How to Make Hair Look Thicker
How to make hair look thicker. How hard is it?
The honest and ugly truth about this question is tricky.
How to Make Hair Look Thicker
Is there a magic formula to make hair thicker not just look thicker?
Every single individual’s body is different. Chemistry. And biology. Genetics. Most of these things are factors to whether hair can be used to make hair look thicker or not.
Some people can manage to make their hair look thicker but in reality, you are born with only so many follicles and you can’t make those follicles produce more than one strand no matter how hard you wish it.
What Products Make Hair Look Thicker?
Dry Shampoo-
Dry shampoo helps hair look thicker because as dry shampoo clings to the oils and dirt that is in the hair, it will make each hair strand look thicker in dimension. So, all of the hairs look thicker and creates an illusion that there is more hair on the head creating volume.
This is also a great product to use when camping. Especially if you are out camping for a long period of time and not able to rinse out the grease, sweat, smoke, and dirt from your hair. Dry shampoo is excellent because it soaks up the grease and clings to the dirt WHILE making your hair look fuller all the while.
It’s awesome!
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Push Powders-
Most commonly used in updos, push powders help hair look thicker because similar to dry shampoo, the powder makes each hair strand stand apart from others, taking up more space on the head. Thus making it look like there is more hair on the head, appearing thicker.
Blow-Drying Upside Down-
By blow-drying the hair upside down or in a direction opposite of how it falls will encourage it to stand away from the scalp and not look or fall flat. Which is what we call volume. And using a mousse while blow-drying will help too.
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Products to Help Prevent Hair Loss
There are products that you can use that will prevent hair loss, and ensure that your hair is maintained as thick as it can be. And there are products you can purchase that make your hair look thicker too.
The hair ‘thickening’ products are usually powders and dry shampoos that sit on top of the hair strand to make the strand itself look thicker, and stand out on it’s own more. Creating an illusion that you have more hair than before because it looks ‘bigger’.
Hair treatments that encourage hair growth and prevent hair loss are not inexpensive but you have a variety to choose from.
Nioxin is the first recommendation.
It is a medicated shampoo and conditioner (on the bottle known as cleanser and moisturizer) and the post-wash ‘therapy’ treatment that goes directly on the scalp.
Nioxin products were originally designed for chemo patients. It creates an environment on the scalp that encourages the follicles to stay alive, clean, unclogged, and stimulated for hair to grow.
Tea Tree products, and any product that leaves the scalp feeling the cool, minty is very good for encouraging hair to grow faster. That tingly feeling is blood circulating in the scalp.
Massaging your scalp will encourage this circulation as well. So tell your significant other that scalp massages are necessary.
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Summertime Growth
Fun fact, hair actually grows faster in the summertime! Because of the warmer weather, most people are out and about more in the warm sunshine, moving their bodies and stimulating blood circulation.
The combination of exercise to stimulate circulation as well as the products that leave a minty, tingly feeling behind, stimulate blood flow in the scalp and believe it or not, this is a big factor in hair growth.
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Medications
Medications and overall health play huge factors in hair health, too.
When a client starts taking a new thyroid medication, or heart medication, or even undergoes a medical procedure, I can often tell by how their hair texture feels. The medication comes out in the hair.
By no means do I suggest you stop taking a medication prescribed by a doctor to just change your hair! Don’t do that! But it is good to be educated and aware that it can happen.
As well as hormone treatments. Or big hormone changes. Like becoming pregnant, post-birth and breastfeeding seasons of life. Hair changes so much during these times!
Often hair will grow like crazy, fall out (don’t be scared, it’s normal, you’ll be okay), and even sometimes changes in texture and color!
As a professional, I think it’s so cool when this happens. I love seeing my guests go through these seasons of joy and change.
To sum up Can I Make My Hair Look Thicker…
How to make your hair look thicker isn’t hard. Using volumizing products, push powders, dry shampoo, and blow-drying your hair upside down will increase volume. And plenty of stimulation to get the blood flowing in the scalp will encourage hair growth.
But remember that you can’t make more follicles appear on your scalp, or encourage a follicle to grow more than one strand of hair.