Provided is a hair cosmetic that can exhibit hair styling capability, natural finishing capability, and hair style retentivity respectively at superior levels. The hair cosmetic contains a urethane-modified acrylic polymer having a structure in which a urethane polymer chain is bonded to an acrylic polymer chain through a linkage segment having a silicon-oxygen bond, in which the acrylic polymer chain is a residue of an acrylic polymer derived at least from an acrylic monomer (A) and a compound (B1) and/or a compound (B2), where the compound (B1) has a hydrolyzable silicon-containing group and an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing group, and the compound (B2) has a hydrolyzable silicon-containing group and a mercapto group, and the urethane polymer chain is a residue of a urethane polymer (C) having a hydrolyzable silicon-containing group. The linkage segment in the urethane-modified acrylic polymer is preferably a silicone polymer chain.
