Blonde Hair Care: Tips and Tricks by Floractive Experts

Love your blonde hair makeover idea! But what about upholding its glamorous look? Similar to many other hair treatments, blonde hair care is an essential topic to maintain its elegance, especially in India’s versatile climate and environment. 

Floractive always encourages new hair looks, so how could we step behind blonde hair? Hence, we have a comprehensive guide with 15 actionable tips and tricks to maintain blonde hair. 

Without delay, check out our blonde hair care guide, curated straight from Floractive hair experts. 

Why is blonde hair care important?

Blonde hair is often delicate. Your hair goes through various processes, like bleaching, toning, and color application, to get an elegant blonde look.

This long chemical process and Indian humidity and pollution pose unique challenges to maintaining a glamorous blonde look. These challenges often include unmanageable hair, fading of color, and darkening of hair roots. 

Therefore, it’s essential to make informed choices to not only maintain the blonde hair look but also improve overall hair health.

10 Blonde Hair Care Tips by Floractive Experts 

Here are 10 tips you must consider to take care of blonde hair:

1. Use purple shampoo: Purple shampoos are designed for blonde, silver, and bleached hair. This shampoo includes violet pigments that neutralize the brassy and yellow tones in hair, offering toned blonde hair. We recommend Perfect Blonder for blonde hair care, as it’s sulphate-free and designed for blonde and grey hair. Moreover, it includes softening, detangling, and strengthening properties. 

2. Avoid sulfates: While sulfates are effective agents in cleansing, excessive use of sulfate products strips away hair’s natural oils and accelerates the fading of color. Consequently, your hair color may fade rapidly, making it dull and frizzy.

3. Protect from heat: The blonde hair is delicate due to the stripping of cuticles to lighten the hair’s natural color. Excessive use of heat styling tools on blonde hair can damage them severely, leaving them unmanageable and prone to breakage. 

4. Condition and condition: Make conditioners your best friend. Keeping blonde hair hydrated is a crucial way to keep it glamorous and healthy. Therefore, ensure you use conditioners like Perfect Blonder Mascara, designed for blonde hair, and DIY hair masks in your hair care routine. 

5. Oil smartly: Hair oiling is crucial for nourishing and hydrating hair. Yet, you need to be picky about them regarding blonde hair. Nourishing oils like olive oil, castor oil, and coconut oil often have a yellow hue and are heavy for hair, making your blonde hair weigh down and darker. Therefore, pick oils that are lightweight and don’t affect the color. You can go for argan oil and jojoba oil for blonde hair, and don’t forget to do a patch test. 

6. Avoid sun exposure: Harmful UV rays affect your hair and skin equally. Overexposure to the sun can make your blonde hair dry and turn it into an orange or brassy color. So, cover your hair with a hat during sunny days and use UV protectant serum.

7. Say no to chlorine water: Chlorine water strips away your hair’s moisture and natural oils, leaving it frizzy and fastening the fading of hair color. On top of this, chlorine water mixes with your hair’s minerals and creates a green tint, affecting the blonde hair color. Thus, ensure you avoid chlorine water and invest in a shower head filter at home to avoid unwanted elements in the water. 

8. Consider your hair type: Understanding your hair’s needs is crucial to maintaining its health. Ensure that you use products based on your hair type. For instance, oily hair weighs down easily and requires lightweight products. At the same time, dry hair requires more hydrating and nourishing. Therefore, read product labels and then choose the right one.

9. Protect hair from pollution: Pollution equally contributes to damaging hair. Exposure to a polluted environment makes your hair frizzy, prone to breakage, and dull. Moreover, it affects your hair color and accelerates fading. Thus, safeguard your hair from pollution by wearing hats, tying scarves, and protective hairstyles. 

10. Timely salon visit: It’s always beneficial to visit the salon timely for regular touch-ups. As the hair grows, your natural hair color becomes visible in the roots. In addition to this, over time, the blonde color may fade and make your hair look brassy and yellow. By scheduling regular touch-ups, you can enjoy healthy and elegant blonde hair for an extended period.  

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5 quick tricks to slay with blonde hair

1. Get regular trims: People often neglect this. Blonde hair is prone to dryness, causing split ends. These split ends can travel up the hair shaft, damaging overall hair length. Regular trims eliminate these damaged ends and prevent breakage, helping in healthy and stronger growth. 

2. End with a cold water rinse: Warm water is good for your muscles but not your hair. Always rinse your hair with cold water at the end. Cold water closes hair cuticles, making them smooth, shiny, and less frizzy. Moreover, as blonde hair is prone to dryness, cold water rinsing benefits them by locking in moisture and hydrating them. 

3. Try a DIY hair mask: Incorporate a hair mask into your hair care routine if you have dry and frizzy hair. You can look for DIY home remedies online for blonde hair. DIY hair masks are beneficial and don't affect your hair color. 

4. Choose hairstyles wisely: Avoid using excessive heat on blonde hair. Go for hairstyles like updos, braids, and buns whenever possible. These hairstyles are beneficial for hair and reduce the chances of hair tangling.

5. Opt for dry shampoo: Avoid washing your blonde hair often if you have dryness. You can use dry shampoo to add volume and shine to your hair without stripping away the color and moisture. 

Hair care routine idea for blonde hair

Here’s a basic hair care routine idea for blonde hair:

Step 1: Wash your hair with a sulfate-free shampoo. You can use purple shampoo once or twice weekly to neutralize brassiness and yellowness. It is often recommended to alternate between regular and purple shampoo.

Step 2: Lather and rinse out all 

Step 3: Apply Perfect Blonder Mascara

Step 4: Evenly spread it on hair length.

Step 5: Rinse out with the cold water.

You can further enhance your hair care routine by adding a hair mask and oiling once a week.  

Misconceptions about blonde hair care

1. Blonde hair is forever dry: Blonde hair may look dry and dull initially as it includes the stripping of hair cuticles to lighten the natural hair color. However, you can nourish them with the proper hair care routine and products. 

2. You cannot try heat styling on blonde hair: It is often suggested to avoid it as it is prone to dryness. However, you can use heating tools occasionally with a heat-protectant serum. 

3. Regular oiling nourishes blonde hair: Although hair oiling benefits all hair types, it can pose some challenges for blonde hair. Hair oils with darker pigments, like olive oil, can affect your hair color with yellowing and brassiness. So, choose hair oils wisely. 

4. Blonde hair is not healthy hair: Similar to other chemically treated hair, even blonde hair can be healthy and beautiful if cared for well. 

Conclusion 

Blonde hair care is not rocket science. Choice of the right products and a little extra care are enough to keep up its elegance. We discussed 15 tips and tricks to maintain blonde hair, and here are three key takeaways:

• Avoid heat styling, swimming, and sun exposure.
• Enhance with purple shampoo and condition with a hair mask. 
• Smartly oil and style them.

These tips will help you restore and maintain glamorous blonde hair. Start your blonde hair care journey with our favourite Perfect Blonder Shampoo and Perfect Blonder Mascara.