Sexy Hair Spray & Play Volumizing Hairspray has the best record for curly hair: 20 of 21 shoppers said it held their curls and kept frizz down without crunch or stiffness. Kenra Professional Volume Spray 25 follows at 17 of 20 and Sebastian Shaper Plus Hairspray at 12 of 14, close enough that the order between them could go either way. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have curly or coily hair, and all three rest on small groups.
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Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for curl hold. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Best record Sexy Hair Spray & Play Volumizing Hairspray 20 of 21 say it held their curls and kept frizz down without crunch or stiffness See price & reviews on Amazon Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
Sexy Hair
Best for thick hair
Of its 30 reviews, 20% say this volumizing hairspray holds thick hair and 13% say it holds fine hair. No complaint came up more than once.
No repeated complaints yet.
Kenra Professional
Best for humid weather
Shoppers say this volume spray holds up in humidity in 24% of its 25 reviews. Price splits opinion, with 12% calling it good value and 12% calling it too expensive.
Sebastian
Shoppers praise the scent in 10% of its 29 reviews, and its 2 misses said it didn't hold their curls all day or left them frizzier.
No repeated complaints yet.
The 3 products ranked here carry 6,892 reviews at Ulta. We searched them for curl hold and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Jul 2011 and Sep 2026.
A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.
Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.
Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.
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Sexy Hair Spray & Play Volumizing Hairspray has the best record (20 of 21), followed by Kenra Professional Volume Spray 25 (17 of 20) and Sebastian Shaper Plus Hairspray (12 of 14). This page ranks hold sprays, so smoothing, texture and pre-styling sprays were left out.
The ranking weighs how many shoppers stated a result, not just the share. 20 shoppers stated a result for Kenra Professional Volume Spray 25, against 14 for Sebastian Shaper Plus Hairspray, so the larger group earns more trust even though its share is slightly lower, at 85% against 86%.
It can. A shopper who said a spray left curls crunchy, stiff or sticky counts as a miss in these records, as does one who said it didn't hold or left curls frizzy. Even so, every record here is at 85% or better. Spray from the distance on the label and build up with light passes instead of one heavy coat.
All three are sold on Amazon by the brand or Amazon itself, and Sexy Hair Spray & Play Volumizing Hairspray is both the leader and the best pick sold on Amazon.
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