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Written by Karine Sevigny
8 January 2026
A new season can be the perfect excuse to try a different shade. Whether you choose a bold color or a cool blonde, your hair will need care that suits the change. We asked our in-house colorists to answer your most common questions about how to maintain colored hair, including what bleached strands need to look and feel their best.
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Learning how to maintain colored hair starts with a few everyday habits:
These small changes can help your shade stay vibrant and shiny for longer.
Knowing how to maintain colored hair means choosing formulas designed to care for your shade. A gentle, sulfate-free shampoo and matching conditioner can help keep it looking vibrant. Our in-house experts also recommend a heat protectant before styling and a finishing oil to soften your lengths and add vibrance.
Freshly colored hair can feel more fragile, making a moisturizing or repairing treatment especially appealing. Choose a formula labeled safe for colored hair, since some treatments may affect your shade. Understanding how to maintain colored hair includes checking that every step of your routine supports color retention.
If you color at home, avoid repeatedly applying permanent color from roots to ends unless the instructions call for it. Regrowth, previously colored lengths, and gray hair may need different formulas or processing times. A semi-permanent formula may be enough to refresh faded lengths and ends; ask your stylist what suits your color.
Remember your heat protectant when blow-drying, too. It’s easy to save it for flat irons and curling tools, but a blow dryer also exposes your hair to heat. Limiting damage helps your hair retain a smoother finish and keeps your color looking its best.
A root cover-up quickly conceals regrowth when you’re not ready to color again. It’s easy to apply and gives you instant coverage.
Color touch-ups are often scheduled every 4 to 6 weeks, depending on your shade, your hair’s condition, and how you care for it. If you have your color done professionally, book your next appointment before you leave. You’ll have a spot in your stylist’s calendar and one less thing to arrange when your roots start showing.
The right products help keep your color vibrant for longer. Here are our favorite hair care collections for colored hair, with options for every budget.
Price: Starting at $28.90
What’s Redken’s strength? The Color Extend range includes several variations of hair care specially designed for maintaining a particular shade. For example, the Color Extend Blondage range is formulated with anti-yellowing purple pigments to help correct and neutralize unwanted yellow tones. The Color Extend Magnetics ritual offers a gentle sulfate-free formula to maximize color preservation over washes. As for the Blondage masks, they are perfect for controlling certain tones or enhancing others.
Price: Starting at $32.90
The ColorMotion+ range is designed to protect your color without breaking the bank. Its rich formula is perfect for deeply hydrating the hair fiber. Hair is softer, shinier, and silkier from the first washes. Psst! The Wella Professionals brand offers several other products focused on color protection!
Price: Starting at $31.90
The Vitamino Color range is enriched with resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant offering up to 8 weeks of protection for your color. Its concentrated formula is designed to prevent early fading. In addition to gently cleansing the hair fiber, it deeply hydrates it.
Price: Starting at $32.90
Rich in antioxidants, the Mirrorball range from Amika is designed to optimize and enhance hair shine. Daily use of the range increases shine by 45%, protects color, and fights environmental stressors that dull hair.
Price: Starting at $67
The Chroma Absolu range is one of our favorites for maintaining colored hair. Its formula enriched with 3 repairing acids and boosted with Centella Asiatica is perfect for gently cleansing hair and protecting color from fading. Additionally, it offers 95% more hydration, 65% more shine, and 92% more color intensity after more than 6 weeks.
Price: Starting at $38
The Color Care range is formulated to rebuild the keratin structure of the hair to ‘lock in’ the color. Hair is protected from external pollutants causing color dullness and is stronger and softer. Products for maintaining blonde hair are also available in the Color Complete range.
Price: Starting at $63
The Beautiful Color range is designed to extend the life of your color. Thanks to a clever combination of natural ingredients, such as ginger root and baobab tree extracts, it hydrates hair, prevents fading, and offers effective protection against UV rays.
Shop our full selection of color-protecting products to maintain colored hair.
See all careMore questions? Feel free to contact our customer service by phone at 418 527-8777 or by email at [email protected]. Our hair care and coloring experts will be happy to assist you!
* Prices and availability of products are subject to change without notice.
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