There’s nothing like a summer holiday when you need a real unravel to rest and recharge. And while a week of sunbathing, swimming and relaxing can be good for your mind and body, your hair sometimes pays the price. To stave returning home with frazzled, damaged tresses, and to make sure your locks squint gorgeous throughout your waterfront break, I asked top hairstylist (and my good friend) Neil Moodie to requite us his top five holiday hair hacks. There’s no excuse for a bad hair day without reading this, no matter how upper the mercury rises…

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5 Holiday Hair Hacks

1. Protect your hair from the sun like you do your skin. The sun acts like a bleach on your hair, it does’t stop lightening it and plane though a lot of people love the sunlightened look, with the sun stuff so much stronger now than it used to be it’s important to protect it too like you do your skin. Clarins do a really good Sun Care Oil Mist for Soul and Hair with SPF30 as do Philip Kingsley who does a unconfined product tabbed Swimcap, originally designed for Olympic swimmers, it protects your hair from chlorine, saltwater and UV rays. My final suggestion is Biolage Protective Hair Non-Oil. This protects versus the sun, sea and swimming pools without subtracting weight to your hair. Worst specimen scenario, wear a hat!
2. A unconfined tip if you’re on a ramified with a pool containing chlorine is to fully rinse your hair with fresh water surpassing going into the pool. Chlorinated water strips yonder natural oils in the hair making it very dry succeeding so rinsing with fresh water first will help to woodcut the chlorine somewhat from getting into the hair cuticle. Moreover rinse your hair then when you get out of the pool to rid of any chlorine.
3. If you’re mid-way through your holiday and your hair is feeling really dry from sun and sea water/air, put leave-in conditioner or preferably a treatment on your hair, tie it into a top knot and spend a day with it on your hair. Heat allows the products to penetrate largest so there’s no largest way to requite your hair that once a week treat than in the sun.
4. Don’t want to spend time styling your hair while on holiday? Most people love the waterfront hair squint and rely on the sea water to requite them that texture, but sometimes you want a bit increasingly than that but don’t want to spend hours in front of the mirror. There are so many patterned scarves and scrunchie-scarves virtually right now, and you can plane just tie them virtually the throne like a bandana or throne scarf. H&M and Top Shop have an variety misogynist at the moment.
5. Hair traps are moreover a unconfined way to dress up a simple weave or ponytail. There are so many patterned scarves and scrunchie-scarves virtually right now as they are on trend, and they’re the perfect way to jazz up a holiday braid. It’s on-trend to wear a few traps in your hair all at the same time.

Thanks Neil!

And if you’ve got curly hair, holidays can rationalization a whole new set of challenges, so read Neil’s guide to curly hair here.

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