In India, an Antidote to Monsoon Hair Drama

There’s another great slice of life piece—this one from Delhi, India—in the Washington Post’s enlightening Time Zones series. It’s the start of the monsoon season in India, writes Emily Wax, and well-heeled Indians are making their ways to city salons in Delhi to battle a universal enemy—the bad hair day. For both sexes in India, healthy, long hair is a major beauty symbol, and Indians take tress management seriously.

From the article:

It’s the time of year when Indians suffering frizzy locks, sweaty scalps and unruly handlebar mustaches could use a hair mask, along with a massage or two or three.

Scalp treatments are an important part of the battle against monsoon-induced damage. Essential to Indian beauty regimes, they can include everything from masks and massages to high-tech scalp analysis at the hands of a laptop and camera.

Wax writes:

All around the city, at herbalist shops and beauty parlors, monsoon treatments include hair re-bonding or straightening, as well as facials using carrot extracts and peppermint moisturizers to combat humidity and dust.

I wish I’d known about the procedures myself when I was in Delhi a few years back—then, I’d given myself carte blanche for a bad-hair month. Seems like a little hair healing could have gone a long way.

 

 

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