Best Styling Gel

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A styling gel is a styling product that helps you get the look you want by adding texture, body, and hold. It can be used to create curls and waves or for frizz control. Here are some of our favorites.

Bumble and bumbleCurl Anti-Humidity Hair Gel Oil

ITEM: 2319747

Size: 5.0 oz/ 150 mL

57 Reviews

$49.00

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Really great gel/oil for someone who needs help with styling. ...Great finishing/styling product!...This is the perfect blend of oil-moisturizer-gel. I use it on the 3rd or 4th day after Wash Day as a refresher when I don't want to add too much product.

What it is: A nourishing gel-oil that is enhanced with a rich blend of oils and butters to elongate curls while adding hydration, bounce, and protection against humidity.

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Texture: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Dryness
- Frizz

$38.00

Great, one of the best for curly...One of the best curl styling products out there. I can put it in wet, curly hair and forget about it. ...It’s not heavy so it doesn’t weigh down my curls. The gel doesn’t hold the curls as well as some other gels do but aids in the formation of curls.

What it is: A creamy, smooth curl gel with aloe vera, coconut oil, and cacay oil to nourish and define curls with a medium hold — great for wash-and-gos.

Hair Texture: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Color Safe
- Curl-Enhancing
- Hold & Style Extending

Key Benefits:
- A favorite for wash-and-gos
- Curls are left flexible, springy, and touchable
- Flake and crunch-free finish

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragr

$35.00

I used to use eco gel for styling my curly hair, slick backs, ect but recently I bought this gel and it is absolutely perfect!! ...My hair is frizzy, short, and usually hard to style, but this gel kept my hair perfectly in place throughout my entire work shift.

What it is: A high-performance, strong-hold styling gel made with bamboo sap water, great for sleek ponytails, slick backs, updos, and topknots.

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Frizz
- Hold and Style Extending

Key Benefits:
- Provides all-day, crunch-free hold
- Adds shine
- Reduces frizz

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Fenty Beauty by Rihanna’s Proprietary Complex, Replenicore-5: Clinically tested to visibly repair and strengthen, hydrate, smooth, and protect.
- Bamboo Sap Water: Known to hydrate dry hair.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recycl

$25.00

This is my first time trying a fenty hair product, and I’m enjoying it! The gel has a strong hold, but doesn’t get thick and crusty like other hair gels. ...This hair gel is so effective and smells amazing! It arrives in the cutest packaging and has a lot of product for how much it cost! ...The best hair styling gel!...Great strong hold gel

What it is: A visibly thickening, high-hold edge gel made with Larchwood extract and red clover flower extract.

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Damage, Split Ends, and Breakage
- Hold and Style Extending
- Thinning

Key Benefits:
- Strengthens and fortifies fragile strands
- Tames flyaways
- Provides long-lasting hold

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Fenty Beauty by Rihanna’s Proprietary Complex, Replenicore-5: Clinically tested to visibly repair and strengthen, hydrate, smooth, and protect.
- Larchwood Extract and Red Clover Flower Extract: Botanical extracts used to fortify and support healthy-looking hair.

$30.00

When styling my hair I use Verb Curl Foaming Gel to hold my curls in place. ...Verb Curl Foaming Gel left my hair with precise curls, without the crunchiness other gels leave behind.

What it is: A foaming gel that offers the frizz control and deep definition of a gel, with the lightweight feel and crunch-free finish of a mousse.


Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick


Hair Texture: Wavy, Curly, and Coily


Hair Concerns:

- Curl Enhancing

- Hold & Style Extending

- Frizz

$38.00

This gel is better than most of the gels I have used. ...holy grail of strong gels...I love this gel.

What it is: A flexible hold gel with the strength to provide a long-lasting hold without breaking or drying hair and nourish while creating a slick look.

Hair Type: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Hold
- Color Safe

Key Benefits:
- Lasting hold without damaging curls, coils, or tight textures
- Luscious slippage to easily distribute through the hair—ideal for slick styles
- Infused with sea moss, aloe vera, and chia seeds to nourish and fortify curls
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Irish Moss
- Flaxseed Oil
- Castor Oil

$41.00

As someone with curly hair, I’m always on the hunt for the perfect styling gel—something that defines my curls without weighing them down or leaving them crunchy. ...I Will never be without this gel...The best curly hair gel l've ever used. I have 3a/3b curly hair and have tried all sorts of hair products from expensive to affordable, creams, gels, leave-ins and everything in between.

What it is: A curl-defining styling gel for greater curl retention, and bouncy, smooth, strong, crunch-free, and frizz-free curls.

Hair Texture: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Dryness
- Frizz

Key Benefits:
- 72-hour frizz control
- Three times greater curl retention
- Smoother, easier detangling, and more conditioned

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Patented OLAPLEX Bond Building Technology™: Repairs disulfide bonds responsible for hair strength and curl patterns.
- Curl Retention Compound: Forms a curl-locking barrier to maintain definition, smoothness, and shine.
- Coconut-Avocado Milk: Fortifies, reduces brea

amikaCurl Corps Curl Enhancing Hair Gel

ITEM: 2069151

Size: 6.7 oz/ 200 mL

93 Reviews

$42.00

A No-Crunch Gel!...Finally!!! No-crunch curl gel! Tons of gels I’ve tried have actually made my curls crunchy looking and just flat out greasy. ...A little goes a long way (my little sample lasted for two after shower stylings) and I believe it addresses frizz better than Devacurl’s equivalent product of ultra defining gel.

Which hair texture is it good for?
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Frizz
- Dryness

$57.00

I really like this hair gel! I hate the super crunchy feel of hairspray and a lot of gels but this one is awesome. ...it’s not super hard to clean out like some other gels I have used for this style!

What it is: A styling gel-cream with light, buildable hold and zero residue that smooths and polishes strands and can be brushed out without washing.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, and Curly

Hair Texture: Fine and Medium

Hair Concerns:
- Frizz
- Hold
- Shine

Key Benefits:
- Smooths frizz and flyaways
- Polishes hair and adds shine
- Moisturizes and strengthens strands

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Tsubaki Seed Oil: Intensely moisturizes, adds shine, and strengthens strands without adding weight.
- Jojoba Milk: Smooths and softens.
- Film-Form Polymer: Holds hair in place for a polished finish without stiffness.

$43.50

It leaves my curls feeling soft and light, not heavy or crunchy like most gels do. A+ styling product. Looking forward to trying the deep conditioning treatment next!...I can easy get more than a week out of a style without the drying effect of traditional gels.

What it is: A concentrated, cream-based, healthy hair gel that elongates, moisturizes, and defines without dryness, crunch, or tackiness.

Hair Type: Medium and Thick

Hair Texture: Curly and Coily

Hair Concerns: Dryness, Frizz, and Curl Enhancing

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