An object of the present invention is to provide a hair styling composition formulated to make hair styling easy and to add wet-look shine to hair. The hair styling composition which achieves the above object contains (A) a thickener, (B) a hair fixative polymer and/or a liquid oil, (C) a wax particle dispersion, and (D) water. In the hair styling composition of the present invention, the wax particle dispersion (C) is preferably an Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) wax particle dispersion or a beeswax particle dispersion, or preferably contains wax, at least one nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene cetyl ether and polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene cetyl ether, and water.