Summer Hair Care
HAIRCARE FOR SUMMER
What’s hot right now and what you need for the summer! Our beauty expert Laura Bermingham was in studio to give you tips on keeping your tresses in tip top condition. Also if you’re looking for a little volume in your wig this weekend Laura gives you the insight track on the best products on the market to help boost your bonnet.
OIL CONTROL!
Vichy Dercos “Oil Control Treatment Shampoo” €10.50, pharmacies nationwide.
Vichy Dercos is a leading haircare range in European pharmacies and Vichy have put 30 years of research into it’s development. The range includes products for coloured hair and dandruff alongside this shampoo treatment for excess oiliness. What makes Vichy’s haircare different is that they have focused not only on hair type, dry, coloured or oily, but the fact that these hair types can come along with sensitive scalps, so you can buy a shampoo for sensitive skin but also oily, and the same technology then but for dry hair, and this makes the products quite unusual.
This treatment shampoo is an oil-retarding product, it cleanses the scalp with stripping it bare, but it slows down oil production.
*80% of testers found the hair less oily, easier to manage and with better volume.
* Winner of a U Magazine Beauty Award.
VOLUME-
L’Oreal Paris Studio Line “Silk & Gloss Volume Mousse” €6.39 supermarkets/chemists nationwide.
Mousse is back in fashion because high hair and volume are in whether you want your hair sleek and smooth or messy and wild.
Mousse gives great root lift and unlike the products of old the new versions do not glue your hair together for days!
This is the 1st Studio Line mousse enriched with Silk Micro-Fibres creates styles with volume, strand by strand.
It gives great volume, hold all day long and yet the hair still feels soft to the touch without reducing shine. There are other products in the line and all at great prices.
Shake can well before use and apply evenly through damp hair from root to tip.
SUN PROTECTION-
Kerastase Soleil “Brume Jour Protectrice” €24.30 salons nationwide.
Kerastase Soleil is annually among the top sellers worldwide for haircare in the sun. With every formula available from light lotions to rich creams, shampoo and conditioner, there is everything you would need for UV protection and colour fade in the range.
This protection spray is a real find though because fine hair can get weighed down by lotion or cream, and if you are having a day out in the sun hanging out having lunch but not lying poolside, it’s a simple mist that is invisible to the naked eye.
So protection to keep your colour true, a quick spritz and you are good to go!
The spray might seem pricey but for holidays a few people could share it and whatever is left could be kept for sunny days at home, if we ever get them!
SHINE-
John Frieda “Luminous Colour Glaze in Clear” €5.99, supermarkets/chemists nationwide.
This is such a clever, clever product and is one of maybe a handful available worldwide and at a fraction of the cost of the others!
Shine is such an issue, especially for blondes because the dyeing process strips away any natural sheen the hair might have.
