Fact or Fiction: Can split ends be reversed?

Fiction. Unfortunately, once split ends happen, the only way to get rid of them is by getting a haircut. The good news is that the right hair products can definitely make them less noticeable. Try  Enjoy, Moroccan Oil or Paul Mitchell, all available in our Studio. Try to also limit the use of heated tools and appliances (hair dryers, flat irons, etc) for shinier, healthier locks.

12 Tips for Getting Out of Hair Hell

Save yourself the added stress of a bad hair day, and read up on these easy tips for troubleshooting your "mane" nightmares.

1) Fight Frizz Like a Pro

Frizz happens when the cuticle layer (the outer layer) of the hair opens, moisture gets inside, and the hair swells up. It's made worse when your strands are pushed against each other, due to weather, tool damage, or even rubbing wet hair with a towel. Prevent a frizzy mane during warmer months, and cut back on your flatiron and blow-dryer use to every other day, or every third day.

2) Work with Your Curls

Fighting your hair's texture in humid climates will only lead to more frizz and breakage. Instead, apply a flexible-hold gel on wet hair and twist coils or waves in the natural direction of the curls to eliminate friction. This will add definition to your do.

3) Hands Off!

Mandate a "no touching" rule for your strands on hot, muggy days, no matter your hair type. Roughing up or scrunching curls with a towel or your hands can pull your hair out of place and cause more frizz. Finer textures are prone to greasy scalps (oils from your hands move down straighter strands faster), meaning limp locks later.

4) Slick Back Shorter Styles

Keep cropped cuts off of your face (the shorter pieces are more likely to cling to sweaty foreheads and cheeks), by taking a page out of Hayden's book. Instead of blow-drying hair to fall along your natural part, coat wet hair with a light gel and mold pieces back and away from your face for a simple and chic 9-to-5 look.

5) Troubleshoot with Braids

Wispies are cute for daytime picnics, but they don't always translate to the office or post-work plans. Tame the halo around your head, and weave face-framing pieces into small braids. This style also works well for women with layers, who want to keep all of their hair off their neck and mug.

6) Be A Seasonal Swapper

Just as with skin-care products, trade in your cold-weather regimen for formulas better suited for heat-related hair stressors. If you have fine hair, avoid styling oils and creams, because these heavier mixtures can weigh down hair. Opt for water- or alcohol-based volumizers to add a oomph to damp strands. Conversely, thicker hair types need more moisture during warmer months.

7) Get Some Clarity...

...In the form of a quick hair rinse. After swimming in a pool or pond, immediately cleanse hair with a clarifying shampoo. Non-salt water can contain hard metals and chlorine that will oxidize dyed strands, making the color look brassy or even, green.

8) Go Retro!

Old school swim caps are not just vintage throwbacks. These rubber caps are the most effective means to blocking chemicals and rays from burning your scalp, drying out ends, and altering your salon-perfected shade.

9) Soak Your Strands

Because your hair is like a sponge and can only absorb so much water, saturate your strands with bottled or filtered water before going swimming and pull it into a bun. That way, your hair will be unable to soak up any hue-altering properties."

10) Be Sun Savvy

The sun acts as a catalyst and oxidizes newly highlighted or lightened strands to bring out unwanted warmer shades. Beach-dwelling blondes and brunettes should look for shampoos that contain blue or violet pigments to counteract yellow, red, and orange tones. 

11) Add Mega Amounts of Moisture

Environmental factors, like pollution and water type, will all determine what adjustments you need to make to your hair-care routine as the mercury rises. Women with coarse, curly hair should use styling formulas high in glycerin to attract moisture into your strands and combat dryness.

12) Baby Treated Hair

Women with relaxed hair need to apply their moisturizing hair dress more often than usual. Also, try to keep your body temperature as cool as possible. Any excessive perspiration on your neck or scalp will revert your straighter hair back to a frizzier state. A sky-high sleek ponytail can help beat the heat.

We hope you find these tips helpful.

Quick and Easy Beach Hairstyles

The best way to look like you just spent a day at the beach is to actually be there (or learn how to re-create the look!). Check out these sexy summer hairstyles so you can be a bona fide beach/pool/island bunny this summer. 

Curled Side Pony

For those with frizzy, hard-to-tame hair, this look is an easy solution. As the humidity rises, your hair tends to want to curl even more. By putting it up out of your face, you'll get the volume without the fuss. To get a similar look, make a deep side part and curl the ends with a large, round curling iron, then let the weather do the rest of the curling work for you.

