When you want to give your hair a break from blow-drying, using heat, or pulling your hair around, the best thing is to air-dry fine hair. Do you know how to air-dry your hair the right way? Here are some quick tips.
Air-Dry Fine Hair: 11 Best Ways for Quick Results
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1. Β Air-Dry Fine Hair Multiple Days
Try to air-dry your hair 2-3 times per week. This will keep your hair healthy and protect it from damage. Itβs perfect to do just after a deep cleansing treatment.
Since a healthy scalp is the primary foundation for healthy hair, coconut oil is one of the best ingredients to use. Itβs super moisturizing for your skin and smooths and softens your hair. Lavender essential oil also stimulates hair growth and puts life back into dull hair.
2. Β Keep it HydratedΒ
Your hair retains moisture from the air. To get the most hydration that you can before you air dry, you can add a natural ingredient cleansing conditioner or mask when you wash your hair to get the most hydration that you can before you air dry.
Try a banana hair mask treatment.
Bananas are super rich in potassium and amino acids, which give you smooth and nourished hair.
3. Β Gentleness is KeyΒ
When you get out of the shower, gently squeeze the excess water out of your hair with a microfiber towel, or use a microfiber hair wrap.
Traditional cotton towels are very damaging to your hair. Although itβs absorbent and long-lasting, its woven loose texture causes frizz and friction when itβs rubbed against your hair.
Whereas a microfiber towel or hair wrap provides a smoother surface to go against your hair. Microfiber is actually more absorbent and removes excess moisture, allowing your hair to retain regular moisture.
You can put your hair up in a microfiber towel wrap when you get out of the shower if you need to put on your makeup or do other things, and then it will be damp enough to work with.
This will keep it from being soaking wet so you can get on with your day while you let your hair air dry. Then just put your hair products on and let your hair dry!
4. Β A Leave-In Conditioner is Your BFF
A leave-in conditioner will keep fine hair tangle-free and manageable after it dries. It also ensures that it stays fresh and soft.
Try a non-sticky, plant-based, weightless product likeΒ Feed Your Ends Leave-In ConditionerΒ (sulfate-free).Β
Feed Your Ends Leave-In Conditioner, $16-$32, 2 oz. or 8 oz.
5. Β Hands OffΒ
Avoid brushing and touching your hair so much throughout the day. This will help to keep most frizz from developing.
You can try an avocado hair oil before you shampoo. This will help to keep your hair and scalp nourished as well as super moisturized.
6. Β Skip WashingΒ
Using a dry shampoo can help to prolong your hairstyle in between washes and between air dry days. Shampooing less makes your hair healthier, adds volume and texture to your hair, and relieves it of heat.
A good dry shampoo to use is Innersenseβs Refresh Dry Shampoo.
Itβs a foam-to-powder dry shampoo. It has tapioca starch and witch hazel to soak up excess oils, and vitamin B which puts gloss and shine back into your hair.
Refresh Dry Shampoo, $24.00, 2.37 oz./70 ml
7. Β Keep It Volumized
Always pick shampoos that are sulfate-free. This is especially important for fine hair because itβs already fragile and sulfates strip away the natural oils in your scalp and hair. Your oils are what keep your hair healthy.
Taking your oils away will make your hair dry and brittle. Sulfates are also bad for sensitive skin because they can cause irritation and itching.
Use a volumizing shampoo for fine hair. We recommend Feed Your Volume Shampoo, $39.00, 8.5 oz. It has superfood seaweed and plant-based ingredients that actually feed your hair and give it nourishment.
Feed Your Volume Shampoo, $39.00, 8.5 oz. (sulfate-free)
8. Β Protect Your EndsΒ
Using an oil on the ends of your hair gives you weightless hydration. You can use Captain Blankenship’s Mermaid Hair Oil, to protect your ends and keep frizz from happening.
One of the main ingredients in this oil is Argan Oil. The oil molecules found in argan oil go deep into the hair shaft. This instantly moisturizes the hair and in turn treats and helps to prevent damaged split ends.
Mermaid Hair Oil, $34.00, 1 oz./30 ml
9. Β Lift the Roots
With fine hair, lift at the roots is where you need the most volume. A root lift also gives fine hair some texture and bounce.
You can tryΒ Innersense’s I Create Volumizing Foam. Itβs lightweight and can also be used on dry hair.
I Create Volumizing Foam, $28.00, 6 oz./177 ml
10. Β Be Natural
Keep it might that your hair will do what it naturally does when you air dry it.
Since you arenβt using heat or a roll brush to bend it for a style then it will lay as it naturally would. Just go with it and know that your style will be a more relaxed, laid-back one.
Air-drying isnβt for days when you want to glam up or have an important event. But on the days that you donβt have to worry about any of that, let your hair relax and refresh.
To give your hair some sort of a style, Innersenseβs Peace Whipped Creme Texturizer will give you hold, definition, and separation. Itβs lightweight and has bee-friendly honey to condition. It also protects from humidity and split ends and is good for all hair textures whether itβs straight or curly.
InnersenseΒ Peace Whipped Creme Texturizer, $22.00, 4 oz./113 ml
11. Β Speed Things Up
Fine hair especially tends to dry faster than other hair types. But, if you are in a hurry for it to dry then you can spend some time outside and go about your day while you wait. This obviously works best during the spring and summer months.
You can also just let your hair air dry while you take a walk either with your dog, a friend, a family member or for exercise.
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