What Does Hair Gloss Do For Your Hair?
Between excess heat styling and chemical processing, there are many external stressors that can weaken or dull your colour-treated strands and compromise your hair’s natural vitality. One of the most effective ways to recapture your hair’s vibrancy is with a hair gloss.
But what is a hair gloss treatment? These treatments aren’t only reserved for the salon – hair glosses are a popular remedy that you can incorporate into your own hair care regime to manage dry, lacklustre locks. In this definitive guide, we’re unpacking how to use hair gloss at home – and what this nourishing hair treatment can do for your tresses.
What is a hair gloss?
A hair gloss is a temporary treatment for dry, dull or damaged hair. Hair gloss treatments have many uses: including brightening dyed hair, colour-correcting brassy tones, softening strands, and enhancing shine. They can also be pigmented or clear depending on your hair goals. While hair gloss treatments are often used in a salon, Kérastase’s unique, multi-purpose Chroma Absolu Hair Gloss Treatment can be conveniently applied at home to boost shine, improve colour, and hydrate strands.
What does a hair gloss do to your hair?
We can think of a hair gloss as a semi-permanent resurfacing treatment that forms a shiny coat over the hair cuticle. A hair gloss seals the surface of the hair rather than penetrating it, so it doesn’t have the same permanency of a hair dye.
A hair gloss is low-commitment and high-reward, since it promises serious shine along with a smoothing, conditioning effect that helps nourish dull, damaged or overprocessed hair.
Hair Gloss Benefits
Time to bring life back to lacklustre locks? Let’s explore how a hair gloss benefits your hair.
Smooths strands
In healthy hair strands, the cuticles lay flat, in a scale-like pattern. When the hair is damaged, the cuticle scales lift, which makes the hair more prone to frizz and flyaways – but a hair gloss benefits your tresses with its smoothing, protective seal. The result? Soft, silky hair and reduced frizz.
Refreshes colour and tone
Even a perfect salon dye job will fade over time. Sun damage, calcium buildup from hard water, and improper hair care all affect the tones and vibrancy of colour-treated hair. A hair gloss treatment can help correct brassy tones and give your colour-treated hair a much-needed refresh between appointments
Boosts shine and hydration
When your hair cuticles are damaged and lifted, it makes it hard for the hair to retain moisture – leading to dull, dehydrated strands. But since a hair gloss gives your hair a protective coat, it helps hydrate dry, dull tresses and reduce porosity, giving you a lustrous finish.
Which Hair Types Should Use A Hair Gloss?
JOne of the great advantages of a hair gloss treatment is that it can be used on all hair types: straight, curly, wavy and coily. Hair gloss treatments are particularly beneficial if you have colour-treated hair because they revive the vibrant tones of your colour and fix brassy hues.
Now, you might wonder – what is hair gloss going to do for non-colour-treated hair?
Well, even if your hair is unprocessed (untouched), you can still enjoy hair gloss benefits. Untouched hair can still experience bouts of dryness and dullness as a result of heat styling and environmental stressors. A transparent hair gloss can condition untouched hair and promote high shine.
How long does a hair gloss treatment last?
If you’re using a semi-permanent at-home gloss treatment, you can expect it to last somewhere between six and 10 washes on average. Demi-permanent (mixed with pigments) salon gloss treatments tend to last around four to six weeks.
To get the most out of your at-home gloss treatment, you might incorporate it into your hair care regime once or twice per week to maintain coloured hair and increase softness and shine. You can also support the work of your hair gloss with a shampoo and conditioner that’s specifically formulated for colour-treated hair.
Looking for more ways to boost your hair’s moisture levels? Learn our easy and effective ways to nourish and hydrate dry hair.
How To Use Hair Gloss Treatments At Home
As much as we love indulging in an afternoon at the salon, using a hair gloss at home can help stretch out time between appointments without sacrificing your hair’s radiance and vitality. Below, you’ll find our expert advice on how to use hair gloss using the Chroma Absolu Soin Acid High Shine Treatment for Coloured Hair alongside the full Chroma Absolu range.
1. Wash your hair with a shampoo that’s formulated for your hair’s thickness and needs. For thick hair, we recommend the ultra-nourishing Chroma Absolu Riche Respect Shampoo for Thick Coloured Hair. If you have fine hair, opt for a formula – like the Chroma Absolu Respect Shampoo for Fine Coloured Hair – that won’t weigh down your hair.
2. After towel-drying your hair, apply the Chroma Absolu Soin Acid High Shine Treatment for Coloured Hair to the mid-lengths of your hair until saturated. Use one dose for fine hair, and two doses for thick or long hair.
3. Massage the gloss into the lengths of your hair for one to two minutes. When the gloss makes contact with damp hair, it transforms into a creamy texture.
4. Rinse your hair to remove all traces of product.
5. Later, when styling, be sure to use Chroma Absolu Heat Protectant for Coloured Hair to minimise heat damage and preserve your glossy finish.
6. On non-hair gloss days, nourish your ends and mid-lengths with the Chroma Absolu Cica Conditioner for Coloured Hair to hydrate and fortify colour-treated strands.
What is hair gloss good for – without the support of other nourishing products? Next, find out how to take extra care of your tresses with the best ingredients for damaged hair.
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