As Covid-19 continues to keep businesses closed, everyone needs to find the easiest ways to maintain their beauty services from their own bathrooms. Some of the simplest ways to protect your hair come from embracing your natural texture, washing your hair fewer times a week, and using at home gloss to add shine. So, NYC hair stylist Kali Ferrara has gathered the best tips to keep your hair healthy and glossy all summer from home in her ‘Summer hair care tips from home.’ Here are all the pieces of advice Kali has for any bad hair day qualms.
Hair health from the inside out
Some other strategies for your healthiest hair come from your overall health. Being healthy from the inside out, being more active, eating healthy fats and taking a biotin vitamin, like Vitafusion Gorgeous Hair Skin and Nails gummies. These gummies are not only great for hair and nail growth (they contain biotin and folic acid, some things that people can be deficient in), they’re also a full multivitamin, and they taste great.
Preventing sun damage
Particularly in the summertime, one of the biggest dangers to your hair comes from the sky. One way to protect and condition your hair from over exposure to the sun and avoid damage is simply wearing a hat. A hat is always my best recommendation because it also safe guards the face and scalp to possible exposure to the sun. If you’re not the hat type and don’t want your hair to lighten in the sun then Kali recommends a hair sunscreen spray. Phyto Plage Protective Sun Veil is one of her favorites, as well as Coola Scalp and Hair Mist with 30 SPF. Both not only protect your hair and scalp from the rays, they also nourish your hair while you lay on the beach.
If you don’t have a protective sunscreen for your hair, a deep conditioner can work wonders on the beach or by the pool. Putting a deep conditioner on damp hair before hitting the beach or the pool, this way the suns warmth helps the treatment penetrate, while also protecting the hair from chlorine and salt water. This will give a barrier between the hair and water to prevent the minerals from adhering to porous hair. Don’t have any of these items in your beach bag? No worries, be sure to shampoo any salt or chlorine out of your hair and use a conditioning treatment for at least 5 minutes the same day.
Frizzy hair antidotes
For those of us with frizzy hair, there are some great products and ways to style your hair to manage frizz when it gets humid. There have been so many great products to hit the market in recent years, many boast humidity defying or anti-frizz, and some of them work pretty well, but not much is a match for 100% humidity in the dead of August. A sleek bun, either low with a middle part, or a top knot are always great, frizz-fighting styles. On wet hair, comb your hair to smooth it in the style that you want, gather into a pony and twist until it twists into itself, wrap around and scare with hairpins or an elastic, any fly aways can be easily fought with a strong hair spray or light hold gel.
Some chemical processes can easily conquer humidity, The Brazilian Blowout or Keratin Complex processes both smooth the hair shaft by adding the amino acids or keratin proteins into void/porous spots of the hair, sealing the shaft with the product that wears off over 3-6 months. By sealing the hair shaft it makes the hair less prone to absorbing any moisture, including humidity.
Follow any (or all) of Kali’s tips to maintain hair health from home while keeping you, your loved ones, and others healthy by staying home.
