Steam, chlorine, and salt are the three things that quietly ruin a bridal hair plan, and every one of them shows up at the wrong moment. Here is how to use a steam room and a pool without paying for it in photographs.
Steam first. A steam room opens the cuticle and swells the hair, which is excellent for a deep conditioning treatment and terrible for a set. Do not steam within forty-eight hours of a style you need to hold. If you do, treat it as a wash day: steam, then mask, then wash and dry normally.
Chlorine is a mineral problem. It bonds to the cuticle and leaves hair dry and stiff, which makes it resist a soft set. Rinse with clean water before entering the pool, which reduces absorption, and wash afterward with a chelating shampoo.
Salt water is the hardest one. Ocean swimming roughens the cuticle and dries the ends, and brides who swim the week before their wedding often find their hair suddenly will not hold a wave for more than an hour. Rinse immediately after, use a mask that night, and skip the ocean for the last five days.
Hair extensions change the rules entirely. Salt water and chlorine both degrade the bonds, so the guidance for K-Tips and swimming is genuinely specific, and it lives at majesticextensions.com.
The rule of thumb: anything that changes the state of the cuticle takes two days to recover. Plan the swim and the steam for a week out, not the morning before. Inquire if you have an active pool week planned.
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