It’s the middle of summer, how is your hair doing?


Does your hair feel like straw? If you’re spending a lot of time outdoors, in and out of water (of any kind), it’s normal for that to take a toll on your hair. There are plenty of things you can do to prep your strands for swimming but sometimes you need to do a hard reset to get things back on track.

This may be counter intuitive, but if your hair feels dry and hard, you should still start with a shampoo or treatment* that deeply cleans off your hair prior to applying a mask or conditioning treatment. A clarifying shampoo, I love Purify by Virtue, is a great place to start. Sometimes what you are feeling on your hair is build up, minerals, etc. so while it feels dry in your hand, it may just be covered in junk. Clarifying your hair helps remove unwanted build up, and then following that up with a treatment like K18 or a deeply hydrating mask like B&B Hairdressers Invisible Oil Hydrating Hair Mask will restore your hair.

*A Malibu treatment is an intense way to remove build up, chlorine, and more from your hair. This treatment has the power to lift a toner from your hair, or potentially lighten your hair. So, use with great care. My blonde hair is untoned, so I use Malibu treatments every once in a while to remove hard water build up and to brighten the blonde a little bit. There are specific treatments for swimmers to remove build up and that green tint that can come with lots of swimming in chlorine in the summer!

I tend to wash my hair more in the summertime, so I’m using even more leave-in treatments than usual. I love It’s a 10 leave-in spray and the Bumble and Bumble Primer. As far as conditioning treatments go, check this blog post for a round up of all of my favorites!

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