Has your flat, fine hair deflated your confidence? Have you resigned yourself to constant styling and tiny ponytails?
STOP. RIGHT. THERE.
It’s true that lifeless and flat fine hair can be a problem. But it doesn’t have to be! All you need is the right hairstyle to turn up the juice and rejuvenate your hair (and yourself!).
So kiss that frumpy-feeling flat and fine hair goodbye, and check out these 35 hairstyle ideas for flat hair that give lifeless locks a TOTAL revival.
#1. Textured Pixie with Choppy Layers
The textured pixie cut with choppy layers is a spunky cut with a huge spark of energy for fine, flat hair. The choppy layers bring intense texture, giving you thicker-looking locks and giving your whole style a playful punch.
#2. Short Bob with Side-Swept Bangs
Nothing is as trendy and ageless as a short bob, especially with side-swept bangs. This short bob creates massive volume, body, and a complementary face frame, enhanced by the side-swept bangs for an extra chic touch.
#3. Chin Length Bob with Textured Ends
Give your fine hair a charming lift with a modern flair. This stylish cut gives you all the volume but keeps a sleeker texture, all while creating a shape that accentuates your jawline and cheekbones, making a slimmer and longer-looking face.
#4. Razored Pixie with a Layered Crown
Looking for the perfect mix of cute and edgy? Try a razor pixie with a layered crown. The layered crown gives your fine, flat hair an extra dose of volume, while the razored layers create massive texture for an energetic and easy-to-style look.
#5. Shaggy Bob with Layered Bangs
Want something fun with retro flair? Try a shaggy bob with layered bangs! This style infuses your fine, flat hair with shaggy texture and playful movement, instantly renewing lifeless hair with layered bangs to give it that extra spark of texture and a chic finishing touch.
#6. Layered Bob with Voluminous Crown
Take your look to new heights with a layered bob fitted with a voluminous crown. The extra volume in the crown area adds extra height, while energetic layering gives the rest of your hair even more life, all while keeping the charming frame of the classic bob.
#7. Stacked Bob with Textured Layers
A stacked bob with textured layers is a striking hairstyle idea to instantly upgrade fine hair. The stacking gives this bob the ultimate amount of volume, and the textured layers bring full-bodied movement.
#8. Graduated Bob with Subtle Volume
Are you looking for a style with all the volume but no crazy texture? Go for a graduated bob with subtle volume. Graduated layering gives lifeless hair a soft but lively texture, while the subtle volume adds an even bigger lift.
#9. Tousled Bob with Beachy Waves
The tousled bob with beachy waves is a fun and vibrant style perfect for giving flat hair a burst of playful texture and a gorgeous beach-babe aesthetic. This bob’s tousled texture blesses your tresses with volume, body, and movement, enhanced by the beachy waves for the ultimate summer-ready style.
#10. Blunt Bob with Subtle Side Part
Need something to level up your fine, flat hair while keeping things sleek and simple? Try a blunt bob with a subtle side part. This bob’s crisp, clean lines complement almost any face shape while giving the look a contemporary twist. The subtle side part gives your hair just a touch more volume and movement.
#11. Deep Side Part for Added Lift
A deep side part is an insanely simple and quick way to completely renew your flat, fine hair without changing a thing about your cut or overall style. All you have to do is change your part to a deep side part. If you already style your hair like this, switch sides for the same effect.
#12. Volumizing Dry Shampoo and Root Lift
If you’re struggling with lifeless and flat fine hair, volumizing dry shampoo and root lifter should be at the top of your styling regime. Even on clean hair, these give your roots a massive lift, instantly making them fuller and thicker-looking, so you can get all the volume you could ever want!
#13. Scrunching with Mousse for Texture
Back in ’07, everyone was obsessed with the scrunching technique, and as much as we’d like to poke fun at that, we were definitely onto something. This simple styling technique doesn’t just give you volume and movement but also blesses your tresses with soft waves for a little bit of sophistication.
#14. Blow Drying with a Round Brush
Need a classic uplift for your flat, fine hair? Look no further than a blowout, babe! Yep, it’s that simple. Remember to use mosse and root booster to get that extra height that won’t fall flat. You can also spin the ends a little more for some soft movement.
#15. Adding Hair Extensions for Thickness
Hair extensions are a super-luxe way to level up your locks, giving more body and length in some cases. They’re also a little more permanent than average styling, even clip-ins. Just remember to opt for real human hair to avoid looking tacky.
#16. Subtle Highlights for Dimension
Not into changing your cut? You don’t have to! All you need to give your fine hair some life is some subtle highlights for dimension. These highlights create depth for fuller-looking hair and dimension for the illusion of texture and a bright glow.
#17. Shadow Root for the Illusion of Depth
Shadow roots are a delightful minor change with a major impact on flat, fine hair. The darker roots give the illusion of more depth, instantly creating thicker, more voluminous roots. Plus, the contrast makes your base color look brighter, and it’s a super easy style to grow out.
