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Tips for Fuller Hair

10/14/2015

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Do you have flat hair? These  tips will get you on your way to luxurious hair style.

  1. Use a shampoo for fine, thin hair.       Many fine haired men and women find that volumizing shampoo immediately gives them fullness. It is formulated to thicken each strand with the use of polymers. Others prefer a light shampoo with no volumizing agents and no conditioning agents that might weigh their hair down.      Keep an extra cleansing or clarifying shampoo handy for use about once a week. This type of shampoo will free your hair from any oils or leftover styling products that cling to the hair. This shampoo should not be used more than once a week. You may require a conditioner.
  2. Hair that is in good condition has more natural bounce than hair that is dry and damaged. Some conditioners are too heavy for your already flat hair. Use a light conditioner formulated for fine hair. Apply the conditioner to the ends of the hair only. The root area of the hair rarely needs conditioning.
  3.  Always rinse thoroughly after conditioning.
    Allowing some conditioner to remain on the hair is often beneficial for dry fizzy hair but fine, flat hair will be weighed down.
      4. Toweling your hair damp-dry before you apply the styling products will increase their effectiveness.
       5.  Use Root Lifter.
It is a firm hold spray gel that is sprayed at the base of the hair shaft – the root area. Used in this way, it will cause extra body and lift.
        6.  Next, use a styling foam or styling gel formulated for fine hair.
Emulsify the product in your hands and work through your hair from the roots to the ends.
         7. Blow drying:  The effectiveness of any product you use will depend on how you dry your hair. As you blow-dry your hair, lift it up off the scalp. Using a vent brush to lift the hair up, rather than brushing it down, will achieve the best result.
          8.  Fullness can also be achieved by brushing the hair in the opposite direction from which it falls. If your hair naturally falls forward, blow it back as you dry it. When it is dry, comb it into place.
           9.   Finally, and probably the easiest if you have long hair is to turn your head upside down and dry the hair until just the ends are damp.
          10.  In all of these techniques, dry the root area of the hair first and then the ends.
          11.  Use a large curling iron for extra body.
When using a curling iron on your hair, form the curl, and then carefully remove the curling iron. Hold the curl up and spray the base of it (next to your head) with flexile hold hair spray. Allow the spray to dry and place the section of hair where you want it.
             12.  After you have achieved fullness. You may need something called back-combing, teasing or ratting to keep it from falling flat again. This is the art of tangling the hair to create a cushion of lift. When the back-combing is in place and then smoothed. The effect should be that of naturally thick hair or hair that has lots of body. 
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Beautiful Brunettes 

10/12/2015

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Brunettes unite! Brown hair doesn't have to  be boring. There are subtle and dramatic ways to enhance your earthy tresses without making a complete color change or becoming a slave to hair color.

Brunette is beautiful. Your hair color may fit your complexion and personality perfectly, but you may still be looking for a change. The following ten ways to change your brown hair are subtle and designed to enhance you’re your tones, not change your color completely. 


  1. Try a color update with little commitment.  Warm up your hair color with a red or auburn color wash. Glaze your brown hair with a translucent color gloss such as Redken Shades EQ or PM Shines. Your new color will gently fade away within six weeks.
  2. Get lively hair color with even less commitment. Use any of the many color pigmented shampoos to add golden tones, red tones or deeper brown tones. Use blue or purple pigmented shampoo to tone out warmth and create a neutral brown tone. These enhancements fade within two shampoos.
  3. Have you been tinting your hair solid brown to cover gray? It is your natural color and looks ok but it’s boring? Use foiling or a cap to add a few highlights through the bangs area and the top. A weak lightening solution will lighten hair a shade or two, or more if you choose. These few highlights require very little extra work but soften skin tones and brighten your face.
  4. Do you have light to medium natural brown hair? Add lowlights. These are strands of tinted hair that is at least two shades darker than your natural color. The lowlights add depth and richness to your color. When adding them, stay away from the hairline and the part. They will grow out quite easily if you choose not to keep up the process.
  5. To your light to medium toned brown hair, add highlights of at least two shades lighter and lowlights of at least two shades darker. Create fine strands and alternate – lighter, natural, and darker throughout your hair. Again, stay away from the front hair line and the part.
  6. To your light or medium toned brown hair, add strands of blonde and strands of auburn.  The shade of blonde and auburn will depend on how light or dark you hair is. Create very fine strands of the two shades, and watch your hair shimmer as it moves.
  7. Do you have dark brown hair? Add strands of deep red brown. If the red brown is darker than your natural color, all you have to do is add the color. If your natural color is very dark, you will pre-lighten the strands to a gold tone and then apply red semi-permanent color gloss over all of your hair. The red color will adhere to the pre-lightened strands and should stay in over six weeks.
  8. Section off about 1/3 to 1/2 inch of hair all around your face. Lighten the hair in this area about two shades to a lighter brown. This softens skin tones and facial features, and is very easy to  retouch as your hair grows.
  9. Section off the hair in the nape area – all hair below the occipital bone of your head. Tint the hair in this area at least two shades darker than your natural hair color. This is very effective if your hair is layered so that the darker hair extends out from under the lighter hair. If your hair is one length, the dark hair peaks out occasionally.
  10. Are you finding more and more gray or white hairs invading your natural brown hair? Using foil or painting with a hair color brush, add strands of your own brown tone to reduce the amount of graywithout tinting all over.
My Kindle book  Do Your Own Hair Color  tells you how, and gives many more tips on beautiful hair color. Get it now for only 99 cents.
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    Lynne Chapman served as Hair Site Editor of BellaOnline.com for fifteen years. She is a professional stylist and colorist of more than forty years.

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