pinterest challenge: landlocked beachy waves
For this month’s Pinterest Challenge (the monthly post where I take something I’ve pinned and actually do it and report back the results), I thought I’d step away from the crafty theme of the past few posts and try something a little different—a beauty pin!
I’m always looking for new ways to tame my hair. I have crazy thick, frizzy, big, huge hair. I’ve gotten in the habit of flat ironing it a lot, but I don’t love that because of the damage and time commitment. So when I found this how-to for beachy hair spray on Pinterest last week and I knew I was going to try it out.
I always love my hair whenever I’m at the beach, but considering I live 13 hours from the closest ocean, beach hair always seemed to be a bit of a vacation-only thing, but this spray promised me otherwise. Worth a shot!
Plus, I had all the ingredients already on hand.
The original formula makes way more than could fit in my spray bottle, so I did a little bit of tweaking. In a mason jar, I mixed together:
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon conditioner
- 1 teaspoon coconut butter
I put the lid on the mason jar and then shook my little heart out, or until the mixture was all combined and opaque. Then I poured it into an old spray bottle. Done! To use, I sprayed it liberally on clean, towel-dried hair, and then divided my hair into about eight sections, twisted them and then let air dry. Actually, I dried them in the sun while reading a book. Once everything was dried, I shook out my hair and I had this:
I am so happy with the results of this stuff! Normally whenever I air dry my hair, it’s very frizzy and packed full of fly-aways, but this stuff made it smooth and soft without feeling weighted down or greasy. I also love that it took me all of a minute to style my hair (plus drying time). Huge improvement over my typical 20 minute flat-iron time!
In case you were wondering what the front looks like, here is a ridiculous picture of me holding a beach umbrella. Themes. I like to run with them.
I’ll definitely be using this stuff all summer long.
Have you every learned a beauty trick from Pinterest?
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I tried the spray that’s been floating around Pinterest that uses Epsom salt, and it left this dry, salty residue at the ends of my thick, somewhat wavy hair. I’m assuming this one doesn’t do that?
I had no salty residue at all. If anything, my hair felt softer and less residue-y than using other products
Awesome, I’ll have to give this one a try, then.
Ooooh, that’s awesome! And your hair looks so beachy!
Nice!! Does the liquid mixture require being warm in order to be the most effective?
I didn’t notice a difference between warm and cold. I think the hot water was just necessary to make sure everything mixes together well.
Awesome! I am so going to try this!
Where do you find Coconut butter though? Can’t say I’ve ever seen it.
I got it in the health food section of my regular grocery store.
Your hair looks amazing! This probably wouldn’t work on me because my hair is bone straight — “beach” hair for me just means really tangly, haha. It would probably just make my hair greasy, knowing me. But jealous! It looks fantastic!
That is gorgeous!! I have hair a lot like yours…thick and frizzy! This might be a stupid question but how do you do the twisting part? Do you like just twirl your hair and leave it hanging down or do you twist it into little buns and clip them to your head or what? I love the look and need to try this out!! Thank you for such an awesome blog, btw!
Not stupid at all! I just twist the sections and leave them. No pinning!
I have hair like yours and I LOVE the feria conditioner.. It’s hard to find, but it’s the only conditioner that really works with my hair!
You have convinced me to try this!! Your hair turned out great BUT you have gorgeous hair so I am sure it looks good no matter what!
Also, I think I spied a toned looking arm holding that beach umbrella!!!
Aww you’re so adorable
Have you lost weight?? You look amazing!
Thanks’