Whether you change your color with the seasons or you just get a touch-up once in a while, coloring your hair can damage it, leaving it looking dry and dull. Taking special care of your colored hair will keep it looking shiny, healthy, and fabulous.

Treat your hair to a nourishing, deep conditioning treatment immediately after coloring to smooth the hair and lock in the color. Also, limit single-process treatments to once every four to six weeks and highlights to once every two to three months. If you need a touch-up of your roots in between highlights, schedule a single-process coloring.

If you have lightened your hair more than two or three shades away from your natural color, you need to handle it with extra care, so avoid overlapping new color onto the existing shade. To get at the roots without damaging the rest of the hair, have your colorist apply the product with a Q-tip or a paintbrush.