I Tried 4 Different Air Dry Styling Products and My Hair Has Never Looked Better With So Little Work
They don't require skills, tools or even a blow dryer to work.
By NewBeauty Editors
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For years, every time a hairstyling product landed on my desk, I would, without fail, turn around and immediately put it in the to-shelve pile. Styling products generally don’t work for me—the simple reason being that beyond pulling my strands into a ponytail, I don’t know how to do anything else with my hair. But these latest set of products have me intrigued. They don’t require skills, tools or even a blowdryer to work. I’m talking, of course, about air dry styling products, with their promises to give me a done ‘do without requiring any effort beyond spraying in and letting nature do the rest of the work. I put four new launches to the test.
Hair texture after use: frizz free, naturally polished
IGK’s air dry spray isn’t like anything else I’ve tried. The continuous aerosol delivers a fine mist that coats hair
faster and more evenly than creams and sea-salt sprays. A blend of lightweight
starches wick away moisture so effectively that the brand claims it dries hair
in just half the time. On my head that means I can walk out of my apartment
with fully wet strands and have a perfectly professional, naturally textured,
frizz-free style by the time I get to my office desk 40 minutes later.
There are rave reviews of this air-dry foam all over the
internet, but most of them talk about how soft, manageable and fresh it makes
naturally curly hair look with no effort. My hair isn’t curly, but it is a
little bit wavy. Air-dried just as is with the foam, my final ‘do looked soft
(thanks to the nourishing kale extract and panthenol), but also a little
shapeless. When I apply the foam and then style my hair in a low bun, it shakes
out to be a much more effortlessly, wavy style.
Made for all types of hair textures, this light cream boosts shine, controls frizz and adds a light touch of grooming without changing the
natural look of my hair. The final look didn’t stray too much from what my hair
looked like without any product in it, but a tad more polished. There are,
however, benefits that I can’t see: caviar extract in the product, rich in
omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins A, C and D help to improve my hair’s long-term
health.
As someone who has sprayed countless bottles of “beach spray” into my hair only to be left with a sticky mess or no change at all, I was incredibly impressed with this clean, all-natural salt spray. Pink sea salt is formulated into a super fine mist and creates texture and volume that adds just the right amount of grip without leaving hair sticky, heavy or greasy.
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