If you have fine, thin, fragile hair I'm sure you are also always looking for a new method to get more volume in your hair, possibly using natural hair care products that will also strengthen them. Because it's well known ... it is a lot more easier to add more volume if your your hair is strong & healthy. Here are my 4 essential tips to help you get volume & strength in your hair!
Fine, thin hair, both a curse and a blessing. Yes, a blessing!
I always try to find the positive in everything and I manage, with a minimum effort, to find the pros of also having fine, thin hair:
It dries faster than thick hair,
If you have fine, thin hair, it’s unlikely that you have frizzy hair too. On the contrary, fine, thin hair tends to be soft, fluffy and silky,
It’s easier to comb and untangle,
It’s very easy to braid and style.
If you find any other pro, please share it with me in the comments area down below.
My Natural Hair Care Routine to Get Volume & Strength in my Hair
The truth is that we are never satisfied: should we have thick, straight hair, we would like to have curly hair. Should we have curly hair, we would dream of having straight air and so on.
If only we could accept and love ourselves for what we have and for who we are. With a little bit of commitment and with the help of the natural remedies that Mother Nature gives us - and, believe me, she’s truly generous - we can improve every little aspect of us that we don’t like much, hair included.
Here’s above a photo of myself, dated a few years ago. Look at my hair! When I was a child, my parents used to always have my hair cut short, because my fine, thin hair was really flat and it did not look nice on me, resulting sticked to the scalp.
Getting back to the present days, it was only last winter that my parents congratulated me because of my beautiful long hair, the same hair that they insisted to cut short when I was younger. Life is ironic, isn’t it?
Hence, if you too have fine, thin hair, it’s not impossible to receive compliments!
Next, I will share with you the remedies (actions or products) that made the difference for me.
Fine, thin hair: how can we recognise it?
Premise:
hair is made of biologically dead tissue, so it’s impossible to nourish or to revitalize it, but we can polish, soften or harden it in order to give it more resistance to traction.
A hair shaft is made of three layers:
- the medulla (the core of the hair);
- the cortex (the most important part of the hair, where epithelial cells decide the color of our hair and where there is the highest concentration of keratin);
- the cuticle (the outer part of the hair).
If your hair is fragile, fine and it breaks easily, then you have thin hair too.
Moreover, fine, thin hair usually lacks of body, strength and volume & the hair looks flat on your head.
The volume and the strength of our hair depends on our genes, hence the only solution is to accept it for how it is and to look for remedies (natural - as much as possible) to strengthen it and to make the hair feel stronger, thicker and look fuller.
Fine, Thin Hair: what are the remedies to get volume and strength in our hair?
1. A layered hair cut to give volume and movement
The most common hair frustration expressed among women seems to be the lack of volume in their hair. Having thin and fine hair means also a great loss of volume of the hair.
When I was a child, I always dreamt of long hair, but my thin hair with a one-length haircut made my fine hair look even finer and flatter. Long thin hair, if not properly layered, it becomes heavy resulting in a flat, limp and volumeless hairstyle.
What made the difference for me, was the ability of my hairdresser (which it’s not to be taken for granted!) to give my thin hair a properly layered haircut (it was important not to layer it too much because otherwise it would have made my hair seem even thinner than it already was).
Remember that only a properly layered hair cut, long or short, it doesn’t matter, can lighten your hair, plumping up fine, thin hair to get major volume and bounce in your hair.
Blow-drying your hair upside down can improve the volume of your hair as well. It will add your fine, thin hair extra body and bounce. I talked deeply about my fine hair care routine in this video:
2. Henna - when nature meets our needs to strengthen and give volume to our hair
I will never be grateful enough for that particular moment when I decided to try henna and herbal hair dyes to dye my white regrowth (yep, not only my hair is fine & thin, my regrowth is also 75% white!). I was looking for a natural remedy to cover my white hair and I happened to find a natural remedy to also get more volume & strength in my fine thin hair.
You may purchase the herbal hair dyes by clicking here
How is this possible?
Lawsonia's (red henna) coloring pigments wrap the cuticule up and they chemically bond to keratin, filling the hair flakes. Therefore, the hair shaft becomes thicker, stronger and shinier. Lawsonia inermis is the only natural hair dye that can chemically bond to the keratin of the hair.
