Post Workout Work Waves

After flying for twenty-three hours, even the most well-headed of us are going to look sort of…blah.

A lot of us deal with circumstances like this in day-to-day life, whether it’s workout to work, office to happy hour, or storage room quickie to meeting room pow wow.

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Wendy Iles, a couture celebrity hairstylist based in Paris and New York, says one great way to recoup is to let your hair re-condition itself while you take care of the rest of your body.

Take a workout, for example. By working in a deep conditioner or heavy masque through your hair during your workout, your body heat will help activate the conditioner’s nourishing ingredients. Wendy says to generously apply a masque to damp hair and then pull hair off the face into a topknot or tight chignon. A head band will keep shorter bangs off the face.

After your work out, shampoo condition with a moisturizing product and then dry hair upside down. This will give added volume to the roots. A soft styling mousse can be added but not too much, its important the hair stay soft and silky for the best results. You can leave a little moisture in the hair if time is of the essence and you are dashing to your meeting.

Finally, to create those waves pull all the hair together as if creating a medium high ponytail. When securing with an elastic, on the second turn of elastic do not pull all the tail through, stop half way creating a small loop like chignon and anchor the ends by turning them around the attached chignon then anchor with a bobby pin. No need for any hairspray!

Why this rocks: Not only does this give a great chic chignon for the office, keeping hair clean and off the face, but after a few hours you can let down your freshly washed hair and what you will then see is a marvelous tumble of soft, textured hair with a natural wave!

We love you, Wendy!