Hi Style Best Beauty Buys 2026 Winners – Hair
From bouncy curls to slick-backs, we all know that great hair can be a real confidence booster. Whether you’re a fan of weekly hair masks, game-changing heat tools, or smoothing oils, this list has something for everyone.
This year’s picks include salon favourites, new Irish brands, and TikTok trending favourites – all tested and loved by the Hi Style team.
Keep reading to find are our winning picks for the hair category!
Best Scalp Treatment
Voduz Clear It – Exfoliating Scalp Scrub RRP €23.95 / £19.99
Give your scalp the deep cleanse it deserves with Voduz Clear It Exfoliating Scalp Scrub.
This advanced formula is packed with exfoliating granules that gently exfoliate the scalp, ensuring no residue is left behind, so you can enjoy a perfectly clean scalp every time. It’s designed to target impurities, helping to remove stubborn build-up, including dandruff, leaving you with a fresh, invigorated feeling.
Enriched with invigorating peppermint, Clear It stimulates the scalp, promoting healthy circulation and encouraging optimal hair growth. Formulated with powerful antioxidants, and containing no parabens or sulphates, this scrub also protects your scalp and maintains the vibrancy of your look.
Neutrogena T/Gel Anti Dandruff Scalp Relief Shampoo RRP €11.00
Neutrogena T/Gel® Anti-dandruff Scalp Relief Shampoo starts to fight dandruff from the first wash. With Neutrogena’s highest concentration, the extra power formula is clinically proven to help relieve, reduce and prevent your dry, itchy flaky scalp. Powerful ingredients, 3% Salicylic Acid & 0.75% Piroctone Olamine, are gentle on scalp but tough on dandruff.
Best Shampoo
Aveeno Scalp Soothing Haircare Apple Cider Vinegar Shampoo RRP €8.99
In the journey toward healthier, more radiant hair, it helps to begin at the source – the scalp. That’s the philosophy behind Aveeno® Scalp Soothing Haircare. With a heritage built on decades of skincare science, Aveeno® applies its trusted expertise to a part of the body often overlooked in our beauty rituals: the scalp.
The Clarify & Shine+ Apple Cider Vinegar blend gently clarifies hair congested from product build-up and enhances its shine. Hair is left hydrated and healthy-looking with a natural, glossy shine wash after wash. It is clinically proven to soothe the scalp.
Juvare Bond Repair Shampoo RRP €11.99
A strengthening daily cleanser formulated to support weakened and damaged hair fibres while maintaining moisture balance. The lightweight formula reduces visible frizz, improves smoothness and increases hair hydration without compromising volume, making it suitable for all hair types, including colour-treated hair.
Voduz Cleanse It Nourishing Shampoo RRP €18.95 / £15.99
Give your hair the natural care it craves with ‘Cleanse It’ Nourishing Shampoo.
Created with natural sugars to fully restore and hydrate without any harsh chemicals, while powerful antioxidants and a protective UV filter ensure your hair maintains a healthy and luminous shine, always looking its best.
Whether you have straight, curly, or oily hair, Voduz ‘Cleanse It ‘Nourishing Shampoo is the perfect choice for you. It revitalises all hair textures in need of moisture, from root to tip, leaving your hair beautifully nourished – because everyone deserves this luxurious treatment!
Best Conditioners
OGX Bond Repair Conditioner RRP €11.99
Infuse hair with nourishment, without weighing your hair down.
Bond Protein Repair dual action technology helps repair broken bonds deep within the cortex and target the most damaged areas of the cuticle to protect and help restore hair. Testing reveals a reduction in wet and dry combing damage, without weighing down hair, so hair looks and feels its healthiest.
Juvare Intensive Treatment RRP €11.99
A deep repair mask created to strengthen internal hair structure while delivering intensive hydration. Used two to three times weekly, it targets split ends, surface roughness and weakened lengths, improving elasticity and reducing visible signs of hair ageing. Particularly suited to damaged or chemically processed hair.
Voduz Condition It – Illuminating Conditioner RRP €18.95 / £15.99
Refresh and rejuvenate your hair with Condition It Illuminating Conditioner from Voduz Hair. Enriched with natural oils, apple fruit extract, and orange fruit extract, this duo gently cleanses while replenishing moisture and enhancing shine. It includes built-in UV filters to protect hair from environmental stressors.
Best Hair Mask
OGX Rescue Fusions Intense Hydration Mask RRP €11.99
Life throws a lot at our hair. From blow drying to brushing and harsh weather, our hair has a lot to contend with. To help you achieve your healthy hair goals, OGX Rescue Fusions offers a leap forward in hair repair technology, built on tried-and-true ingredients sourced from skincare and fused with the best from haircare, to help revive, nourish, and protect, and repair your hair in just one use.
