18 Quick Tips to Help Get Rid of Frizzy Hair Overnight
Frizzy hair is so frustrating! Here are quick 18 tips to help you get rid of your frizzy hair overnight.
Some causes of frizz might be slight changes of habit, others might be just some things you didn’t know before.
It’s not rocket science. But it might take a little more time than fixing frizzy hair overnight, but it shouldn’t take that long.
What Causes Frizzy Hair?
Frizzy hair is often caused by dryness.
Dry hair can be caused by hot tools, blow drying the hair, using a curling iron or flat iron. Or by using bad shampoo and conditioner products that throw off the pH of the hair and scalp as well as buildup on the scalp and hair can cause dryness and frizz.
A change of weather can easily be the cause of hair seeming to become frizzy just overnight.
Getting Frizzy Hair Overnight
There are several reasons that morning-time dawns with extra frizz.
- Tossing and turning while you sleep
- Sleeping with wet or damp hair
- Second-day product left in the hair
But don’t worry! We’ll talk about how to fix frizzy hair in the morning and how to keep hair from frizzing overnight.
So what do we do to eliminate frizzy hair?
Here are 18 Tips to eliminate frizzy hair overnight.
We’re going to break them down in to 3 catagories.
👉 What you can do to eliminate frizzy hair overnight
🧴 How products can make frizzy hair worse or can help get rid of frizzy hair overnight
✂️ How to eliminate frizzy hair overnight by getting help in the Salon
What you can do to eliminate frizzy hair overnight
1- Wash hair less often
A lot of times, over-washing your hair can cause more frizz because all of the good oils have been stripped from the hair and the cuticle, the outside shaft of the hair. So what frizz actually is, is the hair groping for moisture in the air.
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2- Touch your hair less
Touching your hair throughout the day can dry out the hair and create static electricity, making the hair look frizzy. Also, the oils from your hair will come off on your hands, or vise versa, whatever might be on your hands will get into your hair and dry it out.
3- Don’t brush wet hair, comb it
Brushing your hair is mostly safe on dry hair, but most definitely not on wet hair.
Hair is very elastic when wet and a brush is too wide and will stretch wet hair to the point of breaking. Some of your frizz is breakage from torn hair when it was elastic and stretchy.
4- Rinse your hair with chilled water
The cuticle, the outside shaft of each hair strand, lifts with heat but lays down with cold. When the cuticle is warm and lifted it is easier for hair to become tangled and frizzy. But by rinsing your hair with cold water or finishing your shower with chilled water will ensure that the cuticle is laying down and will stay flat.
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5- Don’t blow dry your hair
The cuticle of the hair is supposed to lay down flat, the heat from the blow dryer will lift the cuticle, and if it is dried against the grain, it will become significantly more frizzy. So try blow drying your hair so the air blows downward instead of up the hair shaft.
This little technique will help you eliminate frizzy hair overnight. 😉
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6- Use oils to condition and smooth your hair
Oils like argon oil, coconut oil, even a drop of olive oil put on frizzy hair as a leave-in conditioner will help condition and hydrate the wild and annoying frizz and smooth the cuticle down.
Just like we talked about in Tip 1 above, a lot of times frizzy hair is the same as dry hair. Hydrate the frizz and it will go away almost immediately. But be aware that a little oil goes a long way, more than a few drops will make the hair look oily and greasy.
7- Always use heat protectant
Like we discussed above, heat lifts the cuticle. Heat protectant products protect the hair shaft and if there is anything to be burned on the hair, the heat protectant will burn off first before your hair itself burning.
When using a curling iron or flat iron ALWAYS make sure that your hair is 100% dry. If there is any water left in the hair when you iron it, the water will come to a boil cooking the hair from the inside out. So, always curl or iron your hair dry, and ALWAYS use a heat protectant to prevent damage.
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8- Use leave-in conditioner
Leave in conditioner is an extra hydrating product that you don’t wash out. Frizz that comes from static electricity or strays that are groping for moisture in the air, leave-in conditioner will help solve this problem and help tame that frizzy hair overnight naturally!
