8 Surprising Ways to Use Dry Shampoo

 

Dry shampoo doesn't just sop up oil and give you irresistably second-day sexy hair like this in an instant; it can help you in a bunch of other surprising ways too. Hairstylist Mark Townsend, who tends to the tresses of A-listers on the regular, tells you how.

1. It keeps your curls from clumping together. If you want your curls to be piece-y and imperfect, keep them from clumping together in a uniform wave by spraying a starch-based dry shampoo, like Dove's Dry Shampoo, all over your hair after you curl it. The starch in the dry shampoo coats your hair and makes it dry and matte, covering your hair's natural oils, so your curls don't intertwine and make a master wave.

2. It boosts volume in one spray. "I usually tell my clients to flip their head upside down, since the gravity will help increase the volume as you add in the dry shampoo," he says. After that, make sure to concentrate the dry shampoo at your roots first, and then finish by spraying it all over to add some texture and volume all around.

3. It helps lock in your hair when you backcomb. "Anytime I'm creating an updo that involves backcombing, I always spray dry shampoo on the section, and then backcomb it to help lock in the tease," Townsend says. "It just holds so much better that way."

4. It adds grip to bobby pins. To keep bobby pins from slipping out of your hair when you're doing an updo, spray them all over with dry shampoo to give them some grip first. Townsend uses this trick on the celebs that he sends down the runway to ensure their hair stays in place.

5. It adds a subtle hold to your hair. Dry shampoo offers a little hold, but unlike hairspray it won't leave you with helmet hair of any kind. It gives you that touchable hold that you can still runs your hair through.

6. It keeps your bangs from sticking to your forehead. Spraying it under your bangs only will keep your fringe from sticking to the oil on your forehead. You don't need to spray dry shampoo all over your bangs — the underneath is the most important part. It keeps your fringe together nicely as well.

7. It can help you reverse your style. If you wear a slicked back style one day and the next day you don't have time to wash it but want it to look windblown, spray dry shampoo all over your hair and then brush it through with a paddle brush. You need to work the products out of your hair that slicked it back initially, so the dry shampoo will help reverse your hair texture back.

8. It can help conceal dark roots if you're a blonde. If you're trying to cover up dark regrowth, you have to go for a powder dry shampoo instead of a starch-y one, because that formula will impart white powder onto your roots that help cover them up. Try Klorane Gentle Dry Shampoo Powder.

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Not everyone was blessed with "Oh, my hair doesn't get greasy" genes. And I am one of them.

I can't hold out for four days to wash my hair (fab blowout or not) because I'd look like an oil slick. Thanks, Mom. I'm more of an every other day kind of girl.

Enter my new strand savior: Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo, $21, folica.com. It goes on clear, so even if you have jet black hair you can use it, comes in large and travel-size cans, and smells so freaking good.

Now I've used a lot of dry shampoos in my day, but this one is by far my fave. And it's been a life saver because I can now push my hair-washing to the limit, squeezing three days out of one washing, which leaves me more time in the morning—and non-greasy strands, of course.

All that said, what I'm most excited about is that right after washing my hair, I can add texture to give it that two-day-old, sexy bedhead look instantaneously. Look out, boys!

Want some come-hither hair? Spritz this dry shampoo onto your roots and into the underneath layers of your hair for some serious volume and fresh-smelling strands.

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Swiped From the Beauty Closet: Amika Perk <br />Up Dry Shampoo

Not everyone was blessed with "Oh, my hair doesn't get greasy" genes. And I am one of them.

I can't hold out for four days to wash my hair (fab blowout or not) because I'd look like an oil slick. Thanks, Mom. I'm more of an every other day kind of girl.

Enter my new strand savior: Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo, $21, folica.com. It goes on clear, so even if you have jet black hair you can use it, comes in large and travel-size cans, and smells so freaking good.

Now I've used a lot of dry shampoos in my day, but this one is by far my fave. And it's been a life saver because I can now push my hair-washing to the limit, squeezing three days out of one washing, which leaves me more time in the morning—and non-greasy strands, of course.

All that said, what I'm most excited about is that right after washing my hair, I can add texture to give it that two-day-old, sexy bedhead look instantaneously. Look out, boys!

Want some come-hither hair? Spritz this dry shampoo onto your roots and into the underneath layers of your hair for some serious volume and fresh-smelling strands.

Will you be heading to folica.com to get yourself a bottle of this genius hair stuff?

Photo: Folica.com

Follow Carly Cardellino on Facebook and Twitter.

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Swiped From the Beauty Closet: Amika Perk <br />Up Dry Shampoo

Not everyone was blessed with "Oh, my hair doesn't get greasy" genes. And I am one of them.

I can't hold out for four days to wash my hair (fab blowout or not) because I'd look like an oil slick. Thanks, Mom. I'm more of an every other day kind of girl.

Enter my new strand savior: Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo, $21, folica.com. It goes on clear, so even if you have jet black hair you can use it, comes in large and travel-size cans, and smells so freaking good.

Now I've used a lot of dry shampoos in my day, but this one is by far my fave. And it's been a life saver because I can now push my hair-washing to the limit, squeezing three days out of one washing, which leaves me more time in the morning—and non-greasy strands, of course.

All that said, what I'm most excited about is that right after washing my hair, I can add texture to give it that two-day-old, sexy bedhead look instantaneously. Look out, boys!

Want some come-hither hair? Spritz this dry shampoo onto your roots and into the underneath layers of your hair for some serious volume and fresh-smelling strands.

Will you be heading to folica.com to get yourself a bottle of this genius hair stuff?

Photo: Folica.com

Follow Carly Cardellino on Facebook and Twitter.

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Swiped From the Beauty Closet: Amika Perk <br />Up Dry Shampoo

Not everyone was blessed with "Oh, my hair doesn't get greasy" genes. And I am one of them.

I can't hold out for four days to wash my hair (fab blowout or not) because I'd look like an oil slick. Thanks, Mom. I'm more of an every other day kind of girl.

Enter my new strand savior: Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo, $21, folica.com. It goes on clear, so even if you have jet black hair you can use it, comes in large and travel-size cans, and smells so freaking good.

Now I've used a lot of dry shampoos in my day, but this one is by far my fave. And it's been a life saver because I can now push my hair-washing to the limit, squeezing three days out of one washing, which leaves me more time in the morning—and non-greasy strands, of course.

All that said, what I'm most excited about is that right after washing my hair, I can add texture to give it that two-day-old, sexy bedhead look instantaneously. Look out, boys!

Want some come-hither hair? Spritz this dry shampoo onto your roots and into the underneath layers of your hair for some serious volume and fresh-smelling strands.

Will you be heading to folica.com to get yourself a bottle of this genius hair stuff?

Photo: Folica.com

Follow Carly Cardellino on Facebook and Twitter.

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