12 Truths Of Girls With Thin Hair

Sadly, we can’t all be blessed with bouncy, thick, cascading locks. If you have fine, perpetually flat, wispy hair, and the sight of a fat ponytail is enough to give you green-eyed envy, these thin-hair truths are for you. Scroll…

You spend forever curling your hair for it to last a total of seven minutes

Unless you douse it in three cans of hairspray, those curls you just spent an hour doing are coming right out, my friend.

Every single hair product in your arsenal includes some variation of “volume”

Plumping, thickening, texturising, boosting and root-lifting products like these:
bh loves: muk haircare beach muk sea salt spray, S Factor by TIGI Body Booster Plumping Spray, Aveda Thickening Tonic, Paul Mitchell Lemon Sage Thickening Spray, Batiste XXL Plumping Powder

Your hair gets greasy SO fast, like the day after you wash it

Resulting in a major case of déjà vu.

Scalp sunburn is REAL

Yep, it’s a thing. If you have thick hair, you’ve likely never experienced the unholy sensation that is your scalp burning. And don’t even get us started on the peeling.
bh loves: Charles Worthington Sunshine Leave-In UV Protection Spray, Moroccanoil Glimmer Shine Spray

Windy days are a real problem

A real problem.

Normal hair loss causes major anxiety

While everyone loses around 100 hairs a day, for those with thin hair that’s enough to send us into a major meltdown, because there’s just no way we can afford to lose ANY of it.

One word: STATIC

You know those orbs with electric currents you put your hand on? That’s what thin hair with static looks like.

Blake Lively is a personal affront to your flat hair situation

And it doesn’t stop there: Rapunzel, the entire cast of Pretty Little Liars, Shakira - we love you all but we kinda hate you, too. Don’t take it personally, we’re just bitter about your enviably thick locks. Shave it off and we’ll call it even. Deal?

There’s just not enough dry shampoo in the world

Nothing to do with whether your hair is dirty or not, you need that grit to feign some texture.

bh loves: Batiste Wild Dry Shampoo, Cedel Dry Shampoo, Schwarzkopf Extra Care Dry Shampoo, TONI&GUY Casual Matt Texture Dry Shampoo

Thick, voluminous textured braid? Not in this lifetime

Frozen’s Elsa’s dreamy Disney braid is but a distant dream. So in the words of the ice queen herself, “Let it go”...

The fear of brushing your hair and losing a few strands is a recognised phobia

Brushing is risky business, after all you don’t have that many to spare

But hey, at least your hair only takes five seconds to dry

Thin hair for the win!

Can you relate to these thin hair truths?

78 Member Comments

Chicklet 11 Apr 2021 10:57 PM

The struggle is real!

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brooklynsmith 3 Dec 2018 12:22 AM

how true! what a good read.

AP1992 15 May 2018 1:17 PM

All of the above!! Too real

cosmoslyn 12 Dec 2017 9:48 PM

mine is thinning, no thanks to having kids

Diamin 11 Sep 2017 3:22 PM

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Wa888 6 Sep 2017 3:47 PM

Find mike suliau on facebook her tips work better.

Seezora 10 Aug 2017 6:47 PM

Hahaha YES to all of the above! ESPECIALLY #1. I do have to wash mine every day or it looks greasy. And I have to keep it up most of the time because it gets static ;-(

Zarin 9 Aug 2017 8:20 PM

Story of my life

Chicklet 8 Aug 2017 7:41 PM

This is my life...

Lawliet 22 Apr 2017 5:06 PM

Ugh, my hair is SO thin! It's super curly which fools people into thinking it's thick....but nope.

sunshinebunny 22 Feb 2017 4:49 PM

The phrase 'thin hair' sounds so mean. Can't you say 'fine hair' instead? A friend of mine is always bagging me out about my 'thin hair' it's not a nice thing to say.

onlyoni 22 Feb 2017 11:04 AM

I noticed my hair thinning with age but a daily dose of silica soon got my hair back to its original thick healthy look.

Shop A Everyday 29 Jan 2017 11:48 PM

I have fine and thin hair, long live hot rollers, hairdryers and mouuse

ThisIsMe 16 Dec 2016 11:39 AM

Haha yes can totally relate to this article!

ray_jay 8 Dec 2016 10:56 PM

my daily life

Sweety7 4 Oct 2016 2:21 PM

Having thin hair I can totally relate to most of these.

Pixie96 30 Sep 2016 4:03 PM

My hair is getting thinner. It used to be really thick but now it falls out a lot. I stock up on volumising products and they do seem to help make my hair look a lot thicker.

clearcrystalwater 5 Apr 2016 7:54 PM

I have very fine hair but I suppose it's not all bad because I have lots and lots of it. I've actually heard that blondes have more strands of hair per head than other colours - heard it somewhere!

talk-a-lot 2 Apr 2016 3:21 PM

I don't have thin hair, it is quite thick and seems to grow quickly. My sister on the other hand has thin fine locks.

sporty_ytl 31 Mar 2016 8:52 PM

I have very thin hair and oily scalp, and worst of all, I am battling hair loss now. I don't know what's gone wrong. I think I need to start wearing a wig.

skincare junkie 24 Mar 2016 8:29 PM

Thankfully I always have thick hair. But lately i notice i lost more in the shower. I see so many clinets with thin hair and it ia dedinitelt harder to style!

StayC 24 Mar 2016 7:54 PM

Now that I've gone short again one of the best ways to do my thin hair is wash it and drive to work with it dripping wet and the windows down and most days when I get to work it looks pretty good :)

greg879 23 Mar 2016 5:41 PM

Fine, dry, wavy not very strong so it breaks easily. I can relate to these fine hair problems.

Shop A Everyday 18 Mar 2016 12:05 PM

But these things are so true

Petal 27 Feb 2016 6:39 AM

I have fine hair, but lots of it. My challenge is my hair getting really knotty. Now that my hair is long, I always have at least one matted clump of hair. I have a Tangle Teezer which has helped, but it's not quite enough.

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12 truths girls with thin hair can relate to

You spend forever curling your hair for it to last a total of seven minutes

Every single hair product in your arsenal includes some variation of “volume”