Smart Color!

As a former advocate of colored natural hair (I still am but I digress) I can admit I was not smart about the dye or process I used to color my hair. I am learning just as all of you. After falling in love with this vibrant color I chased it for almost year afterwards. The constant coloring made my hair dry, brittle, and papery. I’m not discounting the quality of the color but after one or two applications my hair no longer took to the dye. The color affecting the outcome of my styles and my hair’s ability to produce curl definition. So I wanted to know what dye brands do you use to color your hair and how do you go about applying the dye so it is not damaging. Coloring the hair is still a chemical process and time showed me what careless coloring can do to your hair. My hair became very papery, brittle, hard, and held little to no moisture. So Comment them below! The best teacher is always experience.
(The dye in the picture was the one I formally used; Source: drugstore.com)