Nigella Lawson says we’ve been using dry shampoo wrong for years - here’s her advice

Dry shampoo is a staple for many - and most of us just give our hair a going over with it and hope for the best.

Well, it turns out that we’ve been using it all wrong, according to Nigella Lawson. Here’s how the chef thinks you should be using it.

How should I use dry shampoo?

In the last of her Sunday Times Style magazine column, the TV chef wrote about her four top tips for an easier life - and one was how to apply your dry shampoo.

She advises that, instead of applying dry shampoo in the morning when you wake up, you should spray it on your hair before going to bed.

Lawson wrote, “Don’t spray on dry shampoo in the morning and then beat yourself around the head with your hairbrush trying to get it all out.

“Blast yourself with it before you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning, it will have disappeared, taking the grime and grease with it.”

Lawson also says that inexpensive brands of dry shampoo do just as good a job as the more expensive, high end ones.

What else did Lawson advise in her column?

The chef’s other top tips for an easier life included being upfront about saying no.

“So you must learn, in the words of the late, great Ed Victor, ‘to give the second best answer: a quick no.’ Do it without prevarication or procrastination, so that whoever has asked you to do something has time to get someone else to do it, and to prevent your becoming mired in anxiety,” Lawson writes.

She also advised that “the most important thing you need to know about getting dinner on the table without driving yourself frantic is that not everything has to be piping hot.”