StyleSchool

The last thing you want running through your mind in the middle of your wedding is whether or not you need to run a brush through your fried and damaged hair.  Now that the hairdo-ruining humidity of summer has given way to the cool, crisp winds of fall, it’s time you switch up your haircare routine—especially if you’re planning on walking down the aisle by spring with a healthy head of hair. 

In the colder months, your tresses require more careful handling since increased heat styling, wool scarves and hats, and frigid temperatures can leave them dry, fragile and damaged.  I asked top stylist Ted Gibson to share his hair saving tips to keeping your locks right and on point well after you say “I do.”

•    Heat Styling tends to increase in the winter, after a summer of easy breezy hair, braids, wet buns and ponytails.  To keep hair nourished, use a first-rate overnight treatment.  Try Ted’s Goodnite ($200; tedgibsonbeauty.com), a replenishing hair repair serum that moisturizes deep down to the inner cortex of the hair shaft leaving locks nourished and touchably soft.

•    Winter is a great time to switch your hair washing cycle to once every two or more days, something that many women find hard to do during the sticky summer months.  Less frequent washing is one of the easiest ways to keep our hair healthy and it doesn’t cost a thing!

•    Easy, casual hair is fine for summer, but winter is the time to be vigilant about regular trims. Your hair will look and fee much better.

•    Try prolonging the time between color treatments a bit.  Instead use a color depositing shampoo and conditioner duo, which gently deposits color onto the hair to enhance brilliance and increase color longevity.

—Tasha Turner, Senior Beauty Editor