On behalf of all thin-haired women out there, I would like to take this opportunity to beg the beauty industry to stop telling us that we need to buy more styling products. I have spent my entire life looking for ways to make my hair thicker, and it wasn’t until I sat down with a brutally honest trichologist a few weeks ago that I finally understood my situation. I’m never going to grow more hair.
The scalp can’t grow more hair follicles. The hair I have is the hair I have, and all I can do is make sure I keep it as healthy as I possibly can. Since learning this, I’ve thought long and hard about all of the money I’ve wasted on styling products designed to make my hair look thicker—the sort that do already thick hair wonders but make thin hair look greasy, weighed down and generally worse than it did before. If only, I thought, I hadn’t hung on the every word of hairstylists I met in my formative years that, it turns out, was just trying to sell me something.
Luckily, I have years of being a thin-haired beauty editor that has got to work with some of the most in-the-know and (most importantly) honest experts under my belt, and from this I’ve learned some very important lessons. So, if you too are fed up of receiving useless advice around what to do with your thin hair, keep scrolling for the 6 thin-hair tips I wish I’d learned sooner.
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