How to make a hairstyle for medium hair with your own hands (with photo, video)

A lush head of hair is the dream of every woman, but nature has not awarded all the fair sex with thick curls.

How to make a voluminous hairstyle for medium hair so that the hair visually seems thicker and more spectacular?

There are a lot of options with both loose and gathered strands. If your hair is cut to the shoulders or a little lower, it will not fall under its own weight – it is not difficult to build a lush styling.

How to give hair volume

The modern hairdressing industry offers many solutions for hair devoid of density and proper volume. These can be both methods of mechanical action on the strands, and the use of styling products.

Sometimes you can not even resort to special methods, but simply build a suitable styling in which the hair seems thicker.

Consider the most popular tricks that many girls have long taken note of. So, how do you make your hair look voluminous?

• Blow dry your hair with your head tilted forward and all strands down. This will give you maximum volume at the roots.
• Fine hair that holds styling well, curl with a curling iron or hot rollers.
• Hard, unruly hair can be wound on papillottes or braided for the night.
• An iron with a corrugation nozzle will help to add volume. You can treat only the root zone or the entire length. Leave corrugated strands loose or put in a ponytail, braid, intricate bun.
• You can quickly build volume on the crown or crown with the help of a pile, which is done with a comb with small teeth.
• In some styling, you can use foam "bagels" and other devices that are covered with hair, simulating volume.
• If you have very sparse thin hair, match the color of the tresses or chignon to your strands.
• Avoid using nourishing conditioners and hair oils that weigh down the strands and negate even the natural volume.

In the photo and video – voluminous hairstyles for medium hair, which are done elementarily, just choose the method that suits your case to add splendor to your hair:

Careless bulk styling

Today, slight negligence is in fashion – this, of course, plays into the hands of many girls. But, to make a supposedly careless volumetric styling, you need to make a lot of effort.

For shoulder-length hair, you will need large Velcro curlers, a hair dryer and styling clay:

1. Wash your hair and dry your hair well with a towel.
2. Liberally apply styling clay to the hair, capturing the root zone.
3. Tilt your head down, throwing your hair over your face, and blow-dry the strands without lifting your head.
4. Do not use a comb – shake the curls with your fingers. It is not scary if the hair is slightly tangled, this will give the styling a touch of negligence.
5. Apply a little more styling product to the ends of the hair and wind the strands into large curlers.
6. Dry the ends with a hairdryer and remove the curlers.
7. Using your fingers, gently comb through all the curls while tossing the hair at the roots, thereby giving it volume.
8. Sprinkle hairspray with a strong hold on top of your hair.

This hairstyle, combined with bright makeup, is suitable for a rock party, and if you complement it with nude makeup, you can safely go to the city streets.

Hairstyle for thin hair with corrugation

Irons with a corrugated nozzle are a real find for girls with thin sparse hair.

Just treat the entire hair with an iron, and then style the corrugated strands into any hairstyle.

The easiest option is to leave the strands loose, adding a parting or rim.

You can make a “malvina" or pin your hair on one side invisible.

The corrugated tail looks great.

• To increase not only the volume, but also the length of the hair, divide the entire hair into upper and lower parts and tie two tails as close to each other as possible.
• Wrap the upper elastic band with a strand of hair, and hide the lower one under the strands of the upper tail.

Corrugated strands make very lush braids. Start weaving from the center of the forehead, gradually picking up loose strands. It is better to weave not a traditional spikelet, but a reverse one. The side strands are placed not on top of the middle one, but under it.

Be careful with the corrugation if you wear bangs. Voluminous hairstyles for medium thin hair with bangs can look comical if you leave this part of the hair unprocessed.

But the processed short strands will stick out ridiculously.

There is a solution – make the bangs goffered and pin it up or put it up with a rim.

Luxurious voluminous braids

Do not think that only the owners of long hair can afford luxurious braids.

Try to make a hairstyle from voluminous braids for medium hair with your own hands, using some tricks that professional stylists successfully use:

1. Dry your hair by tilting your head forward to add volume to the root zone.
2. Divide the hair with a straight parting in two, temporarily collect one half with an elastic band so that it does not interfere.
3. Start working with the second half of the hair – at the very forehead, separate three small strands.
4. Put the right strand under the middle one, then the left one under the middle one. So you get a reverse spikelet or French braid.
5. Gradually pick up loose strands and weave them into a braid, do not tighten tightly.
6. When you reach the back of your head and all of your hair has been braided, secure the braid with a ribbon or elastic.
7. Gently pull out the side loops of the braid so that they become voluminous and airy.
8. Release the second half of the hair and braid exactly the same braid.
9. Curl the ends of your hair with a curling iron if the length allows.

Volumetric hairstyles for thin hair of medium length in the form of braids can be very diverse – try to arrange the braids not traditionally, but, for example, from ear to ear, that is, horizontally:

You can braid the braids diagonally from the center of the forehead to the area behind the ears, or vice versa – weave from the edges of the forehead, combining the braids at the back of the head.

Evening hairstyle with voluminous curls

Creating elegant curls or romantic curls with a curling iron or curlers is not at all difficult.

• But for some reason, a voluminous evening hairstyle with curls for medium hair does not always look harmonious and adorns its owner.

It is important to correctly set the direction of the curled strands and beautifully frame the face with hair, emphasizing the dignity of the appearance.

• To create neat graceful curls, it is best to use a curling iron. Hold the tool vertically, curling the strand to a level of about 6-7 cm from the hair roots.
• To get lush natural hair, use thermal curlers. Place the curlers vertically, and separate the strands in a checkerboard pattern so that later they do not fall apart into partings. Also alternate twisting the strands to the right and left.
• If you use a curling iron, create beautiful curls right away. Strands wound on curlers can be left in clear curls or combed. Combed curls will become many times more magnificent.

If you have a solemn event, make an evening voluminous hairstyle with curls for medium hair – the photo shows graceful bunches of curls:

First, curl all your hair into tight curls, and then pin your hair up with a “crab” or hairpins. Often, to create such evening styling, miniature “crabs” are used to match the hair color. You can not pin up all the strands, leaving some curls to fall freely over the created beam.

Amazing styling in the boho style can be done on the basis of curls. A beautiful voluminous hairstyle for medium hair is done step by step in a matter of minutes, the main thing is to make curls in advance with a curling iron and styling foam:

Wind the strand onto the heating element of the curling iron with a spiral so that the diameter of the curls is the same along the entire length of the strand. When the curls are ready, do not comb them, but do not take too much care of them – slight negligence will only improve your stylish styling.

 1. Separate the temporal strands and braid them into spikelets.

2. Pull the braids back, connecting their ends under the crown. It is best to use a thin ribbon or lace.
3. Pull the hair in the crown area slightly out from under the makeshift rim of braids, creating additional volume at the top.

This hairstyle looks perfect on blond hair of a natural light brown shade, but burning brunettes, ash blondes and bright brown-haired women can try on a light country look.

Adding volume to medium length hair is very simple – choose any option from the proposed ones or combine several methods in one hairstyle. Braid the corrugated strands into braids, and complement the curls with bouffants – your appearance will be spectacular and solid!