Salon-Inspired Hair Styling at Home

No matter the style you favor – sleek and straight or more of a bed-head vibe – these salon-inspired hair styling tips will help you achieve it at home. From detangling to making parts, learn the techniques necessary for success here.

1. Detangle

Detangling is essential to having healthy, soft hair. Tangled locks can make combing through more challenging, leading to breakage. Furthermore, attempts at pulling out tangles could pull on your scalp and cause severe discomfort.

Detangling can be accomplished safely at home with the proper tools and techniques. For starters, a conditioning treatment and a wide-toothed comb are vital in starting off, followed by spraying or conditioning hair with detangling spray or conditioner to ease the detangling process and decrease potential tugging and pulling damage to strands.

To reduce friction and tension in the hair, it can also be helpful to separate it into smaller sections. This simplifies working with individual strands while preventing tangles from forming in areas that are harder to reach. In addition, adding hair oil into conditioner or detangler treatments will allow more effortless strand movement through it.

Many natural haircare enthusiasts forgo conditioner after shampooing out of fear that it will leave their locks too greasy, but it is essential to keep in mind that tangled locks are dry locks, which often leads to breakage and matting; detangling regularly will prevent this issue from arising.

If your hair has become severely tangled or knotted, feel free to seek professional assistance from a stylist. They can quickly detangle it without causing too much damage; some even claim they can help untangle even deep knots that have caused clients discomfort.

2. Heat Protectant

Heat-protectant products can help tame frizz, add shine, block out humidity, and provide additional protection to your locks. A quality heat protector may even reduce hair damage caused by heated styling tools; heat styling tools are known to dry out strands, cause split ends and breakage, dull your color, and affect overall hair health – but there are natural heat protectants out there which you can use to keep them beautiful and healthy!

Heat protectants help safeguard against the damages of heat styling by coating your strands in a thin film while using heated hair products. They come in the form of spray, cream, or oil products and may include other beneficial ingredients to improve overall hair health and appearance.

Heat protectants typically include ingredients similar to silicones, such as PVP/DMAPA acrylates copolymer and quaternary 70 that coat the strands and reduce how much damage is done by heat. They may also contain various types of glycerin to slow heat conduction rates for added protection from harm.

Avocado oil could be an ideal solution if you prefer natural products with more nourishing and hydrating benefits. Packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids that will nourish and repair your hair over time, avocado oil penetrates deep conditioning treatments as it penetrates strands for improved hair health and texture. You can find one online or at local beauty stores.

3. Sea Salt Spray

Sea salt sprays are indispensable products that create effortless beachy texture and volume in seconds or three. Perfect for second and third-day hair, sea salt sprays refresh second and third-day locks by reinforcing natural curl patterns, creating a definition for waves or braids, and restoring dual and third-day locks. Many contain aloe vera, coconut oil, and an alluring fragrance to complete the beachy experience.

Sea salt spray should always be applied to wet hair as this helps detangle and untangle knots and tangles from each strand, creating a silky smooth and effortless ‘beachy’ style or adding volume to flat locks. Sea salt spray can even add texture and an informal finish as an updo finishing touch!

When applying sea salt spray, the key to creating beachy waves is not to overeat your hair with it. Over-saturation will lead to less-than-beachy waves that appear clumped and limp instead of having natural movement and flowiness. Spray it from 6-8 inches away from your head before scrunching your hair in whatever direction you desire using your hands; this will create a natural beachy texture, which can then be finished off by using additional styling products to further define or protect against frizzing.

If you prefer something less drying than sea salt, try substituting it with Epsom salt or texturizing ingredients such as rosemary. Essential oils can also help promote hair growth or provide an enjoyable scent; popular choices include lavender (which also promotes relaxation), rosemary to add thickness and reduce stress, cedarwood for its deep soothing smell, or ylang-ylang which stimulates scalp stimulation and encourages hair growth.

4. Blow Dry

No matter how little or much makeup you wear, your hair is the focal point of any look. A great blowout can transform you from mundane to charming in just a few easy steps!

Beginning an at-home blowout requires prepping your strands with a heat-protectant spray. After your locks have reached 50 to 80% dry (which you can do while doing chores or watching television), apply a volumizing formula at the root.

Next, apply a styling cream or paste from mid-shaft to ends and comb through to distribute evenly, according to hairstylist Cynthia Alvarez, who recommends pliable styling paste for clients with fine to normal hair.

Once you’ve applied the product, use a Briogeo hair clip to section off your strands before blow-drying each area separately. “For an undone and natural finish,” Yepez recommends finger combing while blow-drying to give an undone style more dimension and movement. Likewise, play around with different angles on your blow dryer nozzle for added size and direction in your look.

Yepez recommends flipping your head upside down when blow-drying to lift the roots and using cold air from your blow dryer to lock in the style. Finally, spray finishing spray to add shine and extend its lasting power – one of the most well-known hacks from hairstylists that quickly adds volume.