Winter Hair Care: Tips for Keeping Your Locks Looking Healthy All Season
The winter months can take a huge toll on your hair. Dryness, damage, irritation, breakages…your likelihood of experiencing these issues shoots up once the weather turns frigid, making it important to adjust your hair care habits in accordance with this.
What do you need to do to keep your locks looking beautifully healthy all season long? Read on as Evalectric shares the winter hair care tips you need to know!
Swap Out Your Basics
First things first, let’s talk about the two most basic products in any hair care routine; shampoo and conditioner.
Once the winter months roll around, your scalp produces less sebum, meaning that your hair will get less oily too. You won’t be sweating as much either, so your shampoo doesn’t need to be quite as powerful as what was required in the summer. In fact, a shampoo that’s too intense will only leave your hair feeling dry in the winter. Find yourself a gentle shampoo that will leave your strands feeling nurtured and strengthened, just like the Evalectric Moisturizing Shampoo.
In the meantime, while your shampoo should be less intense, your conditioner should be much more so. With your hair having less sebum to keep itself moisturized in the winter months, your conditioner will need to pick up the slack. Look for a richer formula that contains nutrient-rich plant oils, just like the argan oil-infused Moisturizing Conditioner from Evalectric.
Cut Back on How Often You Wash Your Hair
Even with a gentle shampoo, you’ll still end up stripping your strands of their precious sebum reserves if you wash your hair several times a week in the winter. Sure, this may have been necessary in the summer when your hair would quickly be laden with grease and sweat. However, this isn’t such an issue in the colder months, meaning that your hair won’t even need to be washed quite so often.
If you can’t bear to change your hair-washing habits, consider giving co-washing a try. This technique involves washing your hair with a conditioner instead of a shampoo. Do this every once in a while rather than regularly shampooing your hair and your strands will feel better moisturized and protected.
Never Go Outside With Wet Hair
There’s an old wive’s tale that has been circulating for generations, stating that going outside with wet hair will cause you to catch a cold. Experts are adamant that this isn’t true – wet hair outdoors won’t lead to you falling sick. However, this still doesn’t mean that you should do it. Why? Because it can be extremely detrimental to the health of your hair, especially in the winter.
What’s the problem? Firstly, the cold temperature outside, which is often around freezing point in the winter months. This will cause the water in your strands to freeze and expand. Not only does this leave your hair more susceptible to snapping but it also lifts your hair cuticles. This then means that they’re even more exposed to further environmental damage.
To keep your hair looking healthy all winter, make sure that it’s completely dry before stepping outside. If you’re often short on time after washing your hair, it would be worth investing in a more powerful blow dryer that can get the job done faster. The Pro Beauty Dryer from Evalectric has a professional-level motor that does just that. It also comes with a number of other features that will all work to keep your hair looking and feeling its best.
De-Frizz Your Mane With a Hydrating Hair Serum
In theory, frizz shouldn’t be such a problem in the winter months. After all, it usually becomes worse in humid conditions, and the winter air is known for having a lack of humidity.
In reality, however, this isn’t always the case. Between the static caused by wearing wooly hats to strong winds whipping your mane out of shape, it’s all too easy for hair to look frizzy in the winter months too.
Fortunately, there are plenty of hair care products out there that can help with this, such as the Evalectric Hair Serum. This serum is infused with two key ingredients, the first being aloe vera. It’s a wonderfully hydrating ingredient and also contains plenty of hair-loving nutrients. You’ll also find vitamin E in this formula. Not only does this antioxidant prevent the appearance of oxidative damage but it will also give your hair a thicker and fuller finish.
To keep the look of frizz to a minimum as much as possible, apply this serum while your hair is still damp. Then, once your hair is dry, use it again if needed to seal off any fluffy strands.
Cool it With the Heat Styling
It’s no secret that overdoing it with heat styling spells bad news for your hair. Excessive heat exposure will leave your strands brittle and damaged. This is something that happens year-round. However, in the winter, when your hair is already drier and more vulnerable to damage, the negative effects of heat styling can really take a toll.
What can you do about this? Firstly, always use a heat protectant before heat styling. This will coat your strands and receive the brunt of the heat damage so that your hair won’t need to deal with quite so much. Apply it while your hair is still damp as this is when your locks are most permeable.
It would also be advisable to only use heated styling tools that allow you to control the temperature, just like the Classic Styler range from Evalectric. This means that you can dial down the heat, choosing a temperature that is still capable of styling your locks but without causing the associated damage.
Every once in a while, try to take a break from heat styling. There are plenty of hairstyles out there that don’t require the use of heat. Spend some time experimenting with these and then pick a few go-to’s that you can turn to instead of heat styling.
Protect Your Locks From the Elements
With the winter weather being so harsh on your hair, one hair care tip to follow as much as possible is to keep your locks shielded from the elements. How can you do this? You have a few options…
The first is to make use of a physical barrier. Hats are a popular winter accessory and they work well to protect the hair from the worst of the winter weather. Scarves are good for this too. In fact, they can sometimes be even better as, depending on how you wear it, they can often cover even more of your hair than a hat can.
It would be worth experimenting with protective hairstyles too. From braids to buns, these hairstyles all keep the majority of your strands tucked away and safe from the elements. They reduce the surface area of hair that’s exposed to the environment. Therefore, while some damage can still occur, you’ll be greatly minimizing it.
Pamper Your Strands With Masks and Deep Conditioners
While a conditioner should most definitely be a part of your hair care routine year-round, this sometimes isn’t enough in the winter months. With your hair being drier and weaker, a regular conditioner can often fail to provide the necessary moisture and nutrients, especially if your mane is already showing signs of damage.
This is where hair masks and deep conditioners come in. These products aren’t designed to be used each time you wash your hair. Instead, due to how they usually feature quite intense formulas, you only use them once a week or, in some cases, once a month. This may not seem like much but these products are exceptionally rich. They’re capable of providing long-lasting moisture, which can be a godsend in the colder months!
Upgrade Your Pillowcase
With dryness being such a big problem in the winter, you need to focus on helping your hair to retain moisture as much as possible. We’ve already talked about how to do this in terms of your shampooing habits but let’s now talk about your bed linen…
What does this have to do with anything? Well, your pillowcase has extended contact with your hair. Eight hours every night means that your pillowcase can really influence how your hair looks and feels each morning. If you use a cotton pillowcase, or one made from a similar material, your strands will be creating friction each time they rub against it. This roughs up hair cuticles, leading to damage and frizz.
On the other hand, switch to a silk or satin pillowcase and you won’t need to deal with this. Those materials are much smoother, minimizing the amount of friction that’s caused. Not only will you wake up to hair that looks smoother and silkier but you’ll also notice that your hair feels better hydrated. Silk and satin don’t absorb moisture in the way that cotton and other materials do, making them perfect for the dry winter months.
Take a Break From Chemical Treatments
With your hair being so prone to damage in the winter, it’s important to safeguard your strands as much as you can. While cutting back on heat styling will help with this, you’ll be undoing all of that effort if, at the same time, you’re also subjecting your locks to a host of various chemical treatments.
Whether you dye, bleach, perm, or do any other chemical treatments to your hair, aim to plan things out so that you’re able to give your hair a break during the harshest winter months. This may mean going a little longer in between treatments but it will be more than worth it to save your strands from all of that unnecessary damage.
Winter Hair Care With Evalectric
The winter months can pose a huge challenge for your hair. This is why it’s so important to ensure that you’ve adapted your hair care routine to cater to all that this harsh season throws at you. Follow the tips above and you’ll be off to a good start, ensuring that your locks look healthy and vibrant throughout the colder months.
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