

So to make it easier on future me-and all of you right now-I spent a ridiculous amount of time learning the basics of beach waves and rounding up the best beach-wave tutorials for every hair type and preference.

But it makes sense: Trying to get loose waves will require drastically different tools and products, depending on the hair type you’re starting with (see: my fine, thin, curly hair).

Every time I try to get beachy waves à la Camila Morrone, I end up hunched over a YouTube beach-waves tutorial, sweaty, with half-finished waves all over my head-i.e., the opposite of effortless. Beach waves are one of those iconic hairstyles that seems easy to do, right? But in reality, creating loose waves that are “undone in an effortless way” (as celebrity hairstylist Franck Izquierdo describes them) is icky.
