Get the beach wave look
For women with medium-textured hair with a wave, achieving the beachy look is all about the cut.
If your hair’s not layered the right way, it won’t curl the right way. Layers should be concentrated around the face, leaving the back almost one length.
Use a round brush on front layers to get subtle movement at the ends.
If your hair has a natural wave, apply a sea salt spray to towel-dried hair just below the roots and about two centimetres above the tips. Scrunch and let air dry.
If you normally have dry hair, skip the salt spray, which can be drying, and try a crème instead, which adds texture and moisture to hair. Apply to towel-dried hair, scrunch and air dry or blow dry with a diffuser for undone waves.
With straight, fine hair, you need to use a curling iron for that unkempt texture. Use a tiny curling iron, curling your hair really tight, and then go to bed. And then when you wake up you’ll have a good, natural-looking curl where you don’t see the curling iron lines or the marks of the curling iron.
You can get a similarly beachy look by using a flat iron. Take a small section of hair, clamping a few centimetres below the root and slowly pull the iron down, rotating it in a half-way turn. While rotating, bring the straightener down the strand. Curl random sections of hair, each in different directions for an imperfect finish.
No time in the morning for curlers or product? Prep your waves at night by twisting into buns. On damp, towel-dried hair, separate into either large or small sections, depending on your preferred wave size.
In the morning, release for haphazard waves. Brush through with your fingertips, adding sea salt spray for added texture if desired.
- Compiled by Caxton East and South features writer, Carmen Norton.
