Taking care of your hair in 2024: Tips from Andrew Barton

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And now, if you’re looking for some tips and tricks on how to elevate your hair care, you’re in the right place. Talking to expert hairstylist Andrew Barton, here’s what you need to know about taking drab and dull to fab. That’s next.

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00:00 But the number one issue is always around healthiness, health of the hair.

00:10 And isn't it funny?

00:12 I've never had a client sit in front of me and say, "Will you make my hair look dull

00:18 and dry and boring?"

00:21 Shine is the holy grail of hair care.

00:26 How do you feel about your hair?

00:28 Well, it seems to be a bigger part of our daily lives than perhaps you'd first expect.

00:33 Research from Cloud9 uncovered that 20% of Brits are opting to grow out their hair in

00:37 2024 in order to optimise hair wellbeing.

00:40 With 18% of us having made the decision to make more regular visits to the salon, what

00:44 can we learn about taking care of our hair?

00:47 Yeah, there is a lot of information out there and we know that 52% of millennials have particularly

00:53 kind of tried things like putting coffee onto their hair, which is going to have no benefit

00:58 at all.

01:01 Investing a couple of more minutes in the shower when you wash and care for your hair

01:07 will make all the difference.

01:09 I mean, the amount of people that don't even properly rinse out the suds of their shampoo

01:15 bubbles or wash their hair really vigorously or don't spend any time massaging their scalp.

01:25 Those couple of little tips and hints and hair hacks can really help people with their

01:30 hair health.

01:31 Now, you may recognise celebrity hair stylist Andrew Barton from Channel 4's hit show 10

01:37 Years Younger.

01:38 But what are some of the biggest tips he has when it comes to keeping your hair healthy?

01:44 Spend a few more seconds slowly massaging your scalp because what that will do is it

01:50 invigorates the blood supply to the hair follicle, which helps with hair growth and hair health.

01:57 So be mindful of these things.

01:59 You know, when you're using a hairdryer, instead of it being a task that you don't enjoy doing,

02:06 maybe take a more positive slant on it that I'm now smoothing my hair and by smoothing

02:11 my hair, I'm going to get a bit more shine to it.

02:13 So, you know, having that more positive mindset around the things that you're doing to your

02:19 look really helps in terms of confidence and self-esteem.

02:24 Research has also shown that nearly one in two of us plan to prioritise our mental health

02:28 and wellbeing in 2024.

02:30 With our confidence being so intrinsically linked to our mental health, what can our

02:35 hair do for us in this respect?

02:37 It's absolutely, I mean, hair is that one outfit that you never take off and it's got

02:42 to work on whatever occasion you're at, whether it's formal, whether it's casual.

02:47 Your hair's got to work for you all the time.

02:50 If you buy a pair of jeans and get them home and your bum looks too big in them and you're

02:54 not happy with it, at worst you leave it in the bottom drawer and try and forget about

02:58 the purchase.

02:59 You can't do that with your hair and it has to work for you.

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