Hey!

I'm working on growing my hair out, but I dye it once every 8 weeks.  And its usually a color that has to be bleached first (pink, blue, purple, etc) and a change in streak width and placement, so the rest has to be redyed.  Plus, my roots have to be done, because I'm a natural blonde, but I prefer to keep it black because I like how it looks better.

Anyway.

I'm concerned that I may end up with hair that's long, but because of repeated dyings, completely dead on the end and look horrible.

I avoid washing it whenever I can, but after about 3 days its greasy and it has to be washed.  I always use a conditioner after I shampoo and once a week or so use a deep conditioner (pantene pro-v restore)

My hair is pretty healthy, but my last dye job (about 7 weeks ago) I had her bleach about an inch or so in the front of my hair as white as it would go, because I didn't want to end up with that piss yellow color you get so often when bleaching black hair.  I love the way it looks and really want to keep that as part of my dye style, but its coarse and almost like African-American hair (i only make this comparison because a lady I work with is African-American and she made a comment about it being like hers) and I'm afraid that if I continue this, it'll all end up like that instead of looking healthy and natural and start requiring an every day washing, as the bangs have to be conditioned everyday as it is.

So does anyone have any ideas on a care system that I could use on my hair so that I can continue dying it and keep it healthy? While still being affordable?

Here is the most recent picture I have where you can tell how long it is at the moment.



Any help about be extremely welcomed!

-Trip

It hits about the middle of my shoulder blades right now (lol, I know that because I was getting my shoulders tattooed and my tat artist kept bitching about it)

I'm wanting to grow it out and my hair does grow pretty fast, but that's what I'm afraid of, cause I'd don't want to get it all long, but be all dried out and dead and stuffs.

The bleaching and dyeing of your hair will damage it. 

That being said, if you must color your hair, you will need to keep it moisturized.  Regular deep treatments and oiling of the ends will help,

Oiling is a good idea; it'll help keep the ends from drying out. A lot of people use a tiny bit of jojoba oil on their hair, but other oils work too (eg. sweet almond oil). But avoid things with mineral oil or petroleum because those block out moisture. If oiling leaves you with crunchy ends, you could try shea butter instead.