Just because you have short hair that fine or thinning, you don't have to settle for slicked back looks that hug your head.
With the right styling tools and several of the tips included in this article you can build lots of fullness and volume into your strands.
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| Sharon Stone |
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Many celebrities use other tricks to get instant fat hair. Darryl Hannah is famous for her very fine strands. She uses hair extensions, both spot extensions that are applied to add volume as well as length extensions to create long tresses.
Many celebrities use hair extensions for volume enhancing reasons. They also will utilize half-wigs, clip-in ponytails or clip-in temporary hair.
Other celebrities utilize hair accessories such as headbands with circular teeth that help give instant root lift or a variety of barrettes that will instantly lift hair, giving it a fuller look.
In the image to the side Sharon Stone has lots of curls and volume extending from the back of her crown. This look could have been created either from an add-on half wig or through the use of hair combs strategically positioned to lift hair up and concentrate the curls along the back of her head. This look could also have been created with bobby pins, barrettes or hair clips.
Many people overlook how helpful the right headband, bobby pins, clips, combs or barrettes can be when adding side, root or crown lift to fine strands.
One thing to remember, when buying hair accessories for fine hair, make sure that the accessories can work with your hair texture. If you find that headbands or other accessories easily "slip" out of your fine strands, utilize bobby pins to anchor underneath the headband, comb or barrettes or use them to hold accessories in place.
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| Sharon Stone |
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One potential mistake that people with fine hair make is finishing their style with heavy hairspray that will cause all that newly added volume to flatten over time.
Use a very light hairspray that will help hold the shape you desire without flattening the volume. If you must use a shine product, use only one or two drops and apply to the palms of the heads.
Massage well into the palms and then lightly brush over the top or your finished style. This technique will transfer just a tiny bit of shine product without weighing it down.
To achieve a piecey look on just the ends, use a styling wax or paste or balms and apply just to the very edges of the style.
To steal Sharon's chunky, jagged look, break-up ends a little or a lot.
To add a chunky, jagged feeling, take a small amount of Dream Cream, rub it between your fingers and finger comb the ends, flicking them up and out lightly.
For stronger separation on thicker hair, bend ends up with the fore and middle finger of one hand while you rake through the protruding ends with the fingers of the opposite hand
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| Sharon Stone |
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Robert has lots of experience giving Jennifer Love Hewitt big beautiful roots. He uses "a combination of silver colored hair clippies (traditional salon clips" or even bobby pins to give her luscious root lift or direction.
Robert creates Jennifer Love's fat roots on dry strands. He likes to "use hairspray that contains alcohol because it dries the fastest, especially if he is not using heat, which he doesn't use on dry hair".
To create quick lift on the part line, "take individual sections of hair from both sides of the part (about the amount of hair that will fit in a silver color salon clip "clippie". Hold the strands straight up in the air, mist on the hairspray and slip in the clippie".
The clippie holds "the base of both section straight up in the air". Wait a few minutes for the hairspray to completely dry. When hair is dry, carefully slip out the clippie and then use fingers to style.
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| Sharon Stone |
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You will get great subtle fullness and lift, right where you want it. When he is working on set, Robert puts in all the clippies where he wants direction lift, sends his celebrity client to makeup which can take about 30 minutes and then removes the clippies. This trick works well on fine hair that can not handle lots of backcombing.
To add a chunky, jagged feeling, take a small amount of Dream Cream, rub it between your fingers and finger comb the ends, flicking them up and out lightly.
Use the clippies to add lift at the hairline or to trick a cowlick into submission. For thicker, heavier hair, take smaller sections and use extra hairspray. The whole idea is to direct roots wherever you want them to go.
For stronger separation on thicker hair, bend ends up with the fore and middle finger of one hand while you rake through the protruding ends with the fingers of the opposite hand.
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| Sharon Stone |
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Backcombing or "ratting" hair can damage smooth, shiny hair. If done correctly, it can add instant fullness and movement while still maintaining healthy shine.
Note: If your hair is damaged or fragile, read Step 10 below which explains how to get lots of root lift without back coming.
Robert also explained that is you "use a small-diameter curling iron (about the size of a pencil) you can get lots of fullness created with the hot iron". Robert recommends "using the hot iron wherever you want lift".
Take an individual section of hair where you want to build in lots of volume that is "about the size of a fat piece of spaghetti, lift the hair at the base (near the root) and wind the curling iron down the section, getting as close to the base as possible".
If you're starting at the crown area of the head, "spiral the hair inward, towards the center".
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| Sharon Stone |
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Directly opposite to this first section, create a second identical section of lift, also directing this second section inward towards the center. This way the two sections move towards one another, creating subtle lift at the base.
When you are finished working with the iron through the sections of hair, let the hair completely cool. Then rough up the sections a tiny bit with your fingers and flip hair back into place.
For natural-looking volume that stays, always start with a volumizing tonic or a dime-size amount of gel. Too much gel can make hair sticky. Always be super conservative.
Lift a few sections of hair at the crown only or work completely around your entire head creating scrumptious, show-off strands. Remember to always work in paired sections so that the strands flow towards one another.
