Check out these great summer hair tips from Hairstylist Antonio Pietro:

HAIR REPAIR Three months of fun in the sun can leave your hair damaged, frizzy, and bleached out. Antonio Prieto of the Antonio Prieto Salon reveals his best kept secrets to repair damaged hair.
• If you can’t make it into the salon to trim split ends Prieto suggests avoiding heat styling. The straighter the hair is styled the more obvious the split ends become. To disguise your split ends, Prieto uses a serum like Kerastase’s Substance Constructive and twists ends into loose curls for a sexy, messy bed head look.

• Avocado and olive oil make a perfect homemade mask: mix mashed avocado with a bit of heated olive oil and apply it to hair. After 20 minutes or so wash hair with your favorite gentle shampoo to reveal repaired locks. Remember the most important step to at home treatments is consistency and frequency. Perform which ever treatment you chose once or twice a week depending on the damage.

• A touch-up “gloss” at the salon is the best way to correct brassy or bleached out color. If you hair is screaming SOS and your stylist is booked, Artec Color Moisturizers are a great DIY way to quickly revive color at home.

Antonio Prieto Salon 127 West 20th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 212.255.3741

Antonio Prieto has been a leading industry stylist for twenty-three years. Shows he has been involved with include Calvin Klein, Versace, Alexander McQueen, TSE, Jil Sander, John Bartlett and Palmer Jones. He has worked with photographers Annie Lebowitz, Bruce Weber, and Steven Klein as well as having the crème de la crème of the fashion world settle in his chair.