It’s great news that Covid-19 restrictions are continually being lifted. Even with some salons remaining open, social distancing meant stretching out the time between our hair appointments and probably fair to say this had us developing some new skills or re-aquainting ourselves with “at-home” techniques for a variety of things.
As we continue to return to our pre-Covid-19 lives, keeping up those home hair care routines will still serve you well - we can never do enough to protect our hair’s strength, vitality and condition, and to also protect our colour from fading - which you may have noticed particularly if your gym workout went from indoors to outdoors.
If you’ve been following our blogs for a while, you’ll remember some pointers we’ve previously posted but Covid-19 is a new world so we thought we’d recap some of the important stuff.
Protect your hair’s strength and avoid split ends:
We went in deep on this topic back in 2018 and hope those of you that read this kept it handy. There are various reasons your hair can lose its strength and break, making strands vary in length and giving a fuzzy, fly-away appearance. But here are three important tips with links to our earlier blogs:
Don’t sleep with wet hair, always take a few minutes to dry it properly before going to bed.
Brush your hair gently to avoid splitting the ends, and make sure the brush you use is designed to reduce wear and friction.
Don’t use heating tools on your hair if you’ve just used any hair oil. These can work against each other if the tools aren’t temperature controlled and the hair oil isn’t designed for heat. A good heat protection serum will protect your strands from hot temperatures.
And if you do find that you have damaged strands you can reduce further damage with good hydration products and deep conditioning treatments. These will also help protect your hair from damaging UV rays. Ask your hair professional for advice on products that are best for your hair.
Until next month!