Fatten Up Fine Hair

Woman with Fine Hair
Fine. Good when it comes to weather, not so good when it comes to your hair. So the news that during the menopause we’re likely to suffer with hair thinning (as androgen levels drop) is hardly thrilling. But if you are seeing hair that’s lost body then there is good news.

A new slew of volumizers use advanced strand swellers to increase the diameter of each hair. They’re excellent at creating fullness without the stickiness and stiffness that we were used to in the past. Here’s the our the best products for fine hair. Let us spray…

Christophe Robin Cleansing Volumizing Paste, £40

Christophe Robin Cleansing Volumizing Paste

This product is an insiders’ secret. The thick paste turns into a rose scented foam once it comes into contact with water.

Gives hair a deep clean, leaves roots volumized and your hair luxuriously thick.

Living Proof Full Dry Volume Blast, £25

Living Proof Full Dry Volume Blast

This is the volumizer of volumizers.

Hair is given major oomph without any crunchiness, stiffness or heaviness. Spray onto dry hair, massage it in and admire.

Philip Kingsley One More Day Dry Shampoo, £14

One More Day Dry Shampoo

The best dry shampoos multi task as volumizers.  One More Day smells great, gives hair that just washed feeling and delivers an instant mood boost.

It doesn’t irritate the scalp or weigh hair down like some other products do. An essential in any woman’s desk top drawer.

Bumble & Bumble Thickening Go Big Treatment, £25

BB Thickening Go-Big

This is in the kit bag of the world’s most respected session stylists.  Swells strands and makes even the finest hair look full.

Spray it through damp hair and gain soft and touchable volume that’s crunch free.

John Frieda Luxurious Volume Blow Dry Lotion, £6.99

John Frieda RootBooster

A classic for a reason.

Spray it liberally onto the roots of towel-dried hair and it cleverly thickens strands in seconds.  No heaviness or residue, just swishy fullness.

Iles Formula Haute Performance Shampoo, £35, Conditioner, £39

Iles Formula Shampoo

Super luxe, this shampoo and conditioner smell incredible and make hair feel airy and light.

Manageability and silky softness guaranteed.

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