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Health<br />
&<br />
Wellbeing<br />
Hair careduring the summerseason<br />
It’s the season of fun! Officially we<br />
are still in spring but we have had<br />
some mega warm days heading into<br />
undoubtedly, the best season of the<br />
year.<br />
Summer is spent having fun, living<br />
outdoors and while for most of us<br />
it’s the favourite season, summer<br />
activities can wreak havoc onyour<br />
hair.<br />
As we starttoenjoy and partake in the<br />
endless fun, take aquick moment to<br />
brush up on some hot and essential<br />
tips to help youand your hair make it<br />
through the summer.<br />
Avoid excessive heat<br />
When its already so hot outside,<br />
adding extra heat isn’t always agreat<br />
idea. Airdrying where possible and<br />
trying to keep hot tool styling to a<br />
minimum. Summer is aperfect time<br />
to start embracing natural texture,<br />
using salon professional products to<br />
help youachievethis.<br />
Sun protectant<br />
We buy SPF products for our skin,<br />
why would we not add some sort of<br />
barrier to protect our hair? While sun<br />
damage is morelikely forpeople with<br />
fine and or lighter hair –everyone is<br />
prone to sun damaged hair and the<br />
best waytohelp protectand prevent<br />
is to add abarrier between our hair<br />
and NZ’sdamaging sun.<br />
The best way is a direct barrier; a<br />
hat, bandana or scarf. There are also<br />
arange of SPF products specifically<br />
designed forhair.<br />
We love and recommend our Keune<br />
Sun Shield range.Try to avoid the sun<br />
when we reach the hottest partofthe<br />
day. Youdon’t completely avoid the<br />
sun keeping your hair away from the<br />
sun when its at its most harmful can<br />
help minimise damage.<br />
Keep it loose<br />
As much as ‘beachy waves’ are a<br />
summer staple look it is also super<br />
helpful in caring for your hair and<br />
preventing damage in the heat.<br />
In thesun, hair gets dryand damaged<br />
and over time if not cared forcorrectly<br />
ends in breakage.<br />
Keeping hair in looser styles takes<br />
some of the strain off especially at the<br />
tension pointwhereyour hair tie sits.<br />
‘‘<br />
Summer is spenthaving<br />
fun, living outdoors and<br />
while formostofusit’s<br />
the favouriteseason,<br />
summer activities can<br />
wreak havoconyour hair.<br />
’’<br />
When swimming<br />
Wearing a cap is not everyone’s<br />
cup of tea, so before you head out<br />
swimming give your hair aquick rinse<br />
with cold water and aconditioner.The<br />
cold water closes off your hair cuticle<br />
keeping absorption to a minimum<br />
and conditioner acts as a barrier<br />
against potentially damaging water.<br />
Make sure you give it a rinse or<br />
light flat handed wash afterwards.<br />
Make sure you have asoft piece of<br />
clothing or microfibre towel to dry<br />
hair off afterwards instead of abeach<br />
towel, apply aleave-in conditioner/<br />
treatment and use atangle teaser or<br />
wide tooth comb to brush after itis<br />
towel dried.<br />
Don’t rip hair ties out and get stuck<br />
into anytangles createdbythe water<br />
-hair is in its most fragile state when<br />
its wet sobrushing and ripping hair<br />
ties out stretches the hair causing it<br />
to be incredibly weak and sometimes<br />
immediate breakage.<br />
Add in a moisturising treatment<br />
to your night time regime after a<br />
day’s swimming to replenish some<br />
moisturethatmay have been lost.<br />
Shampooing<br />
As tempting as it is to wash probably<br />
more often than usual, try to do the<br />
opposite. Hair has many natural oils<br />
thathair desperately needs especially<br />
in the summer. Every time you<br />
shampoo, you are stripping your hair<br />
of these natural oils.<br />
Extend days between shampooing by<br />
using adry shampoo and conditioner<br />
to absorb any excess oils. Ifyou find<br />
even this impossible, switch to a<br />
mild/ daily shampoo which is gentler<br />
on hair and scalp and scrub (gently)<br />
just the scalp and let the suds rinse<br />
through the rest. This keeps dryness<br />
to aminimum.<br />
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