Best Hair Spray For Curling Hair

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
An ultra-lightweight product that combines the best parts of dry shampoo and hair spray, to build incredible volume and texture.

Key benefits:
- Builds volume and texture
- Absorbs oil and refreshes hair

If you want to know more…
This hair spray is packed with volcanic minerals to absorb oil and refresh hair. Plus, its floral fragrance contains notes of Italian bergamot, touches of rose and muget, waterlily, iris, and white musk.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Phthalates

What else you need to know:
The fragrance is North Bondi—a beautiful floral fragrance with notes of bergamot, Italian lemon, rose de mai, violet, and white musk.

This product is not tested on animals.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
An ultralightweight hairspray that builds incredible volume and texture.

Key benefits:
- Builds volume and texture
- Absorbs oil
- Refreshes hair

If you want to know more…
Part hairspray, part dry shampoo, this talc-free multitasker is the ultimate go-to product to achieve innately cool model-off-duty hair. The formula keeps hair looking full all day and all night with more hold than a dry shampoo.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Phthalates

What else you need to know:
Jen's style tip: mist it on dry hair and scrunch strands out with your fingers for a loose, lived-in look. Flip hair upside down and spray for instantly fresh-looking hair. This product is scented with Ouai No. 3 Fragrance, containing notes of Italian bergamot, water lily, and white musk.

What it is: A weightless, microfine finishing hairspray that creates strong, lasting hold in all hair types.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Frizz
- Heat Protection
- Hold

Key Benefits:
- Provides long-lasting, buildable hold
- Shapes each strand with a microfine spray formula
- Leaves a lightweight, flawless finish

Formulation: Spray

What Else You Need to Know: The Moya Hold Finishing Hair Spray is a weightless, microfine spray that defines flawless styles with strong hold. It can be applied to damp or dry hair and its buildable results allow for any level of hold.

What it is: A favorite of top stylists around the world, this light, no-residue texturizing spray absorbs oil and adds high, buildable volume with long-lasting hold.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Hold
- Volumizing
- Color Sage

Key Benefits:
- Provides buildable, flexible hold without a crunchy texture
- Adds long-lasting volume to extend bold blowouts
- Absorbs excess oil for fresh-looking hair

What Else You Need to Know: Take your hair to the limits with Wata Wave Texturizing Hair Spray for daring, high-volume looks and tousled waves. The spray formula adds volume and movement while absorbing oil for enhanced texture and pristine second-day hair. It leaves no residue, a flexible hold, and a non-stiff feeling—even on thin and thick hair.

Fragrance Description: Amber and creamy musk blend with relaxing florals and energetic red pepper throughout the entire styling range.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
A volumizing and texturizing spray for volume and texture.

Key benefits:
- Provides instant body, volume, and grip
- Provides reshapeable hold
- Creates a highly texturized backcombing effect

If you want to know more…
Create structured or tousled looks with reshapeable hold, body, volume, and grip. Great for second-day styling without an oily or white residue.

What it is: A hair spray with flexible, touchable hold to combat frizz and humidity, protecting your style in any climate.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Shine

Key Benefits:
- Defends against frizz
- Adds weightless texture
- Finishes styles with light hold

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Unique Copolymer: Extends the longevity of your style in any climate.
- Vitamin E: Protects against free radicals and nourishes.
- Oribe Signature Complex: Defends hair from environmental elements, oxidative stress, photoaging, and the deterioration of natural keratin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight, anti-frizz hair spray acts like a shield against humidity and environmental damage, protecting sleek blowouts and perfect curls alike. Miami tested and approved, it nourishes, protects, and delivers smooth, touchable style on the sultriest days (and nights).

All Oribe products are dermatologist tested and formulated with safe, high-quality, innovative ingredients. They are also PETA approved, UV protective, and color- and keratin-treatment safe.

Fragrance Description: Created in collaboration with one of the oldest French Fragrance houses, Oribe’s signature scent, Côte d’Azur, features sun-drenched notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood—embodying the glamour and heat of the legendary destination.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
A non-aerosol, plant-based hair spray with medium hold.

Key benefits:
- Creates definition
- Fights frizz
- Provides long-lasting medium hold

If you want to know more…
Sugarcane extracts power this singular hair spray, which offers definition and a medium, malleable, yet long-lasting hold without stickiness. The hydrating, environmentally friendly non-aerosol formula leaves hair nourished, brushable, and frizz-free.

