My Hair Is Fine and Wavy, and These 21 Products Make It Look So Much Better

To my utmost chagrin, there is nothing spectacular about my hair. On a good day (cough, rarely), it's clean, bouncy, shiny, and depending on how I style it, swinging with either silk pillowcase–induced waves or smooth and sleek strands. As a child, I started out with platinum and fluffy hair, and then it morphed to dishwater and stringy, to brassy and curly, to still brassy but also fried, before finally settling into my favorite, least revolting phase right around my freshman year of college: bright, buttery blonde with soft and natural waves. Of course, as soon as my hair hit its best stride, I ruined my hair with bleach. That was back during my sophomore year of college, and countless cuts, color jobs, extensions, more cuts, and six years later, I'm finally back to a place of loving my hair and actually receiving compliments on it. (A true win when you have a hair history like mine).

For years I relied on a blow-dryer and flat iron daily to make my hair what I personally deemed as presentable. In mourning of the pre-bleach gorgeous bends and waves I once had, I decided to give my hair the ultimate detox—putting in place the aforementioned TLC moves in an effort to regain my soft, healthy, compliment-worthy, natural texture back. And roughly five months later, it's finally worked. Below, I thought I'd share each and every wavy hair product that's helped me along the way. Plus, we tapped director of education at custom hair brand Prose, Faith Huffnagle, for her insight on how to revive thin, wavy hair.

Keep reading to see the best products for wavy hair.