I have spent a significant amount of time over the last few weeks writing about trending hair colours and the coolest summer hairstyles, so it’s no surprise that I’ve been incredibly tempted to switch up my own hair look. And this week, that’s exactly what I did—I took the plunge, headed into salon and dyed my Afro hair. Honestly, I’d been thinking about it for a while and obsessing over the warmer blonde-brunette balayage images that I’d been pinning, but I was finally ready to have the Hot Girl Summer hair of my dreams.
However, like with any chemical hair service, I knew that there was a huge risk attached to colouring my hair. “Bleached hair is more porous, so it becomes more sensitive,” warns Zoë Irwin, a Wella Professionals colour trend expert. “When you lighten hair and remove pigment, it naturally has more sensitivity, especially when lightening to white or very pale colours.”
