16 HAIR CARE TIPS FOR WHEN YOU TRAVEL
1. Plan ahead for your hair care
Is this a relaxing trip or will you be going out a lot? Knowing your style of travel will help you decide what you need to do with your hair.
I like to give my hair a rest from styling on holidays. But if you have events or dinners to go to then pack some styling tools. Call and check if your hotel has a hairdryer.
Hot tip: I sometimes still pack my own as I use my hairdryer to iron my clothes (it’s a cheat that works really well on difficult to iron items like dresses!)
2. Managing your hair on work trips
Book a blow-dry for when you arrive. Often hotels have salons or ask them to recommend one nearby. They may even have a stylist who can come to your room. Going to a salon saves you bringing a lot of products and tools and gives you a killer hairstyle.
3. Be careful of swimming in pools
Be careful of blonde hair going green in swimming pools
4. Take care of hair on beach holidays
Keep a leave in conditioner spray in your beach bag. Salt (and chlorine) can dry your hair out so rinsleave-inair and seal it with a leave in conditioner. You can also DIY your own leave in spray by mixing 1 part conditioner to 5 parts water in a spray bottle. Just shake and spray on the ends of your hair after swimming.
5. Travelling to hot or humid destinations
Learn a couple of quick updos to tame your hair and keep your neck cool.
6. How to find hairdressers on your travels
- To find a good hairdresser while you’re travelling can be hard so I find someone with great hair and ask them who does their hair. Personal recommendations are the best.
- To communicate with hairdressers in other languages use pictures – this is the best advice even if you both speak the same language! You can’t describe color in words so take in a photo to show what you mean.
- Take in photos of your good hair days. Once you’ve had a haircut or color that you like, take photos of it to show your hairdresser for next time. Take a few different angles so they can see the cut from all sides. If you’re traveling, you can also ask your hairdresser to write down the color formula they use so your next hairdresser can follow on.
7. Slather your hair with oil/moisturizer before going into salt or chlorinated water
The idea is to let your hair absorb that so it can’t absorb damaging chlorine/salt. Then you’ll shampoo it out later and your hair will thank you for it.
8. Don’t use the free products
There’s a reason why they’re free. Usually with hair products cheap = nasty. Budget-friendly hair care will unfortunately damage your hair.
9.Invest in ONE good product
It’s important to invest in at least one thing that can put some sparkle back into your style. For very fine hair at shoulder length or shorter I’d say a good shampoo is more important, one that will strengthen your hair for some extra body and has light hydration so it doesn’t knot up too much. For longer hair, or hair prone to tangling, definitely go for a good mask/treatment that you can put on once a week or fortnight to add some moisture back into it.
10. Don’t go longer than a week without brushing your hair
It’s quite important to keep your hair smooth and to brush it all the way through from the scalp to ensure all the little knots are out. Tangled hair is more prone to breakage and if it gets really bad it causes more damage when you try to brush it out.
11. Protect your hair from the sun
Just as you would with your skin you need to put protection on your hair. Either with a hat, headscarf or some UV protecting spray, you’ll want to make sure it doesn’t overheat and burn.
12. Get some tousles with braids and buns
Put your hair in braids or loosely twisted buns, while it’s slightly damp then sleep on them. In the morning (or when your hair is completely dry) tousle them out with your fingers for some natural looking waves
13. Easy styling trick for oily hair
For easy styling of oily hair dab cornstarch onto your roots, which will act as a dry shampoo, so your hair doesn’t look dirty.
Apply it on the roots with a fluffy blush brush then work through with your fingers until it’s completely absorbed. It’ll help soak up excess oil AND give you some extra lift
14. Learn a couple of hairstyles
Learn a couple of styles for your personal hair type/length and get them down packed, so you always have a quick do to fall back on.
Youtube is a goldmine for this, and there’s not much you can’t find a video on! Everything from easy buns to fishtail braids, Youtube anything and start looking glamorous!
15. Incorporate a side part
To make wild hair look neater and more styled incorporate a side part. With the rest, you can wear it out or pull back into a braid, bun or ponytail
16. Take some hair accessories!
There isn’t much that a headband or headscarf can’t fix! Otherwise, you can twist a few pieces away from the face secure them with some hair clips or bobby pins
How do you maintain your hair on your travels? Please share your best hair care tips