Finish & refresh

Choose a finishing touch or a targeted refresh between washes.

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Choose your starting point

Match the method to the part of your style you want to adjust: ends, flyaways, roots, curl groups or overall hold. Softening a fully dry gel cast differs from rewetting curls for a refresh; check the starting state before choosing.

Compare the methods

Explore the methods below. Open a guide for when to use it, what you’ll need and the full steps.

A woman lifts a dry section and aims an unlabeled aerosol can at the exposed roots from a distance.

2–5 min hands-on

Apply and remove dry shampoo

Dry-shampoo use places an oil-absorbing cosmetic powder at dry roots between washes, then removes the loose residue as its label directs.

A woman brings her own dry hair forward and smooths the ends between relaxed hands.

30–60 sec hands-on

Apply finishing serum or oil to ends

Ends finishing is a light application of leave-in serum or oil to the tips of dry hair for the finish the product is designed to provide.

Pressing powder onto a small visible root section.

1–3 min hands-on

Apply temporary root powder

Temporary root powder is pressed onto dry roots with its supplied brush to change their visible color until washing.

Guiding shorter crown hairs toward nearby lengths with a soft brush.

30 sec–2 min hands-on

Blend short hairs into a style

Short-hair blending guides reachable shorter hairs into the surrounding dry style with light product and a small brush or fingers.

Supporting a dry curl section while a wide-tooth comb opens the ends into a soft wave.

3–8 min hands-on

Brush out a curl set into soft waves

A curl-set brush-out separates fully cool curls with fingers, a wide-tooth comb or a soft brush to make a softer wave pattern.

Moving a small section aside while drawing a shallow zigzag part.

30 sec–2 min hands-on

Change or zigzag your part

Part changing moves the visible root line, while a zigzag part breaks that line into small alternating sections.

A woman checks her dry finished style with open hands while the hairspray can stands upright on a dresser.

15–30 sec hands-on

Finish a style with hairspray

A dry-hair finishing method that adds a light, label-directed hairspray finish after styling.

A woman gently guides a small group of gray hairs along her side part with relaxed fingertips.

15–60 sec hands-on

Guide wiry gray strands into your style

Gray-strand shaping uses damp fingertip direction and gentle release to settle selected wiry hairs into an existing style.

Gliding a thin leave-in film over dry mids and ends with palms.

30 sec–2 min hands-on

Reduce static in dry weather

Static reduction uses less rubbing and a thin compatible conditioning film to reduce flyaway cling on dry hair.

One hand supports damp coil ends while the other smooths a thin film of leave-in down the lower lengths.

2–5 min hands-on

Refresh coily hair between washes

A light between-wash refresh dampens selected coil sections and adds leave-in only where wanted.

Woman cups the ends of her own lightly damp loose curls in both open hands during one gentle reshaping press.

2–5 min hands-on

Refresh waves and curls between washes

A wave-and-curl refresh lightly rewets and reshapes selected loose sections between washes instead of repeating the full styling routine.

A woman uses her fingertips to work styling paste through a small area at the crown of her short hair.

1–3 min hands-on

Shape short hair with styling paste

Styling paste is worked through selected short pieces to separate, direct and lightly hold a dry hairstyle.

A woman uses two fingertips to guide one small hairline flyaway toward her low ponytail.

30–60 sec hands-on

Smooth flyaways with a finishing product

A dry-hair finishing method that guides a few selected flyaways in the direction of the surrounding style.

Woman cups fully dry curl groups in both open, empty hands and gently lifts them toward her jaw.

1–3 min hands-on

Soften a dry gel cast

Softening a gel cast means gently compressing fully dry, firm curl groups until they feel as soft as you want, without pulling the groups apart.

A woman supports her dry ends with one hand while smoothing cream down the lower lengths with the other.

30 sec–2 min hands-on

Soften dry lengths without water

Dry-length refreshing uses a small amount of dry-use conditioning cream on selected lengths between washes.