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Ulta Hair Care for Color-Treated & Blonde Hair: Purple Shampoo & Bond Repair
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items I've spent years keeping my own color and my highlights from turning brassy between salon visits, and these are the Ulta picks that actually work for it. From purple shampoos and bond-building treatments to a gloss and a couple of heat protectants, t...
My highlights get warm and brassy so fast between salon visits, and this purple shampoo is the fastest fix I've found for knocking that yellow tone back down in just a few minutes. I leave it on the full five minutes on shower days when I remember, a...
Olaplex No.4P Blonde Enhancer Toning Shampoo
Pairing this with the No.4P purple shampoo doubles down on keeping brass away, and it detangles my hair so well I barely need a brush afterward, which matters on mornings when the dogs need walking before school drop-off. It leaves my ends soft inste...
Olaplex No.5P Blonde Enhancer Toning Conditioner
This is the everyday shampoo I switched to after years of coloring my hair, since it actually rebuilds broken bonds instead of just coating them, and my colorist noticed the difference at my last appointment. It lathers gently enough for daily washes...
Olaplex No.4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo
I follow the No.4 shampoo with this every single wash because the two together cut my breakage noticeably, especially at the ends where years of highlights had made my hair the most fragile. It smooths without weighing my hair down, so I can still ai...
Olaplex No.5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner
Once a week, usually on a Sunday while I'm folding laundry, I saturate my ends with this before I shower and let it sit while I do a few chores around the house. It has genuinely reversed some of the damage from years of color, and it is the one trea...
Olaplex No.3 Hair Perfector
This shampoo's acidic formula balances out the damage that hair color and my hot showers cause, and it is sulfate-free so it does not strip out the toner my colorist just spent an hour perfecting. My ends feel noticeably stronger since I started usin...
Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate Shampoo
Used right after the matching shampoo, this conditioner is what finally stopped my color from fading so fast between touch-ups, since the acidic pH seals my cuticle back down after coloring. It is rich but rinses clean, so my hair does not feel greas...
Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate Conditioner
I spray this on damp hair before I blow-dry on the mornings I actually have time to style, and it protects up to 450 degrees so my color does not fade faster from heat on top of everything else it already goes through. It also detangles so well that ...
Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate Leave-In Treatment
On the nights I actually remember self-care, five minutes with this mask in the shower makes a bigger difference in my color-treated hair's softness than any overnight treatment I have tried, since it works fast without a shower cap for an hour. It i...
Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate 5 Minute Liquid Mask
This is the purple shampoo I keep in the shower for my own highlights, since the pigment is strong enough to actually cancel brass but the formula is not so harsh that it dries my hair out like some drugstore versions do. I use gloves when I leave it...
Redken Color Extend Blondage Purple Shampoo
Following the Blondage shampoo with this conditioner keeps my blonde cooler for days longer than shampoo alone, and it is rich enough to double as a quick detangler on mornings when I am rushing my son and the dogs out the door at once. My colorist a...
Redken Color Extend Blondage Purple Conditioner
This is a splurge, but it earns its price by toning brassiness while actually repairing the strength my hair lost from years of highlights, so I am not just masking damage with purple pigment. It smells incredible too, which is a small thing that mak...
Pureology Strength Cure Blonde Purple Shampoo
I reach for this conditioner on the weeks my ends feel especially fried from summer sun and color, since it repairs and detangles at the same time and leaves my hair noticeably shinier once it air-dries. It is sulfate-free, which matters since my sca...
Pureology Strength Cure Blonde Purple Conditioner
A few spritzes of this before I style protects my color from heat damage and fading at the same time, so I am not layering three different products just to get out the door looking decent. It smells like a spa day in a bottle, which makes the two min...
Pureology Color Fanatic Leave-In Conditioner Spray
This is the budget-friendly purple shampoo I keep as backup when I do not want to use my pricier one every wash, and it still neutralizes yellow tones well enough that I cannot tell the difference in the mirror. It lasts through a lot of washes befor...
Joico Color Balance Purple Shampoo
This low-pH shampoo is what I hand my husband to use on his color-treated hair too, since it is gentle enough for the whole family's colored hair but still genuinely extends how long our color lasts between salon trips. It smells fresh without being ...
Biolage Color Last Shampoo
I keep this in rotation with the regular Color Last shampoo so I am toning brassiness one wash and just maintaining color the next, which stretches my highlights out noticeably longer than using a purple shampoo every single time. It rinses out compl...
Biolage Color Last Purple Shampoo
This one has the strongest pigment of any purple shampoo I have tried, so it is my pick for the weeks my highlights have gone especially brassy from pool time or too much sun with my son. A little goes a long way, and it still leaves my hair feeling ...
Matrix So Silver Purple Shampoo
For the days in between toning treatments, this is my regular color-safe shampoo, since it cleanses without fading my color the way a clarifying formula would. It keeps my color looking fresh for weeks longer than the drugstore shampoo I used to grab...
Matrix Total Results Color Obsessed Shampoo
This salon-brand purple shampoo hydrates while it tones, so my hair never feels stripped the way some cheaper purple shampoos leave it after just one wash. I save it for the nights before something important, like a work event or date night, when I w...
Bumble and bumble Illuminated Blonde Purple Shampoo
One spray of this after a shower does the job of about three products at once, tackling frizz, heat protection, and brassiness in a single step, which is exactly what I need on mornings when I am also getting my son and two dogs fed before I even thi...
It's A 10 Miracle Leave-In for Blondes
This spray is not marketed as a color product, but it keeps my colored hair smooth and frizz-free for days between washes, which means less heat styling and less color fading from constant blow-drying. It is pricey, but a little goes such a long way ...
Color Wow Dream Coat Supernatural Spray
I use the sheer version of this gloss treatment monthly to boost shine and seal in my color between salon glosses, and it has genuinely stretched out how long I can go between expensive appointments. It only takes a few minutes in the shower, which f...
dpHUE Gloss+ Sheer