After using herbal hair dyes for so many years, my hair literally changed. Mostly because red henna - lawsonia inermis is a real beauty treatment for fine, thin hair. It is a lot more delicate & gentle on the scalp than the aggressive and harmful chemical hair dyes. And mixing it with cassia & katam I get this wonderful dark brown color even on my 75% white regrowth.
If you only wish to enjoy the benefits without changing the color of your hair, then you should use Cassia or should you wish to add more volume to your hair & yet revive your natural brown hues, then you should use Katam or Indigo.
Another discovery that made and still makes the difference for my hair are the volumizing hair masks. Thanks to their ingredients, they can strenghten and give temporary volume and thickness to my fine, thin hair.
In the video tutorial shared a few lines above I share with you my favourite volumizing hair mask that I use in order to get volume & strength in my hair.
But the latest hair mask idea, that accidentally popped into my mind while I was ironing the collar of a shirt, was a hair mask made using the classical rice starch, that can be found in every supermarket.
Rice starch has lots of uses, but the volumizing and strengthening hair mask is definitely my favorite one! It acts on hair as it acts on fabric. It hardens it and it makes it stronger and it gets a lot more volume in your fine, thin hair. It isn’t a long lasting effect because it disappears when we wash our hair, but I assure you that you’ll love it if you try it!
To make this hair mask, you only have to take a right amount of starch (based on your hair length) and then mix it with water in order to obtain a mix to be applied on your hair. You must leave the mask on your hair for a minimum of one hour and a maximum of three hours. I usually use this hair mask mixed with cassia on the ends of my hair (I usually apply it on clean hair), while I have my henna mix on my roots. I don’t use shampoo to rinse the hair mask because I only use the hair mask on clean hair. Hence I use just cold water to rinse clean my hair.
Make sure to buy 100% pure rice starch, without preservatives. On the ingredients list you should read only: oriza sativa starch. It’s usually sold in powder or chunk pieces. I'd recommend you to buy the powdered starch.
4. Which are the best cosmetic products for fine, thin hair?
Cleansing and styling products used in our daily hair care, can also make the difference.
To contrast the lack of volume and flat roots you should use hair products that contain vitamins, proteins and amino acids that will not "feed" your hair as some brands claim, but they will coat the hair, make it stronger, more resistant and add extra thickness.
Choose natural and silicone-free shampoos and conditioners. If you would like to know more about the importance of silicone-free hair products, why don’t you watch the tutorial below?
The video tutorials are in Italian, but English subtitles are available!
It is important that the products that you use for your fine, thin hair contain vitalizing active ingredients, proteins and vitamins. They will wrap the shaft of the hair to protect it and at the same time they will make your hair feel thicker and look fuller.
As I am fighting a seborrheic dermatitis, it’s difficult for me to use specific shampoos for fine, thin hair. I "settle" therefore with the Beautilicious Delights Natural Volumizing Spray that I love not only because I created it, but also because it doesn’t weight my hair down ( which is essential for fine, thin hair care), leaving it soft, fluffy and shiny.
Since I am an animal lover, I strongly wanted the hair spray formula to be vegan. I hence avoided any ingredient of animal origin, but still I managed to create a performing hair care product.
The Volumizing Booster is obtained thanks to the synergy between the organic hydrolized green walnut enzymes and the organic green walnut leaves extract.
The special blend of the unique ingredients of the Natural Volumizing Spray:
wraps the hair strands in a natural protective film,
prevents the hair cuticle damage and
helps in maintaining the necessary hydration
makes the hair look shiny and healthy.
The hydrolyzed oat proteins, another ingredient of the Volumizing Hair Spray, rich source of amino acids hydrate & coat the hair, providing fine hair with strength and increasing the body of limp, thin-feeling hair.
Hence, there is still hope for those of us having fine, fragile, volumeless and thin hair! Just don’t give up!
If I managed to get volume & strength in my fine, thin hair with these 4 simple tips, so can you! You can make your hair feel thicker and look fuller by simply showing it love and care. Just try these tips out!
If you want, you’re welcome to share with me and with my readers, your love/hate history with fine,thin hair and your personal natural remedies to get more volume and to make it stronger. I love finding and trying new tips!
I love using Katam on my hair to naturally color my hair with henna a darker shade than what henna alone would provide. Indigo gives me headaches, so katam is a great alternative!
