The Best Regimen To Tame Flyaway Hair

Ever wonder why you have those pesky flyaway hair strands? They can be caused from a number of different reasons. Depending on whats causing them, they may be worse in the wintertime when the air is dry; or worse in the summertime with the humidity. Keep reading to find out what’s causing your flyaway hairs, as well as how to get rid of them for good!

What causes flyaway hair?

There are three main factors that can cause flyaway hair strands. First determining what is causing these pesky flyaways will ultimately help you to tame them better.

1. New hair growth flyaways

The first cause for flyaway hair is new hairs growing in. This typically will cause the flyaway hair to be focused at your root, or only one horizontal section of your hair that seems to be growing down. This is opposed to the flyaways covering the entire length of your hair.

Anyone may experience hair loss after a significant event, stress, medication change, childbirth, covid, or any number of reasons.

When the hair starts to grow back in, it will appear to come in the form of baby hairs or flyaway hair until it attains some length and thickness to it.

If you think this may be your cause, check out my post here to learn more about thinning hair.

2. Hair breakage causing flyaways

The most common form of flyaway hair is unfortunately caused from hair breakage. Hair breakage can be from a number of different factors, some that you may not expect, like hair ties!

Pay attention to where the flyaway hair is and notice what is happening in that area of your hair that may be causing it.

If the flyaways seem to be at the crown of your head and you frequently wear a high and tight pony, then that’s probably your issue!

Keep in mind that messy buns can create flyaway hair wherever the hair tie is tight against your hair. So this can be pretty funky looking down your hair strand.

If the flyaways are up and down your entire hair strand relatively evenly or more focused on your ends traveling up, then this is likely caused from heat or iron damage. You should NEVER use your iron with the temperature all the way up. And you should ALWAYS use a thermal protector before ironing your hair.

To learn more about hair breakage, see my post here, and to learn more about caring for your hair while ironing see my post here.

3. Lack of moisture frizz and flyaways

Just like skin, our hair needs to be moisturized regularly. And I’m not talking about just with conditioner in the shower either.

Even if your hair is not color treated and you don’t use heat on it, you still need to be doing a conditioning treatment frequently and using a leave-in conditioner.

And if your hair is color treated and you do use heat on it, this should be done in excess.

Our hair strands are like fish scales, and if they aren’t properly moisturized they will be opened up, causing frizzy hair and breakage. The outer layer should be laying down flat to protect the inner layers of the hair strand.

To determine how often you should be doing a conditioning treatment based on the condition of your hair in particular, see my post here.

Also, keep in mind that static hair is caused from a lack of moisture as well! If the hair was moisturized, it would not be holding an electric charge to stand straight up.

What products are best to tame flyaway hair?

In order to combat frizzy and flyaway hair, you’ll need to follow a product regimen to heal your hair if its damaged as well as smooth down your cuticle and any static hair/new growth.

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Shampoo and Conditioner for frizzy hair

• Aquage Silkening oil Shampoo and Conditioner

Aquage is one of my favorite brands, specifically their Sea Extend line that combats frizz, protects against humidity, restores moisture, and repairs damage.

Conditioning treatment for frizzy hair

• Olaplex no. 3

Olaplex is known for their patented technology for strengthening broken bonds in the hair. This product’s focus is on strengthening the hair. They were the first of their kind and have been a game changer in the hair world.

Use this product BEFORE you shampoo, let it sit on for at least 10 minutes, and then shampoo and condition afterwards. It is a bond builder and definitely needs to be shampooed out of the hair. Depending on the condition of your hair, use this product once a week to once a month. I recommend alternating it with a moisture mask, listed below.

• Pravana Intense Therapy Treat

Slightly different from the Olaplex product mentioned above, this treatments main focus is adding lost moisture to the hair. This product is stronger than a regular conditioner as it penetrates deeper into the hair strand to deeply moisturize opposed to just smoothing the surface.

You can use this product after you shampoo and condition your hair as normal. Let it sit on for a minimum of 10 minutes and rinse. Use it once a week to at minimum once a month.

Leave-in Conditioner for frizz

• Pravana Intense Therapy

This is a product that many skimp on, but it most definitely should not be skimped on. Using a leave in conditioner is as important as putting moisturizer on your face! It acts as a detangler, thermal protectant, moisturizer, humidity resistant, porosity equalizer, adds shine, minimizes chlorine effects…need I say more??

Spray this product in your hair after you get out of the shower. It is lightweight and won’t weigh you down.

Hair Serum that fights frizz

• Aquage Silkening Oil Treatment

As I mentioned earlier Aquage does wonders for frizzy hair. And if you were to only buy one product on this entire list, this would be the one to take the cake! This is a leave in hair serum that is life changing. It will make your hair softer than you have ever felt it before, you can take my word on that.

Apply a pump to your hair after you get out of the shower. I recommend using this in conjunction with a leave in conditioner like the one mentioned above.

Iron Heat Protect & Shine Spray

• Aquage Beyond Shine

Surprised to see Aquage on this list again? I didn’t think so! This is my favorite thermal protectant, iron enhancer, and shine spray.

I use this spray on dry hair before I iron to protect the hair from the heat and add shine. You can also use it before blow-drying as well.

Hair spray to combat frizz

• Aquage Volumizing Fix Hairspray

This is a light hold hairspray that won’t weigh your hair down or make it freeze in one place. It provides a flexible hold to keep those crazy hairs under control. It also acts as a UV protectant as well!

Conclusion

There are three main factors that cause flyaway and frizzy hair.

1. New growth, or hair that is newly growing in following hair loss.
2. Hair breakage from irons, hair ties, or vigorous brushing.
3. Dryness and lack of moisture.

To tame flyaway and frizzy hair you should use a specific product regime to keep your hair under control.

1. Silkening shampoo and conditioner
2. Conditioning treatment
3. Leave-in conditioner
4. Hair serum
5. Thermal heat protector and shine spray
6. Frizz control hair spray

Following this product regime, and adjusting your bad habits that may be causing the flyaways and frizz will guarantee you to eliminate the problem.

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Last Updated 12/19/2022