20 Best Products For Beach Wave Hair
Give your curls that extra umph.
We all want those gorgeous shampoo commercial beach waves, but we don't always have a beach handy. And even if we do, why is it that our hair never actually does that beach waves hair thing naturally?
It's a great look for summer, but it's also great any time of year. Beach hair doesn't require the actual beach, because you can do it all via the right products. If you're looking for products for how to get beach wavy hair, there's something out there that can get the look you covet.
Whether you're going to texture spray up your wavy hair or use a product to tame your more intense curls into softer waves, we've got you covered.
1. Pai-Shau Royal Abundance Mousse
Style memory and weightless volume? Yes, please! Pai-Shau's Royal Abundance Mousse provides a moisture-rich bounce with a touchable hold to make any beach wave curl look like you literally just stepped off the sand.
(Pai-shau, $26)
2. Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Special Wave Refresher Spray
Enjoy a sea-swept styling experience for hair with Tea Tree Wave Refresher Spray. Bring second-day beach waves or natural texture back to life with instant manageability and fresh definition. Refresh hair and mind with a unique blend of revitalizing tea tree oil, peppermint and shaved coconut fragrances.
(Paul Mitchell, $17)
3. NatureLab. TOKYO Perfect Volume Texture Mist
Get effortless looking beach hair with NatureLab.'s Perfect Volume Texture Mist, all while giving your curls great body and volume.
(Amazon)
4. n:p beautiful Beach Spray
Jam-packed with pink Himalayan sea salt, calming lotus root and the brand's sustainably sourced plant stem cell formula, it's like a beach day in a bottle! This sea salt spray will give you those perfectly tousled, just-stepped-off-the-sand waves. Plus, 10 percent of net proceeds support Pediatric Cancer Research and Animal Welfare causes.
(Nordstrom, $27)
5. BioSilk Silk Therapy Beach Texture Spray
Beach Texture is a unique styling spray that contains natural silk, vitamins, herbs and texturizing salts to create natural-looking beach waves with volume, body and texture.
(BioSilk, $14)
6. CHI Texturizing Spray
Add buildable texture and body to the hair with CHI Texturizing Spray. It has flexible hold formula that won't weigh the hair down. The product features silk and ceramic to provide hair with strength, incredible shine and thermal protection.
(Ulta, $19)
7. White Sands Gluten Free UnderCover Styling Spray
This multi-tasking styling spray is packed with Pro-Vitamin B5, aloe vera, UV protectants and hydrators for healthy results. It works wonders as a beach spray for a touch-ably tousled look, and styles hold with a frizz-free shine.
(White Sands Products, $21)
8. DRYBAR Mai Tai Spritzer Sea Salt Spray
A light spray for all hair types that is enriched with natural sea salts to add texture and volume. Mai Tai Spritzer adds soft, beachy waves for a breezy look without the drying, damaging effects of seawater.
(Sephora, $25)
9. Bumble and Bumble Surf Spray
This is a saltwater-based, styling spray that adds sultry texture and volume to mimic a fresh-off-the-beach look.
(Sephora, $27)
10. IGK Beach Club Texture Spray
A salt-free texturizing spray for beachy waves and buildable, touchable volume. The best part? It does it all without drying or stickiness.
(Sephora, $29)
11. Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray
Build up incredible volume and sexy texture with this spray. It also acts as a dry shampoo, absorbing oil and leaving you with just-styled hair for days.
(Amazon)
12. TRESemmé Expert Selection Perfectly (un)Done Wave Creation Sea Foam
Create beautiful, light waves with soft, natural movement. This ultra-light Sea Foam, with Sea Kelp Extract, helps create natural-looking waves for an all over gorgeously (un)Done wavy look.
(Walmart, $8.85)
13. Fekkai Soleil Beach Waves Spray
Powerful yet invisible, the effervescent citrus scented styler adds sea-side texture, volume, and control frizz, while leaving hair with sunkissed shine. Transform your hair's texture into resort-worthy waves without a beach in sight.
(Target, $7.19)
14. VERB Sea Spray
A sea salt spray that enhances oceanic waves while adding hydration, volume, and separation. Formulated with natural sea salt and smoothing moisturizers, this light mist infuses all hair types with oceanic waves for a breezy texture boost.
(Sephora, $16)
15. OUAI Wave Spray
This product is a weightless texture hair mist infused with rice protein to add hold for effortlessly chic, undone hair.
(Sephora, $26)
16. Living Proof T.B.D. Multi-Tasking Styler
A versatile styler that can be used on damp or dry hair, allowing you to tame, blowout, or deconstruct hair. An emollient blend creates shape and control, while a clay enhances definition, grip and separation.
(Sephora, $26)
17. DRYBAR The 3-Day Bender 1" Barrel Digital Curling Iron
A rotating clamp creates perfect curls and waves in half the time of a traditional curling iron.
(Sephora, $145)
18. Captain Blankenship Golden Waves Sea Salt Shimmer Spray
Grains of sea salt naturally harvested from pristine Pacific Ocean waters promote full and voluminous tresses. Gentle and softening to hair, rose assists in clarifying hair and protecting against environmental damage
(Amazon)
19. OGX Moroccan Sea Salt Spray
This weightless leave-in surf mist with texturizing sea salt to add fullness, while moisturizing sea kelp and Moroccan argan oil add shine for perfectly undone, breezy, beach-bombshell waves.
(Amazon)
20. Lasio Hypersilk Smoothing Balm
Lasio Hypersilk Smoothing Balm is the perfect prep for beachy waves. This heat-protectant lotion eliminates frizz, softens tresses and restores manageability to hair in need of moisture and volume. Just spray, then curl.
(Lasio Inc, $24)
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