It seems as though if you live in a dry climate and are going to the beach, most women have issues with their hair, me included. Vacation hair is always a point of stress for me. I know, how is it possible to stress about something as trivial as your hair on vacation? But I do. Whenever I go to a humid climate I’m not satisfied with how my hair turns out and how much effort I put into it. It gets frizzy and untamed. On our trip last week to Mexico I decided to play around with it and come up with some solutions so that my hair looked great. Here are a few things I came up with and overall, I think it turned out and I loved the way my hair looked.
Option #1: The braid. I put a simple braid in my bangs and put the back of my hair in a messy bun. This was a very simple 5 minute style that looked cute enough for the beach or dinner out. This is a picture from dinner out.
Option #2: Sea Salt Spray. Given it’s all the rage right now to create beachy waves, I thought I’d give it a try. When my hair was wet, I sprayed it in and scrunched it up. To be honest, this wasn’t the best look for my hair. I felt like it gave my hair more wave but I still had fly aways and it was frizzy in places. It was fine for a day but I wouldn’t do it again. I left the sea salt spray in Mexico for the next person to try.
Option 3: Do a great blowout. Usually if I spend the extra time to style my hair, it will look good for a day, on the second day, I’ll have to do one of the other looks as it starts to get frizzy and has an unkept look.
Option 4: Half up/half down. Although hard to tell in this cute photo, I twisted my hair back on both sides and used bobby pins to keep it back. This was easy to do and looked good even with a little wave in my hair.
Option 5: Curl it. I brought my curling iron and made my own beachy waves. Check out our other blog posts on how to do it. I loved this look because the curls lasted a couple of days and looked great in the humid climate. Sorry but I don’t have any pictures from this trip.
Option 6: Bang twist. This is a great way to keep your bangs or just your hair out of your face in an easy 2 step process. It was perfect for these photos in the wind. How you do it, take a 1 inch section of your hair, pull it back and pin it under your hair so you can’t see the pin. I did this on both sides to keep it out of my face.
What are some of your vacation hair tricks?
Girl! I love this! And you know me…and updo will always do!
Thanks Tammy. I’m glad you love it miss undo!