#18. Balayage for a Texturized Look
Need a trendy, tasteful way to make your hair look more textured? Go for some bright balayage! This highlighting technique creates a natural-looking dimension to create the look of texturized layers—no cutting needed. The darker roots also create depth in the right spot for the illusion of more volume.
#19. Dimensional Color for Added Fullness
Need a small upgrade for a little more fullness? Try some dimensional color! The multi-tonal dimension creates full, luscious locks with serious definition and an energized aesthetic.
#20. Light Colors to Create Volume
Give your look a serious lift with some light colors to create volume! Believe it or not, light colors like blonde help your hair look thicker and more voluminous (on top of being absolutely iconic, of course). Plus, when your roots start to grow, that visual depth will help with even more volume.
#21. Messy Bun with Face-Framing Tendrils
The messy bun is a great go-to style. But you can give it a flirty flair with face-framing tendrils. This trendy upstyle immediately transforms the look of your lifeless, thin hair with long, wispy strands for a relaxed and flattering look.
#22. Half-Up Style with a Voluminous Crown
Chic, effortlessly elegant, and oh-so-easy—that’s how we describe a half-up style with a voluminous crown. This look features an elegant half-up style with extra teasing in the crown to help with height, leaving the rest of your luxe tresses down.
#23. Loose French Braid with Pulled-Apart Sections
Want a simple style with that boho-chic flair? Look no further than a loose French braid with slightly pulled sections. All you have to do is style hair into a loose braid and pull apart the sections to make them look thicker and more voluminous.
#24. Braided Crown for Added Thickness
A braided crown is a regal, radiant style that instantly makes fine hair look thicker. Simply braid to the side and wrap it around your hair, or do a double crown with two braids. Pancake the braid for full volume, and you’re all set for a night out!
#25. Side-Swept Braid with Subtle Volume
Nothing beats an effortlessly stylish, charming, side-swept braid with subtle volume for a little more oomph. All you have to do is braid your hair to the side and pull on it to make it look fuller, thicker, and absolutely fabulous.
#26. Chin-Length Cut on Natural Waves
Looking for something short, sweet, and chic? Go for a chin-length cut on natural waves! This short style features the chin-length bob’s famous flattering frame with vibrant movement to give your natural waves more volume, bounce, and a playful flair.
#27. Softly Layered Bob with Delicate Curls
The classic bob gets a level-up with soft layers and delicate curls, and so will your fine, flat hair! The layers add volume, body, and movement, laying the perfect foundation for delicate curls to create a flawless and fab style.
#28. Air-Dried with Sea Salt Spray for Beachy Texture
Calling all our beach babes! This one’s for you! Get all that captivating coastal texture without the heat damage with air-dried hair spritzed with sea salt spray for an instant boost with fun movement and full volume that you can intensify with a simple scrunching.
#29. Scrunched with Curl-Defining Cream
Curl-defining cream is designed to give curls more definition and bounce, so why use anything else to create the perfect scrunched texture? This is that same scrunched style with a multitalented product that volumizes, hydrates and defines, not to mention a seriously fabulous flair.
#30. Gray Textured Cut
A gorgeous gray textured cut lets you embrace natural grays with grace, or try out the trendy gray hair fad with a cool, confident style. Plus, the gray’s light tone makes your locks look thicker, and the textured cut zaps your lifeless, fine hair back to life with a contemporary flair.
#31. Chin Length Bob with Flipped Out Ends
Revitalize your flat, fine hair with something neat and nostalgic, like a chin-length bob with flipped-out ends. This flattering cut gives your hair loads of volume from root to tip with the playful flipped ends bringing a Y2K-reminiscent twist you can get in seconds with a flat iron or blow dryer and round brush.
#32. Layered Bob with a Side Part
The layered bob with a side part is the ultimate hairstyle for fine hair if you’re looking for something chic and simple with a heck of a lot of energy. This bob keeps its classic complementary shape, but the layering infuses your hair with a breath of fresh hair, enhanced by the side part.
#33. Angled Bob with Elongated Front
If you want a polished but perky style, look no further than an angled bob with an elongated front. The angled bob has that bob’s beloved volume, with the longer, angular shape making a tighter, more contouring frame, enhanced by the elongated front pieces for an effortlessly charming vibe.
#34. Voluminous Bob with Curtain Bangs
Skyrocket your style with a voluminous bob and curtain bangs. This bob has that timeless and super-chic shape it’s famous for, with twice the volume of the typical bob and curtain bangs to finish it off with a flirty flair.
#35. Textured Lob with Subtle Layers
A texture lob with subtle layers is an upscale upgrade for fine hair. This lively lob’s subtle layering packs your hair full of life for elegant movement and a heavy dose of classy vibes, all while being ultra-low-maintenance.