HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

I'm not sure what to do about my dry, damaged hair. It has been overprosessed by colouring/bleaching and straightening with irons. How do I restore the moisture? It has terrible fly aways, split ends, is increasingly hard to style and is now where hear as shiny and soft as it used to be. I'm getting regular trims, and have brought a good intensive conditionor (tresseme). I'm only 14, so I cannot afford to have deep treatments done at a salon and my mum wont pay for it. I guess I should quit with the dye jobs and straightening, BUT-

1. If I stop coloring my hair, my roots will come through and look ugly

2. Straightening is the only way to make my hair look nice, styled and (somewhat) smooth and shiny.

What should i do? I've been thinking of chopping it all of and starting again, but its taken me ages to grow my haur from short to its current length of just to the end of my neck.

HELP! A PARCHED HEAD OF BLEACHED BLOND HAIR NEEDS HELP!

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

The only way to get rid of the damage is to cut it off. Obviously you don't want a Winona Ryder type cut. So in the mean time. Find someone to regularly trim it for a low price. At least an inch at a time. Talk to your mom about what you can afford. At this stage you've bleached all of the pigment from your hair. That means that if you try to darken the color instantly, the new color will slide right off in the shower. So unless you simply allow it to grow, you'll have to go over it with a darker color ever 2-3 weeks. Good Luck

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

Try some intensive conditioning treatments, most brand do them and they only cost a few pounds so they won't break the bank, but if they dont work try smothering your hair in warm (not hot) olive oil for a day or so, it probably means staying in for a day or so but it's really worth it.

And also try darkening your hair gradually as it grows, a slightly darker shade each time so it eventually blends in with your natural colour.

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

First STOP DYING your hair. Second stop straightening it. Third cut it! It sucks but its a must. Dying especially blonde sucks the moisture out of your hair and then on top of it you are straighening it which just dries it out even more. You have terrible fly aways because you have split ends. Just cut it to the new growth because it its as bad as you say it is and you are regularly getting your hair trimmed its just gonna spit all the way down to the new growth anyway. Heat is very bad for your hair especally if you have dyed hair and use heating appliances more than 1 a week.

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

first of all start oiling your hair specially before you shampoo. best method is to warm oliveoil (not the virgin) a little bit and massage your scalp and ends. leave in for atleast 20 minutes before shampooing. try using therma silk shampoo and therma silk conditioner. and never forget to use special serums befor straightening or using irons on hair. they protect your hair from heat of irons. you can also try putting yougurt mixed with egg yolk to your hair after oiling and before shampooing. it's guarenteed to give your hair extra shine.

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

you can dye it back to your natural color and keep on using the mouisturizer and reular cuts. otherwise you need to get a heat protective spray when you flat iron your hair i recommend regis products around $12 dollars you can buy them at the salons but if you dont want to pay as much you can get a tresseme or john frieda product works just as well. also if there is a paul mitchell or toni and guy cosmetology school around you they do those things half off .

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

Okay, first of all if you're willing to color it, go darker! Lighter hair reflects light and if it's damaged will only highlight the damage that's been done. Darker hair shadows and will shadow the damage. Try a brown but I would stick with a level 6 or so (lighter brown).

As for a conditioning treatment, you can do this at home no need for a salon. Condition your hair and do NOT rinse it out. Instead use either saran wrap or some sort of grocery bag ,whatever you can find. Wrap your hair in that (secure with hair clips or barettes) and use a blow dryer to heat. If you don't feel like holding a blowdryer for 20 minutes you can vaccuum or do some sort of physical activity to raise your body temp. See, heat escapes from the head heating the conditioner. Either way leave it in for 20 minutes to a 1/2 hour. Do that once a week. Rinse with COLD water not hot because the cold water will close up your hair follicles leaving the hair conditioned.

Now, for straightening that's not a problem. You can do it everyday. I have straightened my hair every day for about 10 years but you MUST apply a heat protectant to your hair before straightening it. I use Chi Silk Infusion but it is pretty expensive. I'm sure you could go to Target or a similar store and find it in the hair product aisle. (I think thermasilk makes good commercial products) Hope this helps! Good Luck!

P.S. One more thing-- If you do color it darker you should go to a salon. Since you're going from blonde they will, most likely need to throw a filler on your hair first so that the color you choose will take. Bleaching your hair removes all the pigment and when you try to dye it back to a darker color it won't take without a filler typically the filler will be red but have a professional do it. Some Cost Cutters and Great Clips have affordable hair coloring services!

HELP! A parched head of bleach blond hair needs HELP!?

when i was 16 i had the same problem. only my hair was already short and i would basically have to shave my head to get rid of it. so i had to stop dying it. not fun since my hair was bright orange because the bleach had been bleached over black and then dyed pink so when the pink faded my hair was orange. it was so dry that i could not straighten it anymore. i got regular trims like one every 3 weeks. i tryed a semi permanent brown hair color to try to blend my roots but after awhile some of the hair stopped taking to it. i am not gonna lie it takes almost a year to get good hair again... u might want to try to cut as much out as possible it might speed up the process.