Thursday, March 19, 2015

Post-Winter Hair Rehab: How to Bring Tortured Strands Back to Life

Photographed by David Sims, Vogue, February 2007

Au revoir, sturdy Sorels, you’ve served us well—and a fond farewell to our favorite Fair Isle sweaters. Every year around this time, we get the sudden, irrepressible urge to cast off all remnants of the winter season. That same impulse for a spring renewal extends to our hair, for which, sadly, there is no warm-weather replacement. Fortunately, a new crop of restorative products is more than up to the task of reinstating shiny, healthy-looking strands.


Shu Uemura’s Instant Replenisher Rapid Repair Serum—a pro treatment spray with moisturizing magnolia extract and cuticle-bolstering ceramides—is the closest we’ve come to a two-inch trim in a bottle; rinse it out after five minutes for bouncy, easy-to-comb hair. A scoop of legendary Parisian colorist Christophe Robin’s detoxifying Dead Sea salt scrub exfoliates sensitive scalps when massaged into the roots, then slowly dissolves into a hydrating cleansing lather when used in lieu of shampoo. The harmonious blend of ten garden-plucked ingredients found in Philip B’s ultrapure oil is made to be applied to dry hair in sections to cultivate glassy levels of shine. And when March showers induce clouds of baby hair frizz, Redken’s lavender oil–infused hair sheets restore calm in a flash.


From moisturizing masks with genuine reparative powers to clever problem-solvers that conceal what can’t be healed (that would be you, shattered ends), these eight transformative formulas will chase every last trace of winter from your hair.


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