I have a chin length straight bob. What do I need to make it into a tousled bob?

[LauraPashley]

I'm thinking I need a product? I am rubbish at GHD curling, and don't really want curls anyway, more of a messy look? Being out in the wind and rain today partially achieved it for me but don't think I can use that as an every day styling technique!

[MrsRogerSterling]

Long layers and seasalt spray would work. Does your hair have a natural wave if left to dry itself?

[Hopefully]

I use a Redken powder called something-grip. It is magic I tell you. Instant tousled bob, and my hair is super sleek and straight the rest of the time. I also use a bit of another Redken product - tousle whip, I think - to define ends a bit.

[Hopefully]

Just checked, it is rather unimaginatively called 'powder grip'

[LauraPashley]

Ooh thank you! I wouldn't go so far as to say it had a wave, but it is def not straight. More of a kink! What is seasalt spray?

I've used redken straightening stuff before and loved it, will investigate the powder, thank you! How do you dry it? Your hair I mean, is it as simple as drying it roughly?

[WinklyFriedChicken]

Schwartzkopf got2b volumising powder is pretty good at making my poker straight boring hair look big & a bit tousled

[JuliaFlyte]

You need layers for the tousled look

[Hopefully]

I dry mine 'properly' (tucked under with a brush and drier) the tousle it up - if I dry it roughly it just looks scruffy and unkempt instead of artfully just rolled out of bed, iykwim. Then I add powder and gloop.

Incidentally, I don't really have any layers, just very slight graduation and my bob is very angled from back to front, and I don't struggle with scruffy now I have the right products - I have never managed it until these Redken products.

[XiCi]

Has anyone tried wave tongs? They look promising for this kind of beach curl look

[MadAboutHotChoc]

You could do what I do with my DD - twist strands of damp hair and then pin it to your head and after a few hours (or in the morning), remove pins and presto wavy hair without the use of chemicals/tongs etc.

[AgathaFusty]

XiCi - I bought a set of those wave things. My hair is shoulder length, long layers, natural curl/wave but I usually straighten it daily.

I looked like Wendolene out of Wallace and Gromit, only a bit wavier - here

[SalmonRusty]

I have the bizarrely named Redken wool shake gel slush - it was great when I had a chin length bob for giving it texture and volume and 'grip'. It's quite mattifying though.

[XiCi]

Haha Agatha. That wasnt quite the look I was hoping for!

[AgathaFusty]

XiCi - no, it wasn't quite the look I was going for either

[Jaeme]

I have the enrapture Amplify jumbo waver, I like it but you have to be careful up near the roots or you get an obvious line so I only tend to use it close to the root underneath then on about 2/3 on top section.
I use it on roughly dried hair then follow with salt spray and it looks like beach / surf hair but not sure that's the kind of style OP is going for

[AgathaFusty]

Does the salt spray make you hair feel dry?

[3mily]

Sea salt here too. Love the stuff. Either Bumble and Bumble or Umberto Giannini (cheaper, in boots and I like the smell of it.)

[Jaeme]

I don't think it makes it feel dry but if you use too much in one area without running your fingers through it will feel crunchy and tangled. And obviously use a heat protector spray if you use the waver. I also use bumble and bumble mending mask once a week just to make sure the heat styling doesn't cause damage.

I've used salt / texturising sprays for years ( started off with beach blonde ocean waves - I miss that stuff so much) and experimented with a few different ones, best ones I've found so far are bumble & bumble surf spray and Charles worthington front row sea salt spray.

[LauraPashley]

AIBU to be drooling a bit at the thought of all these products to try?!

Would salt water spray and pinning up work I wonder?

hopefully do you just tousle with your fingers? My budget won't stretch to anything I need to plug in!