What else you need to know:
This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and formulated without gluten, silicones, and synthetic fragrance.

Clean at Sephora
Clean at Sephora is formulated without a list of over 50 ingredients, including sulfates (SLS and SLES), parabens, phthalates, and more. For the full list, check out the Ingredients tab.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
A hairspray that sets all styles in place with a flexible long-lasting hold.

Key benefits:
- Medium, long-lasting hold
- Frizz control and humidity protection
- UV filter and color protection

If you want to know more…
This hairspray offers medium hold that lasts while maintaining the integrity of the cuticle for smooth, frizz-free styles.

What it is: A weightless mist that protects hair from the damaging effects of heat styling, UV rays, and pollution while combating frizz.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Heat Protection
- Shine
- UV Pollution

Key Benefits:
- Provides heat protection up to 450°F
- Protects against dryness and fading
- Adds lightweight moisture

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Multifunction UV Absorber: Protects hair from the harmful effects of UV rays.
- Plant-Based Collagen: Hydrates and softens, adding a protective layer to lock in moisture.
- Oribe Signature Complex: Defends hair from environmental elements, oxidative stress, photoaging, and the deterioration of natural keratin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Experience a daily dose of universal protection with this weightless, frizz-fighting mist that shields hair from environmental pollution and thermal damage up to 450°F. Fortified with biotin and panthenol, the gentle formula imparts lightweight moisture and protects against dryness and color fading caused by UV rays.

All Oribe products are dermatologist tested and formulated with safe, high-quality, innovative ingredients. They are also PETA approved, UV protective, and color- and keratin-treatment safe.

Fragrance Description: Created in collaboration with one of the oldest French Fragrance houses, Oribe’s signature scent, Côte d’Azur, features sun-drenched notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood—embodying the glamour and heat of the legendary destination.

What it is: A high-performance hair spray with strong hold and control to help your favorite hair styles last.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Hold
- Shine
- UV Protection

Key Benefits:
- Provides long-lasting hold
- Locks in hydration and style
- Lightly scents hair

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Provitamin B5: Conditions and volumizes.
- Oribe Signature Complex and Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein: Defend hair from environmental elements, oxidative stress, photoaging, and the deterioration of natural keratin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Meet Superfine Hair Spray’s super-strong sibling. This sheer formula takes hair spray to the next level, locking in must-hold styles with lustrous, natural-looking shine. Released in a light, even mist, it keeps strands locked in place and lightly perfumed with Oribe’s signature scent.

All Oribe products are dermatologist tested and formulated with safe, high-quality, innovative ingredients. They are also PETA approved, UV protective, and color- and keratin-treatment safe.

Fragrance Description: Created in collaboration with one of the oldest French Fragrance houses, Oribe’s signature scent, Côte d’Azur, features sun-drenched notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood—embodying the glamour and heat of the legendary destination.

What it is: A sheer, high-performance hair spray—in a perfect size to throw in your purse—with light to medium hold and a brushable, touchable finish.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Hold
- Shine

Key Benefits:
- Provides light to medium hold
- Leaves a soft, brushable finish
- Lightly scents hair

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Aloe Leaf Extract: Hydrates, smooths, and nourishes hair.
- Mango and Kiwi Fruit Extracts: Deliver moisture, flexibility, and antioxidant benefits.
- Oribe Signature Complex: Defends hair from environmental elements, oxidative stress, photoaging, and the deterioration of natural keratin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Bringing new technology to old-style glamour, this high-performance mist is both a dry-styling and setting spray. Lightly scented with Oribe’s signature fragrance and fortified with provitamin B5, it delivers flexible hold and an ultra-dry finish for shiny, soft control.

All Oribe products are dermatologist tested and formulated with safe, high-quality, innovative ingredients. They are also PETA approved, UV protective, and color- and keratin-treatment safe.

Fragrance Description: Created in collaboration with one of the oldest French Fragrance houses, Oribe’s signature scent, Côte d’Azur, features sun-drenched notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood—embodying the glamour and heat of the legendary destination.

