The secret to those enviable waves and curls that are all over Instagram is a hotly contested subject with many torn between tongs, straighteners, or hair curlers. It all depends on what you want. However, the trick to keeping them in place all day long remains elusive as ever.

If you’re tresses already have a hint of a wave, chances are your carefully coiffed curls will retain their structure but if your locks are straighter than the average EDL member, you haven’t a hope without heavenly intervention. But now an influencer has revealed how she gets her waves to stay in place all day and it's very, very simple. 20p kitchen item that gets rid of frizzy hair in minutes - plus four other tips to prevent it Posting to Instagram, content creator Shay Sullivan from Nashville, US, shared she’s always asked by her 638,000 followers how she keeps her curls in place.

She wrote: “When I put enough hairspray in to make me sneeze.. then I know the curls are locked in.

” In the video, Shay can be seen spraying her hair with copious amounts of hairspray, all over her tresses until she’s engulfed and lets out three sneezes, one after the other. After revealing she was using Color Wow Style on Steroids Color-Safe Texturizing Spray, priced from £12.50, people flocked to comment under the post.

One user grumbled: “Mine don't stay with all the hairspray in the world .” And someone else penned: “This is actually good information thanks!” While a third penned: “You’re so r.