Keeping your hair styled in the summer heat can feel like a losing battle. You spend time perfecting your look whether it’s a blowout, soft waves, or a sleek ponytail only to step outside and instantly be met with humidity, sweat, and scorching sun that seem determined to undo all your effort. Frizz flares up, curls fall flat, and roots get greasy faster than usual. Even the best styling products can struggle against the relentless heat, making you wonder why you bothered in the first place. It’s not just frustrating it can feel like your hair has a mind of its own the moment the temperature spikes.
Every woman’s hair tells its own story, and no two textures behave the same especially when it comes to styling. Fine, straight hair can be a dream for sleek looks but often struggles to hold volume or curls without falling flat in a few hours. Thick, coarse hair holds a style longer but can take forever to blow-dry and tame, often requiring heat tools and smoothing products just to cooperate. Curly hair is its own beautiful world—what works for one curl pattern might be a total flop for another. Loose waves might only need a spritz of sea salt spray, while tighter coils thrive on moisture, careful sectioning, and heat-free techniques to avoid damage. Then there's textured or natural hair, which often requires protective styles, leave-in hydration, and a deep understanding of how to embrace shrinkage, volume, and definition. Styling isn’t one-size-fits-all it’s a personal ritual that changes with the seasons, the weather, and even our mood.
Damaged hair often tells the tale of everything it’s been through color treatments, heat styling, over-washing, or just life under the sun. It can feel dry, brittle, and dull, with split ends that refuse to cooperate and strands that break with the slightest tug. At some point, even your favorite styling products can’t mask the lack of moisture and strength. That’s where a good hair mask comes in like a rescue treatment. Unlike a quick conditioner, a hair mask is a richer, deeper experience something you let soak in, giving your strands a chance to truly absorb nutrients and hydration. With consistent use, it helps restore softness, manageability, and that healthy-looking sheen we all crave. It’s not just about repair it’s about giving your hair a moment to reset and feel cared for. And let’s be honest, it’s also a little self-care ritual we all deserve.
Although reaching for the right hair products may be a challenge-below we have curated a must have list to keep all types of hair tamed, soft with lots and lots of volume.
Curly Hair
Color Wow Dream Coat for Curly Hair
- One-step solution for frizz-free, crunch-free curls
- Combined benefits of gels + serums + creams without crunchiness, greasiness or weight
- Alcohol-free, non-drying, adds moisture
Wavy and curly hair; 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b curls; ideal for fine curly hair.
IGK Hair Big Time Volume & Thickening Mousse
This volumizing and thickening blow dry mousse delivers soft, flexible body and bounce to the hair for fuller results. It’s lightweight formula provides density without weighing the hair down or leaving it dry or sticky.
In a consumer perception study,
- 100% agree their hair instantly appeared twice as full.
- 100% agree their hair had volume / thickness / fullness that is flexible and moveable.
- 100% agree their hair had healthy-looking fullness / thickness / volume after using this product.
- NORDIC COTTON-Delivers weightless body
- PLANT PROTEIN COMPLEX-Nourishes and plumps the hair for a soft and airy look, without the stiffness
Curl Shampoo is a rich, non-drying formula that gently cleanses while removing excess oils and build-up to maintain the natural curl pattern. It protects against humidity, heat, and environmental damage while mending and prepping hair for manageable, frizz-free styles.
- New “Naked Technology” feels like nothing’s on the hair!
- Weightless conditioner works deep inside strands
- No heavy, greasy feel because our proprietary Profaxil-18 Complex™ breaks up Marula Oil and Coconut Oil particles, enabling them to penetrate hair and lubricate hair’s internal protein chains
- Instantly gives dry, dehydrated, brittle, “static” curls fluid motion, silky texture, bounce and elasticity
Curly, Coily Hair (Type 3a - 4c curls
Volume:
Color Wow Texas Hold 'Em Big Hold Hair Spray
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Less wet, fast-drying, flake free formula
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Deposits up to 50% less alcohol than leading sprays*
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82% style retention in high humidity**
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2 forms of heat protection + UV protection
*independent study, average results recorded after 8 hrs in 60% RH
** independent comparison of leading sprays
Full Shampoo adds volume while it cleanses. It dissolves excess oil, lifts the roots, and plumps each strand for weightless, long-lasting body. Infused with our first-of-its-kind Alpha Keratin 60ku® protein, Full Shampoo was specifically developed to add volume and density to fine, limp hair strands. This extraordinarily lightweight formula helps build volume from the inside out and will continue to improve the health of hair over time. Color-safe, paraben-free, gluten-free, vegan.
