Using cheap shampoo

Using cheap shampoo
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You don’t have to go into debt creating a hair-care regimen that keeps your hair and scalp healthy, but you should probably quit your $3 supermarket shampoo and conditioner habit. That tip goes triple if the products you use contain sulfates, which strip colour fast and are extremely drying. Upgrade your hair-care stash so that you’re always using colour-safe products that contain nourishing ingredients. And don’t forget to add a clarifying shampoo to your routine at least once a week. “A good clarifying shampoo removes buildup like dry shampoo,” Saviano says. “You can’t walk around with dry shampoo for a week – your scalp has to breathe and be clean.”

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Placing highlighting foils in the wrong place

Placing highlighting foils in the wrong place
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Highlighting your hair is an art form – not exactly one you want to leave up to untrained hands, a box of supermarket dye and spotty bathroom lighting. Just as the colour of your highlights can age you or make you look more youthful and refreshed, so can the placement of those highlights. Even if you aren’t asking your stylist for ’90s zebra stripes (good riddance), there are ways to place foils that work in your favour – and ways that work against you.

“Non-dimensional highlights, or too heavy of a highlighting pattern, will create too solid of an overall colour,” Dosso says. “By leaving enough space between each foil instead of doing them back to back, you allow for there to be depth within the hair, which is more youthful and natural looking.”

Wearing girly accessories

Wearing girly accessories
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We’re all for everyone wearing whatever makes them feel good inside – and if that means bows, glittery hair clips and oversize florals on headbands, so be it. But if your goal is to find hairstyles that aren’t going to age you, some of the girlier accessories out there aren’t your best choices. You can still rock a headband or put your hair up into a ponytail or bun, of course, but you should probably forgo colourful scrunchies and clips. Instead, it’s more flattering to opt for simple, elegant, chic accessories like this satin headscarf, simple pearl hair clips, and elastic bands.

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