How to Spend Your Thanksgiving Vacation: The Case for Double Masking Your Hair

Among the great luxuries of a long weekend are the untold amounts of free time that suddenly drop into your lap. So how to while away the hours in the most indulgent way possible? One inarguably positive use of that time is a targeted beauty overhaul. By merely passing the weekend navel-gazing in your loungewear you can tackle the kind of tasks that would usually require a month’s worth of scheduled maintenance appointments—starting with the hair phenomenon known as double masking. By using two treatment masks in a row—one that’s a deep cleansing formula, and another that’s ultra replenishing—you can press reset on anything from a dry and irritated scalp, fried ends, and color damage. “[It’s like] only drinking water and not eating,” says Parisian superstylist Christophe Robin of the single mask approach. For next-level hair “from root to tips,” he insists, “you need both.”

To assure the “perfect nutrition for scalp and hair,” Robin first massages a tablespoon of his own self-titled granular Cleansing Purifying Scrub with Sea Salt into wet strands, starting at the hairline and moving toward the ends. The salt, which breaks down gradually as it’s massaged with water, is a “grandma’s recipe” for absorbing impurities, cleansing the skin, and really allowing the scalp to breathe. Once the hair and head are perfectly clean, Robin reaches for his Regenerating Mask with Rare Prickly Pear Seed Oil for phase two. Concentrating the vitamin E and antioxidant-spiked conditioner on the mid-lengths and ends of the hair (with the remainder finger-combed into the roots), he says, will tame even the frizziest, most damaged strands. Best of all, once applied, you have 15 minutes in front of you to do whatever you want—read a book, paint your nails, reorganize your medicine cabinet, all of which can be accomplished with the peace of mind that your party season hair will be unprecedentedly bouncy and glossy. Feeling thankful yet?

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