Olaplex 3 BEFORE or AFTER colour?

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I colour my own hair at home ( not box dye) and have bought some Olaplex 3. Do I treat my hair before or after the colouring has been done. Thanks.

I have mine coloured in hairdressers, they use the 1 and 2 on me there, before the colour is applied. The 3 is for use at home, once a week before washing. Leave it on as long as possible, a couple of hours at least.

Thanks for your reply . Just wondered if it would make any difference on how the colour took. If number 3 is better before or after colour.

I would think after, coz that is how the hairdressers told me to use it. I have the Olaplex 1 and 2 done in salon before the colour, the Olaplex 3 I use at home only - every week as advised. They don’t use the 3 in the salon at all.

In the salon they put the 1 on, after ten minutes add the 2 and leave for, I think, another ten minutes. Then shampoo off, dry hair and apply colour. They can mix the 2 with the colour & apply together, but I found colour didn’t take so well that way.

They told me the Olaplex 1, 2 and 3 would make hair thicker and help retain colour, which has happened, I’m very pleased with it.

I’d be interested to hear how you get on with just using the 3 as I was told all three products needed to be used together. The effect is cumulative.

I've not heard of this. I don't have coloured hair but it's dry from arguing and probe to brittleness. Does anyone know if this treatment can be used for that?

I've never heard of number two going in a colour before. Are you sure that's correct? No 1 is the one which goes in the colour unless it's being used as a standalone treatment. No 2 can be used to pastelise direct dyes but definitely shouldn't go in peroxide based colours.

No 3 can be used at home before and after colour, if you want to, or just after. It's a weekly/fortnightly/monthly treatment (depending how often you want or need to use it) It does work without 1 and 2. 1 and 2 were designed to be used as part of a chemical service. No 3 is the consumer product.

Frequency - sorry, it may well have been the No.1 which was mixed with the colour then, and not the 2. Whatever it was I remember being less than impressed with the results.

If I stopped having the chemical service then what effect would the No.3 have on its own?

1 and two as a standalone before a service would still make a difference, though not as well as with it being mixed in a colour. I'm not sure why you had problems with it. The salon I train in use it, I use it myself on friends/family/myself and I've never had an issue. I do know Olaplex recently changed their guidelines, advising to use a smaller amount but that was to do with lightening the hair not colouring. Maybe they used too much? I can see how it would dilute a product if too much was used. You need the tiniest splash.

I can only vouch for how well no 3 works alone on people I know. As it's a take home product, we don't see it in the salon but it works miracles on DD2 who has waist length, fine, fragile hair. She only uses it before special occasions as she's not really into hair and image but it restores her curl pattern and leaves it smooth and shiny for a good 2-3 weeks after she's used it.