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How to Take Care of your Gorgeous Blonde Hair

Beautiful blonde locks from highlights to platinum blonde hair requires maintenance to keep that brassiness away. Meet your new best friends; toners, silver shampoos and many different hydrating and protein based treatments to add the moisture that the bleach rips away. Following is a compilation of products that are tested and proven to work for your blonde hair to keep it an ash tone as opposed to that dreaded brassiness.

Shiny blonde hair with beautiful tonality requires the right hair products

Toner

Goldwell 10P toner or Goldwell 10V toner, which one you chose depends on which shade of blonde you prefer. It is quite a good product to keep your hair from going brassy and lasts up to 3 weeks. Your hair must be bleached quite pale to notice the effects of this product. Mixing the Goldwell 10P and the 10V together can also give beautiful results
Iceflower toning mousse by Schwarzkopf for a platinum blonde produces quite good toning effect and cuts out brassiness
Ultra White Minx water rinse by Roux
Napro Live Silver Toner has a very pretty color and lasts about 8 washes. It is a good cheap toner that you can get in most drug stores or supermarkets
Fudge Paintbox’s ‘Lighter Shade Of Pale’

Tone your hair regularly to keep the brassiness away

Shampoo and Conditioner

Matrix shampoo- So Silver
Matrix Earthy Tones conditioning tube- Violet
KMS blonde shampoo
Wella Bonacure Silver Reflex
Alfaparf silver shampoo is very good. A trick with these shampoos is to leave it on for about 20 mins and it will act like a toner.
De Lorenzo Silver Color Care Shampoo can be used once a week to maintain your perfect blond color
Paul Mitchell Strength Range is good for bleach damaged hair to restore its strength

Purple Shampoos and Conditioners are great for cutting out brassiness

Treatment

Redken All Soft
Redken Smooth Down Butter Treat
L’Oreal Techni.art Liss Control is great for fine hair
Paul Mitchell Strength Super Strong Treatment

The right treatments can strengthen your blonde hair

Leave in

L’oreal Intense Repair
Redken All Soft Soft Ends
De Lorenzo Instant Restructant Leave In Hair Treatment
Redken Anti-Snap
PPS Double Fixx for Blondes (will moisturize and cut the brassiness out of hair)

Leave in Conditioners can leave dry hair feeling soft and healthy

Masque

L’Oreal Absolut Repair mask
Kerastase Masquintense
Matrix Moisturising Mask

Be kind to your bleached blonde hair and apply an intense treatment masque at least once a week

Bleaching Hair Platinum Blonde

Let’s hit the bottle of bleach hard and turn our locks of hair into that beautiful shade of all shades – the ethereal platinum blonde.

Of course you can do this at home with powdered bleach but to be safe I recommend seeing your stylist. If you just have to take matters into your own hands and do it yourself at home then here are some suggestions to achieve that perfect color:

Use a 20% developer over two or three different sessions. 30% and 40% developer will lift the color more rapidly but will also do much more damage to your hair.
Do not bleach your hair more than once a day. If you try to take your hair from dark to pale blonde in one day you will totally fry it. It is best to keep it to once a week or leave it even longer between sessions (if you can bare it) as your hair needs time to recover. This is the hardest part because depending on how dark your hair is you will go through various color stages and not many of them are very nice. Bright orange or fluro yellow hair anyone??
Make sure you add deep conditioning treatments to your hair regularly to add protein back into your hair. Also use a leave in protein conditioner. Basically the more protein you can add back, the better your hair will feel. After beating your hair up with bleach it is now time to be very very nice to it.
Get rid of brassiness by using a toner. The toner will be purple based to counteract the yellow color. For platinum hair use a silver toner. I think that toner brands are a highly personal thing. Everyone has their own which they love – play around until you find the one that suits you best.
Use a purple based shampoo designed for maintaining blonde hair about once a week. Keep heat based styling appliances like your straightener and blow dryer to a minimum (not that possible in the real world, I know) and always apply a heat protecting product before hand.

Bleaching on a budget

Platinum blonde hair needs to be maintained regularly, so this can get expensive. But don’t fret – once you learn how to do it (using the tips above) you can find all the ingredients you need online.

Stages of Hair Bleach

Here is a chart of the color stages your hair will go through on its way to platinum blonde:

Hair Bleach Stages

Ok now lets take a look at some pics of beautiful starlets and their platinum blonde locks! I am thinking, Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Harry, Scarlet Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Paris Hilton and more. Have a look at the hairstyles gallery.

Short Blonde Hair

Are you looking to change your hairstyle drastically? You could try going short and blonde like Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby. You could leave a longer side swept fringe for a more feminine look, you could cut sharp straight bangs to emphasize your eyes, the possibilities are endless!

Blonde hair comes in a variation of exciting tones. From pure white platinum blonde, to creamy or beige blondes, to dirty blonde, there’s blonde with an ash base, or blondes with a golden base, carmel blonde, toffee blonde, medium blonde, dark blonde and more. Pick the blonde that is right for you!

Have a look at this wonderful gallery all about short blonde hairstyles. Find a hairstyle to suit you from these various trendy cuts. You might even find that shade of blonde you have been searching for!