r/finethinhair

My (27F) hairline is not great, and it has been this way since I’ve been a child. I also have two terrible cowlicks in the back of my head that make it look like I’m balding. I had my labs checked a few years ago and they were normal; multiple hairstylists say the back of my head is just unfortunate cowlicks, not balding.
My question is if minoxidil would make any difference if I haven’t had clearly noticeable thinning since it’s always been like this?

Hi All, I just wanted to share this great haircut I got yesterday! It had been getting a bit long at the back.

I had previously tried a fringe ("bangs") which didn’t look great because of the thinness, and I had also previously avoided layers, but I think she did a great job leaving my left side more or less one length while cutting layers into the bits that I tend to volumise the most. I’m really impressed with how much volume she managed to put into the back of the cut. Anyway I can recommend this to any others looking for a new style.

Day-to-day I use the round brush on a drying styler (a la Airwrap but I use sharkflex) with some conditioning volume spray, and for the top I blow dry it straight up and then round it backwards to try to get some height. I then finish with some of the big sexy hair powder underneath at the roots, and then hairspray bloody everywhere.

Not pictured but I use the L’Oréal root spray to help with the scalp peeking through near the part and at the back.

Everymorning :

1. aloe gel as an « oil » on lenght (cf Abbey Yung method) before shampoo
2. shampoo twice with Lush solid shampoo Montalbano. It detangles perfectly !
3. aloe gel as a leave in on lenghts.

Brush to remove the aloe « crunch ».

Voila !

I tried everything for my fine, oily, very flat hair. I continue to try other things of course. But thats what works for me at the moment. I hope I would be able to grow my hair.

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My(31F) hair is naturally thin. I have pmos (formally known as pcos) so that has caused more hairloss as i've gotten older. On top of that, I had some bad extensions earlier this year that absolutely decimated my hair. I have micro tip extensions now (done properly) that are hiding the bald patches while it grows back. I'm going to get them taken out and get it cut short once my scalp has some coverage again.

What are you best tips and tricks to grows hair back?

*Please be kind. I know extensions are a controversial topic on reddit.*

Hi guys this photo was taken when I went to the hairstylist for a trim. I did not realise the thinning ends had gotten this bad as I have curly hair that I normally wear in a blow dried state. I’ve cut it all off now but wondering how I can make sure it doesn’t happened again. My shedding has massively slowed down and I’ve recovered from iron deficiency anemia + vit D deficiency thank you!

I want to keep it somewhat long but a different hairstyle, this is a grown out mullet

As you can see in this pic, my ends are pretty smooth and normal but there is so much frizz on top! I don’t know if it’s female pattern hair loss or what, but there are lots and lots of short hairs which feel impossible to manage.

i‘m 6 months postpartum but hair loss started way before I gave birth.

any tips for getting on top of this? I barely wear my hair down now.

I’m worried my hair may be too thin to be able to style long. I want long hair in the back and pretty medium long on top, but I’m worried it will look back. For note my hair is unwashed unstyled and I was wearing a hat all day

My hair has always been thin and fine, but I am devastated with how it looks now. I am a year and 8 months postpartum and my hair has never felt thinner or finer. I was looking through photos of me even last year when my hair was bleached blonde and it looked so much fuller than what I have now. For reference, pictures one through six are photos of my hair now with no extensions, picture seven is my hair with one row of hand-tied extensions that I feel are necessary for me to feel even a little bit good about how my hair looks. Photo nine is my hair while pregnant, and photo 10 and 11 are photos taken last year after I had bleached/colored it.

My hair has gotten so bad that I’ve completely restarted my hair routine to desperately try and improve the state of it. This is my routine that I started a month ago when I finally reached my breaking point:

- only wash hair every three days
- topical Minoxidil every morning and night
- rosemary oil with mint oil as a hair mask on scalp and ends on hair wash day, leave in for the full day until I wash
- use scalp brush to massage rosemary oil into hair in shower
- double cleanse with shampoo
- let hair dry slightly in microfiber towel after shower
- only blow dry on low warm heat with heat protectant
- only curl hair once a week for work, always with heat protectant before
- leave-in conditioner twice a week
- nightly folic acid supplement
- sleep in two loose braids, silk pillowcase
- using Amika shampoo and conditioner on wash days, Amika hair styling oil on ends of hair afterwards and throughout the week as needed

I was already doing a few of these things before I reached my breaking point, but now I’ve gotten very strict with my routine. I’m just at a loss with what I should do moving forward, I feel so ugly all the time. I don’t want to rely on hair extensions to thicken the appearance of my hair for the rest of my life but that feels like the only viable option now. I do want to mention that I’ve noticed a decent amount of new growth over the past month, but I don’t know if my hair can ever actually appear fuller at this point.

Hello! I’m in need of a new hair routine, my routine right now is using Aussies mousse, cantu leave in conditioner, Not your mothers gel, as for shampoo and conditioner I recently switched to Not your mothers, a lot of people say don't use heavy products but i've tried light ones and they don't help me instead it falls even more flatter for some reason. And so I switched to using cantu their damage repair leave in conditioner and it helped my hair a lot, and is what started making my hair twist around together which it didn't use to do, (i've been dry brushing my hair for more than a decade but always realized it was frizzy) but my hair still falls flat and I use not your mothers gel the number 5 the freeze one and it's definitely helped though, but I must be doing something wrong, I just feel like people still say my hair is just straight especially because my hair is very soft and silky and I've never done my hair just always brushed it straight, and sometimes it looks like a mess doing the routine especially if I do it upside down it's usually better not doing it that way but also it depends, it kinda just falls from the top, please help! My mother has 2c hair but she doesn't do her hair so I never learned from anyone and my grandpa also had 2c mixed with 3a hair. Also need advice on what hair type I have? It seems like 2a maybe?