STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

KBomb · BCBG

Looking for beach wave product

Kel · Coach

This is what I use:

Sunsilk Non Aerosol Sea Mist, Waves of Envy - 6.7 Oz

Kelly · Hermes

If her hair is actually straight, I don't think the waving products will do much. I wanted waves all through my teen years but since my hair was straight until my 20s, nothing helped except heat styling it and using hairspray or something to set. I think beach sprays and stuff are more for people who have a little wave and need help setting it or bringing it out.

-- Edited by Kelly on Monday 12th of April 2010 05:43:48 PM

Kel · Coach

Kelly wrote:

If her hair is actually straight, I don't think the waving products will do much. I wanted waves all through my teen years but since my hair was straight until my 20s, nothing helped except heat styling it and using hairspray or something to set. I think beach sprays and stuff are more for people who have a little wave and need help setting it or bringing it out.

-- Edited by Kelly on Monday 12th of April 2010 05:43:48 PM

Your right. I have wavy hair and it works awesome.

fairywings · Dooney & Bourke

I guess it all depends on how stubborn her hair is. If her hair gets wavy by accident naturally (at the beach, if it's humid, if it's air dried etc) then the products will work better. If it's pin straight, maybe advise her to use the beach sprays on wet hair, then have her twist it up into a bun and let it air dry so that she doesn't have to damage her hair with heat.

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

I have pretty straight hair and my hair does get beach wavy... I have used some products with lackluster results. Last summer, I took an empty spray bottle with me to the beach and used the beachwater on my damp hair at home. Viola, beach waves for free.

HeatherLynn · Gucci

XtinaStyles wrote:

I have pretty straight hair and my hair does get beach wavy... I have used some products with lackluster results. Last summer, I took an empty spray bottle with me to the beach and used the beachwater on my damp hair at home. Viola, beach waves for free.

Ohh! Thats a good idea. I wonder if you could make a salt water solution and it work similarly? Has anyone tried that?

kenzie · Chanel

XtinaStyles wrote:

I have pretty straight hair and my hair does get beach wavy... I have used some products with lackluster results. Last summer, I took an empty spray bottle with me to the beach and used the beachwater on my damp hair at home. Viola, beach waves for free.

Haha! I've thought about doing this and adding a little coconut oil and selling it as a beach wave product. There's a market for that stuff!

Kelly · Hermes

HeatherLynn wrote:

XtinaStyles wrote:

I have pretty straight hair and my hair does get beach wavy... I have used some products with lackluster results. Last summer, I took an empty spray bottle with me to the beach and used the beachwater on my damp hair at home. Viola, beach waves for free.

Ohh! Thats a good idea. I wonder if you could make a salt water solution and it work similarly? Has anyone tried that?

I bought a wave spray a while back based purely a fantastic recommendation from a friend, not realizing when I bought it that it was basically salt water with lavender essential oils in it. It worked pretty well I guess - it wasn't awesome enough to be an everyday standby for me, but it *did* work better than any other wave spray I've tried (which for some reason always seem to fail miserably on my hair)

-- Edited by Kelly on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 02:50:20 PM

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

HeatherLynn wrote:

XtinaStyles wrote:

I have pretty straight hair and my hair does get beach wavy... I have used some products with lackluster results. Last summer, I took an empty spray bottle with me to the beach and used the beachwater on my damp hair at home. Viola, beach waves for free.

Ohh! Thats a good idea. I wonder if you could make a salt water solution and it work similarly? Has anyone tried that?

I tried that too - I read about a hack of the Bumble and Bumble product - it was epsom salt, leavin conditioner, hairgel and water. It made my hair feel dirty and weighed down.

kenzie · Chanel

Kelly wrote:

I bought a wave spray a while back based purely a fantastic recommendation from a friend, not realizing when I bought it that it was basically salt water with lavender essential oils in it. It worked pretty well I guess - it wasn't awesome enough to be an everyday standby for me, but it *did* work better than any other wave spray I've tried (which for some reason always seem to fail miserably on my hair)

-- Edited by Kelly on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 02:50:20 PM

Was it John Master's Organics? I love that stuff. It's worked better on my hair than anything since John Frieda Beach Blonde bit the dust, but I totally forgot about it until you mentioned it.

-- Edited by kenzie on Thursday 15th of April 2010 12:15:24 PM