Hair style tips for fine hair

[HLM1989]

Hi all- seeking hair styling tips for my very boring, very straight, fine limp hair 🙄it dries naturally straight and any kind of curl just never lasts. It’s mid length - few inches past my shoulders. I hate that it just always looks the same, even when going out for an evening I can do nothing to it. If I try do any kind of half up/half down style I just look bald and have these pathetic little bits hanging down at the front.
I borrowed my friends babyliss big hair and it just did nothing, dried my hair so fast and still so flat after many attempts.
So does anyone have any tips or tools for me to try change up my hair please?

What products are you using? I suspect you need a volumising mousse to use when you're drying your hair so it gives it a bit of grip and oomf?

L'Oréal professional volumising mousse sprayed into the roots?

Mine sounds the same. I have a fortunes worth of products but nothing makes any real difference, from mousse, sprays, sea salt sprays, leave in heat activated crèmes... Volumising products only keep the poofiness for so long before it's flat again. The only thing that I think would make any difference would be using extensions to thicken it but... You'd see through my hair to where they're put in.
When I cared about it (I've long since almost gave up on it) I'd sleep with those velcro style curlers in at my hairline round my face. That gave me a couple of hours of lift but even hairspray wouldn't hold it, it was too heavy. Hope you have more luck than I've had to help it!

Oh! Dry shampoo put on the night before made it look slightly less flat and limp the morning after. Was the best thing I took on holiday with me!

I have terrible hair, very fine. For me an ex Vidal Sassoon stylist cuts me a Bob. It works very well looks so much thicker. There are a few different bobs that work well with fine hair. With a precision Bob and straight hair you can wash and leave which improves the health of the hair, it falls perfectly in shape.
Regular trim to tidy up any scruffy ends. I go twice to a junior between the stylist to keep costs down. I find having shiny hair that swings into shape is the best for me. The best shampoo I have found (and I have tried sooo many) is marks and Spencer thickening shampoo in the blue bottle, it is one of the everyday products that they keep in the food section not beauty. Any mousse or other product make it look odd and tend to cause breakage. I swim daily which is not good but Philip Kingsley does an amazing protector called swim cap. I also use one of his treatment elasticiser once a month.

Getting it highlighted helped as it roughens up my fine hair so it gives it body. I’ve also found this great watermelon shampoo for about £4 from laboratoire garnier or whatever it’s called - it thickens it up