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Summary: Protein hair conditioners sets up your hair for dying. Learn how to apply protein based hair conditioners in this free hair coloring video from a professional hair stylist.
Sandy Powell has been styling hair for more than 20 years. She has experience in coloring, cutting, styling, highlighting and lowlighting all styles of hair. Powell currently owns and...read more
"You're going to make sure you use a protein based conditioner, something, make sure that it says protein on the bottle. If it doesn't have protein in it, it's just your daily conditioner. You don't want a conditioner for colored treated hair. You want to make sure it says protein and it's extremely important. Let me show you the difference between.. This is your daily conditioner. It's pretty thin. It's not much more than, it's not much more than hand lotion. If you use your protein conditioner, it's pretty thick in consistency and this is actually going to, helps even out the porosity. See the difference in the, how thick that is versus how thin that is. This goes into the hair shaft, evens the porosity of the hair. Your hair is made up of protein so it puts protein back into your hair, allowing your hair to be treated for hair color and for your hair color to turn out properly. So make sure you use protein based conditioner, not your daily conditioner, prior to hair color. That sets your hair up for proper hair color."
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