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I want to get some for my daughter and I used some brand years ago that was a spray in and worked great. Any recommendations to get that beach like hair? Thanks for any suggestions
It was basically salt water and sulfate solution. It is incredibly drying long term but short term changes the linkages in your hair.
Yes, it is easy to make, lots of tutorials on the web. Basically a little sea salt and distilled or spring water, with maybe a couple other things added. Just google home made sea salt spray or surf spray. I made some, but it made my hair way too crunchy and dry.
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Okay. So I've misunderstood.
I'm amused that anyone would ever want to recreate "beach hair". I grew up on the coast of Texas, and love beaches, but have spent a LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT trying to avoid beach hair. Sticky, ugly, unmanageable, uncombable, and smelly. Beaches are GREAT, "beach hair" is something you wash out the moment you return to your hotel/home/beach shower at a park.
Ok. So I'm trying to be funny here, but also honest:
Next, will there be tutorials on how to give your white t-shirts under arm stains, and how to make your legs look like they have black hair stubble? ;D
I'm amused that anyone would ever want to recreate "beach hair". I grew up on the coast of Texas, and love beaches, but have spent a LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT trying to avoid beach hair. Sticky, ugly, unmanageable, uncombable, and smelly.
Next I'm going to read that someone wants to purchase spray on sweat stink. Or squirt their clothing with stains. ;D
Beach hair around here refers to the effect of salt water, which just changes the chemistry slightly so it makes more hydrogen bonds with itself, resulting in increased waviness or curls. Some people with stick straight hair get a piecy look, due to the forming of locks of hair instead of flyaways.
I also grew and continue to live at the beach and I don't mind the beach look, it is just dryin, which I manage with a little conditioner before I go in. As a life long surfer and oceanographer I am curious as to what in the water in Texas makes your hair smelly and sticky.
Beach hair around here refers to the effect of salt water, which just changes the chemistry slightly so it makes more hydrogen bonds with itself, resulting in increased waviness or curls. Some people with stick straight hair get a piecy look, due to the forming of locks of hair instead of flyaways.
I also grew and continue to live at the beach and I don't mind the beach look, it is just dryin, which I manage with a little conditioner before I go in. As a life long surfer and oceanographer I am curious as to what in the water in Texas makes your hair smelly and sticky.
Yeah, I wonder that too - I live on the Gulf coast of Florida, and never had that problem. As mentioned the only issue is the stiff/crunchy/dry texture hair gets from all the salt. Never any smell or stickyness.
When I spent a lot of time at the beach I used a good sunscreen lotion, just work it in and enjoy the day. While laying on the sand though, front or back, cover your head with a small pretty scarf tied in the back or a nice hat with a brim.
I'm amused that anyone would ever want to recreate "beach hair". I grew up on the coast of Texas, and love beaches, but have spent a LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT trying to avoid beach hair. Sticky, ugly, unmanageable, uncombable, and smelly. Beaches are GREAT, "beach hair" is something you wash out the moment you return to your hotel/home/beach shower at a park.
Ok. So I'm trying to be funny here, but also honest:
Next, will there be tutorials on how to give your white t-shirts under arm stains, and how to make your legs look like they have black hair stubble? ;D
Clara, you are too funny ! that is exactly what I was thinking, all sorts of 'looks'. I suggested a cute scarf ... LOL! because I was thinking 'what the heck is beach hair" ? I lifeguarded at the beach(es) in my youth, and we wore those white sailor hats with the brim down. Now there is 'a look'.
But 'beachy hair' really thru me a curve. I'm still voting for suntan lotion ... Coppertone always smelled fantastic ... it is beach perfume.
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No, not sun in
