Fine Hair Styling Tricks -
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Introduction
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If you have fine hair, whether it's
thin, medium in thickness, thick or super thick, you may
struggle with achieving the same lush fullness your
hairdresser achieves when you're at the salon.
It used to be popular some years ago to bend over at
the waist and build fullness into tresses by blow drying upside
down. This trend is no longer in favor.
Why? Hairdressers as well as hair consumers
discovered the key to building in lush fullness into volume
challenged hair lies at the roots.
Blowing hair upside down may temporarily ruffle the
middle and end sections, but it doesn't help the roots which are key
to supporting fine strands.
An additional drawback to blowing hair upside down
is the danger of introducing more tangling into strands.
Blowing hair upside down may help prevent heat damage to the top
strands but ultimately is not of major benefit, especially for fine
or thin strands.
Another mistake people with fine strands make is
utilizing heavy rinse-out or leave-in conditioners which renders
fine hair overly soft and slippery. Heavy gels, thick mousses,
high hold sprays or other styling products may also cause fine
strands to instantly go flat.
Skip mega hold gels, volume results from proper blow
drying or wet setting techniques.
How To Build Maximum Volume Into Fine Strands
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Listed below are some of the top
professional hairdressing tips for maximizing volume for
fine strands:
1. Start with a precision haircut designed to
maximum hair volume.
Note: Remember that hair color and some
re-texturizing treatments may actually help fatten fine hair
instantly.
2. Avoid cleansing hair with heavy
moisturizing formulas. Experiment with diluted shampoo (DS)
formulations which will remove dirt and toxins without compressing
the strands.
A good DS formula is 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of shampoo
mixed into a clean quart bottle of luke warm water and shaken to
form a sudsy mix. Increase or decrease the formula depending
on the length and amount of hair you have.
Another option is to use a volumizing shampoo
guaranteed to open the cuticle or experiment with clarifying
formulas which ruffle the hair shaft.
3. Make sure you get hair very wet with
lukewarm, not hot hair, before drizzling the sudsy mixture of DS
over the top of your head and allowing the suds to gently flow down
the length of your strands. Pat suds into the length and ends
of the hair.
4. Rinse the DS formula out of the hair
completely with lukewarm water. If you feel the need to add a
rinse-out conditioner, apply a light one and only to the middle and
ends of your hair. Avoid applying any moisturizing product to
your roots.
5. Finish with a cool/cold water rinse to help
close the cuticle and encourage it to swell and shine.
6. Towel blot hair dry to remove excess water
but be sure to keep hair very damp.
Note: Do not air dry fine or thin
hair if you want maximum volume. Why? Air dried
roots will fall flat dragging the rest of the hair down with it.
If you don't have strong roots you won't have full strands.
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7. Apply a light volumizing gel to
the palms of your hands and use fingers to distribute
starting 1/2 to 1 inch from the roots and working
towards the ends.
Note: If you prefer, use a volume
enhancing mist or light mousse sprayed or applied at the roots
instead of gel.
8. Starting at the top of your hair along the
hairline, use your fingers instead of a brush, comb or pick and lift
individual 1 to 1 1/2" sections of hair along the scalp. Blow
dry with a concentrator attachment directing air flow from the ends
down to the roots. When available use a blow dryer set on a
slow, cool setting to help amp up volume.
Tilt your head towards the side you're drying so
gravity helps hold your hair away from the head.
9. Once individual section is dry, spritz with
a light hold hairspray (do not use a pump, use a spray mist
instead). Clip the section with a butterfly clip and allow
hairspray to completely dry. Remove the clip for fullness and
volume. Finger tousle for maximum fullness.
10. Continue to work through all the sections
of the hair until they have all been finger picked, blow dried,
sprayed, clipped and finger styled.
After working through all the sections your hair
should have maximum fullness. Apply a final spritz of light
holding spray. Be careful not to weight hair down with heavy
sprays.
Chemical straightening, relaxing or any similar type
of re-texturizing is not appropriate for women who are pregnant or
still nursing.
Other Tricks For Adding Volume
Consider some of the following additional secrets
and tips:
1. Liquid gels designed to build in volume
work best than thicker or stiffer gels. If your favorite gel
feels too heavy, thin it out a little with water.
2. Remember to focus all of your volume
building into the roots and top of the hair which is the foundation.
If your roots are strong and full the rest of your hair will follow.
If your roots are limp and soft, the rest of your hair will fall as
well.
3. If you decide to use a spray gel or a
volumizing spray mist, always spray it into the palms of your hands
first and then work it into your roots with your fingers.
Spraying or spritzing directly onto your roots might result in
applying too much product which can wear down your roots.
4. For spot volumizing, mix one or two drops
of shine serum with a stiff gel. Apply a tiny bit of the
mixture to roots which are falling flat. Pinch your roots with
fingertips to create a chunky root foundation.
5. When the finger drying doesn't work for
you, consider using a thin boar's bristle vent brush which will
maximize the amount of air directed to the roots.
6. Once hair is dry and pumped up, do not comb
or brush unless absolutely necessary because combing and brush will
break the root lift and cause hair to fall.
7. Use rake style headbands to help pump up
volume along the hairline and keep roots amped up.
8. Avoid overdrying hair. The advantage
to utilizing a concentrator attachment is to avoid over blowing fine
or thinning strands. When possible blow dry on a cool/cold
setting on a slow to medium speed.
Summary
Although the finger fluffing method of building in
volume combined with the butterfly clip setting method may take more
time and work, but as hair expert Barbara Lhotan points out, you can
blow dry hair haphazardly and expect it to look the way you want.
Try these tricks to build in maximum volume and lush
body. Remember, when it comes to full, lush hair, the key lies
in the roots and skilled blow drying.
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Original Publication Date: 02/25/10 - Revised
Publication Date: 04/17/10
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