What it is: A travel-friendly hair spray with flexible, touchable hold to combat frizz and humidity, protecting your style in any climate.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Shine

Key Benefits:
- Defends against frizz
- Adds weightless texture
- Finishes styles with light hold

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Unique Copolymer: Extends the longevity of your style in any climate.
- Vitamin E: Protects against free radicals and nourishes.
- Oribe Signature Complex: Defends hair from environmental elements, oxidative stress, photoaging, and the deterioration of natural keratin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight, anti-frizz hair spray acts like a shield against humidity and environmental damage, protecting sleek blowouts and perfect curls alike. Miami tested and approved, it nourishes, protects, and delivers smooth, touchable style on the sultriest days (and nights).

All Oribe products are dermatologist tested and formulated with safe, high-quality, innovative ingredients. They are also PETA approved, UV protective, and color- and keratin-treatment safe.

Fragrance Description: Created in collaboration with one of the oldest French Fragrance houses, Oribe’s signature scent, Côte d’Azur, features sun-drenched notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood—embodying the glamour and heat of the legendary destination.

What it is: A sheer, high-performance hair spray with light to medium hold and a brushable, touchable finish.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Hold
- Shine

Key Benefits:
- Provides light to medium hold
- Leaves a soft, brushable finish
- Lightly scents hair

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Aloe Leaf Extract: Hydrates, smooths, and nourishes hair.
- Mango and Kiwi Fruit Extracts: Deliver moisture, flexibility, and antioxidant benefits.
- Oribe Signature Complex: Defends hair from environmental elements, oxidative stress, photoaging, and the deterioration of natural keratin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Bringing new technology to old-style glamour, this high-performance mist is both a dry-styling and setting spray. Lightly scented with Oribe’s signature fragrance and fortified with provitamin B5, it delivers flexible hold and an ultra-dry finish for shiny, soft control.

All Oribe products are dermatologist tested and formulated with safe, high-quality, innovative ingredients. They are also PETA approved, UV protective, and color- and keratin-treatment safe.

Fragrance Description: Created in collaboration with one of the oldest French Fragrance houses, Oribe’s signature scent, Côte d’Azur, features sun-drenched notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood—embodying the glamour and heat of the legendary destination.

What it is: A unique, multi-phase no-salt wave spray that achieves piecey beach waves with body, grit, and a touch of hold and shine.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns: Hold, Shine, and Volumizing

Formulation: Lightweight Spray

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Zeolite: Fights frizz, detoxifies hair, and builds long-lasting volume and texture.
- Silica: Absorbs moisture and sebum to give hair matte volume.
- Sea Buckthorn Oil: Rich in vitamin C and A, antioxidants, and healthy omega fatty acids, including the essential omega-7.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also cruelty-free and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Unique multi-phase technology works in synergy to achieve piecey beach waves with body, grit, and a touch of hold and shine. Each phase is special—shake well to deliver: enhanced shine and protection, a smooth feel with reduced tackiness, and increased moisture with matte volume.

Clinical Results: Sea buckthorn berry (also known as obliphica) is included in all of Amika’s haircare and styling products. It contains over 190 biologically active compounds, including vitamin C (15 times more than an orange), vitamin A (three times more than a carrot), and vitamin E. It also has high concentrations of the rare omega-7, making up 40 percent of the berry. Typically only found in fish oil, omega-7 keeps free radicals at bay and promotes the production of collagen, a key building block for skin, hair, and nails.

Sea buckthorn has been thoroughly researched in over 130 modern scientific studies that have found that this berry promotes health. Women throughout the ages have used the obliphica berry to protect themselves against the ravages of the sun and the elements. Founded on tradition and now based on extensive scientific research, sea buckthorn is one of the biggest functional whole food rediscoveries of the 21st century.

What it is: A lightweight styling mist, infused with mineral-rich Dead Sea salt.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns: Heat Protection, Volumizing, and Hold

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Flex-Strength Complex: Supports hair’s strength and flexibility to help prevent breakage due to vigorous hair styling techniques and hot tools.
- Caviar Extract: Rich source of omega-3 fatty acids; restores moisture, elasticity, and shine to hair.
- Seasilk: Provides hydration and nourishment to hair.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, and phthalates.

What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight mist is infused with mineral-rich Dead Sea salt for tousled, beachy waves all year round. It creates piece-y, textured waves and enhances natural texture. It adds volume and nourishes the hair, while also providing natural shine.

What it is: A lightweight spray to instantly hydrate, redefine curls and coils in between washes, enhance shine, and reduce frizz.

