From chemical treatment to heat styling, your hair endures a lot during the festive season. Whether it's Ganpati puja, Navratri, Diwali, Holi, or Raksha Bandhan, the days leading up to and following these festivities can leave your hair feeling dry, damaged, and lifeless. Following your regular haircare routine isn’t enough during these festive days. You must go the extra mile to take care of your precious hair and save it from further damage. So, what should you do to protect your hair? Indulge in a thorough hair care ritual and adopt effective festive hair care tips to flaunt the best hair look during festive days.
This article talks about pre-festive and post-festive hair care tips and regimens, featuring L'Oréal Professional's advanced hair care range. L'Oréal Professional hair care products cater to different hair types and concerns and are ideal for professional and home use.
Pre-Festive Hair Care Routine
Your pre-festive hair care should focus on prepping your hair to avoid damage from styling and environmental stress. Over-exposure to sunlight, pollutants, and excessive usage of heat styling tools can make your hair weak. To make sure, your hair is ready for the upcoming festival season, let us take you through the pre-festive hair care routine and steps.
Step 1: Oil massage
Nourishing your hair is the primary goal of any hair care routine. A traditional oil massage can do this task adeptly by improving blood circulation, reducing dandruff, and itchiness, retaining moisture, and more. For best results, apply coconut or almond oil. You can choose to leave the oil on your hair overnight (for deep nourishment) and wash it away the next day. Here’s a great festive hair care tip - build your hair oiling routine as per your hair type (people with dry hair types can oil massage twice a week) and add shine to your hair before the festivities.
Product recommendation: L'Oréal Professionnel Metal DX concentrated oil (leave-in) for anti-breakage and color protection.
Step 2: Cleanse with the Right Shampoo
Select the right shampoo as per your hair type and concern and eliminate dirt, excess oil, and product build-up like a pro. Those who have opted for hair coloring services just before the festive days must use a dedicated color-protect shampoo to prolong color performance.
Product Recommendation:
• L'Oréal Professionnel Liss Unlimited shampoo (for frizzy hair)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Inforcer shampoo (for fragile hair)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Anti-dandruff dermo-clarifier shampoo (for de-regulated scalp)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Anti-discomfort dermo-regulator shampoo (for sensitive scalp)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Color protection shampoo (for colored hair)
Step 3: Condition Your Hair for Optimal Strength
Whether you opt for a heat-based or no-heat hairstyle, your hair can weaken hair due to excessive heat styling and manipulation. If you deep condition your hair religiously two or three weeks before the start of the festivities, you can provide your hair with the essential hydration and make it strong. Befriend a conditioner that is formulated exclusively for your hair type.
Step 4: Use Serum & Heat Protectants for Styling
Upgrade your hair care routine with hair serums and see the result for yourself. You can use anti-hair loss serum, or hair density-boosting serum as per your hair needs. Wondering how to protect hair during festive season? Rely on heat protectants and shield your hair from heat damage. Heat styling is inevitable during the festive season. Irrespective of your preference, you will end up blow-drying your hair (especially if you have long voluminous hair) if are short on time for a puja or party. So, does that mean your hair has to suffer? No! Apply heat protectants as these advanced products create a barrier between your hair and the heat to lower the chances of potential damage.
Product Recommendation:
• L’Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair Molecular leave-in mask (heat protectant leave-in mask to repair, restore movement, and elasticity)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Serioxyl Advanced density activator serum (hair density-boosting serum)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Aminexil Advanced anti-hair loss activator serum (anti-hair loss serum)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Liss Unlimited serum (anti-frizz blow-dry serum)
Bonus tip: Trim Split Ends
Here’s an effective festive hair care tip – trim split ends before the festivities. Your hour-long investment in festive hairstyle can get ruined if you have frizzy ends. Instead of chopping off, trim your hair before the festive season to ensure that your hair looks neat, healthy, and ready for styling.
Post-Festive Hair Care: Recovery and Revival
The real struggle starts once the festive frenzy is over. Accumulation of dirt, sweat, product residue, frequent or daily shampooing, and repeated application of serums make hair oily, greasy, and dull-looking. Hence, you need to adhere to a dedicated post-festive hair care routine to repair any damage, nourish your scalp, and restore your hair’s natural health.
Step 1: Cleanse Your Scalp
Post-festive hair care routine should focus on detoxifying your scalp and hair. For best results, use a clarifying shampoo to extract any build-up and keep your scalp fresh and comfortable. If your hair has suffered intense damage after heat styling, try to go for milder, sulfate-free, repairing shampoos.
Product Recommendation:
L'Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair Molecular shampoo (sulfate-free repairing shampoo)
L'Oréal Professionnel Anti-oiliness 2-in-1 deep purifier clay (2-in-1 shampoo & clay)
Step 2: Use Damage Repair Serum
Your lengths often face a significant damage with heat styling and environmental aggressors. This is why incorporating damage repair products becomes vital for your post-festive hair care routine. You can add rinse-off serums that repair your lengths from within while keeping them hydrated. This is especially important if your hair has undergone extensive heat styling during the festivals, especially if you have color-treated or chemically-treated hair. A simple step can visibly improve your hair at home, making it appear healthy and shiny.
Product Recommendation: Absolut Repair Molecular rinse-off serum (for damaged hair)
Bonus tip: Avoid Heat Styling for a While
Here’s a festive hair care tip for you – avoid using heat styling tools post-festival days and opt for heat-free hair styles for some times.
Step 3: Revive Your Hair with a Mask
You can reverse traces of hair damage by incorporating a nourishing treatment mask in your post-festive hair care routine. A hair mask helps restore hydration levels, repairs damage, and brings back your hair's natural shine. For best results, use a hair mask once a week.
Product Recommendation:
• L’Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair Molecular professional mask (repairs up to 2 years of damage*, re-plumps hair’s molecular layers** in damaged hair)
*Instrumental test on fiber macromolecular structure after application of mask
**With Hydration at macro-molecular level, instrumental test
• L'Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair mask (for damaged and weakened hair)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Inforcer mask (for fragile hair)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Color protection mask (for colored hair)
• L'Oréal Professionnel Pro Longer mask (lengths renewing for long hair)
Bonus tip: Opt for a hair spa
Hair spa promotes a clean scalp and nourished hair. You can opt for a hair spa service fortnightly and especially post-festive days to strengthen roots, hydrate hair, repair damage, add shine, and more!
Go ahead and care for your hair with the above-mentioned festive hair care tips and routines. Be mindful and make sure that your hair remains healthy, shiny, and damage-free both before and after the festive season.
L’Oréal Professionnel offers the best-in-class products and services and provides you with a complete haircare solution. Pay a visit to the nearest salon and let the L’Oréal Professionnel hair care pros take the best care of your hair.