Thread: Hair Issue- What to do when sweat ruins your do?

Hola everyone! So, I have naturally curly hair and when I perform, I tend to straighten it around the face (it's unruly otherwise). When my face sweats, it gets those straight pieces wet and they curl up doing all kinds of horrible things. Does anyone have any tips/tricks for when just the front of your hair goes crazy? I don't want to pull it up and I look crazy in headbands. Please help!

Mh - maybe, you could use several rhinestone-hairclips to make your hair around your face stay in place. This would also add some sparkle...

Love, Sahira.

Originally Posted by thussell

Hola everyone! So, I have naturally curly hair and when I perform, I tend to straighten it around the face (it's unruly otherwise). When my face sweats, it gets those straight pieces wet and they curl up doing all kinds of horrible things. Does anyone have any tips/tricks for when just the front of your hair goes crazy? I don't want to pull it up and I look crazy in headbands. Please help!

I sweat a lot. When I remember, I put baby powder on my forehead. It helps.

You might try straightening, and then going back with a curling iron and re-curling. My hairdresser does this for me sometimes (on regular visits--we just live in a hot climate) and it tends to frizz less and look better at the end of a long day than just plain straightening. I think you'd get some unruliness, but perhaps less?

Originally Posted by SeeJaneDance

You might try straightening, and then going back with a curling iron and re-curling. My hairdresser does this for me sometimes (on regular visits--we just live in a hot climate) and it tends to frizz less and look better at the end of a long day than just plain straightening. I think you'd get some unruliness, but perhaps less?

This is how I usually fix my hair for performances. It really does help! But at this performance I'll be doing, I will be dancing on and off for several hours and will not have time to refix it. That's my big dilemma.

I feel you!
"Glowing"profusely when I dance for longer periods-the better shape I´m in the more I sweat

When head dresses,tiaras and turban bands went "out of style"here I was desperate,previously used washable interchangeable liners in mine(absorbent fabrics cut in strips+sewed small pieces of velcro into head dress).Quite a few pics of me dancing with unflattering stringy and greasy looking hair out there

What helped for me was tips from a fellow MUA;Carefully using a "watery" feel product that comes in wipes(active ingredient is aluminum chloride)I´ve been dab it on behind hair line(not touching facial skin,going a few centimeters into scalp)in 2 evenings before the performance,the going to bed and washing off in the morning.

This makes a VERY big difference to me,and combined with a tinted dry shampoo(used mostly Batiste Brown Dry Shampoo For Coloured Hair when I was a brunette,now the "All Nighter Styling Powder"and Ambiance Red Volumizing Dry Shampoo)and silica powder around hair line I can dance until my costume is *soaked*..but hair and makeup will look impeccable


For those who shuns from aluminum chloride liquid:Using tinted dry shampoo and silica powder helps a lot on their own(and bringing a mini hair dryer set on cold to gigs for usage between costume changes is also good)

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