A hair gloss treatment leaves hair with a shine and enhances your overall appearance. It is one of many hair treatments provided at Haste.

It is a translucent or colored gloss applied to the hair to help seal the hair cuticle, making it smooth and leaving a polished look.

Furthermore, hair glossing can enhance natural color, creating depth and dimension. Still, there is more to this hair care treatment.

What is Hair Glossing?

Hair glossing is a temporary fix for all hair colors, including gray hair. The gloss coats hair and seeps into the cuticle, helping improve its shine and health.

The gloss can change the color or tonal appearance of your hair. The product comprises a non-ammonia color or a glaze.

Hence, a hair gloss treatment can add shine to your hair, enhance your natural color, or even darken it.

Thus, it is a demi-permanent and oxidative color that interacts with your hair fibers to last longer.

A semi-permanent color is non-oxidative and is excellent if you do not want to commit to a permanent color change. To learn more about the difference between a hair gloss and glaze, check out our article and decide what works best for you.

Difference Between Hair Dye and Gloss

The primary difference between hair dye and gloss lies in the formulation and ingredients used. A hair gloss typically does not contain ammonia, which means it has no lift and a lower pH level than hair color dyes.

If you’re coloring your hair for the first time, a gloss treatment is a gentler option than traditional dye. Still, it’s worth noting that gloss will not entirely change your hair color like a standard hair dye.

It can shift your hair tone by depositing color on top of your natural color, without altering it. For instance, you cannot go from brown to blonde.

However, you can transition from a cool brown color to a warmer brown or have a different shade tint, such as red.

What Types of Gloss Do You Get?

You get a semi-permanent gloss, a professional pigment product mixed with a developer. Still, you can find many different hair glosses you can mix to help adjust the color.

Additionally, the suitability of a hair gloss treatment depends on the lightness or darkness of your hair color. We recommend discussing it with our stylists to determine how frequently you need the treatment.

Furthermore, having a hair gloss treatment works well on chemically treated or dyed hair. It does have its perks when you gloss virgin hair.

Depending on the results you want to achieve, you can use a clear or colored gloss. You don’t have to color your hair if you use a gloss, as a clear gloss will add more shine and improve the overall health of your hair.

Are Hair Gloss Treatments an Alternative to Dye?

Yes, a hair gloss treatment is an excellent alternative to dye if you do not have much grey hair. With the gloss, you can blend in the colors, making for great grey coverage.

As a blonde, you can also use gloss to highlight the different tones. If your hair is light enough to add tone, you can use it as a color corrector.

Furthermore, using a gloss can help to fine-tune your shade to make it brighter or darker than your existing color. When you visit us at Haste, we will mix the gloss to meet your needs.

Hence, it helps to handle your hair’s brassiness or even discoloration.

Frequency of Gloss Treatments for Dyed Hair

If you have colored hair, we recommend the following:

Red or Strawberry Blonde

Red is a color that fades quickly; you will need more frequent glossing treatments. It also depends on how faded the color is. If you have reddish or dark red hair, it needs less coloring, while strawberry red will require more upkeep.

Dark or Light Blonde

It all depends on your hair tone. We think of very pale, white, or silver-blondes; you will need to gloss frequently.

Dark Hair

If you have darker hair, you can get away with frequent coloring.

Still, determining what hair gloss treatment works best for you helps you understand your priorities. Do you want to remove the warm tone to make it more ashy?

Then, go darker and use a colored gloss to achieve your desired results. However, if you want to add shine to make your hair healthier, opt for a clear gloss.

The fantastic thing is that anyone can benefit from a hair gloss treatment, whether you have curly, wavy, or straight hair.

Benefits of Hair Gloss

Unlike traditional dyes that change hair color, a hair gloss adds extra shine while sealing the cuticle. This helps reduce frizz, smooth the hair, and prevent the color from fading quickly.

Furthermore, a hair gloss treatment is low-maintenance, as there is no strong differentiation, and regrowth occurs more slowly. You can achieve a color change without a permanent commitment, as it tones down the brassiness or adds warmth to your hair. 

Yet, the benefits can vary based on hair porosity, which impacts the hair’s ability to hold the gloss.

Pre-care and Aftercare of a Hair Gloss Treatment

Preparing for a hair gloss treatment begins with researching the desired color and collecting photos to bring to the salon.

As it is a demi-permanent treatment that deposits color, it is worth discussing this with your colorist to achieve realistic results.

When you visit Haste Hair, we will begin by washing your hair, as we prefer to apply gloss to clean, towel-dried hair.

A hair gloss treatment typically takes around an hour, following the pre-treatment wash. It involves applying the hair gloss, leaving it on for up to 25 minutes, washing it out, and blow-drying.

When done, your aftercare at home can be easily maintained with a post-color treatment and a color mask to help prolong the gloss’s longevity.

Additionally, use the right shampoo and conditioner that matches your hair color and style.

In-Salon vs At-Home

While a hair gloss treatment is mainly done at a salon by a professional colorist, you can find at-home glosses.

Still, we do not recommend at-home gloss treatments for various reasons. It is best to leave the gloss mixing process to the professionals, who know precisely how to formulate it for optimal results.

At home, you may end up with uneven application or miss areas where you have high hair density or very long hair.

When you visit us, we will provide a consultation and ensure your hair is covered. If you prefer a slight color change and want to do it at home, we recommend a pigmented treatment.

With a color treatment mask, you can easily keep your hair up during salon visits as it is treated and toned in one step.

Hair Gloss Treatment Side Effects

One thing about a hair gloss treatment is that it is low-risk, with no reported side effects. The reason is that you get a subtle color change, and it’s semi-permanent, washing out after a few weeks. The only risk might be an allergic reaction to the product ingredients.

Wrap-Up: Choose a Great Alternative to Hair Dye

A hair gloss treatment is an excellent alternative to dying your hair. It makes a slight color or tonal change, and the treatment does not damage your hair as it does not contain ammonia.

The treatment results last four to six weeks, depending on how often you wash your hair. The demi-permanent formula helps boost shine and minimizes processing.

If you want a low-damage and low-maintenance hair color shift, a gloss treatment is the right solution. Book your hair gloss treatment to change your hair health today.

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