Sometimes, when it comes to your hair, you just have to amp up the volume! While straight, sleek, flat hair is beautiful, a full head of lively, wild, vivacious hair is just as attractive to wear!
Everybody loves a great, full, healthy head of hair!
Whether you wear your lustrous locks short, medium length or long, you can merely pump up the volume of your hair by the sheer way that you choose to blow dry your tresses! I can make my hair look smooth and straight, or thicker and more full, simply by how I blow dry my hair after a shampoo and cream rinse. On a normal day, I tend to wear my hair straight down, and I achieve this look by taking the blow dryer lightly down my hair, starting the heat at the roots of my scalp and applying the heat all the way down to the ends of my hair. I don’t use any straightening products nor do I use a flat iron. I merely work with the heat from the blow dryer and the angle that I apply the heat to my hair.
Once in a while, I want a mane of thick, voluminous, full hair! Big hair! Hair to there! And I can achieve this simply with a blow dryer. To pull off this look, I run the blow dryer up, toward my scalp, sometimes bending my head over and drying my underneath roots. This pumps up the volume of my hair and fluffs the locks, which gives a more full head of hair appearance.
Here is a picture of me taken at a hair show where my hair was blow dried to create mass volume, and my bangs were swept up and over, as opposed to blow dried straight down, over my forehead (I love bangs)!
This is a fun way to wear my hair! Wide on the sides and out to there!
Even if we don’t have much time to fuss with our hair, there are occasions and events that we attend where we want our hair to stand out and up at attention, flying freely and fully. It makes no real difference the length or the color of your hair, you can blow dry your locks in such a way as to create fluffy volume!
Here are easy ways to pump up the volume of your hair with a blow dryer:
- For Maximum Oomph: Â Lift sections of your hair toward the sky as you blow dry, directing hot air toward your scalp. This dries the roots in an upright and lifted position, as opposed to flat on your head.
- Upside Down: Â Turn your head upside down and blow dry the underneath portion of your hair. This adds width to your tresses.
- Full Hair at the Crown: Â Blow dry the hair forward (toward the face) until it is nearly dry, and then brush it back.
- Short Hair: Â Hold the hair straight up from the scalp or straight out from the sides, while drying the roots.
- Long Hair: Â Dry the root area with you head bent forward and the hair hanging upside down.
Mounds of hair match whatever you select to wear!
If you want to kick your fantastic hair up a notch, styling aids, such as sprays, mousses and gels, can enhance your hairstyle even more. The natural abilities of your hair and the amount of fullness you desire will determine which formula is best for you to use on your hair. If your hair is particularly limp, you would want to select a medium-hold or strong-hold volume product for a moderate to severe amount of fullness.
Full Hair Fun Fact: Concentrate the majority of the hair by uplifting near the root area, where the hair tends to lay flat and more lift is needed. This will add fullness at the top of your head.
Hair can make or break a look! Hair is truly the crowning glory of fashion! A healthy head of hair, whether cut short or long, is mane magnificent!
Isn’t your hair worth a stare? Styling!
Texture of hair runs the gamut from limp to thick to coarse to curly. No matter the natural state of your hair, a blow dryer alone can change the lift of your hair!
Style your hair big and dynamic, if you dare! Heat alone can oomph or tone!
Big hair truly is fun to wear!
Author Nancy Mangano is the author of two novels, A Passion for Prying and Murder Can Be Messy. Nancy has blended her interest in detective work along with her fetish for fashion into her books. Visit Nancy on her author website www.nancymangano.com, her author/fashion/style blog www.passionforprying.wordpress.com, Twitter @nancymangano and her author “like” Facebook fan page Nancy Mangano.
