Dry After Highlights? | Lipid Complex
Your highlights look amazing. Your hair hates you for it. Here's what I tell my clients.
If your hair feels dry, rough, or like straw ever since the highlights — you're not imagining it. And it's not your colorist's fault. It's chemistry.
Here's what's really happening. To lift color out of hair, bleach has to open the cuticle and get inside. On the way, it strips out the lipids — the natural fats that hold each strand together and give hair its softness and shine. That's why colored hair drinks up conditioner and still feels rough by the afternoon.
Store products just coat the hair so it feels smooth for a day, then rinse away. The lipids are still gone.
In my salon, every color client gets the same aftercare. Lipid Complex is the exact treatment from my chair — made in Italy to a pharmaceutical-grade standard, in two simple packs.
Phase 1 rebuilds — floods your hair with the lipids the bleach took. Ten minutes.
Phase 2 seals — locks in softness, body, and shine that survives washes. Ten more, rinse.
Twenty minutes, once a month. Keep the highlights. Keep the shine. Your color will actually look better on healthy hair — that's not a slogan, it's just how light reflects.
— Tomy B.Founder, Lipid Complex · Tomy B. Salon, est. 25 years
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They have drastically improved the health and texture of my hair. Tomy is a coloring perfectionist and always gets it to look perfect and natural. The salon feels like home.
Tomy's products are outstanding and proudly carry his name. As proprietor he takes great pride in his results and oversees each client's individual needs.
I have truly never trusted another hairdresser with my hair like I have with Tomy. If you have curly hair, Tomy should be your go-to.
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Lipid Complex is a cosmetic treatment. It replenishes lipids so color-treated hair looks and feels healthier — it does not reverse chemical damage or repair split ends.