-- Beauty Club London, a specialist hair extensions and colour salon with branches in London and Dubai, has published advice on keeping colour-treated hair healthy through the summer, with finer, lighter hair the most at risk: it loses its tone faster than thicker, denser types.
Moe Harb, Co-Founder and Hair Educator at Beauty Club London, explains: “Summer is the hardest season for hair, and in Dubai it lasts most of the year. Between the heat, the pools and the hard water, colour doesn’t hold the way it would somewhere cooler, and the minerals dull it down faster than people expect.”
Harb continues: “Caucasian hair tends to be finer than a lot of Middle Eastern hair types, so the sun and pool chemicals hit it harder, and you get breakage and fading much quicker if you’re not on top of it. We see it often with our blonde clients in Dubai.”
The science backs this up. Sunlight breaks down both the protein and the pigment in the hair shaft, and research published by the US National Institutes of Health links that to dryness, weakness and brittle ends. Lighter hair shows it first, holding less of the melanin that shields darker hair. Lightening it further, with highlights, balayage or bleach, opens the cuticle and lets moisture escape faster.
Sun protection comes first. “I would recommend using a UV-protective hair mist, or wearing a hat during the hottest part of the day, especially if your hair is colour-treated,” he advises. The scalp burns as easily as any other skin, and a hat keeps the sun off both.
Washing habits matter just as much. “One of the biggest mistakes I see is over-washing, especially with harsh shampoos,” Harb notes. “Every time you wash, you strip away a bit more of the toner that keeps blonde looking fresh, so washing every day brings the brassiness back sooner. Cut it back to two or three times a week and your colour lasts longer.” A sulphate-free shampoo cleans more gently, and a weekly treatment such as Olaplex puts back the moisture that heat and sun draw out.
Pools and the sea both dry the hair. Wetting it with fresh water before getting in means it absorbs less of the chlorine or salt, and a leave-in conditioner helps on a long day, though it is not needed every time. Above all, swimmers should rinse thoroughly with fresh water as soon as they are out, enough to clear the chlorine and salt so they don’t dry into the hair.
Heat styling adds to the damage, so Harb recommends air-drying where possible and using a heat protectant whenever hot tools come out. A trim every six to eight weeks stops split ends running further up the hair.
For colour that has already gone warm, Harb is careful about home fixes. “Purple shampoo is great for knocking out yellow tones, but go easy with it. Overdo it and the hair ends up flat or patchy,” he cautions. Anything more stubborn is best dealt with in the salon, with a metal detox to remove the brassy tone or a K18 bond builder to strengthen the hair.
As a leading hair colour salon in Dubai, Beauty Club London offers colour correction, balayage and freehand work. Consultations include a home-care routine matched to the local climate and water.
Harb sums it up: “Protect rather than correct. It’s always easier to prevent the damage than to fix it later.”
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