How to prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

Do you want keep your hair wrasse free and how to prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair, the following we would share some ways to kind of prevent it from happening, whether you are a blonde or a brunette or even a redhead, you can have unwanted tongues before you read the article.

What is brass hair?

 I do want to clarify that brass is not Orange brass is it looks kind of golden looks kind of yellow, it’s not the perfect blonde, but when hair looks Orange this is beyond brass it’s just orange, of all the dreaded hair woes, brassiness ranks high on the list. Brassy hair rears its ugly head, especially when tresses are not properly treated after coloring. Brassy hair is caused by an overabundance of warm pigments in your hair. For example, when platinum blonde hair becomes too yellow or when golden highlights turn reddish-gold or orange.

When you lighten your hair, your natural hair color is lifted to make room for the new color. Because all hair has some measure of underlying warmth, the removal of your natural hue makes yellow, orange or red tones more evident, unless steps are taken to mitigate it.

To extend the color of your blonde hair and help your hair stay a cooler shade of blonde, you’ll need to get rid of brass. Better yet, use preventative measures as your brassy blonde hair fix. so today I’m just gonna be giving you six tips that can help prevent brass and hopefully in the long run completely eliminate it alright

Start using a purple shampoo – prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

The first one, if you are light enough, please use a purple shampoo and often times clients wait till their hair starts to look really brassy and then they start using a purple shampoo, I like to start using one maybe two to three shampoos, after I’ve colored or toned my hair, then from then on I like to use it at least like every other shampoo.

Choose the Best Blonde for You – prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

Instead of going with a single-process all-over blonde color, have your colorist work in highlights and lowlights versus coloring every strand. This minimizes the potential for a whole head of brassiness. Remember, the closer your hair’s final color is to its natural color, the less room there is for the color to turn. We recommend that you don’t lighten your hair beyond two shades from your natural color.

Key moments – prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

The next point is another thing that I think just doesn’t get explained and salons that often, that is so you just got your hair balayage or lightened, that balayage is going to let grow up beautifully, so technically you don’t need to get at balayage for say another four to five months, that doesn’t mean that your toners gonna hold up that long.

Oftentimes clients think if I come back in four weeks or five weeks, it’s going to cost just as much as what I’ve just had done and that’s kind of a lot, so I’ll just wait for five months. If the brass does creep up on you and a toning shampoo isn’t working, ask your stylist how often you should be toning your hair and how long that toner is going to last.

I try and be really really honest and really upfront with my clients and I tell them what each thing is going to last, it’s not gonna be a balayage appointment we’re not going to be lightening your hair, it’s really just a toner refresh I explained what the price is going to be for that, often times clients actually relieves they’re like oh I thought I had back for like a full appointment.

Strip your toner – prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

The next one is don’t strip your toner or say your hair is looking amazing, it is the exact tone that you want and you just got your hair done, the key here is to prevent that toner from fading, so a key thing is definitely give your hair at least 48 hours after you’ve gotten your hair colored and toned, before you shampoo your hair at home, when you do start shampooing your hair choose this cold water as absolutely possible that will always be healthier for your hair.

Also use a color safe shampoo which also help keep the color of a toner in your hair as well, then keep your hair hydrated, the drier the hair is and the more heat you’re putting on the hair, if you don’t have kind of a barrier between that heat, that you’re adding to the hair later with your Hot Tools, you are just leaving the hair way open for all that color to escape, we definitely don’t want that.

Lightening your hair – prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

If you have darker hair and you are lightening your hair, you get a color at the root as well as the lightener, that is only necessary if you’re actually going for a look that is completely lighter than what you have, oftentimes clients are actually happy with just the highlight or just the baby light against their natural color.

By doing that you’re eliminating the possibility of getting brassy, because normally when you highlight or ball yards, once you get your hair to say about a level 9 or lighter, it typically doesn’t go back to kind of like a brassy tone, what does get really golden and warm tones is the base color. 

Lifting the color a little – prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

The reason for that is because you are lifting the color a little bit, and then with that beautiful ash deposit that you get in the beginning it looks beautiful, but in a couple of weeks fades, you’re left with those really like unnatural and just really warm unwanted tones.

Alright and that was the final tip, so for all you brunettes redheads and blondes out there, I hope that this will help maintain the most beautiful tones in your hair and keep those unwanted and I have to stress unwanted warm tones, because one of the first article I did talking about orange or ugly warm tones in the hair.

CONCLUSION – How to prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your hair

Thanks for your reading the article – How to prevent and prolong brass from occurring in your haire , I hope you enjoyed these tips and I hope that they work for you as well as they work for me. Leave me a note in the comments. So let me know how it turns out, thanks you very much! Besides the areticle TIPS ON HOW TO PROTECT YOUR HAIR FROM HEAT DAMAGE  for more elementary knowledge about natual hair.