What Do You Need To Know When Winterizing Your Hair Care? – Part 2

Why Is Alcohol To Be Avoided? 

Harris says avoid high alcohol content which can be drying to hair in fact when choosing any winter hair styling products including holding sprays.

Since its alcohol content can also cause your tresses to look and feel dry and brittle, likewise he says to avoid putting fragrance directly on your hair. 

Good advice all year round but essential in winter he says is most importantly limiting your time under a blow dryer. Use a towel to gently blot about 20% of the moisture content out of the hair and then hit it with the heat, stopping the moment your hair is dry as Harris says to do that and still effectively style your hair.

Experts say pull longer locks into a ponytail high on your head or push short hair straight back, before putting on the hat, to cut down on the proverbial hat hair. Helping it spring out with bounce once the hat is removed, pushing hair against the way your style should fall according to Chavez. 

He also suggests carrying a travel-sized dry-hair texturiser that adds instant body to ensure that it does. 

Adding just a few drops of water to your hands and rubbing them through your hair can refresh the style as Harris says if you styled your hair with a cream product. 

Shampoos And Colour Treatments: Your Best Choice For Hair Care

Celebrity and fashion stylist Jamal Hammadi believes that choosing the right shampoo may net you perhaps the biggest winter hair payoff while conditioning and styling products may help hold your style. 

Here comes the reason: 

As Hammadi says it impacts how your hair will behave in all kinds of climates and conditions as shampoos form the basis of the way your hair is going to react to conditioners and styling aids. Including Julianne Moore, Kirsten Dunst, Heather Graham, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Naomi Watts, he has tamed the tresses of many hot celebs. 

Winter or summer, for Hammadi, the more natural a product is the fewer chemicals it will contain, and the better off the hair will be. Also, a popular skincare treatment is shea butter his all-time favourite ingredient. 

Adding that he has been using this natural trick on some of the catwalk’s most famous fashion heads for more than 15 years Hammadi says keeping healthy hair from becoming damaged, shea butter is the quickest most effective way to get damaged hair into good condition. 

He recently spun his passion into a line of hair care products he calls HamadiShea not surprisingly. That which he says helps open the hair cuticle so the moisture can be absorbed, in addition to shea butter these products also contain ginger milk and soy along with essential oils similar to ylang-ylang, bergamot, and lemongrass. When you are stuck inside, it is not a bad aromatherapy treatment for those blustery winter days. 

Legendary New York City hairstylist Robert Craig takes an entirely different approach to shampoo formulation. Helping hair behave a whole lot better especially in winter, he pioneered a line of products designed to work with your water type, hard, soft, or very hard. 

As Craig puts it, not doing the same thing when they travelled to Los Angeles or Florida or even Europe, through the years clients told him over and over that the shampoo just did wonders for their hair in New York City.  

He figured it out ultimately: 

It was the water and it wasn’t the hair that was changing as he said. Its mineral content more specifically. The differences, Craig says were enough to increase or even cause a number of hair problems including static electricity, lack of body, and even dry, coarse, and brittle hair ranging from soft that contained very few dissolved minerals such as calcium to hard which had some to very hard which was mineral-heavy. 

What is the solution: 

To help figure out which one to use where a travel kit of hair shampoos designed to work optimally according to the three basic water types and a free package of test strips. 

As Craig then says, in terms of how your hair behaves particularly in winter, you would be amazed at the difference that comes with pairing your shampoo to your water type can make. 

All the experts say winter is a good time to give it a rest if you are used to colouring your hair particularly adding highlights. The less stress you put on your tresses in winter, the better they will look when spring and summer roll around since it’s the lightening process that does the most damage to hair. 

You don’t have to suffer from drab, dull hair in the meantime. Add less intense low lights that highlight closer to your base hair colour for eye-catching pizzazz with minimal damage as stylists say warm up your look with a change of hue. 

The Concluding Thoughts 

As Chavez now says, to bring out highlights and brighten your look, try a rinse in a warmer shade of your natural colour. 

Helping you highlight almost any shade of hair from dark brown to light blonde, colour grey with any highlight shade you choose, and put low lights in almost any colour hair, all without any risk of damage as Craig also makes a line of no-peroxide, no-ammonia hair colour that can. 

He further believes, their colour is in fact good for the hair helping condition it. 

If you colour your hair in winter Chavez says always cover your head when outdoors and always use a shampoo and conditioner for colour treated hair regardless of the product you use.