7 Must-Try Products If You’re Deeply Lazy But Also Want Insanely Gorgeous Hair
by The Candidly Team
We all just want to wake up with perfect hair, and not have to do a thing— like shower, blow-dry, or, you know, style it.
Ok, so we miiiiight have to something. But these 7 products barely require any effort at all.
They are as close as we get to the hair of our dreams, in the approximately 4.5 minutes we have each day to “do” our hair, without the mind-numbing tedium.
1. Hairstory Hair Balm
If you, like us, have a lifelong dream of finding a single product to haphazardly scrunch through our hair, let air dry, and emerge like one of those women you think only exist on Pinterest who wear extremely large plaid scarves and cowl neck sweaters and who drink steaming, hot beverages, this is that product.
A heaping couple of pumps worked throughout damp hair (and in some cases uncombed hair), totally managed our frizziness, leaving us with pieced out waves, defined curls, enhanced shine. One might also say our hair was mermaid-like.
NO HAIR DRYER REQUIRED.
Find out more about why we love it here.
2. Amika Hair Blow Dryer Brush
We all want that “just stepped out of a salon” hair without exerting any effort. Part of achieving that goal is finding a product that helps us multitask the two crucially horrific steps of having gorgeous, full, ludicrously shiny hair: blow drying and styling.
And from alllll the two-in-one tools we’ve ever tried, this brush will both wildly cut down on your drying time AND give you the sleek, bouncy hair of your dreams. Pull the brush through big chunks of hair slowly, confidently, and as if by magic, you will suddenly see salon-worthy locks begin to appear.
Find out more about why we love it here.
3. Playa Every Day Shampoo
The search for a shampoo that produces squeaky clean hair, without stripping our hair of its natural oils, making our scalps produce even more oil, and creating long term frizz, has been a life-long mission for us. And friends? That mission has now been accomplished.
Rich with coconut water, this shampoo is so light and so gentle, your hair and scalp never feel stripped, and yet your hair has never felt cleaner, or squeakier, in its life.
With our oil in check, we can go longer without washing, preserving our aforementioned Amika blowouts for many, many days.
Find out more about why we love it here.
4. Tangle Teezer
For quarantine-level snarls and rat’s nests and not showering for days on end, there is no more effective brush than this one.
We work out knots in a fraction of the time and, the moment you’re all waiting for, somehow it doesn’t hurt at all.
Find out more about why we love it here.
5. Braun Silk-épil 9 Flex Epilator
Yes, we want gorgeous body hair, too, and to achieve it, sometimes that means controlling where we have said body hair. Especially after a pandemic in which “body hair removal” barely registered on our daily (*cough weekly) to-do lists.
Enter: the epilator.
This little device uses its 40 "micro-grip" tweezers to, pardon me, rip all your hair out right from the root. And while that sounds hideous, we felt only a mild pinching, and experienced no pain afterwards.
If you've gotten to a place of acceptance, neutrality, or even love for your bountiful body hair, we salute you.
For the rest of us still working on it, we gotchu.
Find out more about why we love it here.
6. Sun Bum Revitalizing 3-in-1 Leave-in Hair Conditioner Spray
Not only does this detangle and condition, it also helps prevent frizz and always leaves our hair soft and shiny. It uses a beautifully-smelling concoction of banana leaf, quinoa protein, sunflower seed oil, and even coconut oil— and yet, this is not a heavy, oily formulation, but rather surprisingly lightweight.
Find out more about why we love it here.
7. Waterless Dry Shampoo Foam, $6.49
If your hair is greasy by the end of the self-same day you washed it, or if you’re someone who shampoos very infrequently, Waterless might (will) be your new favorite thing.
A little goes a long way, and it works really well post-workout as a little refresher before swooping into a quaran-bun. Or squirt a little bit on your roots pre-sleep to wake up with shine, not grease.
Find out more about why we love it here.
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
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