Hair Product Recommendations Please

I've just bought a 'twirling' wand thingy, it's about the same size as a hair straightener, but you feed in the end of a small section of hair and it hot twirls it around for a bit. I have really straight hair and zero styling skills. Am so thrilled to be a little curly at last!

keepcalmandcavochon that sounds interesting - I’ve just bought a hot brush from Vinted to add a bit of volume (hopefully). My layers are quite short though - do you think your tool would still work or is it designed for longer hair?

My hair is barely shoulder length and it works nicely to put a bit of curl/wave in, the thing that impresses me mostly however is the ease/speed of use! Also it is used on dry hair so you can add as much pazazz as needed
No faffing, stays in quite well too which is amazing on my straight hair! Haven't tried it with a mousse or spray yet either!

I’m interested!! Could you give me the details please keepcalm?

Use a volumising spray (not mousse) just before your hair is completely dry. You could try holding your head upside down when drying your hair to give it more volume. Google the best ways to blow dry your hair because I find it makes a huge difference.

Hi, Happy, mines the Sheglam One Touch Instant Curler, £26 ish. Didn't want to spend £90 on the Babyliss one as I wasn't sure if I could use it (being so unskilled in the ways of hair).
Now if I could just find an instant pumpkin carver I'd be made!

growstuff

Use a volumising spray (not mousse) just before your hair is completely dry. You could try holding your head upside down when drying your hair to give it more volume. Google the best ways to blow dry your hair because I find it makes a huge difference.

Thank you growstuff. I do tend to dry my hair upside down as you suggest but I’m now going to have a look at volumising sprays - I didn’t realise you could get one that wasn’t a mousse (which I’m not a big fan of), so thank you.

keepcalmandcavachon

Hi, Happy, mines the Sheglam One Touch Instant Curler, £26 ish. Didn't want to spend £90 on the Babyliss one as I wasn't sure if I could use it (being so unskilled in the ways of hair).
Now if I could just find an instant pumpkin carver I'd be made!

Thank you - I’ll take a look!

I guess that the sheglam gives look of Deborah Meadon?

Dry hair, squirt some voluming dry shampoo into a few root areas then rough up your hair. Use fingers to give a shape into your style. Spray lightly with hair spray. I am assuming your hair is short.

I'm a bit of a Product Junkie! I have layers on my very fine hair and it needs separating up, as you say. Some products also help give volume. But the shelves are just a minefield of waxes, pastes, gels... This video on YouTube helps to distinguish between them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwYQfQs9AUE&t=1224s
My favourite of all time is Redken's Rough Paste now replaced by their Texture Paste. It's expensive but you only need a little bit rubbed onto the fingers and then worked through the hair. You need to shop around as you can always get it cheaper than full price somewhere.

Yes, quite short 4allweknow and thanks for the recommendation. Thanks to you as well roxie - that’s such a useful video!

TheHappyGardener

growstuff

Use a volumising spray (not mousse) just before your hair is completely dry. You could try holding your head upside down when drying your hair to give it more volume. Google the best ways to blow dry your hair because I find it makes a huge difference.

Thank you growstuff. I do tend to dry my hair upside down as you suggest but I’m now going to have a look at volumising sprays - I didn’t realise you could get one that wasn’t a mousse (which I’m not a big fan of), so thank you.

The one I use is called Volumetry by L'Oreal. I think it's quite expensive, but my hairdresser gave me a bottle (he charges enough!)

It calls itself a "Root-lifting booster for fine and flat hair". I'm sure there are other brands around.

I blow dry my hair and then give it a couple of squirts just before it's completely dry and I finish drying it.

I use VO5 volumising gel spray. Then I bought an air wrap hair drier set from Temu (£16.99). It just picks the hair up and curls it. You don't need to be accurate, just let it do its thing.

Do you have hair straighteners? They are great for making your hair do what YOU want. I have GHDs and use them on the outer layers to give it a bit of an edge.
Salt spray is also good.

I us a hair product called thickening cream vegan hair volume(I am not a vegan) just squeeze a pea size on to your hand rub to cover hands and put your fingers through your hair.. magic. And style.

TheHappyGardener. It was two different haurdressers who suggested the volume dry shampoo approach. I have fine short hair and the suggestion works really well. My current hairdresser actually uses the stuff (must be volumising powder) when I have my hair cut.

Thank you everyone for all your helpful suggestions - lots to investigate and I feel very motivated to make a fresh start with my hair (previously I was very much in a rut!)

I have found Bedhead’s Small Talk thickening cream the best for adding volume to my hair. They sell it in B and M.