IGK Hair Big Time Volume & Thickening Mousse
This volumizing and thickening blow dry mousse delivers soft, flexible body and bounce to the hair for fuller results. It’s lightweight formula provides density without weighing the hair down or leaving it dry or sticky.
In a consumer perception study,
- 100% agree their hair instantly appeared twice as full.
- 100% agree their hair had volume / thickness / fullness that is flexible and moveable.
- 100% agree their hair had healthy-looking fullness / thickness / volume after using this product.
- NORDIC COTTON-Delivers weightless body
- PLANT PROTEIN COMPLEX-Nourishes and plumps the hair for a soft and airy look, without the stiffness
Color Wow Xtra Large Bombshell Volumizer
- Massive volume plus super healthy hair quality
- Long-lasting
- Innovative light, frothy formula for weightless volume
- Heat protection
Frizz Free:
Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat
- Award-winning waterproofing technology blocks out humidity + locks in moisture to prevent smooth, straight styles from reverting back to naturally curly or frizzy texture
- Delivers silky, glassy-smooth, super frizz-resistant styles
- Heat-activated formula contains heat protectants
- Ultra-light spray feels like nothing is on the hair
- Economical. Results last through 3-4 shampoos
IGK Good Behaviour-Spirulina Protein Anti-Frizz Smoothing Spray
A heat-protective blowout spray that mimics the smooth, high-shine, frizz-free results of a keratin treatment.
Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick
Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily
Hair Concerns:
- Straightening/Smoothing
- Heat Protection
- Frizz
Virtue Frizz Block Smoothing Spray
Our proprietary Alpha Keratin 60ku® instantly fills and seals cracked cuticles while featherweight polymers and lipids hover above, repelling air-born humidity. This lightweight, milky mist is alcohol free, so it won’t create build-up or dry out hair, and it’s heat protective up to 450 degrees, leaving hair healthy, silky-soft, and free of frizz for days.
IGK Hair Thirsty Girl Coconut Milk Anti-Frizz Shampoo
This nourishing shampoo features a patented Hyaluronic Acid Technology that forms a rich moisture barrier for deep hydration and protection against frizz and hair-damaging pollutants. Pure Coconut Milk smoothes, nourishes, and strengthens hair with every use to prevent breakage and split ends.
Natural hair serum that leaves hair looking thicker, fuller and healthier in as soon as 90 days.(One Bottle Lasts 30 Days)
This powerful blend of natural ingredients works in harmony to promote healthy hair growth. By stimulating circulation to the scalp, deeply hydrating, and protecting strands from damage, it strengthens hair follicles and encourages thicker, fuller hair.
- Helps keep hair in its prime: thick, strong, supple
- Proven to reduce shedding by 90%
- Creates optimal conditions for hair growth
- No greasy feel or build up
Evolvh Better Roots -Root Boost Complex
A comprehensive blend of all the vitamins, minerals, and amino acids scientifically proven to promote regular cell turnover for a balanced growth cycle and strong healthy hair. It also contains AnaGain™ Nu, a nutraceutical active sourced from organic pea sprout extract, that supports regrowth and is clinically proven to increase the appearance of thicker, fuller hair.
- Makes a major difference with just one blow dry
- Instant healthy hydration restores silky suppleness to dry, dehydrated, straw-like hair
- Heat protectant
- Celebrity Stylist Chris Appleton’s 1-step-prep for luxe, super healthy hair
- Weightless formula instantly absorbs; leaves no waxy, heavy buildup
- Penetrates deep to help strengthen, repair and renew suppleness
- A deep conditioning hair mask for all hair types
- Heat protection
