Fringes! Stay put!

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How do fellow fringe wearers keep it in place? I have a similar style to Dawn O porter-minus the ridiculousness of hers but at the slightest puff of a breeze my fringe splits and I end up looking naff. I do have quite thin hair..

how do you dry it?

I would get your hairdresser to cut it a bit heavier if possible. Also blow dry your fringe first and blow dry it flat. Use hairspray - spray it on your fingers and then use it to do your fringe.

Spray half of the hairspray from underneath (lean over so that there is sufficient distance between can and hair) and the other half on the front/top as usual.

For a gentler effect put hairspray on your brush (on both the top and underside of your fringe) then brush it in instead of spraying on directly.

The Moroccan oil hairspray is great.

I'm growing mine out. Had it for 2 months and I made a valiant effort but oh my GOD the maintenance. Life is too short to blow dry every day.

The Guardian's Sali Hughes had an online video guide to blowdrying your fringe so it never separates. It works quite well. At the moment I'm finding my fringe hot!

I don't own a hair dryer I have such thin poker straight hair it does just go and hang naturally in the style I want. So, don't fancy putting hairspray then drying

I am having a fringe trim this weekend-which does make a difference to it keeping in place. Sorry if this is a stupid question...but how would the hairdresser cut it thicker?

I m pretty sure they d just add more of rest of your hair to it then trim to blend in , so your fringe would have more hair in

Yes, they would just add more from the crown (I think, disclaimer: not a hairdresser, just a fringe owner)

But won't it just fall back to sides iykwim? I thought people who had lovely lush thick barnets just had thick fringes because the rest of their hair is so thick....maybe I'm the one being thick

Hmm. I have a lot of hair so maybe I am the wrong person to ask. Sorry

Sail Hughes hair dry method is the shiz.

Main idea is brush back and forth across your forehead with a bristle brush. A bit of styling spray helps but not critical. Tiny bit of hairspray at the end to fix.

I have fine hair (but. Fair amount of it)

Yeah, that's the best way to do it - as FreeButtonBee says. There's a film on youtube, I don't use any product at all in mine, SH uses loads and a posh brush but it's all in the method IME. Really you do need a hairdryer but I suppose if you did the side to side brushing vigorously, several times as your dries naturally it'd at least help a bit. Makes a massive difference to how the fringe falls.

Asking you hairdresser to increase the depth of your fringe would help but there are obviously limits to how deep is going to look OK.

I find if I comb it with a small fine comb and spray with elnett hairspray it stays put all day mine is quite a heavy fringe as my hair is naturally kinky but with this method it stays put I also wash and dry mine at night don't have time in the morning.

I have a ten foot forehead and have always had a heavy fringe, which looked great when styled properly. However, the fact is, life gets in the way and I constantly ended up with a macdonalds M on my head because of splitting and pushing it out of my eyes. After 35-odd years of fringe-dom I have finally liberated myself from the fuckery of a fringe and grown the bastard thing out. I am much happier. DOWN WITH OPPRESSIVE FRINGES!!!