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How to Refresh Your Hair Extensions in 5 Minutes or Less—Every Day

Tasha Nelly| Dec 16, 2025 | 3 mins read

Keeping your hair extensions looking fresh does not have to take a lot of time. This guide shows you quick, daily habits that take five minutes or less and help maintain softness, shine, and shape. With the right routine, you can extend the life of your extensions and keep them looking polished every day.

How to Refresh Your Hair Extensions in 5 Minutes or Less—Every Day

You are anyway carrying too much on a plate in the morning, and styling your hair extensions should not be one of them. That is why we have specially curated this blog for you, where we will tell you how to refresh your hair extensions in less than 5 minutes a day so that you can look gorgeous in no time. So let’s get to the timestamps and the process-wise routine to do the same.

Step 1: Lightly Detangle

For this, you need a paddle brush or a wide-tooth comb, and you start gently brushing your hair from downward to upward direction. Try to focus on the middle shaft of the weft that gets tangled. You can also use your fingers and then slightly brush. Don’t be very aggressive with your brushing.

Step 2: Add Moisture or Shine

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Hair extensions do not create moisture of their own because there is no oil source for them. So use lightweight serums or oils once in a while to add that sheen look. In case you are having shiny hair extensions, like ones from Indique‘s SEA collection. They themselves are very lustrous. But if you are having coily or curly hair extensions, add some more spray on the tips of your finger, gently rub it in the two-thirds portion of your hair. Avoid putting it on the scalp; otherwise, the extensions and hair might become greasy

Step 3: Smooth or Blend the Leave-Out

This step is particularly for the people who are wearing sew-ins or micro links. Work with your leave-outs as they decide your whole look. To do that, you have to tame the edges with the edge control if needed and use a flat iron to make smooth S-shaped waves. Use a flat iron to remove overnight dents.

Step 4: Reset Your Style

You don’t have to go all out for the restyling; a simple refresh can make your hair look lively. Well, let us guide you on how you can reset different textures.

Body wave: Wrap the front pieces around a curling wand for 5 seconds
Straight: Glide a flat iron over the top layer only
Curls: Revive with a curl refresher spray and scrunch lightly
Kinky textures: Fluff the roots and use a pick to lift volume

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Step 5: Final Touch-Up + Frizz Control

This is the last step that can also be avoided if your hair is already looking very good in shape. We just need to dab a little bit of serum or some spritz of antifreeze spray on your hair extensions to wake up your hair from that good night's friction. If you have a curly hair mix, you can also add some serum to it.

Bonus Tip: Prep at Night for Faster Mornings

Well, what we discussed above will hardly take you five minutes, but still, if you want to even cut short for the same, there are some things that you can already do before going to bed, like-

Wrapping your hair
Braiding it loosely
Using a silk bonnet or pillowcase
Keeping extensions detangled before bed

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Conclusion

Having good-looking, fresh hair extensions every day is not rocket science, just five things you need to take care of: detangle, moisturize, blend, refresh, and smooth. If you follow these five steps for these five minutes every day, not only will you have gorgeous-looking hair every morning, but it will all happen in less than five minutes. Just make sure that you are working with high-quality hair extensions because only those kinds of extensions can actually make your hair look gorgeous with five minutes of upkeep.