Paging Tracy or any other colorshines gurus.......
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Hey Janet, Obviously not Tracy, but I had a similar question for Tracy and PM'd her. Her answer & my question follows. Hope this is OK Tracy.
"Sorry to PM but my thread got buried: Or any other ladies who use Sebastian’s Colourshine regularly. Hair Background: I’m natural (4a/4b) and have dark brown hair. When applying I wash, clarify, protein condition, followed by deep moisturize condition then apply the colourshines, sit for 30 min. under a heatcap on high (dryer broken) Cool 10 min, rinse w/ cold water (brrrrrr), instant condition, rinse, moisturize, oil, plait to air dry and go to bed. Whew.
I use Neutral Brown (BSS was out of clear) which turned my hair black. I’ll get clear next time, cause I can’t take the bleeding and I’m not interested in color at this time, I mainly used upon your recommendation, for the conditioning value and because it has helped me with tangles and knots immensely. I CO wash daily which I cannot give-up or else I’ll have scary-doo hair. Obviously the color is fading with each condition wash. When all the color has rinsed away does this mean that the cellophane has also been rinsed away? If so it’s gone in about 10-15 days. Can I apply the colourshine cellophane rinse more frequently than every 4 weeks without damaging my hair? Is there anything that I can do to extend the benefits of the cellophane? Hail to the color-guru. Thanks in advance for your help!"
From Tracy:
Hey girl.
I would say that if your color is gone the Colorshines (and the benefits thereof) are mostly gone as well too. But I understand about the CO washes....I need them too.
You probably COULD do the Colorshines more frequently, but Sebastian's has quite a bit of silicone in it's formulation and I worry about it building up being applied and re-applied in that fashion. Would you DAMAGE your hair? Probably not. But I do think that build up, if frequent reapplication affected your hair in this way, COULD be troublesome.
What I do to extend the benefits of my Sebastian Colorshines is use conditioners made for Colortreated hair. They tend to extend the life of the "color" just a tad - which means your colorshines won't disappear as quickly (they probably don't have as many surfectants as most conditioners do). I wouls say this is true whether you actually HAD a color per se or the clear.
I would also try just rinsing the hair, no conditioner every other day instead of CO washing EVERYDAY. But again that's a guess.
Sorry about the Brown going so dark on you. The darker colors are trickier....
I say go with the clear, and if you can stand it, wait the 4 weeks.
Your hair will still reap all the same benefits and more IMO because you are also conditioning it daily and giving it moisture in the form of water. Most people don't take care of their hair as well as we do, and the colorshines helps protect the hair from abuses of the normal sort. Since you don't heat style, or really manipulate the hair much at all I imagine, I think that 2 weeks or so minus the colorshines is actually not a bad thing....
HTH.
"Sorry to PM but my thread got buried: Or any other ladies who use Sebastian’s Colourshine regularly. Hair Background: I’m natural (4a/4b) and have dark brown hair. When applying I wash, clarify, protein condition, followed by deep moisturize condition then apply the colourshines, sit for 30 min. under a heatcap on high (dryer broken) Cool 10 min, rinse w/ cold water (brrrrrr), instant condition, rinse, moisturize, oil, plait to air dry and go to bed. Whew.
I use Neutral Brown (BSS was out of clear) which turned my hair black. I’ll get clear next time, cause I can’t take the bleeding and I’m not interested in color at this time, I mainly used upon your recommendation, for the conditioning value and because it has helped me with tangles and knots immensely. I CO wash daily which I cannot give-up or else I’ll have scary-doo hair. Obviously the color is fading with each condition wash. When all the color has rinsed away does this mean that the cellophane has also been rinsed away? If so it’s gone in about 10-15 days. Can I apply the colourshine cellophane rinse more frequently than every 4 weeks without damaging my hair? Is there anything that I can do to extend the benefits of the cellophane? Hail to the color-guru. Thanks in advance for your help!"
From Tracy:
Hey girl.
I would say that if your color is gone the Colorshines (and the benefits thereof) are mostly gone as well too. But I understand about the CO washes....I need them too.
You probably COULD do the Colorshines more frequently, but Sebastian's has quite a bit of silicone in it's formulation and I worry about it building up being applied and re-applied in that fashion. Would you DAMAGE your hair? Probably not. But I do think that build up, if frequent reapplication affected your hair in this way, COULD be troublesome.
What I do to extend the benefits of my Sebastian Colorshines is use conditioners made for Colortreated hair. They tend to extend the life of the "color" just a tad - which means your colorshines won't disappear as quickly (they probably don't have as many surfectants as most conditioners do). I wouls say this is true whether you actually HAD a color per se or the clear.
I would also try just rinsing the hair, no conditioner every other day instead of CO washing EVERYDAY. But again that's a guess.
Sorry about the Brown going so dark on you. The darker colors are trickier....
I say go with the clear, and if you can stand it, wait the 4 weeks.
Your hair will still reap all the same benefits and more IMO because you are also conditioning it daily and giving it moisture in the form of water. Most people don't take care of their hair as well as we do, and the colorshines helps protect the hair from abuses of the normal sort. Since you don't heat style, or really manipulate the hair much at all I imagine, I think that 2 weeks or so minus the colorshines is actually not a bad thing....
HTH.
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