BY ZOE FOSTER
No time? Roots? Dirty hair? There’s a solution for that.
Unlike the smug, singing women portrayed in Disney movies, our hair is not always thick and luscious and swingy and alluring. Which is frustrating, but also dealable-with. Unless you’re also pre-menstrual and low on blood sugar, in which case it’s Basically The End Of The World.
Here are some very common hair issues, and some of the simple fixes I use with heedless abandon. This, as you can imagine, is a real sight to behold, because a woman without heed is indeed a terrifying thing.
1. Your roots (really) need doing but you’re not getting them done for a while yet.
The fix depends on where your roots are. My hairdresser applies my foils in a side part, so for me to flip my part (my usual advice for root-disguising) or go for a centre part, or even a fully slicked back look isn’t that great a look. In fact, it’s worse.
As such my first line of defence is always to spray in either dry shampoo, which immediately masks the darkness, (blonde hair always looks blonder when it’s clean) and fluff it up a bit. Or, if it’s real bad, like the original balayage, (“roots”) not the cool modern one (“ombre”), I mist a texture spray/sea salt/beach hair spray all over my hair while it’s flipped upside down, and then blast it with the hair dryer on high heat for 30 seconds. This musses it all up and adds a deliberate looking piecey-ness and grit that makes it look I am cooler than I actually am, and that the roots are “intentional.” Pulling it up into a top-knot/very high bun is usually the best move from here.