I am very happy with the henna and katam I bought. It was the first time I bought something here. I never used katam before - only henna, but became interested after watching the videos. I only have had one application yet, but I am already happy with the color. It was easy to apply and rinse out, so the quality is very good. Everything was well packaged and safely send.
I received my order in time and the products are of very good quality! Still working out problems regarding the mixing together 3 ingredients (lawsonia, indigo & Cassia), since I do not always get homogeneous results in my hair (spots of red or bluish dominance). I highly recommend the products to people who love natural beauty care.
I AM LOOKING FOR A DARK BROWN AND USED 50/50 INDIGO & RED HENNA. LEFT IT ON FOR 6 HRS. JUST A LITTLE LIGHT SO I THINK I NEED TO INCREASE THE INDIGO AND LEAVE ON A LITTLE LONGER. WAY EASY TO MIX AND USE. THE SHOWER CAP AND WOOL HAT HAD ME DRINKING LOTS OF ICE WATER AS I DID MY HOUSE WORK FOR I WAS A LITTLE WARM!! I DID'T MIND THE MILD GRASSY SMELL AT ALL BUT THE RINSE WAS COLLLDDD...LOL I WILL BE ORDERING AGAIN SOON
This is the stuff dreams are made of! I mix 2 tablespoons Sidr and 2 tablespoons hydrated Fenugreek powder (I keep a small jar of it in the fridge because I use it as a hair mask and facial mask). Add hot water to get a consistency you like, whisk it till frothy, let set 5 minutes or so and use as shampoo. I will never again subject my hair to chemically laden shampoos again! No more hair fall out, the Sidr preserves my henna color and the Fenugreek gives me great body.
I buy several of your products, the red henna being one of them. My hair is finally healthy looking and easier to take care of! The color your red henna gives me is unbelievable! thank you for the high quality of your products!!
These products are like putting gold in your hair. You have the satisfaction of knowing you are not harming your hair, as a matter of fact, you are totally nourishing your hair as well as making your hair as beautiful as possible without even one chemical. I am a customer for life. Rozalia has guided me through the entire process many times answering my silly questions and alleviating my fears. She is a great lady. I am so appreciative of her for being as honest as she is. Even if you don’t like her answer, she tells you how it is. You could not get more for your money than these products. I am not paid or compensated in any way for this review. This is all coming from the bottom of my heart!
Rozalia is super wonderful at getting back to me with any questions and concerns I had regarding coloring and what percentage of product to use. I purchased indigo and lawsonia which I have not used yet, but the products look great and they are 100 percent with no fillers as in some other henna powders. I would certainly recommend Beautilicious to anyone wanting to color their hair with natural non toxic products! Shipping was fairly quick and easy considering I am in Chicago Illinois.
I diluted henna with Cassia 45/55. I’m happy to have a nice even brown without using indigo. My hair was chemically treated before and after that I used a store bought henna I’m sure was cut with sand. Now my hair is even and grey roots are mostly covered. Next time I will increase the henna 75. Great product!
I am so absolutely thrilled with all products, especially the Katam, I have purchased from you. My hair has never been as healthy as it is now. After 20 plus years of using chemical color and shampoo, it took almost 5 months to correct all the damage-and your products helped me do it. You have a customer for life.
Having purchased the pack of 3 colour hennas I’ve been very happy with the outcome. With guidance from Rozalia I managed to cover my grey using two step applications. The final colour resulted in a lovely deep auburn/copper with much shine. Will be continuing to use these products.
Absolutely loved applying this henna. I applied a mix of katam, lawsonia and cassia and could not be more happy with my choice. IT REALLY COVERS GRAYS (i have less then 10%) and i applied it for less then 4 hours.
The colour is so beautiful, never could imagined i finally could have a warm brown tone that enhances my natural color.
So happy! Thank you Rosalia for being a champion on women's natural beauty.
Very high quality of the products. I colored my hair with red henna and katam (50/50) and got brown color. My grey hair were fully covered so I am satisfied. Also the product for hair care (Methi) was good. I used it in stead of a shampoo and it gave a good result. My hair were clean and it gave me a nice volume. I like how it smels too, it reminds me of chesetnuts=) Good job!
