How many products you use to maintain your hair color? I use 4 different shampoos, 1 color mask and 1 toner. Crazy, right? I would dare to say this is the most complicated hair color you can possibly have so you'll have to passionate about keeping it up, otherwise it's not gonna work for you.

Some people might say blue is the hardest color because it fades quickly, but if you dye your hair blue, the result is gonna be freaking blue every time. With this color, you will never know what you'll get.

Anyway, since many of you have asked for it, I decided to tell you a bit about my tricks to maintain this silvery lilac hair and which products I use for it!

Here's my sea of hair product bottles, or well, a small part of it. Whatever the situation with my hair color might be, I will find help from one of these.

First of all, you'll need to have bleached hair before these will work for you. Preferably as white as possible. My own hair color is typical finnish greyish brown and I need to bleach it two times when I want to get rid of my roots, before using any of these.

From L to R:

Wella Color Fresh 7/19 Toner: A very strong blue-ish purple toner. As I said, it's really strong and you won't need much of it to get the desired result.
USE: I use this when dyeing my roots, because it sticks to the hair better than using silver shampoo only. This product is actually more blue than purple, so you might get green hair if your hair is too yellow, lol.

Fudge Clean Blonde Violet Toning Shampoo: A strong silver shampoo. Great for maintaining the color and can be also used as a dye if you keep it in your head for long enough time.
USE: I mix this with the Wella toner to make a "dye" for my hair (I keep it in my hair for about 1h), depending on the color of my hair after bleaching. Like, the more yellow my hair is, the more Wella I need, and the whiter it is, the more Fudge I will use. I rarely use Wella by itself because it tends to get too dark and too blue way too quickly. That's why it's safer to mix a tiny amount of Fudge to it, to make the color come out more as purple than blue, and so the result won't be too intense.

L'Oréal Professional Silver Shampoo: A bit milder silver shampoo.
USE: If I wish not to intensify my haircolor so much, I use this one.

KC Professional Color Mask Silver: A colormask that is supposed to boost your haircolor. I don't know what color of hair you should have to actually see results from this?
USE: I've been using this as a conditioner now, atleast it can't make the hair worse :'D I'm gonna change this product to some repairing conditioner when I'll run out of it.

Tigi Bed Head Dumb Blonde Shampoo: A regular shampoo.
USE: If I wish to fade out the color little by little. But it's not like my hair color immediately fades if I wash it once with regular shampoo instead of silver shampoo.

Wella Professionals PURE Purifying Shampoo: A Shampoo that "deep-cleanses" your hair.
USE: If I happen to have the "dye" in my hair for too long and the result is too dark/blue, I wash my hair with this to remove the excess color. If my hair color is uneven and I wish to remove dye from specific areas, I apply this with a brush and rub it into only those parts of my hair, then keep it in for a while before washing it out.


I hope my explanations wasn't too complicated (because it was for me to write them haha) and that some of you found it helpful! Don't hesitate to ask anything if you still got questions about maintaining the color :)