To create thick, healthy hair, you need to do two things: volumize and moisturize. The moisture keeps your hair healthy and the volume keeps it looking thick. For results you can feel, keep styling products to a minimum. Sure, shine serum creates an instant faux-glow, but styling products eventually stress your hair with harsh chemical ingredients and product buildup, leaving your hair feeling dull and brittle.
Step 1
Use a volumizing shampoo and conditioner. London stylist Peter Gray tells "Marie Claire" magazine that volumizing products won't weigh hair down, giving you more lift, bounce and body.
Step 2
Add a multivitamin to your daily regimen to keep your hair feeling thick and healthy. According to "Allure" magazine, biotin and niacin can help strengthen hair that's thinning or weak. If your hair breaks frequently or you see lots of split ends, take 1,000mcg of biotin and 500mg of niacin per day.
Step 3
Use a flatiron to pump up your hair's volume without styling products. Michael Duenas of New York's Hair Room Service tells "Glamour" magazine that flatirons with a curved edge deliver the same type of volume as back-combing, without the risk of breaking fragile strands or clumping them up with styling products. Clamp 1-inch sections of hair in the flatiron, starting at the roots. Move the iron away from your roots in a clockwise motion. The iron's rounded edge creates subtle waves that make hair look and feel thicker.
Step 4
Limit your use of silicone-based styling products. It's hard to do because most frizz fighters and shine serums contain silicone or its variant, dimethicone. Master stylist and trichologist Philip Kingsley tells "Marie Claire" magazine that silicone fights frizz by blocking moisture, but if you block too much moisture, you'll dry out your hair shaft, leaving hair with flat, straw-like texture.
Step 5
Use self-grip rollers to build volume and make hair look and feel thicker. Stylist Sally Hershberger tells "InStyle" magazine that self-grip rollers give you "sexy, voluminous hair" without the damage of hot styling tools. Just roll sections of hair over a roller and the hooks and loops hold it in place, no clips needed.
Step 6
Treat hair with a weekly scalp mask for deep conditioning, shine and moisture. Even if you limit your use of styling tools and products, your hair needs extra help to stay glossy and healthy. Beverly Hills stylist Corey Powell tells "Marie Claire" he uses a mixture of essential oils, avocado, egg white, honey, banana and milk. You can buy a drugstore hair mask or concoct your own the blender with Powell's ingredients.
Things You'll Need
- Volumizing shampoo and conditioner
- Biotin and niacin multivitamin
- Flatiron
- Self-grip rollers
- Hair mask
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