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Keep your color looking its best. Learn how to maintain, protect, and refresh your hair color with expert guidance.

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How to Fix Hair Color Mistakes
If you’re considering coloring your hair at home, it helps to have some tricks at the ready in case things go awry. So, we’ve…...
October 1, 2025 • 6 min read

How to Lighten Hair Without Bleach: Natural & Safe Solutions
September 2, 2025 • 7 min read

5 Ways to Lighten Your Hair Naturally
August 1, 2024 • 5 min read

6 Tips for Brunette to Blonde Hair Transitions
July 30, 2024 • 5 min read
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11 Tips to Make Your Hair Color Last Longer
May 16, 2022 • 4 min read

How to Highlight Hair: Your Home Highlighting Guide
October 22, 2020 • 6 min read

The Best Low-Maintenance Haircuts & Styles for College
August 6, 2020 • 3 min read

Personal Hair Maintenance Then and Now: Hair Dye
July 31, 2020 • 3 min read
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The Science Behind Going Gray
July 29, 2020 • 3 min read

Our R&D Director Spills the Secret to Naturally Maintain Your Hair Color
May 27, 2020 • 3 min read
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My Journey to Platinum Blonde: Jordan Realizes Her Rockstar
May 12, 2020 • 10 min read

5 Lessons About Hair (And Life) I Learned from My Hairstylist Mother
May 8, 2020 • 3 min read
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Hair Stylists Weigh in on the Dos and Don’ts of Quarantine Hair
April 22, 2020 • 4 min read

How to Get the Perfect At-Home Hair Color
March 19, 2020 • 2 min read
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4 Pro Tips for Going from Dark to Blonde Hair Without Damage
April 29, 2019 • 2 min read