Thoughts from a Portland Hair Stylist

What is it about baby fine hair? I had a new client today. Baby fine hair. My wife has it, my kid has it, and today my new client had it. If you have baby fine hair this is what you will tell me. “Jeff I want as much volume AS POSSIBLE.” Even though you didn’t have to tell me this. I already know.
We talked about extensions. That’s an option. We talked about Bumble and Bumble hair powder. That can help. It’s kind of like colored baby powder. It comes in an aerosol can and you spray it on your roots. It does three things. It changes the texture of your hair so that you can get more volume. You don’t have to wash your hair as often, as it absorbs the oils from your scalp. This means you get an extra day out of my blow dry. It can color in your roots if you are grey and in need of a touch up. Most of all it gives you VOLUME. That’s what the fine hair client wants.
I re colored her hair.
I blew it out with a small barrel round brush with B & B Thickening Spray on the roots for some nice volume. Then I sprayed some Does It all Styling spray on the root area and backcombed it. I had all these 1″ sections of hair sort of standing up. Then I went in with a smoothing brush and smoothed the outside of the sections. This gives lift at the root but still a polished look in the mid shaft and ends.
She loved the color and the style but I think most of all she liked the fact that I wasn’t a drug addict like her previous guy. Next Saturday I am going to tackle the cut. It’s a graduated bob with a hole in the outline and problems with uneven sections and a general lack of technical precision. I don’t think fine hair needs a lot of texturizing personally. I prefer a straight line traveling guide section for precision cuts. If I do any texture it’s from the inside out as opposed to point cutting from the outside of the cut in. I find that it leaves your line in tact and results in a better grow out. Starting at the mid shaft of the hair through the ends I remove a small amount of hair working my way sideways down the shaft. It keeps the architecture of your graduation true to form.
The shame about Portland is I give her a monster blowout and the rain starts right as she leaves. See you Saturday.