Here's how to fake salty beach waves while it's still too cold to swim


If you’re all about the salty beach hair but can’t quite face the reality of the current arctic water temperatures (seriously, how do people ocean swim year round?!), then it’s time to cheat your way to beach waves.
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Salt sprays are your short cut to undone and tousled tresses, minus the sand and dry-straw feeling that can often occur from the real thing. And if you’ve previously experienced too much ‘crunch’ from the product, we urge you to try again, because the sea salt sprays on the market now are pretty magical.
Formulated with texture-enhancing yet hair nourishing ingredients to soften and hydrate while adding volume and movement, they’re ideal for creating the beachy look in just a few spritzes.
Here are our favourite ones for natural soft waves..
JUSTICE Professional Sea Salt Spray
For finer and flatter hair types, the JUSTICE Professional Sea Salt Spray will boost volume and increase hair thickness by adding natural movement from the roots down. If your hair tends to go frizzy from the sea, this spray is formulated with resins and polymers to create the body and texture, minus the frizz.
Read more on JUSTICE Professional Sea Salt Spray here...
KMS HAIRPLAY Sea Salt Spray
If your hair struggles to hold a wave, the KMS sea salt spray will keep that ‘just out of the ocean’ look lasting all day. Thanks to the innovative formula using a PVP setting polymer, this spray will provide support and maintain hold within the hair.
Read more on KMS HAIRPLAY Sea Salt Spray here...
ELEVEN Australia Sea Salt Texture Spray
Fake volume at the roots, and thickness and texture at the mid-lengths and ends with this lightweight spray. A few spritzes onto wet or dry hair and transform flat, lifeless hair into fuller, thicker locks.
Read more on ELEVEN Australia Sea Salt Texture Spray here...
TONI&GUY Sea Salt Texturising Spray
Tink vacation hair that will cost you way less than an airfare. This spray is suitable for all hair types and will create instant natural movement without the stiff, crunchy feel.
Read more on TONI&GUY Sea Salt Texturising Spray here...
Beach muk Sea Salt Spray
Perfect for naturally straight hair, this spray separates and defines individual curls while adding natural body and texture from the root to tip. The oil-free formula is finished with a refreshing cantaloupe smell for the full tropical experience.
Read more on Beach muk Sea Salt Spray here...
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103 Member Comments
I've heard of these..
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Some products that I am sure will help my hair Must look out for them
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I've tried it in the past, but didn't quite get the look i wanted,
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I have used a sea salt spray before and it does give you beachy waves but the one I used made my hair sticky/heavy.
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I already have dry hair so I think i would still give it a try though. Thank you
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Sounds too drying to me
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I tried , it made my hair so sticky and tacky, it looked ghastly, i wish i knew how to use them properly
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I used to have such perfect natural beach curls, but I straightened them out so I will have to try one of these to get them back. Thank you Beauty heaven!
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Never tried a salt spray before... Sounds interesting...
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I tried John Freda sea salt spray.
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I haven’t tried any of these but I know somewhere in my stash I do have a sea salt spray. I really wasted lock down, I should have been trying out all my stash.
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I've never tried these, my hair is naturally curly!
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I don't think my Asian hair will ever have beach hair
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Still have John frieda one, smells divine! But prob with using sea salt sprays on my hair type, hair gets all stuck together and hard to brush afterwards.
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One good thing about sea salt spray is that it also helps you if you want to increase the number of days between hair washing :)
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I'm lazy when it comes to my hair, it's wash n wear, that's it
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Just not into beachy waves my hair does it naturally most of the time I straighten them out. Not sure that it would work for me. Having silvery grey hair?
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I've been making my own and it works great, but it's pretty drying. I will probably have to try one fo the commercial ones. Particularly tempted by the ELEVEN as I really like their products.
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I've never been able to make sea salt sprays work for me.
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I love the look of sea salt sprays, but they contain salt (obviously), so I was worried that they'd be damaging to my hair. I'm going to have to try a new brand.
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Not too cold to swim in QLD ....just saying :D
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Lovely products, I look forward to giving them a try.
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Wow these products look amazing
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Quite like the effect of salt spray
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I scrunch my hair up after washing and then I use a volume spray and it looks pretty good, as I have a wave in my hair
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