You've got your styling products, curling tongs and a whole load of time to give yourself the ultimate curled 'do. But how do you make the curls last? So we’ve all heard about baking our skin in the name of beauty (spoiler alert: it does not contain cake) but what about baking our hair?
Well, according to hairdresser, Matt Fugate, hair baking is something we need to integrate into our grooming regime if we want to achieve the perfect curls. And with the eighties perm making a swift comeback, what better time to give it a go?
Fugate told Marie Claire, 'Baking is applying a heat protector, using a hot tool at a lower heat, and spending extra time letting a curl heat up around the iron correctly. It establishes even heat distribution.'
And let’s be honest, we’re all guilty of rapidly styling our locks minus heat protection before rushing off to work - then wondering mid-commute if we even switched our straighteners off…
But with the humid weather sending our freshly curled locks into a Monica-esque frizz, now is the time to take precautions. Hence why we apparently need to stop ‘microwaving’ our locks – another alien term to us.
Luckily, Fugate broke down the beauty jargon as he told Marie Claire, 'Microwaving is when you use a tool at too high of a temperature with the wrong product in your hair. It's sizzling and being zapped into a shape, which causes a rapid heat up and cool down and doesn't allow for hair to set in its form.'
Oh, we’ve been doing this whole beauty thing wrong the entire time. But if like us you’re wondering if you’ll ever be able to rectify the heat-induced dilemma you've created then you’ll be thrilled to know that Fugate went on to advise products that will bring the control back.
He revealed to Marie Claire that his heat protectant of choice is Kérastase's new L'Incroyable Blowdry, which is designed to prevent damage and is created with micromax technology. And once your hair is suitably heat-proof, Fugate recommends setting your tongs to a maximum of 360 degrees and only curling for 30 seconds. Bring on the Blake-esque perm.