How to Keep Your Hair Beautiful on a Beach Vacation

Yay! You’re finally off somewhere warm and tropical to chill for a few days, away from work, school and the daily grind.

Now that you’ve packed all your beach essentials (with the dozen bikinis, bucket hats, sunglasses and swimsuit cover-ups), it’s time to include the most important part of your sun-seeker arsenal: your professional-grade hair protection products. Because there’s nothing worse than coming back from your vacay with damaged hair and colour that’s faded. So, how do you do that?

Hair Vacation Tip #1: Trim and Colour Before Leaving

Make sure your hair is at its healthiest and prettiest before you leave by booking an appointment with your favourite hairstylist to get rid of dry (potentially) split ends. And add a hair colour refresh or hair gloss service so that your hair is vibrant and luminous.

Hair Vacation Tip #2: Always Pack a UV-Protection Hair Product

Just like you wouldn’t start your Caribbean or Dubai day without a high SPF (sun protection factor) skincare product, the same goes for your hair while on a beach vacation. In fact, UV-protection hair products are formulated to keep your locks safe from harmful UV rays that break down colour and create the perfect storm for free radicals to deplete hair of its natural radiance and shine.

Hair Vacation Tip #3: Conditioner is your BFF

Because you’ll be dipping yourself often in the water, and the wind from the seashore will also be creating some type of mechanical damage to your hair, make sure you have a highly nutritious conditioner or mask, used daily after rinsing out salted and pool water, to avoid damage to your hair.

A good choice once you’re back from your vacation is Teknia Mask Refresh that will provide colour to faded hair and rebuild it from within because the product acts as cellular concrete in keratin and restructures damaged hair fibre. The best part is that Mask Refresh is available in four shades to revive red, brown, copper and blonde hair.

Hair Vacation Tip #4: Keeping Volume Under Control

If you have textured hair and you feel it go rogue during the hot summer months in the city, just imagine what that extra moisture in the air will do to it once you’re sitting poolside in the tropics. So your hair vacay essential will have to be a frizz-control product to help maintain that awesome texture and beautiful curls to maintain the pesky frizz at bay.

And there you go, beautiful hair on vacation every day!