9- Avoid generic shampoo and conditioner that has silicones and wax filler ingredients
Most generic shampoo and conditioner brands from the grocery store, use different kinds of silicone (which is plastic), and waxes to coat the hair and make it slick and shiny. At first it works, but after several washes the filler ingredients will buildup on the hair and scalp, drying them and makes it frizzy too.
Aim for silicone-free shampoo. Below is an article with a list of exact ingredients that should be avoided.
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Or if you’d like to take an even more natural route and tame frizzy hair naturally overnight, stop using shampoo altogether and try out an Apple Cider Vinegar Hair Rinse. The pH of an apple cider vinegar hair rinse is much healthier for the scalp and adding just a pinch of baking soda will strip buildup!
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10- Never use 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner
2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner defeats the purpose of shampoo and conditioner.
Human skin and the hair has a pH of 4.5-5.5. Shampoo is designed to have a pH higher than the skin and the hair to break down the products, oils, and buildup but leaves the scalp at a higher pH.
Conditioner is supposed to bring the pH back to a 4.5-5.5 so that the skin and hair don’t have to work so hard to get back to it. If the pH is thrown off, the hair is dry and like mentioned before, dryness is the most common cause of frizz.
11- Use a hydrating mask every once in a while
A deep conditioning treatment or mask is excellent for avoiding frizz. Once a week, or every two weeks is enough to deeply hydrate the hair without being too heavy on the hair or cause buildup.
Below is a recipe for an easy DIY deep hydrating mask that not only will tame frizz naturally but also help stimulate hair growth and help your hair grow faster! It is completely natural and chemical-free! Which is great when trying to tame frizzy hair overnight naturally.
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12- Using a clarifying shampoo to strip buildup
Clarifying shampoo is not to be used as a daily or primary cleanser because the purpose of clarifying shampoo is to strip buildup. This is especially excellent for those who swim in chlorine often, or use hairspray or styling gels every day.
Stripping buildup is important for everyone to do to help avoid and tame frizz. But it is absolutely imperative to hydrate the hair after using a clarifying shampoo.
13- Sleep on a silk or satin pillowcase
Some might toss and turn while sleeping, others might not, but sleeping on a satin or silk pillowcase will prevent static electricity that encourages extra frizzy hair overnight that you will have to battle in the morning.
Simply by using a different pillowcase can help you keep your hair smooth overnight.
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14- Get a haircut
Sometimes split ends and broken hair sticks out and gets frizzy. There is nothing you can do to ‘fix’ or ‘repair’ broken hair except to cut it.
If hair is frizzy because of damage, it is time for a trim. This does not mean that you have to get all of the length cut, but even just a touch up around the layers can help.
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15- Don’t color your hair often
The chemicals used on your hair during color treatments lift the cuticle and will eventually crack the cuticle, damaging it. When you color your hair more often, the more damage will happen to the cuticle and the damage causes frizz.
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16- Avoid bleaching and lightening your hair
Not unlike using color, but actually even more so, lightening and bleaching hair is much harsher on your hair as far as damage goes and will crack the cuticle faster.
But like mentioned before, the more damaged the hair is, the dryer the hair becomes, and the harder it is to prevent frizz.
17- If you have curly hair, NEVER get your hair cut with a razor
For those with curly and wavy hair, do not allow your hair to be cut with either a feather razor, or a straight razor.
There are many fun techniques to use and try on the hair with razors but when these techniques are used on curly hair it does not do the same thing and the hair responds poorly, making very big, messy, and frizzy hair.
18- Try a mousse, or gel to style curly and wavy hair while it’s still damp to avoid frizz
When the hair is still damp, but not soaking anymore, add a leave-in conditioner or a drop of olive oil to work through those curls. Then use a mousse or a curling gel to help define the curls and help the hair dry smoothly with less frizz.
Some curl types prefer some products over others, which you would have to experiment with, but using a light product to help style the hair can help avoid frizz and will make it look like you eliminated your frizzy hair overnight!