1. Choose your shampoo – and use it
Fine hair is gentle tender hair and it needs a lot of love. Washing it regularly, every day or second day, gives it a lift and adds lustre. The key here is to look for a tender shampoo that’s gentle and nourishing and won’t strip away too many nutrients. Also consider weekly protein treatments, adding vitamins and minerals back into your hair.
2. Cut down on conditioner
While you should shampoo regularly, go easy on creamy conditioners that weigh down your hair. And avoid those roots! Do you really tangle up top? Probably not, so apply your conditioner mostly to parched tips, partly to mid-lengths and only very sparingly to the roots.
3. Select your celeb!
Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham both have fine hair and have both made a career out of looking a million dollars. While Kate usually opts for a mid-length style, flitting between fringe and no fringe, Victoria has opted mostly for a long bob or her now-infamous Pob. The point? Celebs with fine hair tend to opt for mid-length as their longest and Winona Ryder-style elfin cuts as their shortest. Lose the maxi length and go for catwalk glamour instead.
4. Go for blunt
On fine hair, there’s few better looks than a freshly-hemmed blunt cut fringe. It takes all the attention away from any supposed limpness in locks and delivers a sleek sassy look that will never date. This also works brilliantly for the ends of fine hair. Find a good hairdresser who understand and you won’t look back. Also, a little bit of blunt layering, or graduating, adds an awesome edge to fine hair. It gives some ‘chunk’ to a haircut, fattening out the look. Works well on short or medium length hair.
5. Lift it
Using a volumising spray at the roots of fine hair works wonders, no kidding. It gives an instant lift to fine hair, raising it softly from the scalp and delivering an impression of much fuller, healthier hair. Talk to your hairdresser about volumising sprays, gentle scalp mousses and gels or spray-on scalp shampoos.
THIN HAIR STYLING TIPS AND TRICKS
- Consider shorter styles that give greater volume and lift.
- A side or a more uneven part, rather than a central part will help to disguise thinning on the top of the head.
- Longer hair should be left at a length to allow you to put it up but avoid putting your hair in a tight ponytail.
PLUS... TIPS FROM THE 2008 AHFA WINNERS!
“Fine hair looks best with solid ends, never wispy,” says 2008 AHFA Session Stylist of the year winner, Anthony Nader of Raw Anthony Nader in Darlinghurst, Sydney.
“This creates thickness. In terms of colour, opt for bold hues with subtle paneling (slices of foils rather than fine weaves, which give thicker highlights) to create texture.”
“Fine hair is great kept in a strong, solid shape, using the map of the hair to create shape,” adds Paula Kelly from Sublime Salons, Brisbane, winner of the AHFA QLD Hairdresser of the Year award.
APRIL 2008
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