Brandi Suther

If you want to maintain your bright blonde in between salon visits.. you no longer have the luxury of not using a heat protectant. Sorry 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hear me out..

Your hair lifts yellow. Period!! And that’s if you’re lucky. In some cases.. it only gets to a yellow/orange. If we’re working with old dark color, it may only lift to a red/orange during the first session. 💀

The point is… everyone lifts warm and almost no one can get away without a glaze after their lightening session.

What’s the glaze? We apply this after a lightening service to neutralize any unwanted tones. In this scenario.. the unwanted tone was yellow and we were going for more of a white blonde.

Easy peasy right? Apply the glaze and move on with life. Beautiful bright blonde! 🤩

Here’s the problem. If you are not using a heat protectant, the heat from your hot tools are stripping away all of the tones and revealing the natural lift. This is where the brass live.

This is typically when you reach for the purple shampoo to correct. The thing about purple shampoo… it’s meant to maintain, NOT correct. That was the glazes job and you already stripped it out with your hot tools.

Moral of the story: Use your heat protectant!! Your blonde will thank you 😉

My favorite wet heat protectants before blow drying:
✨Pureology Colour Fanatic 21 Leave In
✨Redken Quick Blowout

My favorite dry heat protectant before straightening or curling:
✨Redken Thermal Spray 22 (not only is this one a heat protectant but it also has thermal memory and will help your style hold)