I Love Volume!

Hey Dolls :)

If you've read my blog for a while you will know that I love big, volumised hair. I seem to be on a constant quest to find the perfect volume-giving hair routine and I feel I have finally found it...

I've started from the very beginning - I normally let my hair air dry partially first.

I then use a thickening spray in my hair - my spray of choice is Samy's Fat Hair '0' calories thickening spray.

I also think it's quite important to think about the parting of your hair - I use a rat tailed comb to section my hair - I'm not sure how to explain it clearly...I section my fringe and then the rest of my shorter layers around the crown of my hair I flip back - you can see what I mean a little in the photo above. A rat tail comb and a round boar bristle brush are my best friends - boar bristle brushes are honestly brilliant - they backcomb, smooth and helps add loads of volume when blowdrying hair...


When blowdrying, I section my hair and use a boar bristle brush to add volume at the roots. I position the brush under my hair at the root and brush up and out whilst moving the dryer down the section of hair. To be honest, I find blowdrying really boring however I feel it's vital to getting lots of volume around the roots and crown of my hair. I've seen lots of people recommend drying your hair upside down, however if I do this my hair turns into frizz city plus you lose out on lots of shine as you're drying against the hair shaft rather than down.

After sectioning all of my hair and drying it like above, I am left with a true mushroom do!

I quickly then run over my hair with my straighteners - again similarly to the way in which I dry my hair - I always pull the iron up, out and down to keep the volume in the root and crown. Today I've also popped my extensions in.


I have fallen in love with velcro rollers! These are from Trevor Sorbie and are the biggest I've seen in boots/superdrug.

I position the rollers around the crown of my head adjusting the size of the roller according to the length of my layer. I blast the rollers for a couple of seconds with my hair dryer and let them cool. The length of time I leave them in depends on how much of a rush I'm in. It's best to try and leave them in for as long as possible!


Normally I take this time to have a dance break to an amazing tune such as...



The last step is to use a finishing spray/product. My two favorites are Schwarzkopf's Dust It and Umberto Giannini's Backcomb in a Bottle. Today I used backcomb in a bottle which I absolutely love!




I do apologise that this was a bit of a beast but for someone who is quite rubbish at doing hair I get quite a few questions and comments about how I do mine! Hope this helped!

Love Nic
xoxo