Fine hair but lots of it

[BananaPie]

Looking for some advice from people with similar hair who have mastered styling it.

I have shoulder length hair. Each individual strand is really fine, but I have loads of it, so the overall effect is quite thick. It always looks crap: kind of limp and flat at the roots and dry and voluminous at the ends.

I can't be the only one, so who has cracked this? What style / products do I need? Nothing too complicated. I am lazy and in any case time-poor due to small kids.

This is exactly my situation! Bookmarking here.

Same here! Sadly No advice but watching

Similar hair here too. I normally use lots of mousse and bend over to dry my hair 'upside down'. Also I try not to wash it more than twice a week and only use conditioner once in a blue moon. I can get much more volume into out if it's out of condition and has a layer of oil and use.

Good to know it's not just me. What moose do you use cat?

Elvive Fibrology. Shampoo, conditioner and amazing serum. Honestly, it gives me double the hair volume and mine is fine blonde shoulder length hair but lits of it. Normally, its flat and poker straight like silk but with this its ... pouffy.

I also dry my hair upside down but when i have a proper 'volume' blowdry that makes it big too (sadly I cant be bothered to do this).

Thats it really. Always use light products- nothing heavy.

I swear by dry shampoo for providing "engineering support" to my hair. Hairspray makes things too heavy and sticky when used "underneath"; i only use it to set a style or pat down flyaways.

Dry shampoo and a little backcombing provides a quick "base" on which to build volume at the roots of your crown to deflect from a "heavy end".

Also, get your hairdresser to feather the ends a bit x

I am also cursed with this hair. Do we think layers or no layers are better? Mine is layered at the front but the hairdresser suggested leaving the rest all one length. Trouble is I now think it looks flat at the roots and pouffy at the ends.

legend has answered my question before I even asked it

I’ve got an air styler thingy which has made a difference to my hair which is fine and thick. Gives my straight hair a bit of bend and L’Oréal Boost It volume hairspray really does add volume, for me.

Happy to Help @PebblesFlintstone

I have exactly the same type of hair. Also shoulder length. My go to bits are:

• label 'M' volume hair mousse (you only need a tiny amount at roots)
• blow drying thoroughly with round brush focused on ends and shaping
• straighteners just over the ends again to get rid of any frizz

It seems to work, mostly when mine isn't scraped up out the way!

Meant to say blow drying upside down then focusing on ends

I tend to use any old supermarket mousse Banana. I just choose the strongest I can find.
I second Legend's suggestion of dry shampoo and back combing the root too, except I'm too lazy to do it more than once our twice a year.
Most of the volumising products I've tried make my hair quite dull and I like my shiny 'swish' .

Yup I feel your pain OP

I basically have to wash my hair everyday and tip it upside down to either blow dry but generally walk out the door with damp hair and randomly stop on the street/work/wherever to tip my head and hair upside down during the dryng stages to whoosh it with my fingers. Then tip my head back. My DD thinks I look like a nutter but I've done that for years now and no amount of ridicule will ever stop me.

I use batiste dry shampoo a lot on the in between days when I dont have time to wash my hair.

I rarely apply hair products because my hair just sticks together the next morning and i end up washing it anyway.

However on a night out or when I feel like it I apply mousse and I blow dry with a large round brush. I lift my hair at the roots and blast it and pull the brush to the ends. I then spray with ellnett. And ta da I have full volumous hair till it drops after a few hours

Avoid overloading with product. I spray Urban Fudge extra strong hairspray onto a hairbrush and brush it through my roots and fringe (from front to back, not in the direction the hair would usually hang). Plus a bit of Tressemme Oil Elixir serum on the ends for condition. This gives good volume, shine and movement without much weight. Works well for me :-).

Long layers are your friend, or all one length at the ends. Shorter layers will make the ends fluffier. Shampoo all over especially into the roots, only condition the ends with a taming/smoothing conditioner. Put serum on the ends & dry your hair with a round brush so u can lift the roots as you're drying & the pull the ends taught as you dry them (using a diffuser on the end of your hair dryer). Section the hair & use decent ceramic straighteners to add smooth shape but only in the lengths of the hair. Finish with a texturising hair spray

I have this problem and would love advise too. So few hairdressers know how to cut my hair well. I either end up with too many coarse ended layers or a hair cut that makes my hair hang lank and heavy around my face.

I like my hair just about shoulder length and the ends left long enough so that I can tie it back. I hate hairdressers drying my hair under or drying it straight. I like it to look a bit messy and tousled but what should I ask for so that they don't cut loads of short, severe layers into my hair? I found a new hairdresser who cut my hair well and after two cuts she has left and I can't track her down. The replacement has given me a haircut I can do nothing with. I need the right hairdresser language so I get what I want.

The only thing that makes mine hold and style for longer than 10 minutes is some salt spray, blow dry then sleep in soft rollers, then I use the babyliss root boost crimper thing on the roots underneath as I take out the rollers, and backcomb a little.
Looks amazing and bouncy all day, and then pin on top of head for bed and dry shampoo the roots when needed.
Its a big job but usually get a good 4 days out of it.

What I really would recommend though is get good at up do's ;)

I have this! An amazing cut is the key. I have long Bob, all one length and the hairdresser softens the bluntness of the cut when dry, just a very small amount of layering.

I'm obsessed with living proof hair stuff, the perfect hair day product somehow makes my hair full of volume but not fluffy. I blow dry it upside down for volume at the roots. Works a treat.

This is also my hair. When it needs cutting, it clumps together like an old sheep . If I don't wash it, it becomes greasy at the roots and like a dandelion clock at the ends. Yet nobody believes me!

Another vote for mousse!

Me too!

Things I find work:
Only use a little conditioner
Bed head queen for a day thickening spray
Blow dry hair
Quick straighten to remove frizz
Quick spray of elnett to stop frizz
Only use a bristle brush (Kent, Denman, mason pearson)

I have hair like this too. It's currently shoulder length. I had layers and a long fringe cut in last week. Previously had a blunt cut which was doing nothing for my face shape. Regret this as it now looks like a longer version of Princess Di's haircut in the 1980's. Flicks everywhere.
I don't want to straighten it or use lots of products like I used to do because I've spent ages getting my hair back into good condition after over-bleaching it. My hair is also getting drier and thinning now that I am nearly 50.
I love having shoulder length hair but feel so frumpy because of my hair texture. Updos may well be the answer Desperad0
Sympathies to everyone else with this hair type who is fed up.

Seriously yes, dry shampoo has an amazing hold. From Las Vegas, Nevada.

I have this hair type, for many years had just a little longer then shoulder length, hairdressers would put too many layers in so it nearly look like a mushroom shape, the layers seem to poufe up if you know what i mean, since I've retired i don't go to the salon, I've let it grow longer with a few long layers I do myself, it lays so much better. Plus I only wash it twice a week instead of every other day which seems to help.