It's true: We've found the best techniques for air-drying your hair in beachy waves, polished bends, and pretty spirals. Each and every one has been vetted and perfected—by celebrities (such as the Olsens), their hairstylists, and the Allure editors who'd rather be on the beach than holed up in a bathroom blow-drying their hair this summer.
ASHLEY OLSEN'S VOLUMIZED WAVES
Ashley's waves in this picture are lived-in without being frizzy, and they're 100 percent created by air-drying. Hairstylist Mark Townsend started by raking a palmful of hydrating mousse through her damp hair. To add lots of volume, Townsend says he put her hair in "a big, loose braid for nice, even waves." While it was drying, he twisted and clipped the braid into a bun a few inches below the crown to lift the hair up and give it more body.
MARY-KATE OLSEN'S LOW-KEY BENDS
Mary-Kate prefers less volume, so Townsend used the same kind of mousse on her hair in this photo, but then purposefully flattened out her roots by setting her hair in two loose braids. He shook them out after an hour for the easy, unfussy look.
SMOOTH WAVES ON ULTRATHICK HAIR
Allure beauty director Jenny Bailly preps her very thick, straight hair when it's damp with Shu Uemura Art of Hair Wonder Worker Air Dry/Blow Dry Perfector, and then twists it up into four buns before bed (she pops in U-shaped pins to hold them in place without denting her hair). "If I did one bun, I'd get one weird, big bend," she says. "Four buns give me pretty waves around my face."
KATE MOSS'S GENTLE CURVES
"She always has the best soft waves framing her face," says hairstylist Teddi Cranford. To get it, if you have straight or wavy hair, all you have to do is tuck your hair behind your ears as it dries and clip a metal hairpin above each ear to exaggerate the bend. "It's a trick we use backstage all the time," says Cranford.
MARIA SHARAPOVA'S TEXTURED WAVES
"Setting damp hair in four braids gives you the beachiest waves," says hairstylist Adir Abergel (that's him styling Sharapova's hair). To get her look, mist damp hair with salt spray, divide it into four sections, and then loosely braid each one as it dries.
SOFT SPIRALS ON THICK, COARSE, NATURALLY CURLY HAIR
"Curly hair takes a lot of work," says Nicole Chapoteau, Allure's accessories director (that's her here), who has her weekly air-dry process down to a science. She soaks her hair in diluted apple cider vinegar to make it shiny before cleansing (with Hair Rules Daily Cleansing Cream) and then deep-conditioning for 15 minutes (with Miss Jessie's Rapid Recovery Treatment or Miss Jessie's Super Sweetback Treatment and a shower cap). Then before she even thinks about styling, she uses a lighter daily conditioner from roots to ends (Trader Joe's Nourish Spa Balance Moisturizing Conditioner or Tresemmé Naturals conditioner), followed by a bentonite-clay mask for an hour. She finishes with a curl cream (Kinky-Curly Original Curling Custard Natural Styling Gel) "that holds the shape, and then I'll just let my hair air-dry," she says. "Nine hours later, the process is over."
PENELOPE CRUZ'S POLISHED WAVES
"She gave me the best trick ever—she does two loose braids before bed, clips them up into twists, and wakes up with gorgeous waves," says Townsend. That's because twisting braids makes the waves smoother and prevents hair from puffing up as it dries.
BEACHY WAVES ON THICK HAIR
"I have superthick hair, and I don't ever want to deal with it, so I air-dry. But it needs some taming," says hairstylist Mara Roszak. (That's her in the photo.) "I think braiding is key for a nice, pretty texture." She dries her hair in loose pigtail braids and mists them with L'Oréal Paris TXT It Tousle Wave Spray while they're drying. "I wait until my hair is damp to start braiding it, so it dries faster," she says. "And I take the braids out before they're totally dry so my hair doesn't get a crimped look."
DEFINED CURLS ON FINE, CURLY HAIR
To shape her fine, naturally curly hair without weighing it down, Allure's associate beauty editor, Lexi Novak, scrunches Carol's Daughter Marula Curl Therapy Diffusing & Styling Lotion into her wet hair. "I don't touch them again until they're dry, to avoid frizz," she says. When her hair is dry, she flips it over and mists Sachajuan Volumizing Powder Spray on the roots to give it all a bit of volume.
ELIZABETH OLSEN'S ROPY WAVES
To give her roots some volume, Townsend sprays them with Dove Oxygen Moisture Root Lift Spray (Townsend is a spokesman for Dove) and then quickly blow-dries them. "You can't use a volumizing spray in damp hair and think it'll do the work itself—you need some heat," he says. Then he pins her hair up in little twists. "Think Gwen Stefani in the '90s," he says. "Twist each section back and away from the face and leave it for about 20 minutes."
ANNE VYALITSYNA'S BARELY-THERE WAVES
"She has amazing hair, so I wait until after it's air-dried naturally to layer in products that enhance the movement that's already happening," says hairstylist Bryce Scarlett. He uses a styling cream on the ends and a silicone-based smoothing serum on the length of dry hair. His fave is Wella Professional Velvet Amplifier. "It creates a nice separation and bumps up the shine," he says.
SHINY STRAIGHT HAIR
Kristie Dash, an assistant editor at Allure, has found the one product that makes her straight, bleached hair air-dry smooth and glossy: Shu Uemura Art of Hair Essence Absolue Nourishing Protective Oil. She rubs one pump between her hands and then rakes it through the midlength and ends of her hair. "If my hair is starting to dry frizzy, I'll use what's left on my hands on the roots," she says.
NICOLA PELTZ'S S-SHAPED WAVES
"She had been letting her hair air-dry naturally before I got there—it was already perfect, so I just took a huge amount of Dove mousse and raked it through her damp-ish hair," says Townsend, who did the actress's hair here. "My assistant looked at me like I was crazy for using mousse on dry hair, but it's lighter and less obvious than gel." He divided her hair into four big sections and created bends by clipping each section up in a zigzag pattern using flat clips. "Plastic ones won't dent the hair," says Townsend, who let her hair set for 45 minutes before shaking it out.
SOFT VOLUMINOUS CURLS ON FINE CURLY HAIR
Butterfly clips are the secret to making fine curls soft and full, says Chloe Metzger, an Allure editorial assistant. She preps her wet hair with a dime-size dollop of Ouidad Moisture Lock Leave-in Conditioner and a golf-ball-size ball of Herbal Essences Totally Twisted Curl Boosting Mousse. "I twist my hair in five small sections and clip each one just above ear height overnight," she says. "Otherwise, my hair dries straight on top and curly on the bottom, like a poodle. But this way, when I wake up, I rake my fingers through it and have voluminous curls all over."
(Source: allure.com)
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