Summer hair bothers—solved!
Whether gardening in the yard, strolling around the block or lounging in the shade, nothing puts pep in our step like time spent outdoors on a beautiful summer day. It’s just too bad that the season that brings us so much joy also comes with heat, humidity and harsh UV rays that wreak havoc on our hair in the form of frizz, faded color, straw-like texture and more.
Banish brass with a vitamin C
powder
Blond tresses are notorious for taking on an unflattering orange cast after overexposure to UV rays and chlorinated water, says colorist Mike Petrizzi, who’s worked with Joan Jett and Mandy Moore. His advice: Use a vitamin C–packed powder. “Vitamin C naturally brightens hair so it looks less orange, while also gently exfoliating strands to pull out color-changing impurities like pollutants and chlorine, reducing brassiness in a flash.” To do: Mix 1 sachet of a powder, like dpHUE Brightening Powder (dpHUE.com), with 3 drops of water until it turns into a paste. Massage the mixture all over damp hair for 5 minutes; rinse. Use twice a month to maintain the hair-brightening results.
Thankfully, it doesn’t cost a lot of money or take a lot of time and effort to refresh warm-weatherworn tresses! Here, celebrity hairstylists and colorists reveal their easy, affordable remedies to beautify strands so they stun now
and for the rest of the sun-filled season. Read on to discover the simple solution that will make you
and your hair shine!
Polish silvers
with this toner
The number-one reason for dingy, discolored grays? The sun! “If you spend too much time under its rays, the radiation will bleach any silverboosting purple or blue molecules in your hair shaft making dirtylooking yellow tones stand out,” explains Petrizzi. To get hair back to a striking silver hue, he suggests applying a blue-based toner. “This adds a sheer cast of cooltoned blue pigments that instantly cancel out any yellow for silvers that pop.” To do: Apply a toner, like AGEbeautiful Topcoat
Toner in Silver Ash Blonde, (SallyBeauty.com), to damp hair from roots to ends; brush through with a comb to ensure an even application.
Let sit for 20 minutes, then rinse out with shampoo.