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Add Volume to Your Hair
Here is what you should do if you want to add volume to your hair and keep your curls bouncy all night long.

Posted by Katya Bychkova from New York, New York, United States • Published 12th November 2015 • See Katya Bychkova's 7 projects »

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Step 1
Wash your hair with shampoo and conditioner. If your hair tangles easily, apply two layers of conditioner and brush it through your hair using a plastic hairbrush. Towel-dry your hair and brush it again.
Step 2
Apply your favorite hair mousse (I used Rusk Volumizing Mousse) by squeezing it onto a hairbrush and brushing your hair throughout. Apply the mousse to the bottom quarter of your hair and brush each hair strand thoroughly.
Step 3
Flip your hair upside down and blow-dry it using a hair dryer until it’s about 70% dry. Don’t worry about which direction your hair is facing, just make sure it doesn’t make too tangled.
Step 4
Separate your hair into three parts and divide the middle part into two layers. Using the same technique, apply another layer of a hair mousse on each of those two layers.
Step 5
Blow-dry each layer using a round brush.
Step 6
Use hair clips to secure each of the curls on the top of your head.
Step 7
Blow-dry the rest of your hair using your hands (don’t use a brush) and start curling your hair with the curler, starting from one side of your face and moving toward the other side.
Step 8
Secure each curl with a hair clip or a hairpin while your hair is still hot from the curler. That’s actually the ultimate secret of all-night-long curls: if you let your curls go too early, they’ll never survive the entire night.
Step 9
When you are done with curling and clipping all your hair strands, remove the two clips that you had on the top and curl those strands in different directions. You will notice that because your hair has been in a big curl for the last ten minutes or so your hairstyle has extra volume (and that’s exactly what we need, right?).
Step 10
Remove all the clips (or pins) and separate your hair into two parts.
Step 11
Crunch each side of your hair a bit so your curls look natural.
Step 12
Pick a hair spray of your choice and spray it all over your hair. Then, with your hands, separate and move the curls so they fall the right way.
Step 13
Separate some strands on top of your head and use a cute hair clip to secure them.
Step 14
No extra hair spray needed – you are all set!