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TikTok Beauty Tutorials Strike Again With A Dry Shampoo Game Changer

Apparently we've been using it wrong this whole time - by Delaney Loane
  • 14 May 2020
TikTok Beauty Tutorials Strike Again With A Dry Shampoo Game Changer

Ah, dry shampoo, how we love thee. A product that needs next to no introduction, it's the hallowed hair product that gifts us a precious extra half hour of sleep every morning through extending our hair washing schedule out yet another 24 hours (six days strong and thriving, if you were wondering), while also blessing us with levels of tousled texture that clean hair could only dream of.

But while we're well acquainted with what dry shampoo does, it turns out we may not be pros at applying it after all - @corascamera (a hairdresser gaining serious traction on TikTok) took to the app to offer her tips, and apparently we've been doing it wrong this entire time (eek).

The TikTok technique

In a TikTok titled ‘if dry shampoo doesn’t work for you, here is why’, she shares this wisdom: “So you’re probably using dry shampoo wrong, and I’m going to show you how to use it right. You’re going to take your favourite dry shampoo (Cora uses Kevin Murphy but also recommends Dove, two choices we can fully get behind), and spray it very generously at your roots, all over,” she says.

“Very generously,” she emphasises. Okay, at least we’ve been doing one thing right - it usually takes us a solid minute to emerge from our dry shampoo dust cloud post spritz.

Kevin Murphy Dry Shampoo

Kevin Murphy Fresh Hair Dry Shampoo, $39.95, available at adorebeauty.com.au

Dove Dry Shampoo

Dove Refresh + Care Dry Shampoo, $10, available at woolworths.com.au

Prepare yourselves; here's the kicker. “Then you’re going to leave it in, for like five or ten minutes,” she says, deadpanning to the camera with what appears to be a hair look inspired by the villain from The Incredibles. “So you can leave it in while you’re doing your makeup, or whatever you’ve got to do.” Consider this a challenge to nail your everyday face in five to ten flat.

Once your time's up, it's onto the next step. “After you’ve let it sit, rub it in like this,” she says, using her fingers to work the product into her roots. “Make sure it gets spread out all evenly, and then you’re going to brush it through all the way.”

And just like you wouldn’t only apply shampoo when washing with water, Cora recommends rounding out your routine with the dry-styling equivalent of your second shower step. “I like to follow up with a dry conditioner," she says, reaching again for Kevin Murphy. "And then you’re clean,” she declares with strands that we swear could pass for freshly washed - sorcery.

Kevin Murphy Dry Conditioner

Kevin Murphy Young Again Dry Conditioner, $38, available at ozhairandbeauty.com.au

After the visuals? Check out the TikTok-approved technique here.

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