I’ve lengthy prided myself on abstaining from sizzling instruments and have been sans-straightener since center faculty. However, final month, I acquired an $18 face body from a cosmetology faculty scholar (she killed it) and realized that my new fringe demanded occasional TLH — tender, love, and warmth. So I blew the mud off my blow dryer brush, ate my humble pie, and located a product that stored my mane silky and protected. Rapidly, I used to be misplaced within the sauce of surplus depart in conditioner, hair oil, and hair masks choices and none of them appeared to do every thing I used to be searching for. So when the information of the just-launched Ouai Hair Gloss landed on the high of my inbox, I used to be intrigued.

Ouai‘s Hair Gloss is the latest product from the mostly-hair, sometimes-perfume model, based by celeb stylist Jen Atkin. The paraben-free and cruelty-free gloss is fragranced with Ouai’s North Bondi Eau de Parfum (assume white musk and beachy florals) and guarantees warmth safety, colour fading prevention, frizz-reduction, energy, and shininess. In case your hair is already liable to breakage, the gloss additionally purports to deal with injury, too.

Whereas Ouai cites the energetic elements within the gloss as hyaluronic acid, sugar beets, panthenol, and rice water, beauty chemist Ginger King defined to Attract that the pressure behind the components is a mixture of silicones. “Hyaluronic acid can assist to coat and make hair much less frizzy, however the ‘gloss’ half comes from dimethicone, phenyl trimethicone, and dimethiconol,” says King.

In 2022, amid a rice water craze on TikTok, Attract spoke to board-certified dermatologist Howard Sobel, M.D. about the advantages of the starchy liquid. “It accommodates antioxidants, amino acids, nutritional vitamins, and a substance known as inositol, which all contribute to creating the hair shinier and stronger,” Dr. Sobel remarked.