Disclosed is a hair-styling cosmetic which exerts good hair-styling effect and hair-restyling effect, although being water-based and having a low viscosity, shows no stickiness and high smoothness and gives the sense of a favorable light finish. Specifically disclosed is a hair-styling cosmetic containing 3-30% by mass of one or more kinds of components selected from among a sugar alcohol, a polyalkylene glycol and derivatives thereof, characterized by having such an adhesiveness as showing a ball number of 1-30 in the inclined ball tack test (inclination angle 10°, measured at 25°C, humidity 50%), and a viscosity of 100 mPa·s or less (measured with a B-type viscometer at 25°C) . Thus, a hair-styling cosmetic, which exerts good hair-styling effect and hair-restyling effect, shows no stickiness and high smoothness, gives the sense of a favorable light finish, and is suitable for application by mist-spraying, can be obtained.
