Your hair volume can be affected by various factors. These may include an unhealthy diet that lacks essential vitamins and nutrients, stress levels, hormonal imbalance, or hair products used on them.
If your hair is fine or flat, using simple techniques can give it more volume and fullness. Try blow drying upside-down or using volumizing products such as mousse.
1. Go for a haircut
Alternatively, if your hair seems lifeless and uninspiring, perhaps getting it cut could help. If you have long locks, request that your stylist add layers that add movement and prevent the bottom from looking flat. A shorter style like a lob or bob might also work wonders for thin locks; or try using sponge rollers at the roots for instant lift.
Don’t forget to apply a volumizing hair spray!
2. Try a blow-dry
Blow-drying is an effective way to add volume and lift to your style. To maximize its effectiveness, use our non-harming Nexxus Diametress Volume Shampoo for Fine & Flat Hair featuring green tea extract and concentrated elastin protein. When drying upside down, be sure your roots lift away from your scalp, creating extra lift and volume in your style. Finally, for even quicker volume-boosting effects try using hair volumizing spray for instant lasting volume boost!
3. Add some volume to your hairstyle
There are a number of styling tricks and products that can give your locks that extra boost, such as strategic blowdrys, volumising hair products and carefully chosen cuts. Add them to your routine for instantaneous results.
Teasing is another easy way to create volume by sectioning and gently pushing up each section with a comb – just be careful not to overdo it or else you risk creating unruly locks!
George recommends Nexxus Diametress Volume Shampoo for Fine & Flat Hair as an effective dry shampoo product that will refresh and revive your locks without the need to shampoo regularly.
4. Try a hair mask
An effective hair mask can nourish and volumize your locks while also leaving them soft, silky and glossy. For optimal results, ensure it contains only safe ingredients without harmful sulfates, parabens or other potentially hazardous additives such as silicone.
After shampooing, divide your hair into two-four sections according to thickness, then apply the mask evenly along its entire length; pay particular attention to dry ends that tend to accumulate dirt.
A quality hair mask should include ingredients like coconut milk, avocado oil and honey to nourish and hydrate the strands, while hydrolyzed quinoa and rice proteins will fortify hair cuticles over time and restore volume to the locks.
5. Add some volume to your hairstyle
No matter if your hair has thin genetics or you want more volume in it, finding solutions for adding volume can be done through haircare products or styling tricks. From shampoo to extensions, there are various methods which can give your locks some serious oomph!
Change up your part and try parting on the opposite side – this forces hair down while lifting its roots. Or apply dry shampoo directly to roots before blow-drying to instantly revitalise style and give a lift; our favourite product for this is Sam McKnight Lazy Girl Hair Spray; its lightweight formula effectively tames frizz without adding stiffness or stickiness to strands.
