Prepare Your Hair For Your Wedding Day
We spend so much time oiling, washing and styling our hair to look stylish
, healthy and shiny. Its even more important as a bride to be to have your hair treated to give you soft shiny tresses, in order to complete your stunning bridal look.
The style of your hair on your wedding day will be the finishing touch to complete your bridal image; in fact it can make or break your entire look. However for those of you with thin, brittle, frizzy or problematic hair, it can be hard work to cultivate a style that that does you justice as a radiant bride, particularly if you have subjected your hair to a lot of heat and chemical damage over the years. So how do you get gorgeous glossy and healthy hair for your big day?
In this article some of Londons top hair stylists (featured in our Asian Wedding Directory) advise what you can do to prep your hair to get it thick, gleaming and glossy in time for your wedding. Here is everything you need to get the lustrous locks you've always wanted, with new styling secrets and products that really work.
The Right Cut
The first step to add some thickness and fullness is getting the right hair cut. Adding layers in your hair will add body instead of letting your hair limply hang. This even works if you have wavy or curly hair. You dont have to opt for short layers, longer layers also look great whilst giving you a softer but fuller look. Pretty layers cut around your face can frame it and compliment your features whilst softening blunt edges.
Prepping Your Hair
When prepping your hair for your big day, youll need to give yourself enough time in order for your hair to look its best. Brides should start early, up to six- eight months prior to their Asian wedding is a good time. Get your stylist to advise you on a course of in salon treatments (professional products are more intensive and can be professionally tailored for your hair condition) to ensure your hair is as healthy as possible for the big day.
Washing
Washing your hair is a difficult issue especially if you have very oily hair like many Asian girls! For those of you who shampoo their hair daily, youre actually stripping away the natural oils your scalp and hair make in order to hydrate and replenish your hair. Washing your hair every day can also make your hair oilier in the long run.
Give your hair a few days rest until you shampoo again. If your hair gets oily very quickly, try using the trick of applying baby powder to your scalp so it absorbs to oil.
The quality of the shampoo and conditioner you use also can transform your hair, giving it that boosted healthy shine.
Colour right
For the brides with coloured hair, highlights can be a hit and miss. Badly done highlights can cause a stripy effect and can make your hair look thinner, not something you want if you already have thin hair.
On the other hand, subtle streaks add another dimension to your hair making it appear thicker. You can create an illusion of having fuller hair with a solid base colour, which also adds depth and shine. Panels of hidden tones can bring versatile colour to your hair and make it look amazing.
Your hair is what you eat!
A great way of improving your locks naturally is improving your diet. Certain nutrients and vitamins can stimulate growth and promote healthier and thicker hair. Protein is the main component that makes up hair, so incorporating eggs, nuts, lean meats, soy, and low fat yoghurt of cheese will give your hair the tools to grow and get stronger. Essential fatty acids found in oily fish, Vitamin E, C and B and Iron in your greens all promote hair repair whilst boosting shine.
Massage
Having a scalp massage increases the blood flow to your hair follicles which boosts hair to grow and also improves the quality and thickness of your hair. This is a great solution to those of you whose seem to lose a lot of hair. Most hair loss is attributed to poor circulation, which causes hair follicles to fall out.
Doing a small amount of exercise to make you sweat also improves blood circulation.
Cold rinse
Youy may haveheard about giving your hair a quick cold rinse in the shower after youve shampooed and conditioned to give your hair a smooth glossy appearance. This does actually work. The cold water helps to close the hair cuticle, which seals in moisture from the conditioner and natural sebum in your hair. This can also help with those of you who have frizzy hair. The more moisture your hair has, the less frizzy it is. Cold air can also have a similar lustrous affect to your locks, So if you use a hairdryer, turn it to the cold setting and give your hair a blast.
Relax and Rejuvenate
As you know stress can cause so many health problems and can even affect your hair, from hair loss to hair thinning. Make sure you specifically have some me time to relax and enjoy yourself during the Asian wedding planning process. Take some time out with friends or family to unwind whether you go to a spa or relax at home, take a break, for the sake of your hair!
by: Rahul Katrak
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