Pastel’s ultimate summer haircare guide

As the season shifts, we find ourselves leaning into the summer’s vibrant energy and brightness, with the sun shining intensely, especially in Dubai. Whether your days are spent at the pool, running to beach getaways, or jumping between summer soirées, you can’t overlook the importance of your hair. While summer offers radiant sunshine and sun-kissed skin, it also brings a few beauty challenges. Your hair may experience damage from sun exposure, saltwater, and chlorine, which may leave it prone to dryness, frizz, and discolouration, losing its smoothness and making it harder to style.

At Pastels Salon, we aim to consistently deliver brilliant and rejuvenated locks that are aligned with your summer state of mind. With salon-level knowledge, product basics, and seasonal rituals to guarantee your hair stays moisturised, frizz-free, and effortlessly gorgeous all summer long, our knowledgeable stylists at Jumeirah and The Ritz-Carlton JBR have created the ideal summer hair guide.

Let us delve right into it.

Preventing and protecting your summer hair from damage

Summer brings particular environmental challenges to your hair, compromising its general condition and structure. The sun's UV rays weaken hair proteins, which causes dryness, colour fading, and breaking. For colour-treated or highlighted hair, these changes can indicate less lustre, dullness, and the development of unwanted orange tones. Alongside this, chlorine from poolside lounging and saltwater from beach days can dry out the hair and remove its natural oils. To make matters worse, the tendency to wash hair more often in the summer and the increased use of heat tools for styling leave strands striving to stay healthy.

The wiser course is prevention rather than rehabilitation. Therefore, our summer strategy at Pastels is based on proactive care, protective styling, and professional treatments, enhancing the hair from root to tip.

The authority of deeper hydration fixes from within

Healthy summer hair starts with moisture. Hydration is about deeply nourishing your hair with the nutrients it loses during summer; it’s a process that goes beyond just applying conditioner. At Pastels, we provide sophisticated in-salon conditioning treatments tailored to your particular hair type.

Treatments like Kérastase Fusio-Dose are designed to solve several issues, including damage, dullness, or dryness. With only one visit, your hairdresser can build a potent blend of active ingredients to strengthen, smooth, and hydrate your strands. Olaplex and K18 molecular healing systems are vital for those with chemically treated or heat-damaged hair. These treatments restore damaged bonds inside the hair structure and offer long-lasting resilience, making softening, shining, and styling your hair easy.

Depending on your lifestyle and hair type, hydration treatments should be booked often in the summer, usually every two to three weeks. They restore your hair's moisture balance and provide a barrier against outside aggressors.

Summer armour for your hair: heat protection and hydration

While most individuals wouldn't consider applying sunscreen on their skin before leaving, the scalp and hair also need as much defence. For fine or light-coloured hair, constant sun exposure causes protein breakdown and can dry your scalp. One of the golden guidelines for summer hair care is the consistent use of heat protection and prioritising moisture through hydrating leave-in products.

At Pastels, we advise using leave-in creams, masks, or serums daily to hydrate and protect the hair. Such products reduce damage from tools like straighteners, curling irons, and blow dryers, help maintain moisture balance, and improve manageability. For clients who spend much time outside, wearing a hat offers an effective shield against sun exposure.

For extra protection, applying heat protectant before using styling tools is beneficial. This helps reduce breakage, split ends, and seals the cuticles for a smoother and more polished finish.

Colour-safe treatment for sun-soaked days

Summer calls special attention to colour-treated hair. Salt, chlorine, and UV light can all fade colour, oxidise, or change tone. Shades that call for more maintenance to remain fresh and vivid, like platinum, red, or pastel hues, show this clearly.

Our stylists advise gentle cleansing and pigment locking in a sulphate-free, colour-safe shampoo. Once a week, a purple or silver toning shampoo assists clients with blonde or highlighted hair in fighting the brassiness from sun and water exposure. Use a reconstructive mask to maintain the colour brilliance and the texture smoothness.

Another great approach to rejuvenating your colour mid-season is in-salon glossing procedures. Without damaging the colour, these semi-permanent treatments give your hair an even tone, brightness, and glow. At Pastels, we customise these treatments depending on colour, texture, and your hair’s desired finish, so you always leave it looking shiny and rejuvenated.

Scalp care: the often ignored basic need

Although we spend much time concentrating on our locks, the scalp is the basis of hair health. During summer, particularly if you spend long hours outside or regularly wear caps, the scalp might become greasy, itchy, or burnt.

At least once a week, we advise gently exfoliating the scalp with a mild scrub or clarifying shampoo. Our Kérastase Fusio-Scrub treatment removes toxins and rebalances the scalp, fostering the best conditions for normal hair development. Our top stylists at Pastels recommend a relaxing in-salon treatment to calm and rehydrate the skin if it is flaky or dry.

Healthy hair always begins at the root.

Go light, go low-maintenance smart styling 

One of the best ways to protect your hair this summer is to stick to low-maintenance, natural looks that require less heat. Let your hair air-dry; choose loose braids, buns, or ponytails that keep your strands under control without tension. Our express style services at both locations provide gorgeous results within 30 minutes, which is ideal for brunches, events, or daily glam if you want a sleek appearance.

We also love summer accessories, silk scarves, wide-brim hats, and claw clips that look great and help protect hair from direct sunlight. Little adjustments to your styling schedule might significantly help preserve hair health throughout the season.

Book Pastels' summer hair ritual

This is the ideal opportunity to update your appearance and feed your hair for the upcoming season. Pastels top stylists are ready to help you shine, whether you desire deep-repair treatment, sun-safe styling, or a complete summer transformation.

Available only at Pastels Jumeirah and The Ritz-Carlton JBR, our Summer Hair Rituals include a customised consultation, intensive hydration treatment, UV protection styling, and tailored product suggestions to keep your hair vibrantly healthy all summer.

From hydration to heat protection, colour care to scalp health, summer hair upkeep isn’t simple but has to be deliberate. At Pastels, we combine luxury, knowledge, and artistic ability to provide a season of perfectly healthy hair that moves as elegantly as you do.

Let this be your best summer hair yet: glossy, brilliant, and wonderfully safeguarded.