Where there’s a hairstyle, there’s a way… and also a styling tool or two to make it happen. From smooth, sleek strands to lush curls, there’s a perfect hair tool to achieve any style your heart desires. The best part is, quality tools make your hair look salon-level good, especially when paired with the right styling products. So scroll on and ID the styles you’re into below, then shop the tools and products you need at Sephora to get the look.
Smooth & Volume
Nothing beats a glossy blowout and this heated brush and smoothing cream combo gets you there. Oribe’s lightweight Supershine Moisturizing Hair Cream adds shine and frizz-control pre- and post-styling, while Shark Beauty’s Shark SmoothStyle — a heated round brush with a mix of boar and nylon bristles — helps smooth and add luster to strands as it dries them. For volume, take the brush underneath the hair to give it some nice lift.
Natural Straight
For a straight style with brilliant shine, a prerequisite is a product that adds lots of moisture and frizz-control. We love starting with Amika’s The Wizard Detangling Hair Primer which is packed with nourishing squalane and vitamin A and C-rich sea buckthorn to protect hair against heat (up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit!). As for your styling tool, Dyson’s new Airstrait Straightener takes hair from wet to dry and sleek without heat damage thanks to its revolutionary iron plates that use airflow instead of heat to straighten strands.
Slicked Back Bun
A polished updo looks complicated, but only really requires two things: A good hair dryer and a non-flaky hair gel. The best out there: Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer and Crown Affair The Flexible Hold Finishing Hair Gel. Engineered to dry hair while improving smoothness, increasing shine, and reducing frizz and flyaways, Dyson’s dryer is our pick for creating a smooth base for our hair before sweeping it back into a bun. Tip: Use the styling concentrator attachment for precise air flow and a flyaway-free finish. Next, comb hair back into a high or low bun depending on your desired look and slick back the top with a small dollop of The Flexible Hold Finishing Hair Gel, a gel-cream formula that melts into strands for light, buildable hold without being stiff or crunchy.
Bouncy Blowout
The classic lush, swingy, I-just-walked-out-of-the-salon blowout will never go out of style, so having these two products on hand is a must: The JVN Embody Volumizing Foam and Shark Beauty’s Shark FlexStyle Hair Blow Dryer & Multi-Styler For Straight & Wavy Hair. JVN’s foam is like a primer for your hair: Apply from roots to ends on damp hair before going in with the dryer for featherweight bounce, volume, and swishy movement. Follow with Shark Beauty’s versatile styler that lets you achieve dozens of hair looks, but for this we like to use the oval brush drying attachment for volume as you dry. For additional bounce, try the included 1.25” auto-wrap curlers for added body.
Defined Curls
Designed for textured hair, Curlsmith’s Defrizzion Dryer & XXL Diffuser helps dry hair while adding sculpted definition and fuzz-free shine to curls and waves. Priming wet hair with Adwoa Melonberry Vitamin C Frizz Fighting Hair Gel will give it hold and luster prior to styling, thanks to shine-boosting vitamin C and and hydrating squalane.
