Post party hair SOS
hair styling,hair care
Post party hair SOS
If your hair\'s more stress daily than Tess Daly after the excesses of the party season start the year on a positive note. But rather than develop a ‘New Year, new hat\' mentality, integrate some trouble-shooting products into your haircare regime and restore your mane attraction pronto. Here\'s our pick of the best barnet blues busters around...
Clean slate
hair care,Aveda
Philip B Peppermint and Avocado Shampoo
A surfeit of styling products can leave a residue on the hair, making it look dull and lifeless. A simple detox with a build-up blitzing shampoo will help sort this out. Add pep with Philip B Peppermint and Avocado Shampoo, £19, www.spacenk.com a volumising, clarifying shampoo and aromatherapeutic scalp treatment enhanced by 16 pure plant extracts and 11 essential and carrier oils.
Celebrity hairdresser Errol Douglas has discovered an excellent kitchen cupboard remedy - vinegar. He says, "Dilute with warm water and rinse through the hair, this removes all the toxins."
Make or break
loreal,hair care,Aveda,pantene
Aveda Damage Remedy Shampoo and Conditioner
If your hair is really suffering from stress and is weak and brittle try Aveda Damage Remedy Restructuring Shampoo, £15, and Damage Remedy Restructuring Conditioner, £18
www.aveda.com or Pantene Pro V Restoratives Breakage Defence Shampoo and Conditioner, £2.99 each. For an intensive fix L\'Oréal Paris Elvive Anti-Breakage Vital Serum S.O.S Repair, £4.99 x 4 is manna from heaven for worn out locks.
Rough justice
hair styling,hair care,Hair product,frizzy hair
Umberto Giannini Beauty Moisture Overnight Balm
Finding a few precious moments to condition properly can prove elusive during the hectic pace of the festive season. Give your hair the health farm treatment with Lee Stafford Hotshots 2 Minute Miracle, £6.99 x 4, available at Boots. Packing a serious punch, the self heating formula strengthens, replenishes and restores the integrity of the cuticle, while warming vanilla and ginger extracts improve the circulation of the scalp.
Errol has another top tip to share when it comes to working your conditioning mask to the max. "If you belong to a gym with a sauna or steam room, apply a conditioner to your hair first and stay in the steamy atmosphere for at least 20 minutes. Once washed out your hair will feel completely revived."
Alternatively for silky strands while you slumber use Umberto Giannini Beauty Secrets Overnight Beauty Moisture Balm, £4.99, available exclusively to Boots, a no rinse lightweight formula for hydrating repair, applying it takes about as much effort as turning the page of your bedtime read.
Root force
colouring,hair care
Skin Benefits Hair Mascara
If the pennies are in short supply post-Christmas disguise your roots with a zig-zag parting instead of a meticulously straight one. If you need back-up Skin Benefits Hair Mascara, £7.99,
www.amirose.com is available in four shades from Light Brown to Natural Black and the semi-permanent effects last for 7 - 14 days, plenty of time in which to slot in that overdue salon colour appointment.
From dull to dazzling
hair care,Bumble and Bumble,burts bees
Bumble & Bumble Creme de Coco - post party hair
On the inevitable diet? Adopt a healthy eating approach to your choice of hair care too. Burt\'s Bees Super Shiny Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Shampoo, £11 and Conditioner, £11, John Lewis, 08456 049 049 boast natural ingredients and are free of the most common chemical ingredients found in haircare products.
Bumble & bumble Crème de Coco Shampoo, £16 and Crème de Coco Conditioner, £16.50, 020 7836 0818 contain shine and softness restoring coconut and murumuru butter.
From flat to flattering
hair care,TIGI,Hair product
Tigi Superstar Hairspray - Hair SOS
One of the best ways to boost hair that isn\'t behaving well is to get the heated rollers out. However much like a Mrs. Mop you look when they are in, they produce a cascade of body and bounce. Give your style additional staying power with TIGI Superstar Volumizing Hairspray, £7.95, 0844 844 0944 www.tigi.co.uk.
If you prefer the straight and narrow one of the best SOS busters for longer hair in wayward mode is the ponytail. "The trick to a super-sleek one is to lift your chin to the ceiling whilst you gather in your hair. This eliminates puffiness at the nape," recommends Errol.
Fight the frizz
hair care,frizzy hair
Goody So Natural Purse Brush
The contrast between freezing temperatures outdoors and centrally heated semi-tropical ones indoors can whip up unprecedented levels of frizz. The Nutriheat Hair Nutrition System Hairdryer, £39.99, www.boots.com, Argos and Tesco, designed with capsule technology to protect, condition and care. A capsule of natural ingredients is deposited in a dispenser in the dryer nozzle and activated by the circulation of hot air delivers nurturing ingredients directly into the hair shaft for 90% less frizz, 87% more shine and 83% better hydration.
If you\'re socialising straight from work and your hair\'s looking wild and windswept, mist the Goody So Natural Purse Brush, £3.99, 0844 412 1182 with Z.one Concept milk_shake no frizz glistening spray, £9.90, www.z-oneconcept.co.uk 08448 30 40 30 to help eliminate static electricity.
Lacklustre to lustrous at lunchtime
hair care,kerastase
Kerastase Pixelist - Hair SOS
The Matrix Biolage portfolio comprises six in-salon reparative treatments with patented ceramide technology and botanicals, including hydrathérapie - to moisturise dry, dull hair, smooththérapie - to calm unruly hair and fortethérapie to strengthen weak, brittle locks. 0208 762 4060 www.matrixhaircare.co.uk.
Restore coloured hair to good health with Kérastase Pixelist, from £15, 0800 316 4400, a star addition to the Reflection Ritual Collection. Inspired by fibre optics and light reflection hair is infused with radiant shine from root to tip. Use in between appointments for a shine shot and condition boost.