Textured Waves

Play with your texture by using a leave-in beach spray for a just-off-the-beach look.

Lighter, Brighter

Summer is the perfect time to get a few face-framing streaks one to two shades lighter than your natural color and let the sun do the rest of the work.

We'd love to teach how to create these looks at home, just stop by our studio and ask us how.

Enjoy Haircare Products

Amazing new technology to create a highly versatile hair care system for all hair types, textures, styles and chemical care needs. 

Simple as 1-2-3 to cleanse, repair, moisturize and equalize your hair for that every day salon look. Enjoy Haircare is a unique line of hair products that was developed for your simple everyday needs. 

Containing no sulfate in the shampoos, Enjoy products give your hair strength without harming or stripping your color treated hair. 

Enjoy uses their Cleanse Sensor Technology to ensure proper treatment of your hair type.

Hot, Sexy Summer Hair

Whether you are headed out for a day at the beach, a backyard BBQ or an outdoor concert, get sexy hair this summer with these fabulous here are our tips for a good hair day, everyday this summer:

1) Rinse your hair immediately when coming back from the pool or beach to reduce chlorine damage. Use haircare products with SPF.

2) Get your hair cut every six to eight weeks to keep in healthy and smooth. If you use hair color, get your roots touched up too.

3) Don't shampoo daily. Overshampooing can strip your hair of its natural oils. If possible, shampoo your hair every other day.

4) Headbands, tiaras, clips and pins! Hair accessories with jewels, crystals and flowers are all very sexy ways to pull your hair up this summer. Here are a few fabulous options for stylish hair accessories.

Dry Scalp?

Many people come into our studio looking for a natural solution to their dry scalp problem. This condition can plague young and old alike. 

While there are many types of scalp problems; from itchy scalp, dandruff, seborrheic dermatitis and even hair loss ranging from mild to sever, the bottom line is that every one needs the proper scalp care.

Scalp problems are more common than you may think. For example, dandruff - that dry, itchy, white or yellow flaking of the scalp - affects up to 70% of men, women and children in various degrees of severity.

Dry scalp differs from dandruff but is non-the-less problematic since it is a symptom of moisture and oil production imbalance that can result in a very itchy scalp! Of course, your natural reaction is to scratch, but scratching or even rubbing can aggravate the problem.

Many factors can contribute to the cause of dry scalp and its related symptoms:

1) Winter's blistery, cold and dry air wreaks havoc on our skin overall.

2) Hot, sunny summertime can also cause a type of "sweaty dryness" that brings on problems.

3) Certain food allergies can affect us in various ways.

4) Certain hair products and shampoos containing the chemicals PHTHALATES, SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE, DEA, MEA, TEA and FRAGRANCES can cause a red, drying rash on your scalp,around the eyes and along the neck, with flaking, peeling, and itching. Unfortunately, the federal government doesn't limit their use.

5) All the myriad of gels, creams, conditioners and sprays that we apply on a daily basis weakens or ruins the natural PH of the scalp.

What you can do at home:

Honey

• Mix thoroughly 1/2 cup of clear honey with 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar. Add 2 drops of tea tree oil and mix again. Apply to the scalp, massaging the mixture well into the dry, flaky areas. Leave the mixture on your scalp for thirty minutes before rinsing it off in warm, running water. Repeat twice weekly until the dryness disappears and your scalp is no longer itchy or flaky.
  

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

• Mix 1/2 cup each of extra virgin olive oil, clear honey and skimmed milk until well blended. Apply to the scalp, leaving the mixture to sink in to your dry scalp for at least thirty minutes. Rinse off the mixture in warm, running water until the water runs clear. Olive oil is an excellent moisturizer, honey softens dry skin making it supple and smooth and milk contains Vitamin D to enrich the hair and scalp to give them vitality.
  

Aloe Vera

• For thousands of years, aloe has been used to soothe, moisturize and soften irritated skin. Take an aloe stem and split it down the middle lengthwise, squeezing out the precious gel. Massage the gel into your dry, irritated scalp, leaving it on for thirty minutes. Rinse off the gel thoroughly under warm, running water until all traces of it are gone. Repeat this process twice a week for as long as it takes to remedy your dry scalp.
  

If the problem persists visit our studio or a dermatologist.

Don't know what to do with your hair?

Here are some great ideas for that special night out: