How to Get More Volume at the Crown & Correct Cowlicks | Pixie Hair Tutorial

hello there welcome back to my channel today we are going to be doing another hair tutorial but lest you think it's going to be the same as last time where i start with dry hair no i am going to wet my hair in a moment but i wanted to start off with my hair air dried and today it's a little extra crazy but i wanted to show you the crown area of my hair because i have had so many of you ask for help with how to add volume and to correct cowlicks especially in this crown area so i wanted to show you kind of where i am starting because some of you don't think i have this issue but let me just flip around and give you the view of what my crown area looks like so you can see i have a pretty deep cowlick right here and my hairstylist says this section of my hair is actually a different texture than the rest of my hair it is a little bit finer in this section which is not what we want because i need that extra volume so in today's video i am going to wet my hair and then i'm going to give you some tips all along the way starting with product how to blow dry how to style it to add that extra volume and to help correct those stubborn cowlicks if you're new here be sure you hit that subscribe button now let's get started okay so we're going to start with the towel drying step so believe it or not you can help add a little extra volume in this area when it's when your hair is still wet just take your towel and you're going to want to rub in that area or if you have issues with volume kind of in the top section you can also i mean gently you know you don't want to pull your hair out and then go ahead and roughly comb through and now the most important product when trying to add lift to your hair is a root boosting product and i am really sad to hear i am hearing rumors that this is being discontinued so stockpile it now this is the catwalk root boost i do have a couple of other root boosting products that i am going to be testing out just in case but for now this has been my go-to for years and years and years it works on short hair it works on long hair this is not a mousse per se but it's also not just a wet spray so it's kind of a hybrid in between if i put a little bit on my hand you'll see it it has a little bit of like a mousse like look but it quickly kind of melts basically on the skin this is meant to be placed at the root of the hair and so because we're primarily focusing on this section i'll show you this but what you're going to do is lift the sections of the hair where you want to add volume and so for me you can just see how my hair is laying so i need this to really have a little extra volume so and it does not take a lot do not use a lot of this or your hair will get dirty quickly so i put just two spritzes there and then i'm gonna go up above it and add a little bit there and then i like to add just a little bit forward so i start kind of at the back point of where i need the volume to start and then come forward um i also like to add a little extra volume here at the part and this is also going to help the hair have a little bit of grit as we are blow drying it so it does kind of stay styled or at least stays in the direction that we blow dry it so i'll put a little bit there through the top again just anywhere that you want a little extra volume but you're going to concentrate the sprays towards the root of the hair okay and work it in now normally i like to go in with moroccan argan oil or the stylish sheer remedy or the invisible hair oil but today i am testing a new product out it's the malibu blonde kit so because of that i don't want to add anything else to help with the shine factor because i want to see how shiny that product makes my hair so i'm going to now go in with the blow dryer as i blow dry i will get the initial kind of dampness out of the hair and then when the hair is about three quarters of the way dry i am going to be using a round brush like this i have two different sizes um i think for this demonstration the little one's gonna be fine but whatever size you have uh we're not gonna actually be curling the hair but i'm gonna show you a technique to help redirect that cowlick that we have going on in the back so let's go ahead now in with our blow dryer and get started [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] now that i've finished blow drying i've taken my large mirror to look at the back of my hair and here's what we've got so i'll show you so this side where i have the most pronounced part of the cowlick that usually is wanting to lay flat it is at least sticking up now we're not going to leave it like this we're going to further enhance it but you'll see on this side we have a lot of really nice volume so the hair on the cowlick side still needs some work but we at least have some lift here you can see that the hair is actually standing up so that's a good thing all right so now i am going to go in with my flat iron and just fine tune some of these front pieces a little bit you saw i was kind of blow-drying my hair this way and then that way and so it gives me sometimes a few hairs that look like they're not sure where they're supposed to go so i just like to take the flat iron and help them figure out what direction i want them to go so i'm just going to pull this through the front and then as we get to this section as i put the flat iron through i am going to just curve down just a little bit and i'm going to pull it through this especially this right side of the back section and you can see i am curling it kind of away from the direction that it wants to go so with my cowlick it wants to curve to the left and i want it to come back to the right so i'm going to kind of pull the hair over to the right just a little bit and then this side it's really sticking out nicely but i want to kind of pull some of these sections down just a little bit and then through the top i'll just pull this through and you can see i'm not even using my left hand i'm just using my right hand to just stick it in there and pull it right through