Hair damage can feel unavoidable because it stems from multiple sources. Heat styling, mechanical damage, environmental damage, damage from chemical treatments, plus various life stages like perimenopause and pregnancy, can all denature hair, prompting the proteins that make up the hair shaft to unravel.
Enriched with proteins and lipids and infused with tried-and-tested ingredients from both skincare and haircare, products within the OGX Rescue Fusions Intensive Treatments Collection are proven to boost hydration whilst helping to strengthen hair to protect it from further damage.
Containing Argan oil of Morocco and Hyaluronic Acid, the Intense Hydration Recovery Hair Mask helps to deeply nourish and restore dry hair, so it feels smoother and looks healthier. The concentrated ingredients instantly get to work, helping improve hair hydration, leaving hair 3x easier to brush.
Voduz Complete It – Illuminating Hair Treatment RRP €21.95 / £18.99
The Voduz ‘Complete It’ Illuminating Hair Treatment is perfect for hair that’s lacking shine. This hair mask is packed with antioxidants for added shine and avocado oils to heal and moisturise the hair.
Best Treatment/Detangler/Leave-In Products
OGX Bond Protein Repair Leave in Conditioning Mist RRP €17.50
Hair comes under assault on a daily basis. From combing and heat styling, to colouring and perming, the things that allow us to express ourselves via our hair, and allow us the freedom of creative expression, inevitably result in broken hair bonds and damage.
This damage can take different forms. For some, hair might be frizzy and unmanageable, for others it may feel rough and dry, while for some, damage may manifest as breakage, with broken hair fragments littering hairbrushes and bathroom sinks. It doesn’t have to be this way. OGX are dedicated to perfecting technologies that both repair and prevent damage, so we can continue to switch up and maintain our style.
This next generation continuous mist delivers expert heat protection up to 230°C and targeted repair. Used daily, testing shows that 5800 hair strands are saved from breakage each month. Mist over hair before heat styling for weightless bond repair.
Juvare Repair Oil RRP €14.99 / £13.00
A lightweight, non-greasy oil designed to increase shine and softness while minimising frizz and moisture loss. Formulated with the same signature oil complex found throughout the range, it supports surface repair and hydration without residue, leaving hair smooth, reflective and refined.
Voduz Care For It – Repair Anti Snap Spray RRP €20.95 / £17.99
Revive your hair with Voduz ‘Care For It’ Anti-Snap Repair Spray. This lightweight formula blends powerful active ingredients to deeply moisturise and repair, giving your hair the nourishment it needs to stay strong and healthy. Say goodbye to breakage and hello to smoother, more resilient ‘crown’.
Best Curl/Volume/Styling Product
Voduz High Riser Volumising Root Spray RRP €19.95 / £16.99
The ultimate root lifting volumising spray. Suitable for all hair types, this lightweight mist breathes life into your roots, offering a long-lasting lift without any stiffness or stickiness. Section your hair and spray it onto clean, towel-dried roots. Gently massage with your fingers, then blow-dry with a round brush for gorgeous, naturally lifted volume.
Best Hair Extension Styling Tool
Voduz In-Vented – 3D Duo Bristle Brush RRP €25.95 / £21.99
Designed with the standard In-Vented bristle centred around a cluster of soft synthetic fibres for an extra effortless glide through your hair, the combination of mixed bristles that will glide through the hair without pulling or snagging results in effortlessly smooth hair.
The Universal ‘In-Vented’ 3D Duo Bristle Flat Brush is suitable for all hair types. From relaxing styled curls, adding volume and blow drying hair or managing and detangling thick, unruly hair – this brush is a must have for everyone!
The springy circular vent on the ‘In-Vented’ 3D Duo Bristle Flat Brush allows the air to circulate around every angle of the hair strand, significantly reducing drying time and heat exposure to the hair.
Combined with a curved brush head, it bends and flexes to fit the contours of the head and scalp, making the brush kind to the scalp and will reduce the pulling on the hair.
Best Men’s Shampoo
Just For Men Control GX RRP €10.99
Control GX is the first and only shampoo smart enough to gradually reduce greys by slowly bringing them back to their natural shade while it cleanses and conditions your hair.
You get an extremely natural look – just by shampooing as you normally do. Just use it instead of your usual shampoo until you like what you see. Then use it in rotation with your usual shampoo to maintain the look you like. There’s never been an easier way to control your grey.