Longer hair requires additional upkeep and styling than shorter styles; however, with the appropriate tools and products it can look fabulous!
Men’s long hair styling products range from health fortifiers to sleek styling solutions – everything to keep Samson-esque locks healthy and looking awesome! The top men’s long hair products provide everything needed to keep a Samsonesque mane healthy and looking its finest.
1. Styling Cream
Styling creams are versatile hair styling products that provide light hold and enhance shine, making them great for controlling frizz and flyaways, adding volume and dimension to straight or wavy locks, or amplifying curls in longer styles.
This brand staple is a half gel and half mousse formula designed to give a fuller finish without feeling heavy or dirty. With subtle hold and enhanced curls for longer hair lengths while providing heat protection against color fade, this brand staple provides long-term color protection.
This product is an incredible help for textured hair. The high-protection leave-in formula offers moisture, conditioning and soft hold while being rich with shea butter and meadowfoam seed oil for natural, seamless results. Additionally, glicoamine penetrates deep into your scalp to detoxify metal particles that could otherwise cause breakage or color shift.
2. Clay Pomade
Clay pomade is an effective product to combat humidity and sweat while providing strong hold, making it great for tailored looks or creating pompadours while still leaving an natural matte finish. Packed with collagen aminos, MCT oil, and Kakadu plum extract to strengthen and condition hair over time.
Take a dime-sized amount of Clay, emulsify it in your hands, and spread it evenly around your hair. Comb it through using your fingers for optimal coverage; to increase thickness or tackier hold apply more Clay; otherwise for natural matte looks use less, making sure it’s spread out evenly to prevent clumping before styling as desired.
3. Hair Powder
Hair styling powder has been around since the 1600s when used to create powdered wigs, adding texture, volume and keeping styles from falling flat or becoming greasy. Today’s formula uses rough particles that adhere to each hair fiber creating friction between fibers for lasting hold as well as moisture absorption to help avoid any potential greasiness issues.
Hair powder can be an easy way to add volume and texture to short to medium-length styles and is often reworkable throughout the day. It works especially well as a pre-styler when combined with hair clay, pomade, or wax and also works well on shorter to medium length textured styles that need constant reworking throughout their lives.
Sprinkling some hair powder through your roots to lift and add texture will lift your locks while adding height and body. Just a bit will do; too much could damage the scalp! For added height and height add puffs along the crown or parting.
4. Heat Protectant
No matter the style you desire – from full blow outs to beachy waves – having a reliable heat protectant spray is absolutely necessary for maintaining healthy locks. These sprays work by creating an additional barrier between your locks and hot styling tools that helps ensure healthy strands.
Heat protectants typically contain ingredients like PVP/DMPA acrylates copolymer, quaternium-70 and hydrolyzed wheat proteins to provide a barrier against excess heat damage to hair follicles and slow its transmission along each strand for gradual heating up.
When selecting a heat protectant, look for one that works well on both damp and dry hair, with ingredients like Abyssinia, sunflower and jojoba oils to provide nourishment that leaves strands looking soft, shiny and healthy. Plus, it should be easy to apply and smell amazing!
5. Hair Serum
Hair serum is an invaluable product that serves as a shield against frizz and flyaways, while simultaneously smoothing, enhancing shine, and taming unruly strands – perfect for humid climates or traveling!
Hair serum works on the surface level to nourish damp strands; ideal as either pre- or post-styling treatment!
Custom-formulated hair serums can help address any problems that your long locks are exhibiting, from damage and dryness to color treatment! Check out the customizable serum offerings from Function of Beauty here!
