Backstage at Stella McCartney fall 2015
Question: How do I style damp hair when I'm running out the door in the morning so that it looks polished and intentional once it air dries?
Answer: Hot weather can make everyday styling more challenging than usual—a blowdry takes seemingly forever in a muggy bathroom, frizz is pretty much a given and wet, undone hair never quite air-dries to the perfect beachy waves we imagine.
But Toni & Guy's US Celebrity Stylist Christian Wood, the man behind Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's perfect hair (enough said), has two go-to styles for pretty waves with hardly any effort.
First things first, run a shine serum or mousse through damp hair for smoothness and light hold. Then you have two options, neither of which is a braid (they take forever to dry and can look flat and crimped when you unwind them). "Tie your hair in a tight top knot, but secure it with one long bobby pin instead of a band to avoid kinks," says Wood. "If you do it tight enough, it will smooth out everything and create a pretty wave."
For cooler, messier texture, you can substitute a salt spray in place of serum, then gather the hair at the nape of the neck, divide it in half and tightly twist the sections around each other in the opposite direction.
By Alexander Tunell