Batiste Dry Shampoo When this candy-striped can debuted in London in the ’70s, American hairstylists started lugging it back from Boots. “I discovered it in the ’90s—I’d never seen anything like it,” says hairstylist Nathaniel Hawkins. It was better at absorbing oil than the only American version at the time, Psssst. “I carried multiples because celebrities were always stealing it,” he says. Batiste is having a revival: There are a ton of dry shampoos around today, but it’s still one of the best at soaking up oil without making hair white or stiff. When hairstylist Paul Hanlon used it at fashion shows, models started filching his cans. “Everyone loves its clean smell and the soft volume it creates,” says Zaccaria.
Davines This Is a Texturizing Dust When grungy model-offduty hair doesn’t come naturally, models use this powder to get it. Julia Cumming, a Brooklyn-based muse of Saint Laurent designer Hedi Slimane, sprinkles it on her clean, dry hair. “It fixes that flat, too-clean feeling better
than anything else I’ve tried,” she says. The blend of silica, rice, and açai oil feels wet at first, but it dries to make hair perfectly roughed up. “It’s pretty much the strangest product ever, yet it’s the one I use most,” says Jessica Richards, the owner of Shen, a boutique in Brooklyn. “When I tell people about it, they look at me like I’m crazy because I’m so in love with it and the wet-powder texture sounds insane. Then they try it and get obsessive about it, too.”
Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub With Sea Salt French colorist Christophe Robin found that his clients often had itchy, irritated scalps after he dyed their hair. So he stirred together kosher salt and water and massaged it on. “It’s an old grandma remedy to help itching, and it was the only thing that worked without dissolving the color,” he says. Five years ago, he asked a lab to mix sea salt
and soothing sweet-almond oil. Devotees of his product now include Tilda Swinton, Catherine Deneuve, and Erin Heatherton; many even use it as a shampoo and a treatment for itchy skin. “I was visiting a friend’s French country house, and this was in her bathroom,” says Laure Hériard Dubreuil, a cofounder of the Webster boutiques in Miami. After hours in the pool, she scooped out a handful, hoping it would condition her hair. Now she dips into her own supply once a week because it makes her hair “lively, soft, and bouncy.” This loyalty is partly why Teresa Mitchell, the founder of beautyhabit .com, has a hard time keeping it in stock. “Once it took off, it became our best-selling hair product,” she says.
L’Oréal Professionnel Mythic Oil There are 1,001 hair oils, but this one isn’t called mythic for nothing. “I love it more than the other oils because it’s so light, I can never make a mistake with it,” says hairstylist Ted Gibson. “I use it on wet hair for a smooth
blowout and again on dry hair to add shine.” At fashion shows, it’s often installed at every hairstyling station because of its ability to make models’ overworked, damaged hair look “shiny and touchable and soft—everything the girls’ hair isn’t during fashion season,” says hairstylist Orlando Pita.
Martial Vivot Creme Boyfriend jeans, boyfriend jacket…boyfriend grooming cream? Martial Vivot, a luxury barbershop in Manhattan, made a line of five natural products for its Givenchysuit-wearing clientele. And then a funny thing happened: The styling cream disappeared, as in off the shelves in a matter of days. “A bunch of my guys told me how their girlfriends and wives were stealing it from them,” says Losi, a stylist at the barbershop. “We might need to make a bigger size.” Mitchell says she initially carried the line on beautyhabit.com “because Martial is the chicest men’s
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