As summer approaches, many people have planned beach getaways and are picking out travel destinations.
These trips usually bring about fun and change, which can be harsh on your hair.
Over the summer when changing from a cold state to a hot state or vice versa, the hair will be affected immediately. In order to maintain healthy hair that doesn’t begin to weaken and break, preparations should be taken such as using protective styles if you don’t think you’ll have time to focus on your hair.
Protective styles are hairstyles that keep your natural hair protected when living an ‘’on-the-go” lifestyle. There are styles that either hide your real hair: such as wigs, weave, braids, faux locs or crochets which are worn after braiding up your real hair to your scalp as cornrows.
Other protective styles include using jumbo twist in your real hair and just letting the hair be tied up in a pineapple or down just to keep the hair stretched for when you decide to style. Bantu knots and cornrows both work as a protective style as well.
Any style that has the hair split into sections will be useful while traveling since it allows for quick easy access of washing and styling the sections by section and re-doing the style as you finish each section. This prevents hair from matting together due to the new weather or beach hopping.
Wishing you safe travels and a happy summer!
-Natural Curl Queen ♥
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