Do you feel like a queen when you wake up in the morning or do you have a little prep work before you head out for the day ?
Often what we do the night before supports the next day styling.
It could be as simple as brushing your hair before you go to bed. Or it may be washing your hair and drying it to lighten the load the next morning.
Gotta love those fresh hair feels when you go to bed.. and more so, the fresh canvas you have when you wake up to get into the day.
Ever wonder what we do as Hairdressers?
Here are our team's daily hair rituals. And yes, we all have different approaches to our hair care.
Christine
I shampoo my hair most nights using Kerastase Chromatique Riche or Premier, followed by either Curl Manifesto Masque or Premier Masque. One gives me more hydration (Curl Manifesto) whilst the other is strengthening. As you can imagine, because I like to change it up depending on what my hair needs, none of my products match in my shower.
And yes I have dead straight hair (although some of you may not know that because it is always styled) so why do I choose to use Curl Manifesto? Curl Manifesto is super hydrating but it is also not heavy on the hair and I love that combo. I also find it gives a slight wave to my hair which is an added bonus.
When I step out of the shower I apply a drop of Elixir Oil to my ends, then brush through, I then apply to my ends Serum Cicanuit (pronounced ‘sick-a-new-ee’ for those that don’t know French!). Then for my scalp I massage in the Nutritive Scalp Serum.
You may consider this to be
A – a lot of products, or
B – a complicated routine.
But all is very simple, and I wake up with super soft hair, which is easy to manage and style.
Questions I usually get asked…
But you work such long hours how do you have the energy to do all that before bed? Don’t you just want to crash out at the end of a long day?
Answer: For me, it is a chance to reset and wash away anything that I may have taken on in the day. It supports me to feel fresh and restored before I go to sleep and that supports my quality of sleep and sets me up to be energised for the next day's work.
Alyssa
My nighttime routine consists of washing my hair two times a week with the Kerastase Premiere range. This is a great product to strengthen and restore shine to the hair. Once a week I use the Soin Chroma Gloss to make my hair even more shiny and to keep my colour looking fresh. After this, I brush my hair and use my Kerastase Nutritive Night Serum to help with hydration and frizz. My hair is then fully prepped and ready to style the next day.
Brooke
I wash my hair three times a week. When I do, I use the Specifique Cleansing Clay Shampoo as I’ve got an oily scalp and that keeps my scalp balanced. For conditioner, I use the Nutritive Hair Masque. Once I brush my hair, I then put in the resistant blow-dry crème to make sure my hair is fully protected from the heat. Some people don’t realise that you can put this in the night before so that it is one less step in the morning. I then use the Nutritive Night Serum to keep my hair soft and non-frizzy. I then use a little bit of the Elixir Hair Oil to give my hair a bit of shine and it makes it easier for me when styling my hair.
Do you brush your teeth?
For most of us, we can attend to our teeth nightly, but somehow we don’t care about our hair. Have you ever said, "Well, no one is going to see it anyway; I’m just going to bed" .. ha, got you.. the beautiful hair that you sleep in is the beauty that you wake up with... don’t reject this important duty before heading into the temple of snoozing.
Hypothetical: You've had a big night out and got home and lucky to land in your bed... you wake up feeling less than average, and when you have a shower and cleanse head to toe you feel amazing.. but this is the feeling we can go to bed with, instead of tired, exhausted, and craving the pillow.
Washing our hair supports us, how great does it feel when you go the extra mile in studio and sign up to the extra long head massage with our Kerastase rituals? It's absolute heaven... but this doesn’t need to be the only place that you sleep deeply with clean hair!
And we can do this on a level for ourselves, whether it be at night or in the morning.
Support your body by wearing your hair like a queen every day, all day and attend to it, completing your look.
The world will appreciate your reflection of fabulous hair more than you know, and equally so, you will feel like a superstar all day.
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