This is THE beauty question that comes up most often as summer approaches: should you cut your hair before or after the holidays? Here’s what a famous hairstylist recommends.
Summer is approaching, and so are our desires for change. Indeed, our wardrobe must be readjusted in order to move from spring to summer, and new purchases are looming in order to make room for new pieces, adapted to current trends. Shopping before the holidaysit’s quite common.
What is also true is to worry about your haircut, at this specific time of year. If our hair is particularly well maintained throughout the year, vacation time always raises questions. Indeed, summer is not kind to them. The salt of the sea, the perspiration, the disruption of our shampoo schedule, the beating sun… Our hair, compared to us, doesn’t really appreciate the summer break.
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Why ask yourself the question of when to cut your hair as summer approaches?
A major dilemma thus arises as summer approaches. Should we wear our hair down before the holidays, or at the start of the school year? There is indeed reason to ask the question, and to look into the subject. In summer, lengths often catch our eye, and we are tempted to let our hair grow out, to match our summer mood.
And it’s at the start of the school year that we are tempted to cut them, for several reasons. The first: to cut ends damaged by heat, the sea and everything that is specific to the summer period. The second: the desire for change, and a new head, specific to the recovery. New look for a new life, we know the song. That’s one stone, two birds. But is this option really the right one for the health of our hair? A famous hairdresser has positioned himself.
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What is Jean-Louis David’s opinion?
Our sisters at Elle also asked themselves the question, and found an interesting answer on the website of the famous hairdresser, Jean-Louis David. But then, what are your opinions on the subject? Well, against all odds, and despite the hair beliefs of ‘better to go back to school’, the specialist’s site recommends cutting your hair before the holidays, and not after. Obviously, there is a logical explanation for this, and a rather convincing one.
In fact, the site indicates that it is better to cut off at least the ends before summer, so as not to put even more strain on locks already damaged by winter. Indeed, hair subjected to freezing temperatures tends to be damaged. Keeping these same strands weakened, and exposing them to the summer period only damages them further. And this can be radical for these strands, they can break permanently. So, according to the expert, it is better to cut the ends, the most damaged area of our hair, before the holidays, to prevent the strands from suffering too much. By the end of the holidays, the hair will have already grown back well, and if you want a change, you can always cut it or color it.
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Originally from Toulouse, I moved to Cannes in 2021. It is therefore very close to the sea and palm trees that I have been writing for Au Féminin since 2022. Accustomed to …