Shampoo and Conditioner

Healthy and great looking hair absolutely starts with a high quality shampoo and conditioner that is made for your hair type. Prepping the canvas, if you will. If you want your hair to behave, you simply must give it what it needs. That may be clean moisture, protein, more intense moisture with some natural oils- you get it.

First identify what your hair IS, and then figure out what it NEEDS.

Your hair could be:
Color treated, highlighted, chemically treated(in other ways that color), dry, coarse, fine, curly, AND any combination of those traits and more.

If your hair is being colored, you simply MUST wash it with a color safe shampoo, I recommend Redken Color Extend. What separated these shampoos from the rest is that they have milder cleansers that are created to keep your color, not fade it. Redken's product in particular will also impart nourishing ingredients that help strengthen chemically treated hair, and also help protect it from environmental aggressors, including the sun.
Now, with a line like Redken, one can mix and match very easily to customize a S and C package.
Just because you are protecting your color with Color Extend, does not mean you must use the conditioner as well if your hair has greater needs. Say your hair has highlights in the color, or is weak from over processing. You will want to follow with Redken Extreme Conditioner to add in the protein needed to repair stressed hair. If your hair is a bit coarser, or just very dry, I suggest Redken All Soft for lovely results. You get it? Yes, you do.

When dealing with color treated hair, the shampoo is the MOST important to prevent fading.

Also, if your hair has special needs, treatments work wonders. At home treatments can cost you from $1-5 per treatment, if you buy the whole bottle or package of individual treatments. That is not bad!!

And lastly, do not ever use hotel shampoo, unless it's a darn nice hotel: )