7 Tips to Help Winterize Your Hair

Compliments of Tina Lawson

It’s a New Year but winter is still upon us! You don’t want your hair to suffer from dryness or breakage. Take care of it during these cold winter months. It’s time to winterize your hair. Follow these tips to winterize your hair and Jack Frost won't be able to penetrate it.

1) Deep Condition

Deep conditioners help restore moisture, shine and softness to your hair. Due to the cold harsh weather you may want to increase the amount of deep conditioners you do and the intensity. The winter can really dry out your hair, to combat this you need to make sure you are deep conditioning enough. Some of my favorite deep conditioner ingredients are Shea butter, olive oil, coconut oil, honey, apple cider vinegar and bananas. A nice pre poo with a hot oil treatment can also help too. This an essential part of winterizing your hair!

2) Use a Thicker Oil and a Thicker Cream/ Butter

Another way to help winterize your hair is to use oil and creams/ butters. Oils and creams can aid in moisturizing and also protecting your hair. Opting for thicker oil and cream is a good idea to battle the cold weather. Thicker oil like castor oil will help protect your hair and keep on moisture a lot better than a thinner oil that you may already use. Shea butter is also good for moisturizing. Make sure you detangle your hair before using castor oil. It is super thick and hard to detangle your hair with castor oil in it.

3) Use Protective Styles

Protective styles help hide your ends so use them. They also help keep your hair less tangled and manageable after those long winter walks. You can also use protective styles such as braids, weaves and wigs to hide your hair from the cold. Just putting moisture in your hair is not enough. Protection is important when winterizing your hair as well.

4) Take care of your ends

Your ends are the oldest part of your hair. This means they are more vulnerable to dryness and damage. Be sure to take care of them. Make sure you are using enough oil, cream, moisturizer, on your ends. You don’t want to accumulate split ends when spring comes around.

5) Wear a Hat with a Satin Lining

Satin scarves and bonnets protect your hair from friction while sleeping. They can also protect your hair from wind, hats and hoods going against your hair strands. Be sure to wear a hat with a satin lining or wear a bonnet or scarf under your hat or hood.

6) Decrease your Heat Usage

We all know that heat causes damage to your hair. You can use a heat protectant on it such as coconut oil or olive oil, but why not decrease your heat usage. Besides the snow will probably frizz up your blow out or silk press anyway. So why waste all that work anyway. Try plopping your hair with a t-shirt or use an over the head blow dryer or attachment instead.

7) Never go outside with wet hair!

Just because you use less heat doesn't mean you can just go outside with wet hair. Not only can it cause more damage to your hair but you can also get really sick. Who wants to sit next to someone who is coughing and sneezing everywhere? Be sure your hair is COMPLETELY dry before going outside in the cold. Take care of yourself and your hair!

I hope these tips help you when winterizing your hair. Are there any other tips you think are important when winterizing your hair?  Please leave questions or comments below. Happy New Year!!!!

Long Hair and Prosper,

Asia