Dye your Gray Hair Chocolate Brown using Henna! Henna BEFORE & AFTER Pics
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Fine, Thin Hair? 4 Essential Tips to Get Volume & Strength in your Hair!
If you have fine, thin, fragile hair I'm sure you are also always looking for a new method to get more volume in your hair, possibly using natural hair care products that will also strengthen them. Because it's well known ... it is a lot more easier to add more volume if your your hair is strong & healthy. Here are my 4 essential tips to help you get volume & strength in your hair!
Fine, thin hair, both a curse and a blessing. Yes, a blessing!
I always try to find the positive in everything and I manage, with a minimum effort, to find the pros of also having fine, thin hair:
If you find any other pro, please share it with me in the comments area down below.
My Natural Hair Care Routine to Get Volume & Strength in my Hair
The truth is that we are never satisfied: should we have thick, straight hair, we would like to have curly hair. Should we have curly hair, we would dream of having straight air and so on.
If only we could accept and love ourselves for what we have and for who we are. With a little bit of commitment and with the help of the natural remedies that Mother Nature gives us - and, believe me, she’s truly generous - we can improve every little aspect of us that we don’t like much, hair included.
Here’s above a photo of myself, dated a few years ago. Look at my hair! When I was a child, my parents used to always have my hair cut short, because my fine, thin hair was really flat and it did not look nice on me, resulting sticked to the scalp.
Getting back to the present days, it was only last winter that my parents congratulated me because of my beautiful long hair, the same hair that they insisted to cut short when I was younger. Life is ironic, isn’t it?
Hence, if you too have fine, thin hair, it’s not impossible to receive compliments!
RECOMMENDED READING: Shiny & Soft Hair with an Acid Rinse: Apple Vinegar or Lemon?
Next, I will share with you the remedies (actions or products) that made the difference for me.
Fine, thin hair: how can we recognise it?
hair is made of biologically dead tissue, so it’s impossible to nourish or to revitalize it, but we can polish, soften or harden it in order to give it more resistance to traction.
A hair shaft is made of three layers:
If your hair is fragile, fine and it breaks easily, then you have thin hair too.
Moreover, fine, thin hair usually lacks of body, strength and volume & the hair looks flat on your head.
The volume and the strength of our hair depends on our genes, hence the only solution is to accept it for how it is and to look for remedies (natural - as much as possible) to strengthen it and to make the hair feel stronger, thicker and look fuller.
RECOMMENDED READING: WHAT is Hair made of? Here's everything you need to know!
Fine, Thin Hair: what are the remedies to get volume and strength in our hair?
1. A layered hair cut to give volume and movement
The most common hair frustration expressed among women seems to be the lack of volume in their hair. Having thin and fine hair means also a great loss of volume of the hair.
When I was a child, I always dreamt of long hair, but my thin hair with a one-length haircut made my fine hair look even finer and flatter. Long thin hair, if not properly layered, it becomes heavy resulting in a flat, limp and volumeless hairstyle.
What made the difference for me, was the ability of my hairdresser (which it’s not to be taken for granted!) to give my thin hair a properly layered haircut (it was important not to layer it too much because otherwise it would have made my hair seem even thinner than it already was).
Remember that only a properly layered hair cut, long or short, it doesn’t matter, can lighten your hair, plumping up fine, thin hair to get major volume and bounce in your hair.
Blow-drying your hair upside down can improve the volume of your hair as well. It will add your fine, thin hair extra body and bounce. I talked deeply about my fine hair care routine in this video:
2. Henna - when nature meets our needs to strengthen and give volume to our hair
I will never be grateful enough for that particular moment when I decided to try henna and herbal hair dyes to dye my white regrowth (yep, not only my hair is fine & thin, my regrowth is also 75% white!). I was looking for a natural remedy to cover my white hair and I happened to find a natural remedy to also get more volume & strength in my fine thin hair.
You may purchase the herbal hair dyes by clicking here
How is this possible?
Lawsonia's (red henna) coloring pigments wrap the cuticule up and they chemically bond to keratin, filling the hair flakes. Therefore, the hair shaft becomes thicker, stronger and shinier. Lawsonia inermis is the only natural hair dye that can chemically bond to the keratin of the hair.
