T he higher the hair, the closer to heaven. This phrase was often repeated during my teen beauty pageant days, and it’s stayed rent-free in my brain ever since. While I’m not teasing my strands to the sky on any given day, I still crave mega volume—which isn’t the easiest to maintain thanks to my fine hair .

I’ve tried nearly every volumizing trick in the book to give my hair a boost. Rollers end up falling flat, and mousses leave my hair crunchy, but texturizing sprays? They’ve become the unsung hero of my styling routine, and there’s one in particular that I reach for the most: Nexxus’s Air Shape Workable Hold Texture Spray. In fact, the entire Cosmo team swears by this spray—it just won a 2026 Holy Grail Beauty Award. What makes this drugstore formula award-worthy?…