Summer Hair Care & Tips

The sun can be good for you. Ten to fifteen minutes of sunshine every day is the greatest medicine in boosting vitamin D levels in your body. But for your hair those Summer rays can be dreadful. They can absorb the natural oils out of your hair and scalp making your hairstyle droopy and lifeless. Through time the sun can make your scalp dry and when you scratch it , it will fall on your clothes like dandruff. The extreme sun rays can destroy the ends of your hair as well as your skin. It will fry your ends severly. Too many hair products can also make your hair droopy and lifeless, because it coats the hair shaft and through time it builds up making the hair dry or mushy.


Here are some tricks to properly and safely clean and care for your hair throughout these Summer months....making it shiny and bouncy again.

1. Hair can become droopy if not properly cared for. In order to bring life back into the hair shampoo your hair once with a lot of baking soda mixed with your shampoo. After sudsing it well make sure the ends get a good scrub with this mixture, then rinse well and repeat again this procedure for the second time. Then shampoo your hair with only shampoo, rinse well then saturate the hair with a good conditonaer...leave your conditioner on for about 5 to 10 minutes or until you are done showering. Then rinse well...towel dry, use a good gel or mousse with a little shine polisher on the ends, style as usual. Your hair should feel and look bouncy and shiny again.

2. If your hair is blonde, highlighted it is important that you wear a swimmong cap when swimming in a pool. The chlorine will turn blonde and highlighted hair green. If this occurs...just shampoo your hair with baking soda and shampoo, then rinse and repeat this procedure again. After rinsing this off ondition your hair with an oil conditioner or a cholesterol pack...this will repair damaged ends moisterizing those dry ends and your scalp.

3. If you color and highlight your hair make sure you conditon it after every shampoo. Use a good brand conditioner and shampoo that is for color treated and highlighted hair. This will preserve your color longer in betweeen salon visits.

4. In between your color appointments you can restore the color of your hair by using a shampoo made strictly for color treated hair. They come in Black, Dark Browns, Red, Blonde, and Mahagony. They can be found in any fine hair salons.

Matrix, Tec, Loreal, Redken and Graham Webb carry these colored shampoos and conditioners.

I hope these tips may help in caring and keeping your hair beautiful...and enjoy the sunshine by using a good sunscreen lotion to keep your skin from burning.

Have a wonderful week...Millie