How to add more volume to your flat and fine hair

By Pretty Ritzy Team

With time, hormones, stress, and age will change your hair, and we are sure a lot of you will relate to that. We believe that everyone can change their perceived shortcomings or their perceived flaws. Women like to feel their best as they are ageing. For some, ageing is not about constantly fighting the fact that they are ageing, or trying to look 20 years younger, that is impossible, right?

So here are a few things that you can try to get that volume and confidence back.

Embrace a healthy (hair) diet

One of the easiest ways to ensure your hair stays healthy is by eating a balanced, nutrient-rich diet that’s chock-full of vitamins and minerals. An important mineral for our hair is zinc, since it keeps the oil glands around the hair follicles healthy. In fact, evidence suggests that a zinc deficiency weakens the protein structures of hair follicles, which can lead to hair loss. Low zinc levels can also cause flaking on the scalp, or slow down hair growth. Look out for foods high in zinc; oysters, spinach, beef and kidney beans are just a few examples. Keratin, the fibrous structural protein that makes up our hair, is produced from the protein-rich foods we eat. Chicken, eggs and dairy products are great sources of protein, but those on a plant-based diet can get plenty of protein from vegetables and nuts.

Getting a short, Shaggy, Spiky, Edgy Pixie Cuts Hairstyle

Pixie crop or pixie cut is a women’s haircut about half an inch to 3-inches in length. It may either be one-length or cut shorter on the back/sides and longer on the top. This will literally transform your confidence overnight, short or long it doesn't matter what length of hair you have but not having layers in your hair ages you. When your hair is at one length, it tends to become heavy at the bottom, and the hair on top of your head becomes flat. So avoid having all your hair cut at one length, we would also recommend adding some texture to your layers, it looks far better than just carefully combing your hair which looks really too smoothed out and flat, and we don't want to look flat.

Using the right products

Styling products can weigh down hair just like cleansing products, so it’s important to use the right ones (and not a little bit of everything). Shine products are notorious for making your hair flat. If you can't live without one, use it sparingly and don't comb it through. When you are looking for hair products for fine hair, look for so-called ‘hold products’ rather than oil-based products. Hair oil, for example, will only make fine hair appear greasy. Hold products include hair gels, texturizing sprays, mousses and dry shampoos. Hair gels and waxes are ideal for creating piecey, edgy looks and are best suited to shorter cuts; hair mousses help to define curly hair, whilst texturizing sprays and dry shampoos can be used to give most cuts a messy, matte finish. You should choose one or two styling products based on your hairstyle and texture. You could apply volumizing spray when the hair is damp before blow-drying, then mist over with a texturizing finishing spray for a full-bodied finish that will hold all day.

Add volume with a curly hairstyle

We know that this will help all of you women out there who enjoy volume but do not want to have those frizzy flyaways. Avoid those heavy, stiffening creams to style your hair, these can feel volumizing in the beginning but soon they weigh so much that your hair starts to feel flat. Instead, take a drop of your hair conditioner or even just a drop of hair oil, mix it with a tiny bit of hair mousse, and rub them together in your palms, and now scrunch your hair with it. This will shape your hair really well without feeling like the plasticky feel. This trick works.

Use Your Towel

Remove as much moisture as you can before you pick up the dryer. Roughly towel-dry your hair when you step out of the shower, then wrap the towel round your head while you get ready. By the time you take the towel off, your hair will be ready for the hairdryer. Give your whole head a quick once-over on the cool setting, then run your fingers through the roots - any lingering moisture will be more obvious once your hair is cool.

Dry shampoo Trick

We know dry shampoo is mostly used when you start noticing greasiness in your scalp or your hair but we recommend a preventative approach, coating your scalp with a layer of dry shampoo as soon as you finish your blow-drying is amazing. This will help your voluminous style to last much longer.

Changing your hair parting often

To make sure your hair doesn't start to look flat is to keep changing your hair parting. With short hair, your choices are limited but if you have slightly longer hair, you have multiple choices, you can do a pretty low side parting, a side parting, a zigzag parting, or even pull your hair back completely into a nice slick back look, this simple trick can add volume to your roots.

The way you shower your scalp

Avoid taking hot showers directly on your scalp especially for a long time. some people say that it massages your scalp, no it doesn't, it just damages your roots and it dehydrates your hair. Dehydrated dry look is not the kind of volume you're looking for. If you still enjoy a warm shower, end your shower with a cold blast especially on your scalp just for about 20 to 30 seconds not too long. This helps to keep your scalp pores tight, open pores cause oily scalp. Similarly when you finish blow drying your hair end it with a blast of cold air on your scalp, this way your scalp won't get oily very quickly, and if your scalp won't get oily, then your hair won't fall flat as fast as it usually does.

Good hair equals happiness, happiness means less stress, less stress means less hair fall, and less hair fall means great hair. So go ahead and elevate with these tips on how to add volume to your hair, and try your favourite tip today.