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Kelly · Hermes

keeping red highlights from fading

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

Just some ideas to throw out there...wash your hair in cooler water so the hair itself isn't opening up for the heat and leaching out colour, try a gloss spray after styling to pick up the light and glint in those highlights.

Yana · Dooney & Bourke

I dye my hair red/copper, it fades away rather fast. All different stylists always told me that red washes away the fastest of all colors....well....I tried shampoos that are supposed to preserve color - nothing....

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

Red always fades quick. When I went red my colorist used a special pre-treatment so the color would stick but each shampoo rinses more and more color and I was using color-safe shampoo. My only advice is don't wash, use color-safe shampoo and touch up 1x a month or so.

lindsayp · Kenneth Cole

I dye my whole head red. My stylist has me wash every other day and use non-sulphate stuff (I use PureOlogy Hydrate shampoo & conditioner). Also, once a week I use a color depositing conditioner (ColorGlow Deep Reflects conditioner), and then approximately once a week I also do a deep conditioning mask (Redken Real Control). Red does fade the fastest, but this routine keeps it up pretty well so I only get color every 6 weeks. HTH!

-- Edited by lindsayp on Tuesday 23rd of February 2010 10:35:42 PM

Yana · Dooney & Bourke

My stylists also told me to wash with cold ( almost cold, room temp) water, not hot, it preserves the color better.

Kelly · Hermes

Thanks everybody!!