Hair Volume?

[_tiffany]

I'm tired of having flat, straight hair. I like when my hair has a little more body to it and want to style it similar to the pictures below. My hair is a little past my shoulders, long layers, and pretty much straight naturally...but I still use a flat iron because it's not completely straight:

I want more volume at the top, any tips on how to get that? Thanks!

 

[pat]

1. Do not condition your hair every day, it tends to weigh your hair down.
2. Get a good plumping + thickening spray and spray it directly to your roots once you get out the shower. (Nick Chavez "Leave In Thickening Spray") you can get it at Ulta
3. Get a round brush and blow dry hair in a upward motion starting from the roots.
4. Probably straightening your hair out even more will not do any justice in trying to achieve the fuller look because when you add volume to your hair, and in the process of straightening you tend to pull out the hair, making it a bit flatter again.

Hopefully these tips will help you out!

 

[iiifugaziii]

also...
besides blow drying your hair upside-down,
do what patty0411 says... use a thicking spray when it's still damp on the roots!
you can use your straightening iron, but flip it outwards to give you that flip on the ends

 

[urbanlilyfairy]

What I do .. is ..add a thicking volumizing spray or balm while my hair is damp. then i blow dry my hair ..then I smooth it out with a flat iron to take a way frizz since my hair is sord of wavy.

once hair is dry and smooth. I take Big velcor rollers and section the top of my hair into rollers. I spray the root of the hair before I roll it with hair spray. I don't have a whole lot of hair so I only use about 4 rollers. one at the crown. Then one just underneath that one. THen two on the sides. I dont do the front part of my hair becuase i dont wnat my bang area to be too voluminous.

Once the hair is rolled. I blast it with hot air for a few mintues on all sides.

then i do my makeup let it cool down ..then blast once more in the the middle of my makeup routine ..by the time my makeup is done ..i let the rollers out and voila instant super volume.

Hope this helps ..this is what i do regularly.

Sometimes I back comb but i dont necessarily like how backcombing looks compared to using the rollers.