have it fixed.
4) Stay away from box color. even if it's "just black". Box color has an elemental property in it called "metallic salt dye". The chemical reaction they can have to bleach or other types of hair color and cause your hair to literally start smoking and burn off.
5)If you do bleach your hair, make sure that you do a deep conditioning treatment. Go into a salon that is local to you and talk to one of the stylist's about a treatment that would be good for your hair and what sort of damage that's been done to it.
I can't really think of anything else right now, but if you guys have any other questions, feel free to PM me or something.
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