The Internet Convinced Me to Make a Hair Mask Using Beer

When it comes to the number of things the internet has convinced me to try, I'm a little embarrassed to admit, as Cady Heron would say, "the limit does not exist." Let's just say if I had a physical list of all of the weird, social-media-viral things I've tried, it would probably be as long as Santa's naughty list. I love testing makeup and skin-care hacks, but if a trick is in the hair category, I'm even more game to try it. There was the time I didn't wash my hair for seven days to try TikTok's hair reset, I recently did a scalp detox, and I've even learned I was parting my hair completely wrong thanks to a TikTok filter.

Over the last few weeks, I've been seeing people on the app talk about a hair mask that's worked wonders for them. The great news? It can be made at home with two simple ingredients. The not-so-great news? The two ingredients are beer and honey. Yeah, you read that right. People are pouring alcohol on their heads in the name of good hair. So, how did everyone on TikTok get the idea to start using beer on their hair? Apparently, it can all be traced back to an old interview Catherine Zeta-Jones did with the Daily Mail that recently resurfaced — in it, she said she conditions her hair with honey and beer.

Not one to turn down a viral trend, especially if it's celebrity backed, I gave it a try myself. Keep reading to find out how to do it and what my results were.

To try the hack for myself, I first had to make the mask. Although I love doing different treatments on my hair, I don't often DIY it. If I'm being completely honest, I've never made a treatment myself, so I was a little nervous. I started out by filling up roughly half a red cup with beer (I went with Coors Light, simply because it was the cheapest) and then added honey to the liquid. I realized pretty quickly that I had way more beer than necessary, so I poured about half out, added more honey, then started mixing everything together until I created a paste-like consistency.

Before applying it to my hair, I made sure to brush my entire head to ensure there were no knots. I also opted to hop in the shower because, as anyone who has ever been to a dive bar knows, beer is sticky AF and I didn't want it all over my floor. Once in the shower, I started applying the paste to my hair, focusing on the mid-lengths to ends. Once my head was completely covered, I let it sit for 15 minutes while I shaved and exfoliated my entire body. Then, I washed it out with shampoo and followed up with conditioner.

I won't lie — washing out the mask wasn't as easy as I'd hoped. Although the beer offset some of the stickiness, as you can probably imagine, honey is kind of hard to rinse out of hair, especially when you're using a lot of it. I needed to shampoo three times (I usually only do it twice) before I could get it all out.

Then, because I was eager to see the results, I gave myself a quick blowout. My hair felt soft enough, but what actually surprised me was how shiny it looked. I had to head out to a dinner with girlfriends later that night, and both of them commented on it.

Still, I don't think shiny hair is enough to get me to add this hack into my regular routine. In the future, if I'm looking to do a beer mask, I'll probably stick with something like the Bleach London Nourishing Hair Mask ($12), which I've previously tried and loved. Actually, someone should send one to Zeta-Jones.

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