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After this product, I didn't need much, not even a finishing spray. It worked really well on that hard to address demo: a lot of hair, but not very thick hair. The spray has a mix of coconut and passion fruit oils to keep your curls from drying out. You also don't need to use half the bottle to get the job done.

Bumble + Bumble Surf Infusion. If you're going for the carefree, California beach wave look with a side of low-key glamour, look no further.

But it gives great volume and definition to fine curls and the beach waves last for days. One caveat: if you have lots of hair, as I do, you'll go through this product like whoa. During application, it started defining my curls immediately. At first my curls were really tight, but after a day or so, the curls relaxed into waves and had great staying power. I was blown away by how effective this product was for me. Salt sprays are probably the most important (and expensive) part of the process, but well worth the due diligence and coins. This is the part that gets tricky, because unlike naturally smooth hair follicles, dry hair is truly the kiss of death for curly hair. The gel really keeps your hair supple in the face of unrelenting humidity. I use this throughout my hair, but especially on the top layers of my curls and around my face, where the strands are finer and the curls are looser. The leave-in is great for finer textures, and it smells like clouds, if clouds had a smell.

Ouidad Leave-In Conditioner + Humidity and Gel: Your fave's fave.

The leave-in is a great volumizer for curls, which will come in handy when the salt spray tightens your curls. If you have finer hair, use less, at least where your curls are loose. I use it in the back of my hair, where my curls are thicker and tighter. This worked wonders on my hair when I used it as a co-wash.

DevaCurl One Conditioner + B'Leave-in Curl Boost and Volumizer.

Then add a few drops of light to medium oil in the middle of your head and finger comb that through too. (I like Herbal Essence's Oil Elixir, which smells great, and absorbs well, and sunflower seed oil.) I recommend putting leave-in moisturizer in your hair when it's soaking wet (like at the beach!) and finger combing it from the scalp, pulling most of the moisturizing product to the middle and ends of the hair.

I can't emphasize enough how important the moisturizing process is for achieving curly beach waves. Herbal Essences' Hello Hydration Moisturizing Hair Conditioner With Coconut. Because it's cheap, smells great, and it works.Great curl definition as well-especially when I didn't rinse it out completely. I left it in for five minutes before rinsing and it left my curls SO defined. Ouidad's Curl Quencher Moisturizing Shampoo.Without great conditioning, the sea salt spray will destroy your hair. I'm not crazy about the name but this product is the iron fist in a velvet glove of hair products: light yet impactful. The peppermint oil feels like Listerine for your scalp. This is my cheap Old Faithful, great for everyday use. Herbal Essence's Naked Cleansing Conditioner.

The happy medium for curly hair is beginning with a co-wash that moisturizes while it gently cleanses and then layering with a heavier conditioner. Your hair needs to be light enough so that the products can build. The minerals in salt spray (the holy grail product for beach waves) can be really drying. Your hair needs to be clean, but not stripped. STEP ONE: Wash your hair.but not too much Luckily, proximity to bodies of salt water is not necessary for achieving waves on swim.Īfter testing out dozens of products and consulting several experts, I've figured out the quickest and surest way to beach wave perfection for curly, textured hair. Though I'm "waaaaay up I feel blessed" to live near some world class beaches in Los Angeles, beach hair via an actual beach is still hard to come by. My best beach waves came courtesy of Hawaii's North Shore. That's not relatable, because the beach-and the products that mimic it-have given me some of the best hair in my entire life. There she is, having the time of her life at the ocean somewhere, her hair salted to beach wave perfection. The marketing, packaging, and language surrounding this covetable hair style envision its wearer as white, thin, and blonde. When you think of beach waves, a curly-headed brown girl is not what comes to mind.