How to add Volume to Your Hair

Preparation:

Shampoo and condition your hair with the products recommended to you by your hairdresser.

Gently towel dry your hair.

Spray a mist of a good quality 'thermal hair protector' over your hair, to help protect from heat damage during the blow drying and straightening stage.

Apply a hair styling product such as a medium hold 'straightening balm' and comb evenly through your hair with a wide toothed comb or paddle brush (Tip: apply the styling balm from mid-lengths to the ends of your hair and then the roots last. This helps to give you an even distribution without product build-up at the roots).

Next, using hair clips, section your hair whilst blow drying.

Blow dry your hair using a medium sized round barrel brush, which will help to encourage straightness in your hair.

Starting at the bottom and back, twist a section of the hair lightly around the brush near the root and, holding a hair dryer fitted with a nozzle close, slowly pull along to the ends. Continue this sectioning and blow drying pattern around your head finishing at the front.

A smooth blow dry is a very important stage in creating any look you want to achieve with your hair straighteners.

Volume:

Section your hair from the middle at the back and use hair clips to secure each side out of the way on top of your head, keeping a section at a time down for straightening.

With a comb or fingers, take a small section of hair about 2inches wide (5cm), holding firmly at the hairs end. But rather than gliding down the hair, pull your VENUS or DIOSA straighteners upwards through your hair as though you were trying to get your hair to stand on its end! As you do this twist once at the root to make a volume boosting curl with your styler.

As you move around your head from the back and from the bottom, the closer you get to your crown, make this twisting motion with your hair straighteners more pronounced to create greater volume on the top and near your parting.

When you reach your fringe, take fine sections of hair but this time direct the hair how you would like your fringe to fall (Tip: for a softer fringe, reduce the temperature of your VENUS/DIOSA hair straightener to around 150°c).

(Tip: Creating volume and the look you want, will probably take some practice - don't expect to get it perfect the first time you attempt this!)