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Your Guide To Great Hair Pump It Up or Calm It Down? Either Way It's All About Volume! While hair-straightening gels and balms have gotten a lot of attention lately, clients still want and need volume Start with the Right Cut to Create Lots of Volume
Starting with the right cut always helps. Hair that is naturally thin or fine will definitely benefit from styles that are formed from well conceived and executed layers. Bobs and layered styles are perfect to give thin or fine hair more instant movement and fullness. People with medium to longer lengths can achieve volume through well placed graduated layers or slight angles around the face or the crown. Thick hair styles can benefit from some shaping and razor tuning help to make sure that their hair has shape and bounce. Volume Enhancing Shampoo Products Use the best shampoo and conditioning products designed to add thickness that your budget can afford. Matrix, has made a point of developing a complete line of volume enhancing hair care products, such as their hot new Amplify line and the older Vavoom line. While you are shampooing your hair with the volume enhancing shampoo remember that there are additional tips that can help add instant fullness. One tip is that you may want to skip the rinse out conditioning step and opt for a product that combines leave-in conditioning with detangling or instant volumizing benefits. Matrix's Amplify will also provide 2 for 1 benefits of leave-in conditioning along with volume enhancing action. Remember, that conditioners can over moisturize hair making it less willing to plump up. You'll need to weigh the benefits of rinse-out versus leave-in conditioners and moisturizing versus volumizing products, depending on the condition of your hair, you may want to select a light moisturizing rinse-out rather than a volumizing rinse out product.Volumizing Styling Steps Tips Whether you use a rinse-out conditioner or not, finish off with a cool to cold rinse. The cold water naturally closes the hair cuticle, encourages shine and naturally plumps up the shaft. Use a thick absorbent towel to blot as much moisture from your hair as possible. Apply a volumizing pump up product, like, Matrix's AmplifyTM Root Lifter
starting at the center of the forehead, take a one-inch section. Apply Root
Lifter to the root area only. Blow dry your damp hair using a medium to
high speed, medium to high heat setting. The hotter the setting, the
more lift you will attain from your hair. Be sure to vary the
heat and wave the dryer so that you don't concentrate the air flow on one
section of hair for too long. As your blow dry your hair use a round
or metal vent brush to lift and separate chunks of hair. Aim the blow
dryer airflow up the hair shaft, from the roots to the ends of the hair.
This will help add lift. You can also bend over at the waist and
direct air flow from the underside roots of your hair up towards the ends.Blow dry your hair until it is 90-95% dry. Apply a good mousse product like Paul Mitchell's 
or your favorite mousse product, very lightly from your roots until
your ends. Finish blow
drying your hair until it is completely dry using a cool to cold setting to
set the hair. To
give maximum fullness and volume add hot rollers or if you prefer, a curling
iron. Follow these steps:
The key is to create soft waves and movement without tight curls. For even more body you can even lightly backcomb the hair near the crown of your hair. Spray the finished look with a soft shaping spray or setting spray. To Create Volume...If you use a curling iron On clean towel dried hair...apply a product designed to create volume. Apply it at the roots of your hair and comb through to the ends (you want more product at toward the scalp than at the ends - this makes the hair "lift") Section off your hair, use curling iron to curl your hair as you would normally. Let hair cool before brushing out. After the hair is completely dry and your style is set, use a stronger holding hair spray to keep the hair in place.Cyber Stylist Recommendation products designed to create volume when using a curling iron: Paul MitchellŽ Volumizing Spray (a small amount goes a long way) Paul MitchellŽ Extra Body Foam ( great if you have fine, thin hair) Paul MitchellŽ Extra Body Gel Paul MitchellŽ Fast Drying Sculpting Spray Paul MitchellŽ Sculpting Lotion If you blow dry your hair ...On clean towel dried hair...apply a product designed to create volume. Apply it at the roots of your hair and comb through to the ends (you want more product at toward the scalp than at the ends- this makes the hair "lift") When blow drying, use the high heat setting when the hair is damp. When the hair is almost dry, use your brush to hold your hair in place and use the cool setting to "set" the hair. After the hair is completely dry and your style is set, use a stronger holding hair spray to keep the hair in place.Cyber Stylist Recommendation products designed to create volume when styling using a blow dryer: Paul MitchellŽ Volumizing Spray (a small amount goes a long way) Paul MitchellŽ Extra Body Foam ( great if you have fine, thin hair) Paul MitchellŽ Extra Body Gel Paul MitchellŽ Sculpting Glaze Paul MitchellŽ Fast Drying Sculpting Spray Paul MitchellŽ Sculpting Lotion If you use rollers (cold or hot)... On clean towel dried hair...apply a product designed to create volume. Apply it at the roots of your hair and comb through to the ends (you want more product at toward the scalp than at the ends - this makes the hair "lift") Roll your hair. Mist lightly with a light to medium hair spray (do not use a strong one) When hair is dry, brush out, and finish with a stronger finishing spray.Cyber Stylist Recommendation products designed to create volume when styling using rollers: Paul MitchellŽ Volumizing Spray (a small amount goes a long way) Paul MitchellŽ Extra Body Foam ( great if you have fine, thin hair) Paul MitchellŽ Extra Body Gel Paul MitchellŽ Fast Drying Sculpting Spray Paul MitchellŽ Sculpting Lotion Hairsprays designed to provide a light to medium hold. (Mist lightly on top of roller before the hair is dry) Paul MitchellŽ Super Clean (aerosol) Paul MitchellŽ Fast Drying Sculpting Spray Paul MitchellŽ Soft Spray Hairsprays designed to provide maximum hold. Paul MitchellŽ Freeze and Shine Paul MitchellŽ Super Clean Extra Paul MitchellŽ Ultimate Finishing Spray (CreativesŽ line)
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Anyone
can add volume to their look whether they have short, medium or long
hair. While some textures are more conducive to bigger looks,
almost any texture from thick to thin can also have a fatter head of
hair.