Love your thin hair, take proper care of it and you will be suprised how polished will your hairstyle be.
We want to look like this:
But unfortunately most of the times we look like the one below:
Beautiful hair means volume. So what should girls, with thin hair, do?
First you need to decide if your hair is thin naturally or it became thin. Take a look at your parents, what kind of hair do they have, check your childhood pictures, if you had thin hair all the time it means that you have naturally thin hair.
If your hair became thin;
In this case thinness is a temporal hair condition. It happens if hair do not receive proper nutrition because of stress, too often hair coloring, waving with chemicals because of too hard water and lack of zinc. If you recognized that your hair became thinner than usual, you should treat it better.
If your hair is naturally thin;
If mother nature rewarded you with thin hair and you do not like it, there are two ways to take care of it. First – proper hair care that will not let your thin hair become even thinner. Second – hiding thinness of your hair.
Taking care of thin hair:
Do not color your hair more often than once a month. Instead of coloring prefer highlighting and lowlighting, ask your stylist to use natural dye. Apply hair and scalp masks regularly. It is always better to wash your hair with clean water or boiled tap water (store bottles in your bathroom). Try not to use hair elastics, hairgrips etc. always on the same place – it provokes hair to break because of constant mechanical force.
On the next page, you will find nice tips about your thin(ning) hair:
If you have hair that became thin:
- Look closely on the product that you use to wash your hair. Use organic shampoos that do not contain sulfates (sodium laureth sulfate, ammonium sulfate). This agressive substances can clean your hair really good, but they are very harsh on scalp. If you have issues with hair like hair loosing sulfate shampoos can make the situation worse. Try using baby shampoo or organic shampoo. Which one to use? Check out these shampoos. Non sulfate shampoos foam badly, use a conditioner afterwards.
- Do not color your hair more often than once a month, prefer organic dyes.
- Use vitamin complexes for women. They contain all vital vitamins and minerals for hair nails and teeth. It is important to eat food that contains tyrosine, you can find it in almonds, bananas, dairy products, sesame and pumpkin seeds.
- Use ready and homemade hair and scalp masks regulary.
- In cold weather always hide your hair, do not allow overcooling.
How to Style Thin Hair?
Light colors suit thin hair better because they visually add body. Avoid coloring in one color, ask stylist to use two or three shades, this trick will add volume to your hair.
Choose multilayer haircut, maximum length – shoulder length. The worst haircut for thin hair is over the shoulder one length. This cut not only will make your hairstyle sleek, but will be also bad for hair. Thin long hair will fall under pressure of its own weight.
How to Add Body to Hair
Treat your hair with thickening serum from Bumble and Bumble, an over night leave in treatment that plumps up meagre strands.
Prep by sectioning hair from front to back, and working Bed Head Superstar Blowdry lotion straight into the roots.
Then start drying. Lean forward and let your hair overhang. Blow dry it until it is half dry. The trick to add more body to hair is blow drying middle strands, redirecting the airflow (do not direct hot airflow to your scalp).
How does it work? Grasp strand with a vent brush and put it up, dry from roots to ends, then leave strand on its original place and again blowdry from roots to ends, holding the roots up with vent brush. You can also use metallic round brush near the roots, it will add great root volume. When the strand is done, blow some cool air on it to fix the styling and prevent strand from falling. Work like this through your head, starting from inner layers and up.
Clip non styled hair strands up. You will see the result immediately – excellent hair body. Be meticulous with the top center section of your head – that is what everyone sees.
If you are still not satisfied..
Try hair extensions! I advise to use tressed hair extensions because they are easy to use and will not damage your own hair. Tressed hair extensions clips to your own hair with tiny clips and provides extra volume to your hair. It is important to choose color that will fit the most to your natural hair color. You can remove it and clip back any time you want.
