Glass Hair: All About Instagram’s Affair with Glossy Hair!

Is your Instagram feed flooding with models & celebs flaunting mega slick & glossy hair? The glass hair trend has already taken the internet by storm & you will be blown away too!

Be it celebrity Instagram, the fashion world, red carpets, YouTube beauty gurus, or pop culture, you have definitely spotted glazed, silky straight glass hair everywhere! We need no more telltale signs to prove that this ultra-glossy hair trend is here to reign as one of the best beauty trends of the Instagram era! 

Remember the buzz around glass-like glossy skin? K-beauty gifted us dreamy dewy beauty goals with skin so luminous that it resembled shiny, reflective surfaces. However, unlike the glass-skin trend, glass hair is not a Korean blessing! It was Kim Kardashian who first flagged off a sensational spark by flaunting an ultra-glossy bob in 2018. Now, the trend is back with a bang all across the internet in 2022. But just like the glass skin trend which featured super radiant skin, glass hair too is all about achieving that blinding shine! 

What exactly is the glass hair trend?

Unlike how the name suggests, the trend has got nothing to do with glass, instead it’s all about the gloss! And when we say gloss, it’s all about being bougie and EXTRA! Extra-glossy extra-glazed, extra-hydrated, and extra-smoooooth! 

It is a sleek, straight hairstyle that completely cuts out the existence of frizz & flyaways and brings out perfectly liquid & luscious locks! Here’s an add-on; the colour of your hair matters a lot when it comes to this trend. While it may not look so impressive on blond or light-colored hair, it leaves a divine halo-like gleam on denser colour dimensions like black, brown & brunette. 

How to achieve the glassy gloss?

Professional glass hair treatments are the new thing but trust us, you can do it at home too! However, it’s not gonna be very easy to get uber-glossy hair! Achieving those radically gleaming and sleek strands take more than just styling! The secret key to opening the doors to glass hair is prepping your hair well before intense styling. Keep scrolling to know how to get glass hair!

Prerequisite Prepping

1. Call it the rule of clean girl aesthetics; one must always begin with a healthy and clarified scalp! With the amount of product and styling that is about to follow, your hair & scalp need to be free of any product residue or buildup. Use an SLS-free shampoo to cleanse and clarify your roots and lengths.
2. Getting glass hair can be made easier but only on one condition. You’ve got to condition! The very soul of the gloss lies in the lack of frizz, dryness & damage. And the best way to feed the soul is to deeply condition your hair with an ultra-hydrating leave-in hair mask that can keep damaged and dull strands at bay.
3. Prepping doesn’t end here! Now is the time to lock in moisture to cut out any chances of frizz! Gently wring out excess water from your hair with a soft cotton cloth or microfiber towel. Use a nourishing hair mist or serum to smoothen out tangles to prevent breakage or heat damage when you start styling. Hair mists replenish and restore moisture in the strands to ensure zero frizzy fuss and flyaways so that your final results are seamlessly shiny! 

Now, comes the styling part!

1. The key to getting that ultimate glass hair look is even-lengthed hair. It doesn’t matter whether you have got a short bob or tresses that reach your waist, but the length needs to be even. The final sleek glazed look comes through only if your hair looks like a smooth surface and not an uneven terrain. Trim your hair evenly if necessary. (Plus point? You can get rid of split ends too!)
2. Split your damp hair into equal sections because it’s time to straighten it out. Don’t use a plastic brush as it might aggravate frizz due to static electricity. Use a wooden comb/brush instead to detangle and part your hair. Blowdry and straighten along the lengths of your hair as you comb it all the way from the roots to the ends. If your hair is long, you might get fru-straight-ed but don’t give up! The results are worth the heavy-arm workout!
3. Once straightened, spray a hair mist or apply a few drops of hair oil or serum to seal the look. To make it last longer, straighten again after you apply the serum or oil. You might see some steaming but don’t panic! Your hair isn’t on fire, it’s just the oil/serum. Just watch how it adds an instant ultra-sleek & gloss to the strands!

What’s the final word?

Glass hair is trending for all the right reasons and we stan the glam! However, trends will come and go! Be it glass hair or glass skin, the key takeaway is not the final glam but the focus it brings to the connection between health & beauty!