After using herbal hair dyes for so many years, my hair literally changed. Mostly because red henna - lawsonia inermis is a real beauty treatment for fine, thin hair. It is a lot more delicate & gentle on the scalp than the aggressive and harmful chemical hair dyes. And mixing it with cassia & katam I get this wonderful dark brown color even on my 75% white regrowth.
I share with you my positive experience with the herbal hair powders in this article: Dye your grey hair naturally using henna & herbal hair colors.
If you only wish to enjoy the benefits without changing the color of your hair, then you should use Cassia or should you wish to add more volume to your hair & yet revive your natural brown hues, then you should use Katam or Indigo.
RECOMMENDED READING: Cassia Obovata: The Natural Hair Treatment for Damaged Hair?
3. Volumizing hair masks
Another discovery that made and still makes the difference for my hair are the volumizing hair masks. Thanks to their ingredients, they can strenghten and give temporary volume and thickness to my fine, thin hair.
In the video tutorial shared a few lines above I share with you my favourite volumizing hair mask that I use in order to get volume & strength in my hair.
But the latest hair mask idea, that accidentally popped into my mind while I was ironing the collar of a shirt, was a hair mask made using the classical rice starch, that can be found in every supermarket.
Rice starch has lots of uses, but the volumizing and strengthening hair mask is definitely my favorite one! It acts on hair as it acts on fabric. It hardens it and it makes it stronger and it gets a lot more volume in your fine, thin hair. It isn’t a long lasting effect because it disappears when we wash our hair, but I assure you that you’ll love it if you try it!
To make this hair mask, you only have to take a right amount of starch (based on your hair length) and then mix it with water in order to obtain a mix to be applied on your hair. You must leave the mask on your hair for a minimum of one hour and a maximum of three hours. I usually use this hair mask mixed with cassia on the ends of my hair (I usually apply it on clean hair), while I have my henna mix on my roots. I don’t use shampoo to rinse the hair mask because I only use the hair mask on clean hair. Hence I use just cold water to rinse clean my hair.
Make sure to buy 100% pure rice starch, without preservatives. On the ingredients list you should read only: oriza sativa starch. It’s usually sold in powder or chunk pieces. I'd recommend you to buy the powdered starch.
4. Which are the best cosmetic products for fine, thin hair?
Cleansing and styling products used in our daily hair care, can also make the difference.
To contrast the lack of volume and flat roots you should use hair products that contain vitamins, proteins and amino acids that will not "feed" your hair as some brands claim, but they will coat the hair, make it stronger, more resistant and add extra thickness.
RECOMMENDED READING: How To Detox Hair from Silicones
Choose natural and silicone-free shampoos and conditioners. If you would like to know more about the importance of silicone-free hair products, why don’t you watch the tutorial below?
The video tutorials are in Italian, but English subtitles are available!
It is important that the products that you use for your fine, thin hair contain vitalizing active ingredients, proteins and vitamins. They will wrap the shaft of the hair to protect it and at the same time they will make your hair feel thicker and look fuller.
As I am fighting a seborrheic dermatitis, it’s difficult for me to use specific shampoos for fine, thin hair. I "settle" therefore with the Beautilicious Delights Natural Volumizing Spray that I love not only because I created it, but also because it doesn’t weight my hair down ( which is essential for fine, thin hair care), leaving it soft, fluffy and shiny.
Since I am an animal lover, I strongly wanted the hair spray formula to be vegan. I hence avoided any ingredient of animal origin, but still I managed to create a performing hair care product.
The Volumizing Booster is obtained thanks to the synergy between the organic hydrolized green walnut enzymes and the organic green walnut leaves extract.
The special blend of the unique ingredients of the Natural Volumizing Spray:
The hydrolyzed oat proteins, another ingredient of the Volumizing Hair Spray, rich source of amino acids hydrate & coat the hair, providing fine hair with strength and increasing the body of limp, thin-feeling hair.
Hence, there is still hope for those of us having fine, fragile, volumeless and thin hair! Just don’t give up!
If I managed to get volume & strength in my fine, thin hair with these 4 simple tips, so can you! You can make your hair feel thicker and look fuller by simply showing it love and care. Just try these tips out!
RECOMMENDED READING: Natural Hair Care Routine for Oily Hair
If you want, you’re welcome to share with me and with my readers, your love/hate history with fine, thin hair and your personal natural remedies to get more volume and to make it stronger. I love finding and trying new tips!
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