Blonde Hair Summer Care: Prepare Your Hair For Summer

Blonde Hair Summer Care: Prepare Your Hair For Summer

Blonde hair summer care is a question I am often asked. From inquiries related to highlighting frequency to conditioning treatments, blonde locks need special care in the warmer months. The pros at Redken gathered a few of the most asked questions they hear from clients for a Blonde Boot Camp to prepare your locks for summer, which are today’s Q&A from Ask the Pro Stylist.

Whoop, whoop, happy Hump Day hotties, and welcome to another Ask the Pro Stylist Q&A. This week we cover blonde hair summer care with a variety of questions put together from the pros at Redken, and a few tips from yours truly.

Blonde Hair Summer Care: Redken Blonde Boot Camp

What are your tips for getting more mileage out of my highlights?

The best way to get more mileage out of highlights is to ask your stylist to blur the color in the area close to the scalp. Techniques like Redken Blur give a softer and more natural-looking grow-out instead of a hard root line. ~ Redken Artist Sean Godard

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What is the ideal blonde maintenance plan for in-between my salon appointments?

The ideal plan is to shampoo every 2 or 3 days using Redken Blonde Idol or Redken Extreme. To keep the color fresh in between salon visits, I recommend Blonde Idol Custom-Tone Conditioner to maintain the color weekly. Using treatments like Extreme CAT Strengthening Spray on a weekly basis helps to prep the hair for the next service and strengthen it to avoid dryness and breakage. ~Redken Artist Sean Godard

Blonde Hair Summer Care from Redken

What are some tips for maintaining my new ombre look?

Maintaining ombre is simple. Between major visits to touch up the ombre, I recommend to my clients that they come in for a Shades EQ service to correct/refresh the tone of the ombre and add amazing shine and condition to the hair. ~ Redken Artist Sean Godard

What’s great about ombre is that less maintenance is required. However, because trips to the salon are less frequent, it’s important to use a color-depositing treatment conditioner like Blonde Idol Custom-Tone Conditioner once a week. This will keep your ombre fresh and bright! ~Redken Artist Veronica Vasilevsky

Blonde Hair Summer Care from Redken

Help! My hair is too brassy. How do I get a softer look?

Brassy hair is simple to fix with a Shades EQ service. It will correct the tone of the blonde and add amazing shine and condition to the hair. Another quick fix is the Blonde Idol Custom-Tone Conditioner Violet for Cool Blondes – use it in place of conditioner every time you wash to control unwanted brassy tones.” ~Redken Artist Sean Godard

Blonde Hair Summer Care from Redken

How can I better protect my blonde locks?

Using Redken Extreme CAT strengthening spray really helps rebuild the hair from within and helps prep the hair for the next lightening service. Protect blonde hair by using heat-stylers like Pillow Proof Blow Dry Express Primer before blow drying, flat ironing and curling to help protect the hair and the color. Using a lower heat setting on the hot tools is another great tip for lighter and more fragile blondes. ~ Redken Artist Sean Godard

How can I keep my highlighted-blonde hair from looking dull?

Use a clarifying shampoo like Redken Hair Cleansing Cream every few weeks to help keep the blonde from going dull and to remove any impurities from the hair like water deposits, pollution, etc. ~ Redken Artist Sean Godard

Blondes are like a white T-shirt – they show stains more so than dark clothing. This is why it so easy for blondes to look dull. Get rid of the stains with a hair cleansing cream shampoo, like Redken Hair Cleansing Cream.” ~Redken Artist Veronica Vasilevsky

A few tips you should also keep in mind for your blonde hair summer care is to trim frequently, wear a hat in the sun, use an SPF for the hair, rinse the hair with cold water immediately upon exiting a chlorinated pool, and deep condition and protect the hair at the same time while at the beach by slathering on your favorite professional masque, comb through and clip up while enjoying your day. Then, shampoo when you get home.

Next week we will answer a no-chip nail polish question. If you have a hair, nails or beauty inquiry similar to this week’s abundance of blonde hair summer care, please email me at DeirdreAHaggerty@gmail.com. Until then, happy styling!