Hair care between salon visits
A good cut or colour starts fading the day you leave the chair. Most of what determines how well it holds up happens at home, not in the salon.
Washing less often than you think
Hair generally holds a cut's shape and a colour's depth better when it is washed less frequently and with cooler water. Hot water opens the hair's outer layer faster than it needs to, which pulls colour out sooner and leaves the ends rougher. A lukewarm rinse, and stretching the gap between washes where your scalp allows it, is a low-effort way to make either last longer.
Drying: heat is the main cause of wear
Repeated heat styling is the single biggest reason a cut's ends start looking rough before its shape has actually grown out. Where possible, letting hair air-dry most of the way before finishing with a lower heat setting reduces that wear meaningfully over weeks, not just on any one day.
If you have had a colour treatment
Colour fades fastest in the first two weeks. Sun exposure, chlorinated water, and sulphate-heavy shampoos all speed that up. None of it needs to be avoided entirely — just weighed against how much colour depth you want to keep for as long as possible.
Brushing and tying it back
Brushing from the ends upward, rather than dragging a brush from root to tip through knots, causes far less breakage. If hair is tied back daily, rotating where the tie sits prevents the same strands from taking all the strain in the same spot, day after day.
Between visits
None of this replaces a stylist's own advice for your specific hair and your specific treatment — it is general guidance, not a plan built around any one head of hair. If you want advice suited to a cut or colour done at Hair Chemistry, ask when you are next in the chair, or message ahead of your visit.
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