Use a moisturizing conditioner. As I mentioned, I’m a huge fan of the Miracle Rescue Deep Conditioning Treatment as well as the Miracle Rescue Moisture Mix-In. (Just mix it in to whatever conditioner you normally use when you need extra moisture!) The brand also carries a ton of sulfate-free shampoos, which have been awesome for my hair. This post is sponsored by Pantene. I’m a diehard fan, and all passionate expressions of love are real. As always, thank you so, so much for supporting the partnerships that keep Kelly in the City up and running! Use a clarifying shampoo every couple of weeks. Try Pantene’s “Pure, Clean and Clarify” shampoo. It helps prevent buildup from product and environmental factors. :)

And when we’re on holiday, sun, sea and swimming pool time also add to those dryness levels, making damage repair all the more important during the summer (or whenever you choose to have your hot holidays).

I'm a busy person. I don't say this to brag about having such a full schedule — in fact, I wish I had more free time. However, I also wish I had healthier hair, which is why I'm always looking for ways to combat the heat damage that occurs from blow-drying my curls with the diffuser and using a curling iron on the fussiest parts of my hair that just won't cooperate. During Allure's Best of Beauty testing, I had the privilege of trying out about a thousand (OK, that might be a slight over-estimation, but only slight) hair treatments, and some of them assume I have the time to luxuriate in the shower or bath much longer than I do. But not the Pantene Intense Rescue Shots. These babies do the work they need to do in just one minute — and who doesn't have one minute? I am posting two photos that I took after one use. These are unfiltered photos. The only thing I did to my hair prior to these photos was shampoo, condition, apply one Pantene Rescue Shot, and straightened with a straightener. I did not use any other products at all. My hair looks shiny and healthy and not like someone with bleached hair that is getting damaged from the sun and wind in the car. Heat styling, bleaching, colouring, sun exposure – when you take a look at our everyday hair habits it’s really no wonder that a lot of us have been left with damaged hair that needs some serious looking after.

I was skeptical about this product but figured the price was good so why not try it. The instructions on this product were too vague for me. Shampoo and condition your hair and then apply one tube of this treatment. Nothing stating a suggested amount of time to leave this product on for. I researched online and anything I found said people were leaving it on for one minute. I figured if a minute was good then fifteen minutes would be better so that is what I did :) With all of that regular hair transformation we love comes damage to the structure of our hair, as well as the loss of nutrients – leaving hair dull, rough and rigid. Which is not ideal.Air-dry hair when possible. I throw my hair up in a microfiber towel and try to let it air-dry 80 percent of the way, and then I blow-dry to get a styled look. It’s very helpful! I’ve been a diehard fan ever since my discovery of the Miracle Rescue Shot, so much so that sometimes I have nightmares that the product has been discontinued. (It hasn’t, and there are no plans of that in the future!) I’m just absolutely in love with how the shots make my hair look and feel. Because my hair is healthier, I really don’t need the flat iron anymore. I can even air-dry my hair and it looks good! And that’s life-changing for a busy mom. Since then, I've made these potent little ampoules a part of my weekly mane maintenance, and have noticed a significant difference in the overall strength of my hair, with far less breakage and fewer split ends. I also find that I'm able to ease up on products like hair oils and frizz creams, which I previously relied on to keep my strands soft and sleek. I cut my hair shortly thereafter because #parenthood—but this shows the difference!) How to restore dry, brittle and over-processed hair

Throw out the flat iron. I found that I really did need to (literally) throw out the flat iron out because I was addicted, haha. (It looked like straw if I didn’t use it, which yes, only perpetuated the problem.) The good news is that once I started using the Rescue Shots, I really didn’t need it anymore because my hair looked (and felt) so much healthier. Pantene believes in the Power of Hair. A great hair day, no matter what that looks like, can make women feel stronger and more powerful; scientifically proven in a recent study with Yale University. With hair products for every hair type, Pantene is on a mission to bring great hair days to every woman. Fast forward to mid-December when I finally decided to take out my extensions and go au naturel for the holidays. Per usual, my hair felt like sandpaper and shedded like crazy. That’s to be expected when your hair is braided underneath extensions or a sewn-in. You can’t lather in your shampoo and conditioner the way you want. So once it’s been set free, extra TLC is required, which made the Intense Rescue Shot an ideal remedy.And if that doesn’t convince you to at least give it a shot (see what I did there?), then you’re seriously missing out. When they arrived, I shoved them in my medicine cabinet and then forgot about them for a long time. I rediscovered them months later when on a KonMari clean-out spree… and tossed them in the shower so I’d remember to actually try them. Silk. Silk, I tell you. My hair was wonderfully soft, had 10x the body, and it didn’t tangle. It bounced. And then I curled it, and it looked like supermodel hair. (Like, in my mind, for me. This is admittedly very relative, haha.) It’s now more important than ever that we use regular restorative treatments to help repair this everyday damage1. Rescue shots in ampoule format are fast becoming a major haircare category in their own right, so what are they, exactly? Keep reading to learn all about the handy hair treatment you need in your life. After some investigation, I learned from this Bustle writer that the shots were launched in Brazil in 2008 but arrived in the United States much later. I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s a hair mask in “shot form,” made with a really high level of strengthening lipids to target areas that are suffering from extreme heat and color damage. It’s supposed to penetrate the strand instead of coating the hair. Pantene explains that you should use the Miracle Rescue Shot in place of regular conditioner as a weekly deep treatment, though if needed, it can be used more often. It helps prevent split ends and deeply repair extreme damaged with nourishing power. In short, this is the product for people who think there’s no hope. (That was me! And now I’m so happy!)