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Anonymous wrote:Shampoo & Conditioner brands
Kevin Murphy
Purology
karatesse

Pantene Color shampoos will bring the red out faster try not to use these.

OP. Thanks! OMG those cost like 10x more than the shampoo I use currently Any suggestions for a good one that's not like $45 for a small bottle?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shampoo & Conditioner brands
Kevin Murphy
Purology
karatesse

Pantene Color shampoos will bring the red out faster try not to use these.

OP. Thanks! OMG those cost like 10x more than the shampoo I use currently Any suggestions for a good one that's not like $45 for a small bottle?

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Anonymous wrote:I had this issue and switched from permanent to semi permanent and it was a game changer. I know that permanent is supposed to last longer and semi permanent is supposed to wash out quickly, but I think what was happening with my hair was that the permanent hair color was lifting the color from my hair (revealing the red internal color) and then the hair color that was being deposited wasn't penetrating so it washed out quickly and I ended up with the red color. I tried multiple permanent hair color formulations, two different salons and also Madison Reed, and the red just kept coming through. I switched to semi permanent, which coats the hair but does not lift your own color with the expectation that it would fade quickly but would help me transition to just being natural and living with the grays, but amazingly it actually sticks to my hair better than the permanent did, covering the gray just as well and I don't have to deal with the red from the lift. YMMV, but this is what worked for me.

Good luck!

OP. Thanks to everyone who replied. I am definitely a daily, hot-water hair washer so this is going to be a change for me. I will look into shampoo that would be better - any recommendations? And to the poster above, does your salon use semi-permanent dye? Or you do it yourself at home? If the latter, what product do you use?

Skipping washings won't help you'll be left with flat limp greasy hair but maybe the color you want? Your hair will look bad anyway. The people who suggest not washing have very different hair type.

I wash my hair at best 2 times a week. Yes, I imagine you and I not only have differnet hair types but that you've conditioned your hair to need to be washed every day. The more you wash, the more your hair will try to compensate by reproducing the oils you stripped from it.

Nope. Nope! This isn’t true. I spent a LONG time with really greasy hair trying to make this true and it just isn’t. Hair types are wildly different. We just have a huge range, even among white people who otherwise look similar to each other.

Anonymous wrote:Sun. Wear hat or stay out of sun as much as possible.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had this issue and switched from permanent to semi permanent and it was a game changer. I know that permanent is supposed to last longer and semi permanent is supposed to wash out quickly, but I think what was happening with my hair was that the permanent hair color was lifting the color from my hair (revealing the red internal color) and then the hair color that was being deposited wasn't penetrating so it washed out quickly and I ended up with the red color. I tried multiple permanent hair color formulations, two different salons and also Madison Reed, and the red just kept coming through. I switched to semi permanent, which coats the hair but does not lift your own color with the expectation that it would fade quickly but would help me transition to just being natural and living with the grays, but amazingly it actually sticks to my hair better than the permanent did, covering the gray just as well and I don't have to deal with the red from the lift. YMMV, but this is what worked for me.

Good luck!

OP. Thanks to everyone who replied. I am definitely a daily, hot-water hair washer so this is going to be a change for me. I will look into shampoo that would be better - any recommendations? And to the poster above, does your salon use semi-permanent dye? Or you do it yourself at home? If the latter, what product do you use?

Skipping washings won't help you'll be left with flat limp greasy hair but maybe the color you want? Your hair will look bad anyway. The people who suggest not washing have very different hair type.

I wash my hair at best 2 times a week. Yes, I imagine you and I not only have differnet hair types but that you've conditioned your hair to need to be washed every day. The more you wash, the more your hair will try to compensate by reproducing the oils you stripped from it.

Anonymous wrote:Shampoo & Conditioner brands
Kevin Murphy
Purology
karatesse

Pantene Color shampoos will bring the red out faster try not to use these.