Hair For You

Are you always struggling to achieve that voluminous hair style you desire? Does your hair always fall flat after a couple hours? We have all experienced the disappoint of styling our hair only to have it lose its volume in a matter of hours.

Here are some simple tips from the April 2008 issue of Ladies Home Journal for achieving a fuller everyday style:

Towel drying is your friend: Once out of the shower, scrunch hair at the root with your towel instead of smoothing it down and away from the head.

Blow it bigger: Use volumizer and spray it on the roots. Bend your head down and direct the air towards the scalp and not the ends.

Hotter is not better: Use the low and medium settings on your blow dryer. Hair dries and deflates when very hot air is used. It may dry your hair faster but it is doing more damage.

Don’t spray down – Spray up: If you hair needs hold, lift hair away from the scalp and mist lightly aerosol spray on to it from underneath. This pushes the hair up and out and does not create a helmet-like shell that flattens the hair.

Give your brush a break: Do not brush after blow drying because it pushes the hair down. An alternative is using your fingers to lift, arrange and fluff your hair.

Be mindful of your part: If you part your hair make sure the part is short and just a couple inches long. If you do this you can push the hair on your crown around so there is volume where you need it. Another good way to increase volume with a part is to flip your part to the opposite side during the day and this will give you some added volume because it bends the hair in a new direction.

Don’t be afraid to fake it: With so many new and high quality pieces out there don’t be afraid of partial hair peices. Pieces like ponytails, falls and  clip in extensions make your hair more voluminous instantly. If using clip in extensions clip them right above the thin areas and use your fingers to fluff them into your real hair.