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MP! Style Guide: 6 salt sprays to get your hair ready for festival season


Nothing gives your hair that perfect, festival-ready, lived-in texture quite like a sea salt spray. The actual salt in it roughs up your strands with that I-look-like-I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-but-actually-this-took-me-all-morning effect, whether you’re curly or straight. So if you’re flying out to Coachella or just dreaming of the desert, try out one of our favorite salt sprays.

Fudge Urban Sea Salt

ÂŁ7.29

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This spray has multiple uses—spray into roots for lift, spray into damp hair and dry naturally for seaside style, or blow-dry for waves.

Bumble and bumble Surf Spray

ÂŁ22

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A little more expensive but a total cult favorite. “For sexy, beachy, windswept styles” sounds pretty intriguing, right? The less you touch it, the longer it will hold.

Schwarzkopf got2b Beach Matt Texturizing Salt Spray

ÂŁ3

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Smell like the beach for the price of a iced caramel latte. A little goes a long way, and it doesn’t leave you feeling crunchy.

Ouidad Wave Create Sea Spray

ÂŁ17.95

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Trust the curl experts at Ouidad to enhance your natural texture and give you amazing beachy waves. It’s also infused with seaweed and algae extracts to nourish the hair.

Catwalk Session Series Salt Spray

ÂŁ11.50

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It’s no surprise that the geniuses behind Curls Rock, one of the most beloved curl products of all time, also have an amazing sea salt spray. It’s a salon brand at a high street price, and it gives the hair a light, pliable hold while controlling frizz and fighting humidity.

L’Oreal Professionnel Techni Art Wild Stylers Beach Waves Salt Spray

ÂŁ14.99

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Another salon brand, the Wild Stylers line of L’Oreal Professionnel products is designed to give you, well, wildness. You get perfectly tousled and undone hair with a matte finish.