Overnight hair treatments will help restore health and shine to your hair
What’s the best type of beauty product? One you can use with your eyes closed!
We jest, but there’s definitely something to be said for an easy and quick solution to challenging beauty conundrums.
So if your hair is dry, looks lacklustre and dull or has a tendency to snap, it’s definitely worth considering an overnight hair treatment. They are also particularly useful if you have curly hair that is prone to frizz, as they are great at delivering hydrated, defined curls.
If you’re a fan of a hot tool, or have bleached or lightened locks they can also help undo some of the damage and stress we put on our hair each day.
Hair treatments can improve the look of hair after one use, but really improve the health of hair with repeated use, usually around once a week.
A growing category, overnight treatments solve that annoyance of having to stay in the shower – or shiver in the cold with wet hair – while your treatment or hair mask works its magic before rinsing. Usually that takes a number of minutes, and sometimes up to an hour so it’s definitely something you have to dedicate a chunk of your evening to.
Slumber solutions
Instead, run a night treatment, serum or mask through hair after you’ve applied your skincare and head straight to bed. Check the instructions on each product but most are made to be applied to towel-dried hair, from the mid lengths to ends, using the wide-tooth comb to make sure it’s well distributed. In the morning, you generally rinse them out and style like usual. Some don’t even need rinsing.
Still feeling skeptical? Consider the way great skin (thanks to a little extra effort with skincare) can create the perfect canvas for makeup, so too healthy nourished locks will be easier to style and the end result more polished.
It’s an approach we’ll see leap in popularity this year. The ‘skin-ification’ of hair, with a number of targeted products beyond your standard shampoo and conditioner and containing carefully formulated active ingredients, is a major trend. It’s useful to be familiar with your hair type before you start considering new additions so you can look for one to treat your specific requirements.
It’s not just your strands that benefit either. Unlike skin that we know goes into ‘repair mode’ as we sleep, hair doesn’t regenerate at night, it just gives us a useful time where it doesn’t matter if our locks are covered in a product that can sometimes look wet or oily. However, as the scalp is the factory that grows healthy hair, and scalp is skin, expect some products to look at how to keep the area healthy and encourage regeneration.
Here are five worthy additions to your bed time:
IGK Antisocial Overnight Bond Building Dry Hair Mask, $54
One for those that don’t like any sticky feeling, this is like a dry shampoo treatment, with vegan silk proteins that build the bonds of your strands for stronger, healthier hair.
Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Nightcap Overnight Perfector, $49
Great for coloured hair, this increases the shine, vibrancy, and manageability overnight, smoothing and sealing split ends with results said to last up to a week
Kerastase Serum Cicanuit, $70
A lightweight cream in gel with a high concentration of hyaluronic acid that restores bleached and sensitised hair.
Olaplex No 7 Bonding Oil, $55
Delivering a hefty dose of TLC to dry damaged and dull lengths, this uses Olaplex’s famous patented bond building technology to repair broken bonds caused by chemical and heat damage and simply brushing hair.
The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density, $38.80
This water-based serum targets visible hair thickness, density and fullness by targeting the scalp with peptides and a number of other complexes to help you grow healthier hair.
