Throughout my time as a beauty editor, my skin, makeup and wellness routine has expanded exponentially, as product testing and research leads me to discover new favorites on the daily. But, while I’ve found myself impressed with new skin-care and makeup products regularly, the one category I’ve struggled to really find my product soulmate in is hair care.
For a while, I thought that my hair just wasn’t made for product, as almost all styling products and treatments left my hair feeling one of many different ways: weighed down, stiff, oily, greasy, you name it. After I discovered that my hair does have a slight wave to it, I struggled even more to find curl-defining products that worked with my texture, and began to think that I was doomed to having to heat style my hair everyday. That was, however, until I discovered JVN’s Air Dry Cream ($28)—one of few products I can truly say changed my life.
JVN Air Dry Cream: The Only Product That Works on My Wavy Hair
I come from a long lineage of curly-haired people, and while my immediate family all sport heads of ringlets, my hair has always been rather formless. Only recently did I discover that my wonky hair is, in fact, wavy, and I struggled to adapt my hair-care routine to accommodate. Most curl products I used made my hair fall flat or required diffusing and finger-coiling to maintain their shape.
I decided to try the JVN Air Dry Cream this past summer at Sephora‘s Hot Summer Hair Event, and the results were so miraculous I thought it had to be a fluke. After washing my hair and scrunching in the air dry cream at home on my own several times and achieving—for the first time in my life—consistent, lasting wave definition with no heat, no greasy, residue-y feeling, stiffness or a need for additional styling products, I knew that the product was as magical as it seemed on first use.
With hemisqualene, moringa seed oil, chia and linseed extract working together inside this lush, vegan, silicone- and sulfate-free formula, JVN’s Air Dry Cream provides long-lasting, touchable hold and definition while delivering 24-hour frizz control and prevention. JVN’s Air Dry Cream not only made my wavy hair look good, it made it feel good. As founder Jonathan Van Ness describes it, “Air Dry Cream gives you the hold of gel, but the touchable softness of a hair cream.” Now I’m able to depend on this cream to give me presentable waves with just a few scrunches and no heat, so my days of planning my shower and get ready time to accommodate blow drying and heat styling my hair are gone, and it’s nothing but blue sky and healthy waves from here.
