When it comes to your hair, summer’s humidity can make you want to hide under a hat. Depending on your hair type, the high moisture content in the air during humid weather can either create frizzy locks or weigh them down. Your best solution is enhancing what you’ve got with your natural texture.

We’ve come up with some great looks to boost texture that are doable for medium to long-length styles. With how-to tips from New York-trained stylist, Matthew Haas of Minneapolis’s Trés Jolie Salon you can easily transform inevitable frizzy or blah hair into workable, classy looks this season. 

	Retro Inspired, Loose Wave This look works best if your hair is slightly wavy or straight. After you wash and towel dry your hair add a styling cream or moose to give it extra hold. Dry your hair on a high speed, high heat setting until it is about 70 percent dry and still a little damp. Finish drying your hair by wrapping sections around a large round brush.  “This will get you a little more volume at the roots,” Haas explains. Once dry, use a large curling iron – about 1½-2 inches (or smaller) depending on the length of your hair – to twist sections about as wide as the curling iron, rolling it toward your face.  End the curl about a quarter of the way down the length of your hair, working from the bottom to the top of your head.  Pinning the curls up while you do them isn’t essential, but Haas recommends it.  “By cooling it down it’s going to help set the wave,” he explains. Brush out the curls with a paddle brush for the desired look.  Add a little sheen by running a shine spray through your hair with your fingers or brush. Ensure all-day hold with a dose of hair spray. * This look can also be accomplished with hot rollers.
	Hippie Inspired, Airy Wave This look works best if your hair is already wavy, but can be created similarly to our first look. Follow steps 1-3 in Retro Inspired, Loose Wave. Adjust step 4 by rolling the curling iron away from your face.  Use the focal points of your face – cheekbone, lips and chin – to determine where to end the curl, alternating between the three points throughout your hair. Deconstruct the severe curl by running your fingers through it, creating a messier look.  If your hair is naturally wavy you can skip the hot iron and simply twist your natural curls around with your fingers.  Run a very light wax pomade product through your fingers and work it through your hair, breaking it down until you get the desired texture. Spray hair lightly with a medium to strong-hold hair spray. Haas recommends Bumble and bumble spray de mode, which starts at $15 online. * This look can also be accomplished with hot rollers.
	Classic, Loose Side Bun This look works with all hair textures and is one of Haas’ favorites. Fasten a low side ponytail. If you have straight hair or want to enhance wavy hair, add texture with a curling iron or hot rollers. Slowly bobby pin up your hair bit by bit around the perimeter of the ponytail. “Let the side stuff fall out however much you like,” Haas says. * Haas recommends dressing up this and any of the looks with feathers, headbands and clips this summer.