Hair Type: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Dryness
- Frizz

Key Benefits:
- Instantly leaves curls more defined
- Reactivates moisture, shape, and shine
- Instant frizz control

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Manuka Honey: Intensely hydrates for smooth, manageable curls.
- Ceramides: Lock in moisture to restore natural body and protect against breakage.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and mineral oil.

What Else You Need to Know: Say goodbye to flat, lifeless curls with this innovative lightweight spray. It works to reactivate and redefine curl shape in between washes, leaving curls more defined, with all-day frizz control. Infused with manuka honey and ceramides, the formula intensely moisturizes to refresh curls and coils while enhancing shine.

Fragrance Description: A warm and elegant composition born from the petals of glowing tuberoses. Top notes of frangipani flower and jasmine petal; middle notes of tuberose petal fir absolu, freesia, and tiare; and base notes of white musk bouquet, honey milk, and nougat.

Research Results: In a controlled study using system of Curl Manifesto Gelee vs. non-conditioning shampoo

-74% more defined curls instantly were shown*
-24H frizz control was shown*
-73% more conditioned hair was shown*
-63% more hydrated hair was shown*

In a controlled study using system of Curl Manifesto Bain + Fondant + Creme + Gelee + Refresh
-Reactivated moisture, shape, and shine was shown**

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
A finishing spray that gives hair touchable texture and fullness.

Key benefits:
- Creates touchable, brushable, and non-stick finish
- Buildable for a customized amount of texture
- Helps to absorb excess oil

If you want to know more…
This multipurpose spray adds dimensional texture, shape, and movement to all hair types, boosting fullness and locking in volume. Bodifying polymers create an "invisible scaffolding" between strands to keep them from clumping together. 

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Phthalates

What it is: A lightweight texture spray that adds body and shine without crunch or buildup.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, and Curly

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Shine
- Volumizing
- Color Safe

Key Benefits:
- Gives hair lightweight texture and body
- Adds shine and softness to hair
- Provides extraordinary color protection

Formulation: Spray

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Sunflower Seed Extract: Nourishes hair and adds shine.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This spray includes a signature aromatherapy blend of tuberose, almond milk, and cedarwood and a patented Antifade Complex® to protect color vibrancy and ensure lasting color payoff. It also includes sunflower seed, a UV filter, and vitamin E to fight color-depleting environmental effects while ensuring lasting shine.

What it is: A 99 percent natural, multitasking setting spray infused with bamboo to provide texture, lift, light hold, and shine.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns: Curl-Enhancing, Hold, and Shine

Formulation: Lightweight Spray

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Bamboo and Spirulina Extract: Protect and hold your hairstyle.
- Chamomile and Sage Extracts: Soothe and add shine.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free and gluten-free and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This natural setting and styling spray creates flexible hold for wet or dry use. It is infused with spirulina, chamomile, and sage extracts to protect and hold your hairstyle, and is scented like fresh coconut mixed with eucalyptus essential oils, offering refreshing, warm vanilla notes.

Clean at Sephora
Clean at Sephora is formulated without a list of over 50 ingredients, including sulfates (SLS and SLES), parabens, phthalates, and more. For the full list, check out the Ingredients tab.

What it is: A lightweight, texturizing mist formulated to add shine, natural definition, texture, and volume for long-lasting style.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Key Benefits: Adds Volume, Protects Against UV Rays, and Color Safe

Formulation: Spray

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein: Helps increase body, facilitates styling, and enhances the look of sheen and the texture.
- Benzophenone-4: Helps to minimize the impact of UV light on hair.
- Panthenol (Vitamin B5): Delivers moisture, softness, and shine.
- Alpha Keratin 60ku®: a healing protein that’s identical to the keratin that makes up 90% of our hair. It repaves and refills keratin, repairing damaged hair with each use.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: Formulated with Virtue’s revolutionary Alpha Keratin 60ku® protein, this lightweight styling mist delivers healthy shine while infusing hair with immediate, flexible, and buildable texture. It helps to protect against UV damage and keep hair looking its healthiest.

Clinical Results: In a consumer perception study conducted on 50 respondents, immediately after use:
- 98% of women felt their hair had instant texture and volume

After 8 hours:
- 94% of women felt that their style was enhanced, and their texture, body, and style lasted all day

After 1 week of use:
- 96% of women felt that their style lasted longer, had buildable hold, and had better texture definition