Maintaining your mane, especially in Singapore’s humid climate can be quite the struggle sometimes. There are days where your hair gets into in a tangled mess thanks to the strong winds, it frizzes up because of the humidity, or it ends up being flat and greasy when you get caught in the rain.
Let’s face it — we can’t run away from the unpredictable weather. And while we have probably spent a bomb on every product in the hair section in Sephora, at times, most of them just don’t cut it.
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But all hope is not lost. In fact, aside from investing on a thousand and one products that are said to restore life and shine to your mane, there are ways to fix your tresses at the comfort of your own home without you having to spend your next salary on the latest haircare must-haves.
In fact, the root cause of all your mane problems could actually lie in the way you wash or style your hair on a daily basis. To find out how you can achieve great hair every day, keep on scrolling.
Whether you are using a straightening or curling iron, applying direct heat on wet hair is a surefire way to fry it. If you’d like to style your hair with a hot styling tool, we recommend that you leave it to air dry or blow dry it with a hair dryer.
Don’t put off using a scalp treatment until you see problems like hair loss. Starting a regular scalp care regimen and doing a scalp treatment every once a month will help your hair grow healthily.
We love how easy it is to style our hair with our heat styling tools, but at times, using it too often can cause more damage to our hair.
On days when you’re looking to achieve a more natural wavy look, consider air drying your hair at night before braiding it. This heatless hairstyle hack will leave you waking up to wavy and curly hair, and you can easily tame your flyaways by adding some hair serum or oil to your tresses.
Spritz some hairspray on the bristles and gently brush it through flyaway hair to tame it.
Dry shampoos are the perfect go-to for absorbing excess oil from your scalp, which can make your hair look limp and flat. They’re also great when you can’t find time to wash your locks.
Applying dry shampoo onto your roots can help to create volume. A good tip to know when applying dry shampoo to your hair is to flip your head over and mist dry shampoo on the underside of your hair. This way, you’ll get the volume, while keeping glossiness intact. Condition before and after shampoo.
If you have fine hair, then you might want to try using a conditioner before and after using a shampoo. Reason being: it’s a great way to add nourishment to fine hair without weighing it down. Moreover, as hair is weakest and most prone to breakage when it is wet, applying a hair conditioner before you shampoo can help protect the strands. The conditioner also prevents hair from tangling up as you shampoo. You’ll also need to use a conditioner after rinsing out as the shampoo gets rids of sebum, dirt and chemical residue, but it can also dry out hair, so you need to protect it.
On towel-dried hair, mist a sea salt spray all over, then use your fingers to comb through and fluff it up. Let it air-dry. This adds texture and fullness to your tresses without extensive styling.
Don’t use rubber bands to tie your hair as they pull at your hair and scalp, weakening the strands and causing breakage. Use a fabric-covered elastic band instead, to reduce friction between your hair and the elastic band.
You can’t fight frizz in our humid weather – not without using a hair product. The problem is, dry hair is a magnet for water in the air. Your hair just absorbs it and then frizzes up. Calm the kinks with an anti-frizz hair serum, oil or cream.
Go heat-free by putting aside the hairdryer and using hair rollers instead. Set the rollers into towel- dried hair and leave to air- dry. The result: Natural-looking, bouncy curls!
Text: HerWorld
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