Protective Measures and First Steps 1.) Is it the RIGHT TIME to color? As a rule of thumb, color treatments should be applied no sooner than 2 weeks following a chemical relaxer treatment. The common saying is that you “color a relaxer, not relax a color.” Any sooner than the safe 2 week window, and the physical assault on the hair cuticle and shaft itself becomes entirely too much for the hair withstand. With damage on the cuticle to this degree, breakage is imminent. Relaxers are stronger chemicals than colors, so you want to apply the relaxer to hair that is already as strong as it can be. Use the two week (or longer) window between your relaxer and color to rebuild your hair with mild protein treatments and deep moisturizing conditioning treatments. Additionally, remember to protect your older color-treated hair during future relaxer applications by applying oil or Vaseline to the length of your hair that is not currently being chemically relaxed. You should already be doing this prior to relaxing the hair whether you are color treated or not.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:24:14 +0000
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