Envious of girls with long luscious curly and wavy hair when you’re stuck with straight, flat and limp? I can relate. During the pandemic I said NO MORE. Getting wavy hair does not always have to involve curling irons and other heat-based tools. For me, its as simple as switching my products for longer lasting results. With a little help from your braid fairy (i.e. youtube) and the correct products, you can have effortless and heatless waves in just one night.

Here is a quick video on what I do to obtain luscious and hydrating waves even though my hair is super fine and straight.

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Air Dry Cream

This will be your summer after-shower bestie. Air dry cream mostly helps tame flyaways and frizzies but, this is a light, airy leave-in cream for heat-free, effortless styling. It won’t weigh your hair down and provides a more polished look to your natural hair. It leaves hair soft and silky and includes vital nutrients to help keep hair looking healthy while in heatless braid waves.

Wave Spray

This baby is like ocean water in a bottle but without making your hair feel all crunchy. Wave Spray is packed with plant-derived actives that help define layers and add texture with touchable hold and volume to create natural beachy hairstyles. Basically, you can create effortless vacation hair in minutes regardless of your hair’s natural texture.

Glossy Shine Mist

This is going to be your wave’s holy grail! Glossy Shine Mist is a lightweight, frizz-taming micro-mist that hydrates and provides brilliant shine to the hair. The key word is “hydrates.” Normally I would say less is more here but you want your waves to maintain their hydration levels, and that’s where this mist is going to come into play.

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How to do heatless braid waves

Instructions

1. After showering, use your wet brush to brush out your hair
2. Apply a nickel size of air dry cream to your palms. Emulsify this in between your palms, and apply all throughout your hair from the top of your ears down to prevent any extra oiliness up on the scalp.
3. Spray the Wave Spray all throughout your hair and brush out to evenly distribute
4. Part your hair down the center, and french braid two braids on either side of the part holding with elastic hair bands.
5. Once braided, spray the glossy shine mist all over your hair. Go crazy!
6. Head to bed and sleep on your braids. For best results sleep on a silk pillowcase.
7. In the morning, take your braids out and DO NOT brush through your hair. let it be and let the waves just fall loosely over time. Spray more glossy shine mist as needed. Try a leave in conditioner if you need a thicker layer if hydration.

You have officially graduated from Heatless Braid Waves 101. Congratulations! Trial and error is the best practice when it comes to beauty. If it doesn’t turn out the first time, that’s okay wash it out and try again. Tweak product amounts and order of products too. I’d love to see pictures of your beautiful waves. Be sure to to tag me on social media @_cupofjojo.