The volume ... it starts with brushing!

The challenge: stimulate the scalp . Brushing is a vital gesture to restart microcirculation. Because, when it sags, the hair fibers are less well watered and essential nutrients . Hence the phenomenon of hair flat, soft, without tonus. Coupled with "tives" with a very fine diameter, this is the cata! It is therefore necessary to see the brushing as a minimization of the skull more than as a simple gesture of disentangling . How to detect a badly scalded scalp? Try to move it under your fingers: if it is rigid and it hurts, you need to stimulate it!

One wants: a pneumatic brush with pikes in boar. The must is to invest in a model from Mason Pearson , this English brand that makes, tenit studio hairdressers, the best brushes in the world. We tested: ok, they cost an arm (80 € in pharmacy), but the hair is soft, shiny, and healthier . And the investment is worth it as these brushes are handmade and virtually indestructible .

One throws: its old plastic skeleton brush and all tooth combs that will create static electricity and mischief lengths.

The volume ... it gets to the wash!

The challenge: clean without weighing down. Before, women with fine hair had two solutions: opt for baby hampoos or for formulas "greasy hair" that offer shine and lightness, but are not -appropriate care ... With, with the key, lengths and of the spikes. All that is over: the labs have finally invented "light" formulas that bring a gaining effect without weighing down (bye-bye-silicones, hello high-tech polymers). The textured and light finish is surprising, run quickly try them! Another smart option: eye on the side of fall protection shampoos, fortified with active ingredients.

We want: Shampoo Volume Restructure extra-light, Fructis, 3 €; Shampoo Volume yeast of beer and pomegranate, Garnier Ultra-Soft, 3,20 €; Shampoo with hops, Martine Mahé, 20,50 €; Shampoo with the -quinine and vitamins B, Klorane, 5,90 €.

One throws: this shampoo for colored (or dry or curly) hair that was bought by mistake. Much too rich! Do you have fine and colorful hair? Choose one that will protect the brightness of the color , but decrease the dose by two. Or go to the hairdresser to find a formula pro really adapted. As with Wella , which declines each of its ranges (including that for colored hair) according to the nature of the hair: fine, normal, thick.

The volume ... it intensifies the styling!

The challenge: to make the pleasure last . The problem with styling finishing is that they "choke" the volume and give a cardboard effect not born very sexy. It will therefore be preferred to bring material onto wet hair , before drying, rather than dry-fixing. The only exception is lacquer, which remains the only really satisfying product on fine hair. It is also very effective to awaken the volume the day after the shampoo, like a dry shampoo, but much lighter!

We want: a lacquer, then. No matter the brand, as long as we avoid the version " fixation ultra-forte " reserved for structured hairstyles. We want the one that is eliminated in a brush stroke!

Everything else is thrown away .

The volume ... it refines itself on drying!

The challenge: give texture . The brushing of an hour that falls at the first gust of wind, one knows only too well ... How to obtain a natural volume that lasts all day? It is enough to find the (rare) products that succeed in bringing to our capillary mass what it cruelly lack: texture. The secret is to deposit flexible polymers on the surface of the hair, such as small grains that will create air between each fiber and prevent them from flattening one over the other. At the same time, you can also act on the roots with new generation "tutor" sprays, which do not stick like their predecessors. Then, we dry head down: bingo, the mane has swelling!

We want: Full Blown Volume Styling Whip, Fekkai, 23 €, exclusive to Sephora; Hair Styling Gel Volumizer, JF Lazartigue, 22 €; Spray Decolle-Roots Volume-Collagen, L'Oréal Paris, 5 €; Spray Phyto-volume Active, Phyto, 13,60 €.

One tosses: its old "toaster" dryer that heats the skull and flatten the roots, as well as all the silicone products formulated to facilitate blow-drying or taming the frizz: completely off topic!

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