Tip 8: Don't Bleach Your Hair and Dye Carefully

As tempting as it may be to bleach your hair seeing all those bleach blondes running around getting all the attention, DON'T DO IT. Although "dying" is better than bleaching your hair dying can still cause damage. Bleaching can fry and destory your hair, even cause you to lose a lot of hair from the damage it does to your hair so avoid it at all costs, but if you're not going to listen, use other hair tips on this blog to keep it as healthy as possible!

If you're going to dye your hair here are some tips for a website (I'll post the link below) on how to do it well and cause the least amout of damage possible.
(I didn't come up with any of these suggestions, all credit goes to whoever wrote the article, I'm just passing on the ideas to all of you, in my own words!)

1. Choose a Gentle Hair Dye
Dying your hair will always damage your hair to some degree but some gentler dyes will be less damaging. Look for dyes that are hypoallergenic and conditioning.

2.Choose a Semi-Permanent Dye
A Semi-Permanent dye contains a lot less chemicals, obviously, as it doesn't permanently dye your hair. Although I understand some people want really long term dyes and then, obviously your not going to choose this. But as far as hair damage it will reduce it a lot.

3. Reduce The Amount of Heat You Use
As you already know heat on undyed hair is bad enough, apply heat to dyed hair and it will just make the damage from dying that much worse. So just try to avoid using heat on your hair even more than normal. Because it all adds up!

4. Wash Your Hair First
This will just make dying it a simpler process because dirty hair doesn't "absorb or retain" the colour that you want well. So you could end up with uneven hair colouring.

5. Colour a Single Strand First
Doing this will simply ensure that it's the colour that you want it to be, all dyes will look different on different hair. Also you may be able to see how much damage it's done. So if it's a trainwreck, don't dye the rest, if it works then go for it!

5 Tips to Prevent Damage When Dying Your Hair