Hair, team – lift!!!

Even if you don’t know how to style your hair, bet on its volume: it is always an embellishment, especially the owners of fashionable cascade haircuts, classic carriage and stylish “bobs. But in the salon all the work to create volume does the stylist, and the home result is so far from the professional … Do not worry: knowing the basics, you are sure to cope ..!

You only hope for shampoo, never fear for yourself..

Most volume shampoos work on the principle of making hair lighter: hair is degreased with such a product more than with regular shampoo, becomes lighter, and it is less “pulled” down. In principle, any shampoo for oily hair has this effect.

Have you noticed that on shampoo packages they write their purpose: for dry, normal, colored hair, and only on shampoos for volume most often write simply “volume?

According to the manufacturer’s idea, it should do its “volumizing job” on hair of any type, but will it work?? The effect can be unexpected: For example, naturally dry or dyed hair, regular use of this kind of shampoo is contraindicated: hair will become even drier, will fly around and become more electrified, so it is better to choose a shampoo according to the type and condition of hair.

There’s another thing you should never apply conditioner or hair conditioner to the roots, but only to the tips.

The hair is the hair closest to the skin at the roots, and to a greater or lesser extent, the skin secretes sebum, which weighs down the hair at the roots.

Balm weighs hair no matter what they say in the ads and is needed just for a good brushing of the tangled ends and their extra moisture and nutrition, because they are the most “used” part of our hair, they are most exposed to coloring, hot styling, exposure to sunlight.

No matter how expensive and high quality care products are, they can’t fundamentally affect the condition of the hair: they can’t solve the problems of avitaminosis and improper nutrition, constant stress and unfavorable environmental conditions, infections and hormonal conditions. It’s the hair conditioner, not the shampoo, that can be one of the reasons for bad hair and only a doctor can help to diagnose it.

It takes skill and a cut-finish everywhere

The foundation of a voluminous hairstyle is a good haircut. If you do not cut split ends or excessively grown ends, not to give a hair shape, you can forget about the volume.

A good craftsman will profile a few strands of hair around your head to make it easier to achieve a perfect hairstyle. Don’t be afraid to section your hair, even if you don’t have very thick hair. Ask them to do it gently, just a bit, and it will be much easier to achieve volume at home.

Turn on the light!

There is another way to make your hair more voluminous, at least externally. It’s all about optical deception. A few strands the thinner, the better are one or two shades lighter than your shade-and your hair will play and shimmer in the light and… look fuller. After all, including the contrast of light and shadow creates a volume effect in a painting, so what’s worse than your hair?

This is one of the reasons why salon hair coloring is preferable to home coloring: masters mix different shades, often before tinting hair make the basis-melting, and professional colors contain different color pigments, allowing you to create a voluminous coloring.

Down with the frizzy towel!

Do you like to walk around in a “turban” made of a twisted terry towel after showering or washing your hair?? It seems to us that it will absorb excess moisture, lift the hair, and some things are: to put on the cream, get dressed, answer the phone.

Professional hair stylists warn that in just these ten to fifteen minutes a tight knot of fabric literally cripples the hair! Not only does it break the cuticle, making hair less smooth, but it also prevents it from growing in line with its direction of growth, hence the subsequent frizz, wrinkles and other troubles.

Hair styling after the “turban” is more difficult at times. In the salon they also wrap a towel around our head – but how?! Tight but gentle, no rubbing, no wringing, just blotting if your handyman does it differently, think about it . And they only do it to take the client from the sink to the chair.

Bottom of the head

“Feet shoulder-width apart, bend over…” – is not an industrial gymnastics, but the correct posture for drying hair at home. If you want volume, you’re going to need to plan your drying process to suit your needs. After all, hair is always blow-dried from roots to ends, and pulling it up, as your stylists do, can be very messy at home.

It is easier to put your head down and blow-dry from roots to ends and back. Don’t hold the hair too close to your hair! Now you can model your own shot – and you have the volume.

Do not neglect the styling foam – with it your chances for volume will increase! Choose a product with protective properties, designed for hot styling.

Concentrator or diffuser?

Stylists and hairdressers never use diffusers they don’t even come with professional hair dryers ! .

This nozzle with “fingers” is designed at home to create the most “difficult” and the main volume – on the back of the head. Don’t haphazardly blow-dry your hair all over your head: the best thing you can achieve in this case is an artistic mess.

The air-flow concentrator, on the other hand, is a must: it helps guide the hair as it dries, creating a stronger, hotter jet of air.

The concentrator helps hair dry more quickly and “remember” better. The “Cascade Style” haircut is used both for creating volume at the root and for modeling individual hair strands with a round brush.

Volume and straighteners don’t mix?

Experts do not recommend holding the hair straightener on the hair for more than two seconds: the plates should slide over the hair all the time, otherwise there is a great risk of damaging the cuticle.

That is why you should not believe the manufacturers, who say that straighteners help to create the volume at the roots: after all it is necessary to fix each strand and the area of the plates is not large at the roots, pulling up in a clamped state..

But it can also play a big role in creating some visual volume in certain styles. The straightened tips, for example, are sure to emphasize the presence of volume at the nape of the neck.

The rule for cascade haircuts is that the volume should be greatest at the nape of the neck and gradually fade away toward the face and down. That’s what a hair straightener comes in handy for.

Velcro for volume

There is always some residual moisture left in your hair after blow drying, and it can still work wonders for volume: roll your hair in Velcro rollers for that. It’s not a curling iron. It’s a hair volumizer. While you’re getting dressed, apply your makeup – let your hair stand up a little more. Ten to fifteen minutes is enough. That’s it, you’re all set!