

Texture by Bumble and Bumble or Brilliantine by Bumble and Bumble. It doesn’t get sticky and helps give hold. Sebastian Shaper is a fantastic, workable hair spray. It’s especially great to use dry shampoo for this style if your hair gets a little oily, especially around your hair line. I’ve also used more expensive, like Bumble and Bumble which is my favorite–but its almost double the cost. I’ve found dry shampoo that is less expensive, but often the smell is too strong for me and I don’t feel like you get much powder spray. Paul Mitchell makes a fantastic dry shampoo at a respectable price point. It smells fantastic and it really transforms the hair! It can be used to substitute dry shampoo. If your hair is thick this will give it some lift to help from feeling bottom heavy. A fantastic product to use to make your hair feel thicker and fuller and to keep it from sticking to your head. After you’ve curled your hair, if it looks too “styled” you can use this on the dry hair to grit it up. Then in the morning you can use this method to curl any pieces that didn’t dry right. it is also great using sea salt spray if you have natural curl or wave–wash your hair at night, spray generously with sea salt spray and sleep on a towel (if your hair is really long or thick you may want to twist or braid it before you sleep on it.

using a sea salt spray at your roots when your hair is damp will give your root a little lift and texture when it dries. Brittney gives 3 ways to use the product. Also, she divides her hair into sections before curling whereas Brittney takes a more organic approach–so do whatever is easiest for you.Īquage Sea Salt or Wella Ocean Spritz. It’s a good one to watch because you can see how she styles the look on herself rather than someone else doing it. you have been warned.ĪLSO: Because we are NOT video production specialists, watch this super helpful video to see how this girl achieves the beach wave look. NOTE: we are NOT video production specialists by ANY means, as you are about to see. Remember, the key technique with this look is that you are BENDING the straightener around the hair rather than curling it–this will make mores sense after you watch the video. I suggest watching the video and then taking a look at the photos and reading the tips and product recommendations below to tie everything together. Brittney has also put together a video for us that walks through the details. Yay Brittney, we love you!īelow you will see how Brittney styled this look on my friend Lacey and on me. And today Brittney is here to teach us how its done. Brittney taught me that the secret to beach waves for short hair is a HAIR STRAIGHTENER, not a curling iron! I’ve since practiced and almost perfected this technique for myself. So I called Brittney and I begged her to teach us her ways so that I could be happy with my new style. When I posted the above pic on instagram many of you seemed to be having the exact same trouble curling your short hair. It turned out that curling short hair wasn’t as easy as I had expected. And then, and hour later my hair was back to being stick straight. But when I went to curl it with my curling iron a few days later I was stuck with a poofy, wonky, golden girls-ish disaster. I had imagines wearing it in loose, casual, wavy curls everyday this summer. BUT…there was something about my new short hair that I didn’t anticipate.

I went in with a photo of Kendi for inspiration and I left Brittney’s chair completely thrilled with my new wavy do. Brittney gives a MEAN haircut and she’s also incredible at styling the best beach waves. Not sure what came over me, because then I went and had my bestie Brittney cut off several more inches. I recently posted about my adventures in chopping off all my hair for the first time in 15 years.
