I love the way backcombing makes my fine hair look fuller, but it rips the hell out of said fine hair.

Any safe(r) alternatives? My least tease caused a lot of breakage.

Good question.

And what thickening/volumizing products are good?

well you could get some hair peices that you can just clip into your hair. Or a great wig if you have thin hair theres not a whole lot you can do short of a hair transplant. you can try volumiser products but they may or may not work with your hair structure.

this sounds a little silly, but try backcombing with a toothbrush instead of a regular brush and also try big sexy hair's backcomb in a bottle or sebastian's shaper hairspray.

what kind of condition is your hair in prior to this?
is it dyed? damaged? etc...

I also recommend the backcomb in a bottle. I had Robert Smith hair BEFORE I started teasing my hair!

My hair is in pretty good condition. I haven't blown dry in nearly a year and don't use any kind of heat styling in my everyday life.

It's very fine though, so I have to baby it.

This backcomb in a bottle sounds interesting.

its a hard situation to advise without actually being able to feel your hair.

but as a model, i would take extra special care of it because it will definately endure many trials and tribulations.

Turn your head upside down and spritz with hairspray, blowdry while running your hands through it, and before you turn your hair over, give it another spritz of hairspray and let it dry naturally.

then blowdry the dop layer while you hold it vertically and again, spritz with hairspray. this should give you a great deal of volume.


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