Long hair can be an eye-catching fashion statement, and can be difficult to manage without the appropriate styling products. From natural looking tresses to sleek structures and formal finishes, these men’s long hair products will help you complete your style every day.
Water-based pomades provide light hold and natural sheen in thick hair types, perfect for styling medium to long styles with light hold and natural sheen.
1. Hair Wax
Wax pomades provide flexible styles that adapt to your schedule and changing look, such as light to medium hold with natural matte finishes that work for creating tousled and tousled styles.
To use hair wax, work a small amount between your palms before applying it to either damp or fully dry hair. Gently style it into place into an eye-catching side part, quiff, or pompadour for an easy yet polished finish that lasts all day long. Wax can help tame unruly locks into shape without creating crusty textures – giving a polished finish with lasting style!
2. Hair Gel
Styling gel is an effective way to shape and define long hair. Once dry, it forms a stiff, shiny and unmovable finish that locks in your style while being easily washed out without flaking or damaging your locks. There are various hold strengths available that work with different hair types.
Hair gel offers stronger hold with reduced shine than its pomade counterpart, and is the ideal product for creating gravity-defying styles such as pompadours or mohawks. Apply it either damp or dry hair depending on desired look – medium length hairstyles often benefit greatly.
Search for a hair gel with ingredients designed to promote healthy scalp and hair growth, such as ingredients that reduce dryness and itching that leads to dandruff, while providing moisture and hydration to the follicles of your locks. Furthermore, such ingredients will also help prevent breakage of hair follicles as well as protect them from environmental stresses like sun damage.
3. Hair Mousse
Mousse is an essential hair styling product, offering your locks volume, texture, and flexible hold. Additionally, mousse helps manage frizz and flyaways and adds shine.
Rashuna Rashuna of Amika Pro Lead Hairstylist recommends mousse as a versatile product to use across all textures as it provides lift, body, and light hold without being sticky or crunchy. Mousse can help add volume, root lift and define curls on wavy or curly locks for definition of curls on wavy/curly locks.”
To use mousse effectively, start with freshly washed hair that has been patted dry with a soft towel (non-terry cloth preferred) until damp strands can be patted dry using your hand so the product can absorb and distribute evenly through each strand of the locks.
Apply a small amount of product to your palm and rub your hands together to emulsify it into mousse form. After doing this, gently work it through your hair using fingers, paying special attention to roots. Once evenly distributed, use a wide-tooth comb or brush to comb through any remaining clumps to prevent clumping from happening.
4. Hair Spray
Hair spray is an easy and quick way to add style and hold to your style without risk of slipperiness throughout the day. Additionally, it adds shine or texture for extra impactful style!
Styling sprays come in many strengths to fit every look you are going for, from light hold hairspray that keeps your style in place to strong hold products designed to control flyaways. Regular hairspray may be best if you just want some added hold without changing its style altogether.
Other types of styling sprays include shaping spray, freeze spray, and volumizing spray – which all help add texture and volume to your locks while making them appear fuller and thicker. Some hairspray products even feature heat protection to guard against damage caused by styling tools – this feature is especially beneficial for longer styles which tend to be more susceptible to damage than their shorter counterparts.
