Coloring your hair is fun and can make your overall look more fabulous. But keeping your color looking gorgeous and fresh is not always easy.

Success boils down to arming yourself with the right lifestyle tips and products so that you don’t need your hairdresser on speed-dial due to color fade emergencies.

Wash Wisely

If you wash your hair daily, this can cause your color to fade faster because shampoo causes your hair strands to swell, which makes the color leak out. Try to wash your hair a maximum of once every second day and choose a shampoo and conditioner that are suitable for colored hair.

Rene Furterer Okara Radiance Enhancing Conditioner is a rich and luxurious conditioner that repairs hair while giving it luminous appeal by locking in your gorgeous color. Give your hair a bit of TLC by using this product after washing your hair and removing any excess water. Instead of merely rubbing it through hair and immediately washing it off, separate your hair into sections with a comb and then apply the conditioner. Let it sit for a few minutes before rinsing it off.

Use Fewer Products

If you have many hair products you use on a daily basis, these could be giving the appearance of dull color. This is because of product build-up that makes hair heavy and could result in your color appearing darker. The day before you head to the salon to have your hair colored, you should also remove any product build-up by washing your hair thoroughly. This will help to make the color get absorbed evenly all over your hair.

Stick to using products you really need and that are light on your hair so that it won’t look weighed down or greasy. An example is Rene Furterer Okara Radiance Enhancing Spray that detangles hair while sealing in color and also protecting your hair against UV damage. It’s got ingredients like Hamamelis (witch hazel) extract that maintains hair pigment while Okara extract is a protein similar to keratin that repairs damage. Since it’s a spray, it’s nice and light while getting the job done.

Prevent Color Warps

Sometimes you color your hair and then when it starts to fade it it becomes a weird shade. This can strike hair that’s been highlighted or bleached, for instance when blonde hair gains a horrid yellow tinge.

Using a product made for hair that’s been highlighted or bleached helps to maintain its crystal brilliance. Rene Furterer Okara Light Activating Shampoo is gentle when cleaning hair while preventing color fading. One of its ingredients is honey extract that has antioxidants to help your color remain luminous without yellowing or dull effects. You can also get it in a daily leave-in fluid.

Keep Your Gorgeous Grey Youthful

Grey hair is a big trend, with younger people choosing to embrace silver-hued locks. If it suits you and you love it, keep it! When looking after grey hair, the key is to make it look polished and stylish instead of aging. If your grey hair appears rough, this is because it needs extra hydration to keep it smooth and looking great. Rene Furterer Okara Mild Silver Shampoo cleans grey or white hair while nourishing it with its nutrients: Vitamin B5 locks in moisture and Vitamin E protects against free radicals. Free radicals can damage hair, potentially causing hair loss, so you definitely don’t want them around! The shampoo also prevents hair from yellowing in-between hair color treatments, so you can maintain your sophisticated ’do.

With the Rene Furterer Okara range available at Bellezza Spa, your color-treated crowning glory will remain rich and sparkly as though you’ve just had it done.