Last Updated:July 07, 2025, 14:29 IST
While bleaching is an essential step in the hair colouring process, it often damages your hair and brings hair care woes like dryness, frizz, and split ends.
Applying nourishing hair masks with avocado, honey, and egg whites can help restore the natural softness.
Bleach is an essential step in hair colour. But, it can also leave your hair feeling dry, brittle, and far from silky smooth. Regaining your hair’s bright lustre and smoothness will require some effort, but don’t give up hope. The appropriate care and restoration strategies can rejuvenate your damaged hair from bleaching.
Hydrate Hair
Bleached hair often looks frizzy due to damage to the cuticle, the outer layer that locks in moisture. To bring back softness and shine, warm a bit of coconut oil between your palms and gently smooth it over dry, frizzy sections and the ends. For an added boost, use a few drops of olive oil on your fingertips, focusing on the ends to help restore vitality and manageability.
Protect Hair From Sun Damage
After bleaching, your hair is prone to sunburn and one must take special care to prevent it. Sunblock for your hair also protects the scalp, which may get inflamed as a result of bleach exposure. You can use an SPF spray formulated specifically for hair, or check for SPF-containing hair products.
Use Nourishing Hair Mask
Hair masks with moisturising ingredients such as avocado, honey, and egg whites will help restore softness and flexibility to your hair. You can use hair masks made from these simple kitchen ingredients twice or thrice a week until your hair’s condition improves. This is better for your hair than the over-the-counter chemical-based hair masks.
Leave In Conditioners
Bleach-damaged hair can be revived with leave-in conditioners, which are widely available in beauty stores and supermarkets. Some leave-in conditioners are thick and can be used in the shower. Others are simple spray-on formulations that you may apply to your hair before going out for the day.
Avoid Heat Styling
Your hair can be extremely dry and susceptible to heat styling damage immediately after bleaching. In the weeks following a bleach, limit the number of times you use heat tools to blow-dry, curl, or straighten your hair. Limit it to a minimum – once or twice per week at most.
Cool Water Rinses
Damaged hair should not be washed in extremely hot water. Steam from the shower can open up your hair cuticle, causing additional damage to your hair strands. When washing your hair, keep the temperature at medium to moderate. Finish your wash with a splash of chilled water to lock in moisture.
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