How To Backcomb Your Hair

Hairstyles and trends for hair are always changing generation to generation decade to decade and even season to season. A lot of these trends from years and years ago are now being revisited. A couple of years the Farrah Facet swept, waved, curled back from the face beachy, goddess type hair was really popular. In the 90’s Jennifer Aniston or her hair stylist made the whole of the western world into a frenzy looking for that cut.


These days when it comes to trends in hair it’s not so much a specific cut, it is how big you can get your hair! Voluminous hair is most definitely in and after much backcombing, hundreds of pounds of extensions and countless cans of hairspray some feel like they have got their techniques mastered perfectly. This trend obviously pays homage to the big, backcombed, bee hive style of the sixties although it is not as structured.
How do you achieve this sought after look of big, voluminous and healthy looking hair? Backcombing of course! This trend is especially easy to those of us who have been blessed with hair that is both thicker and has a bit of texture through it; this will allow the hair to hold onto the style. For those who have fine, fly way or hard to manage hair do not despair there are certain tricks of the trade that you can use to achieve the big, bouffant hair look.

First of all you would want to wash your hair with a thickening shampoo and wash your hair preferably before you want to back comb it as it will be much more manageable. The next step is to straighten your hair (apply a heat protectant) and once you have straightened a section and it is still warm, wrap it round a large Velcro roller. Make sure you secure them in place when the hair is warm as this is what is going to hold in the curl. Leave the rollers in for about twenty minutes or until the hair has cooled and the rollers feel completely cold.

Gently take them out, taking care not to pull the volume out that has been created at the roots. Fix your hair into the parting it falls into naturally or how you want to part it, take the sections around the crown of your hair spray each section (underneath) with either a dry shampoo or something similar and gently work in.

Pull a section from the crown of your hair up and using a fibre bristled small rat-tail comb gently use downward movements to push against the natural hair cuticle. At this point it will look rather messy but don’t worry, continue around the top of the head and any other sections you want to achieve some lift. Drop each section down and gently brush over the top of them to smooth them down, maintaining the back combing underneath. Make sure there are no kinks or frizzy bits visible and finish with a liberal spritz of hairspray.

By: HairCareShop

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