the hair and straighten it out we've got some crazies right here but that's all right we'll take care of that all right now it's really important to use some kind of pomade or wax you know i find the enjoy dry wax to be the best out there but i know some of you are not able to actually purchase this you live in a different country or you just find this hard to work with it does take a learning curve to figure out how to work with it so if you are in either of those camps my second choice would be the bed head manipulator mat this is similar and yet different but it still gives kind of a matte texture it won't make your hair greasy it does give really good hold it's not quite as good as enjoy dry wax but i actually like the smell of this one better so if you can't get enjoy dry wax my second recommendation would be the bed head manipulator mat but for today's purposes i will be using the enjoy dry wax and again it's been in the hundreds here so my wax is very nice and pliable still so i put a good amount of that on my hand okay so you can see how pliable my wax is if yours isn't quite that pliable pull out your blow dryer and use it to make it softer now i'm going to work it between the hands and first and foremost the most important step is not to apply this whole amount to one section of your hair because you're going to get way too much so what i like to do is just real roughly just like basically touch my whole hair and i'm shifting the hair around in different directions so that you can kind of coat the different sides of your hair so it's not just the top getting the wax it's getting underneath the hair as well as on the top all right so now that we've got most of it kind of distributed i still have a good amount of wax on my hands i will move some of it to the tips of my fingers and now because we're really concentrating on this section you can take that wax and any area that needs more volume you just rub it in the scalp and again we're not rubbing a ton of wax into the scalp just what's remaining on our hands and we're also almost like ratting the hair but without a comb so we're just using our fingers to add all of that extra volume i mean we're to get a little crazy and i'll tame it down but i just want to show you what is possible all right so i am continuing to just i mean do you see how much volume we can add by just scrubbing it into the roots of the hair okay now let's go ahead and we're going to fine-tune especially this front section because i don't think i'm going for anything like real crazy today i don't know we'll just see how the hair wants to go right but here on this top section i am going to go for a very lifted look and just show you how you can get the most out of this and now what i'm doing i sometimes do these things without telling you i just do them just automatically okay so i am holding a section of hair and i'm taking my hands and rubbing right at the scalp so it's almost like if you were taking a comb and ratting it but instead i'm just using the tips of my fingers to create volume at the roots and because we have root boost and that enjoy dry wax it's really kind of gripping the hair is gripping and staying kind of in that lifted um direction okay and then through here i think we're pretty pretty good here okay i'm gonna go ahead and spray the front part first and now let's take out our mirror and and see what we're dealing with here okay so in the back um any sections that i see have kind of like holes or anything i am just going to manipulate the hair in that direction and then we'll set it in place with the hairspray okay so i think we're pretty ready now to go in with some hairspray and then like i said as i spray i will just kind of pull the hair over in those certain sections okay let me show you where we're at here so any sections that you know if you don't want it sticking straight out at this point you should be able to you have enough product on the hair to just kind of gently tuck it and then just spray it in place and so i think that you will see i did today kind of halfway in between it's not completely spiked but it's also not completely flat so that was kind of my intent you could definitely do more spikiness but today i kind of wanted to do something in between because i know many of you don't like spikes back there and that's okay so let's go ahead now and finish with a couple squirts here of spray okay i just popped in some earrings so now i'm going to give you a glimpse of the finished look here so here is our crown area even from this side hopefully you can see just all of that added volume i will pop on the screen the picture of before and after of that crown area and hopefully you can tell there is quite a bit of difference there in the volume now as you can see product does play a huge role in helping to add volume but also just the way that i was blow drying and yes i did bring in a round brush which i don't often do but i didn't use it in that traditional sense where you actually have to curl the hair and hold it the way that i did it today is something i've seen my hairstylist do especially in the front section and it's using the denseness of the bristles to redirect the area the crown area where you have those cowlicks so if you have cowlicks in other sections of your hair use a round brush or a very dense brush to comb the opposite direction of that cowlick and then comb it back so hopefully that information and the other tips and tricks i shared along the way will be useful to you as always be sure you check the description box below this video not only do i have links and a list of all the products that i use today but i also have additional videos linked that might be helpful to you if you have short hair if you're using enjoy dry wax for the first time or if you're curious to know how the malibu blondes recovery system worked for me thank you as always so much for watching be sure you hit that thumbs up button on your way out and i'll see you next time bye

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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 03 2021