Your hair may look thinner
So when you stop coloring your hair may have a noticeable loss of actual volume and the appearance of it.
Hair dyes can cause hair damage. Practicing hair-friendly techniques like limiting heat styling and conditioning the hair can help minimize damage whenever possible. Dyeing your hair closer to its natural color may also limit time exposure to hair dyes and help minimize damage.
Unfortunately, hair Color damages your hair. When you dye your hair it lifts the cuticle, altering the hair in a way that will never completely revert back to it's natural virgin state. However, the hair that grows from your scalp will grow out normally so only the hair that has been dyed is affected.
In short, the general consensus among the celebrity hair colorists I consulted with is that, yes, dying and bleaching your hair permanently alters the integrity of your hair. You're using powerful chemicals to change the makeup of it, after all, and there's not necessarily a magic reversal wand you can wave to undo it.
As a result, deciding how frequently to color your hair is a delicate balancing act. As a general rule, wait at least four weeks, and preferably six weeks, before starting another treatment. Semi-permanent hair color can be used more frequently than permanent tints if desired.
Dying your hair will not affect new hair growth or cause permanent thinning, but damage to the color-treated hair may increase shedding and breakage. People who frequently color their hair often experience thinning hair or hair loss due to breakage and increased shedding instead of permanent hair loss.
As a general rule of thumb, he recommends dying your hair only every four to six weeks. That said, the ideal frequency to dye your hair while keeping it healthy will depend on your natural color, texture, and hair type, as well as how you care for and maintain your strands in between dye jobs.
Colors put a coating on your hair that can help make it stronger. If you have weak or slightly damaged hair, a semi permanent color can help to build up your hair strength. Dying can protect your hair from environmental hazards like pollution, wind, excessive heat from the sun and cold temperatures in the winter.
There's no hard-and-fast rule about when (or if!) you should stop coloring your hair and go gray; it's ultimately a personal choice.
"The best way to grow out your natural color, especially coming from a highlight or balayage look, is to have your colorist gloss down your hair back to the natural level of the roots to allow the natural root to blend as it grows," says IGK Hair Care founder Chase Kusero.
Typically, white people start going gray in their mid-30s, Asians in their late 30s, and Blacks in their mid-40s. Half of all people have a significant amount of gray hair by the time they turn 50.
Our best overall pick is Biolage Haircolor, a henna dye that's free from harmful chemicals including ammonia and PPD. We also love Madison Reed Radiant Hair Color Kit, which is free of ammonia, parabens, resorcinol, PDD, phthalates, and gluten, plus the added benefit of being packed with hydrating ingredients.
Perhaps the most toxic ingredient, PPD (paraphenylenediamine)—rated seven out of ten in terms of toxicity on ewg.org—is in most permanent hair color (some contain a similar compound, PTD), including many so-called organic and natural formulas.
Unsurprisingly, this can have the effect of weakening the hair, and can even result in hair loss or hair breakage. Hair loss from dyeing is not uncommon in people who dye their hair frequently.
Give it a month to 6 weeks after bleaching and see if your hair starts to recover.
There are basically 3 main ways to transition to naturally gray hair: to let it grow as it is and be patient (a.k.a the “cold turkey” method), to cut your hair very short and regrow it fully gray, or ask your hair colorist to blend your grays with the dyed hair color.
Ideally, permanent hair colour would stay just as vibrant as it was the day you coloured it, at least until the roots grow. On most heads of hair, that would mean a good 6-8 weeks between touch-ups.
A common reason behind fast-fading hair color is insufficient processing time, meaning the hair color did not stay on long enough. This especially holds true if you or your client have grey hair. Grey hair cuticles are tightly packed down and take longer to open and absorb artificial hair color molecules.
Key Takeaways. Many hair professionals suggest not washing your hair for at least 2-3 days after dying it. It is also recommended to wash your dyed hair once or twice a week rather than every day. Don't wash your hair before coloring it, particularly if the dyeing procedure includes bleaching your hair.
Don't assume that grey hair makes you look older
Hair naturally loses pigment as we age, but stylist Paul Falltrick points out that the notion that grey hair makes you look older is increasingly becoming a misnomer: "Grey shades can be stereotyped as ageing, but a clean-looking grey is stunning" he says.