Here Are Sephora's Best Products to Help Your Highlighted Hair Stay Vibrant

Making sure highlighted hair stays hydrated is essential in keeping it healthy and preserving color at the same time. This moisturizing Kérastase Reflection Mask For Color-Treated Hair ($56) earns top marks from other Sephora shoppers for how soft and shiny it leaves their hair. The mask features zinc gluconate to lock in the color pigments and vitamin E to protect against fading as time passes or with sun exposure.

This Kérastase Reflection Cool Blonde Purple Color Correcting Treatment ($39) binds cool pigments to highlighted hair to neutralize unwanted brassiness. It's also incredibly easy to use, as it comes in a pen form so the exact spots you want to treat can be specifically targeted, or it can be mixed with the brand's Reflection Mask for an all-over treatment.

Over time, highlighted and color-treated hair will likely naturally begin to lose some sheen, but this Briogeo Color Me Brilliant Mushroom + Bamboo Color Protect Primer ($26) features a color-lock complex to help fight that. Its turkey tail mushroom and bamboo protect hair from fading when it's washed often, and keep it strong and shiny.

(Oh, and if you're in the market for a whole set, there's a mushroom and bamboo shampoo and conditioner available, too.)

Hot tools can be public enemy No. 1 to processed hair of any type as the ends and individual strands are often more dry and brittle after color or straightening treatments. But the Bumble and Bumble Bb. Glow Thermal Protection Mist ($32) uses cruelty-free honey to improve the elasticity of damaged hair, leaving it stronger, less frizzy, and better protected when you next pick up the dryer or curling iron.

Any color treatment, especially one that uses bleach or double-processing to lighten hair, can leave hair stripped of more than just your natural color. If that sounds like something you're currently facing (or proactively want to avoid facing), this Reverie Milk Anti-Frizz Leave-In Nourishing Treatment ($42) can be used daily to keep hair conditioned and silky. There's sweet almond protein for moisture, amino acids to protect color, and other oils and natural ingredients for extra softness and shine.

All of the nourishing Christophe Robin Shade Variation Masks feature almond oil, shea butter, and buriti oil for moisture, but they come in five different shades: Baby Blonde ($18-$53), Golden Blonde ($53), Chic Copper ($53), Warm Chestnut ($18-$53), and Ash Brown ($18-$53). These tinting hair masks can help if your blond highlights are looking brassy or your browns are looking dull, as leaving one of these masks on will warm up your color and fix that natural oxidation, too.

Keep highlighted hair looking extra shiny; finish off a style with the Alterna Haircare Caviar Anti-Aging Infinite Color Hold Topcoat Spray ($32). It's got a dual-capture complex to both replenish moisture (with caviar extract and sunflower seed oil) and help your color last longer with vitamins A, C, and E to limit exposure to free radicals, which can cause the oxidation that damages the hair's fiber and color.

The Rahua Color Full Hair Mask ($62) is a deeply penetrating rinse-out treatment that will keep highlighted hair vibrant and protected between salon visits. It features plant-based ingredients like Rahua oil (which offers very small molecules to push color deep into the hair shaft where it can be locked in to last longer), plus there's a special lilac clay that reduces brassiness in both brown and blond shades.

For a fully reconstructive treatment, the Rahua Elixir ($175) can help color-treated hair get back to a radiant, healthy state. Made of 100 percent pure handmade Rahua oil that's sustainably harvested in the Amazon rainforest, the highly concentrated serum features active antioxidants and antibacterials to rebalance your scalp, plus help your color last longer. It can be left on overnight or added after styling, but consistently working it into your weekly routine (however you see fit) will offer the best results.

The Shu Uemura Color Lustre Brilliant Glaze Treatment For Color Treated Hair ($69) actually uses lipids to replicate your hair's natural protective varnish that keeps it shiny and safe from the stress of heat styling. Plus, this rich mask keeps hair hydrated and uses goji berry extract to protect against oxidation and color fading over time, or after free radical exposure.

