r/finehair

I have straight fine hair and it feels really oily and thick after like a day without washing and I always feel better washing it every day but people have told me that I'm damaging my hair? I've been doing it daily for a couple years and my hair seems healthy. I use good quality shampoo and conditioner made for fine hair.

I genuinely thought this was just part of having fine hair lol. Wash hair, detangle carefully, put in leave-in, try to be gentle, then the second i dry it i somehow end up looking like i lost a fight with static. not big dramatic frizz, just that weird floaty halo + crispy ends + zero shape thing. and now i’m wondering if my dryer is literally making my hair frizzy and i’ve been blaming my hair type this whole time?? because when i air dry it’s flatter, yes, but it doesn’t look nearly as stressed out. i’m suddenly suspicious of heat + airflow more than products. fine hair people, was there a point where you realized the dryer itself was the problem and not your shampoo/conditioner/technique?

About 50% of the time, my hair looks really good and has a lot of volume at the top after I blow-dry it. However, the other half of the time, my hair turns out really flat and looks greasy at the roots even though I wash it really well every day. I always dry the roots upside down to try to give my hair more volume, but even that doesn't always help. I don't do anything differently ever, but it seems like the way it turns out is completely random. I don't put a towel on my head after washing my hair anymore because I thought that could be causing my hair to look flat, but it still doesn't seem to prevent it. I've tried using dry shampoo on the roots when my hair looks flat, but it just makes it worse and weighs my hair down. My hair does not react well to most hair products and just ends up feeling waxy, so I typically don't use any product on my hair anymore. I'm seriously at a loss. Is there anything I can do to make it look good all of the time instead of just on random days? It seems to be getting worse too. I've had more bad hair days lately than I've ever had before. I'm so tired of putting effort into washing and drying my hair only for it to look like I haven't washed it in days. My hair is so flat some days that it can't even cover my ears. I just don't understand why this keeps happening only sometimes.

Recently I went to Thailand to visit my husbands family. We were in a small town and I had few choices for shampoo. I just got some basic L’Oréal shampoo and conditioner that contained sulfates.

I have fine hair, but a ton of it, and it’s mid-back length. I can’t remember the last time I used something that wasn’t sulfate free.

My hair looks soooo good. It actually has volume, and it stays all day. It’s just noticeably better. I wash my hair twice a week, and it’s staying cleaner longer.

How bad are the negative effects really?

Tried the sock method for about three weeks before giving up, not because heatless curls don't work but because socks specifically are the wrong tool for the job. Getting there taught me more about what makes heatless curls work on fine hair than any tutorial I watched. The sock method creases. Every time, regardless of sock thickness, regardless of how dry my hair was, there was always a crease where the sock ended that took an hour of humidity to loosen. Fine for a casual day, not fine if you want defined waves that look intentional. The texture was also inconsistent, some sections came out with a wave, others just bent sideways.

What socks get right is the concept. Wrapping hair around a soft flexible base overnight works, the sock is just a rough version of a tool designed for this. The surface is too grippy, the shape is inconsistent, and there's no wire core so it compresses unevenly under the weight of your head.

Switched to the kitsch satin rod and the crease problem disappeared immediately. Satin surface releases without friction, wire core holds a consistent shape overnight, and the scrunchie end secures without leaving a dent the way a knot or clip does. The waves come out uniform in a way the sock method never managed for me, which matters more when the strands are fine and every inconsistency shows.

If you're experimenting with socks to see if heatless curls suit you before spending money, that makes sense. But if you've already decided the method works for your hair, a proper rod makes every result noticeably cleaner.

I am the executive director of a local non profit. We have our annual dinner/silent auction next week. I need hair ideas. I always and I mean always wear my hair in a pony tail.

What I'm working with/looking for:

• zero hair skills
• hair that won't hold a curl EVER
• fine strands but lots of them
• a ponytail/up would be nice because I will be running around and will get sweaty
• wearing a black jumpsuit with Queen Anne style neckline
• Plus size
• oval to round face

Ideas?

Y’all, for the last 6 months I’ve been losing so much hair and I could almost feel my hair getting thinner if that makes sense? It would get oily in like half a day and everytime I would run my fingers through it, I would lose like 10-15 strands.

I was also travelling all of February and I didn’t have access to shampoos that I liked using or my hair dryer. I would use random Aveeno and Nioxin shampoos that would make my hair greasy and my scalp never felt clean. My hair fall also increased!

Anyways, I came home and started using Pantene clean to wash my hair and then I followed it up with the L’Oréal Everpure line, either the bonding, thickening, clarifying or volumizing shampoo. So in total I would wash my hair twice, and I aimed to wash it every 1 and half days, the max I would push it to is 2 days.

I also aimed to dry my roots if not my whole head on low heat with my air wrap. Today I washed my hair and around my forehead area where my density was abysmal, I can see baby hairs coming in!!!

Sorry for the tangent, but whoever says to wash your hair once a week and use sulfate free shampoos is lying. That stuff doesn’t work for so many people!! Myself included, I have more success religiously washing my hair every other day, blow drying on low and using sulfate shampoos.

I’m so glad, I’m going to add in a hair serum now like The Ordinary or The Ouai one.

I love this sub!!!

I know hair color & toner will fade, but hoping someone has a recommendation that keeps it from fading so quickly. I have been using Pantene volumizing shampoo, but it strips my hair color almost immediately after salon color appointments.

Hello all. I’m trying to build a better hair routine, but noticing it gets very expensive very fast. I’m hoping there’s some corners I can cut for cost. I have fine, straight, medium-density hair and oils tend to make my hair heavy so I typically steer away from them. That said, I do want to involve them in my routine more often. Do you have to use cosmetic oils, or can you get away with something like (true) extra virgin olive oil? I’ve also looked into sea buckthorn oil. I’m interested in using it on my ends relatively frequently, and as an occasional pre-shampoo treatment.