Here’s what to incorporate in hair care routines to ensure healthy hair despite the vagaries of day to day styling.
Making your tresses look like you’re having a good hair day, every day, doesn’t come easy. Whether you prefer to keep your tresses long and un-colored or whether Kylie Jenner with her weekly hair transformations is your spirit animal, if you’re addicted to styling, then you better be just as dedicated to taking care of it!
Colouring, using heat tools and regular blow-outs have an impact on the health of hair. But just because you love trying the latest hair trends shouldn’t mean that you have to compromise on its health and luster. If you’re smart about it, you can avoid hair damage and look like you stepped right out of a shampoo commercial.
It’s also important to choose products to help you replenish your hair health according to your hair type and its requirements. If your hair is frizzy, concentrate on moisturisation; if it’s too limp it might need protein for plumpness. Once you can diagnose what your hair is missing, it’s easy to fix the issue.
Here’s what to incorporate in hair care routines to ensure healthy hair despite the vagaries of day to day life.
Colour protection
Not only do you have to protect your hair during and after colour, you also have to protect the dye job you dished out big bucks for. Using a nourishing hair masque on a weekly basis after conditioning ensures that not only is hair protected and conditioned, but the colour stays fresh and shiny till our next trip to the salon.
Prep and prime
Think about this: what makes your makeup look best? The answer is skin that’s been prepped and primed for it. Why not extend the same courtesy to your hair routine? Leave-in conditioners promise to not only protect your hair from damage but also hold the style in place throughout the day. You can choose from a plethora of creams that are available, and incorporate them into your hair care routine for shiny, supple hair that doesn’t feel greasy or weighed down. Plus, leave-in creams protect your hair, allowing your styling to last longer.
Nourish
Who doesn’t hate oiling? Sure it has great benefits but let’s be real, ain’t nobody got time for that! Oiling takes us back to an idyllic time when life moved at a pace slow enough to allow a two-hour oiling session before the shower. However, just because we don’t have the time doesn’t mean we can’t still reap the benefits of oiling – just opting for an oil infused hair cream instead!
If you’re willing to spend just a little more time investing in your tresses, try the new generation of oils. New-age hair oils are quick absorbing and easy to rinse out. Rather than leaving them in for the usual two or so hour period, you can use the oil on damp, towel dried hair (lengths only) or dry hair (to keep your ends moisturized). If you want to go more traditional, try applying it to your full head 15 to 30 minutes before the shower (throw on a steaming towel for best infusion). The oil comes out easily, smells great and leaves your hair soft and seriously lustrous.
Just by incorporating a few choice products that help protect your hair and keep it moisturized you’ll see a difference in how well it responds to your daily ministrations. Love your hair so it can love you right back.