Moroccanoil Protect and Prevent Spray ($13-$30) is a lightweight leave-in conditioner that nurtures your highlighted hair and helps prevent fading at the same time. It works as the included argan oil moisturizes and protects, while another ingredient (heliogenol) limits the stripping of hair color pigments over time.

When hair has been lightened, the strands can become very porous, which means your 'do can look dull and dry. This Christophe Robin Antioxidant Cleansing Milk For Highlighted or Bleached Hair ($38) features antioxidants like blueberries to help maintain highlighted or balayage styles, plus almond and sunflower oils to restructure your hair at the same time. The milky shampoo also cleans hair while there's a partnering cream Antioxidant Conditioner Dor Highlighted or Bleached Hair ($43) for extra detangling and shine.

While caring for color-treated styles may have a focus on limiting breakage and split ends, the O&M The Power Base Protein Mask ($36) uses rice protein to also boost your hair's growth. Using this powerful mask can leave hair well nourished, less frizzy, and more lustrous, too, thanks to the nourishing apricot kernel oil and shea butter also inside.

The gentle, sulfate-free Good Dye Young Color Kind Shampoo ($26) and Color Kind Conditioner ($26) use moisturizing sunflower seed oil and hibiscus extract to nourish color-treated hair, while also washing and conditioning it. Hair is left softer and more manageable and, thanks to the humectant sodium PCA and amino acids inside, there's also color protection for your highlights at the same time.

Chemical treatments — like color-processing — can break the bonds that hold hair's protein structures together. However, Olaplex Hair Perfector No. 3 ($28) uses patented bond-building technology to actually relink those broken bonds in your hair so this bestselling hair treatment can actually make your hair stronger and reduce breakage after it's applied.

If your highlights need to be toned (or your overall color has started to fade), the dpHUE Gloss+ Semi-Permanent Hair Color and Deep Conditioner ($35) comes in colors from light blonde to black to get you back in a shiny, re-enhanced track. The semipermanent hair color will simply enhance your current shade (that lasts for up to 10 shampoos) and not offer a drastic color change, but there's also a clear option if you just want the gloss treatment, without any color at all.

While the color-safe Verb Ghost Shampoo ($18) and Ghost Conditioner ($18-$40) aren't just for highlights, the sunflower seed extract can protect against brassiness and fading, along with offering UV protection to all styles. There's also moringa seed oil so hair can be easily detangled and amino-acid- and vitamin-rich quinoa protein to encourage growth in different hair types.

For a touch of blue pigment to tone out any orange or red brassiness, there are these IGK Mixed Feelings Leave-In Brunette Toning Drops ($29), which can be added to the hairstyling product of your choice. You can use as much or as little as you need to get your brown highlights back on track, and there are also the Mixed Feelings Leave-In Blonde Drops ($29) to do the same thing for lighter colors.

The dpHUE Color Fresh Oil Therapy ($35) smooths flyways and adds UV protection to already-dry styles, or when it's applied to damp hair, too. The clear oil features liquid shea butter to also limit breakage and argan oil to add impressive shine to both the highlighted and nonhighlighted parts of your hair.

This Living Proof Replenish Rich Tones Mini Transformation Kit ($18) comes with the brand's Whipped Glaze in Dark to temporarily dye hair to counteract fading and boost vibrancy in brunette styles. And, of course, the included sulfate-free shampoo and conditioner add to that treatment to also improve hair's health and protect it from damage.

If you're concerned about lighter-colored hair, this introductory Living Proof Ban Brassiness Mini Transformation Kit ($18) helps blond hair and highlights last longer by using the same Whipped Glaze — this time in Light — to reduce brassiness and boost brightness instead.
(The little Living Proof Color Care Shampoo and Conditioner work alongside the glaze and use the brand's patented Healthy Hair Molecule to keep hair clean longer and a Patented Locking Molecule to lock in color, too.)