The UK's last heat wave of the year is forecast for September. A few warm days before the wind and the layers return for good. If you have any beach left in you, this is the moment to take it.
But before you pack, it helps to understand what a few days by the water actually do to your hair.
Humidity and salt work against each other
Humid air and salt water pull your hair in opposite directions, and both leave it worse for it.
Humid air pushes moisture into the hair shaft, lifting the outer layer of the strand, the cuticle, until it swells and frizzes. Salt water does the opposite. It pulls moisture out, leaving the same cuticle rough and thirsty. The result is hair that is somehow overwatered and dehydrated at once. That is why beach hair looks wild by day three, even without a single use of a straightener.
The problem with packing for it
The usual response is more products. Something to detangle. Something to add shine. A mask for the salt damage. A leave-in for the frizz. A separate cream to style with. Add it all together and haircare quietly takes up half the suitcase, before you have packed anything else.
One product, several jobs
This is where a single, multi-use product earns its place.
Mai Nami's hair pudding is built to work across all four of those moments. Before the beach, a small amount smoothed through damp hair tames frizz before it starts and keeps ends nourished against the humidity. After a swim, the same pudding works as a leave-in, softening what the salt has roughened, so hair does not need washing every time. On a day when sleeker hair is the goal, it doubles as a light styling cream. And after a rough few days in sand and salt, a deeper amount left on for twenty minutes brings hair back to soft.
One pudding. Whatever your hair needs that day, it already has it.
Wherever you are chasing the last of the sun this year, we hope your hair gets to enjoy it too.