Have you had it up to here with thinning hair that you just can’t seem to figure out how to style? Every morning it feels like the same routine: apply products that are said to help boost thin hair, style your hair the way you’ve been doing for years or maybe even decades, and feel utterly confused when your hair fails to behave the way it always has.
The problem may be that you aren’t embracing your hair in the moment, including its texture and needs as they stand today. Instead of doing the same old thing, try something new. These eight hairstyles never fail to help mature women with thinning hair and bald spots conceal sparseness on the scalp and create a look that makes their hair appear fuller and more vibrant. Whether your hair is long, short, or somewhere in between, these looks can make a big difference.
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1. Layered Bob
This first hairstyle will require a trip to the salon, but if you’re open to embracing a brand new haircut and style, you can’t do much better for thinning hair than a layered bob. The layered bob is short enough to remove dead weight and straggly ends, but it’s long enough to allow you to play with long layers that give your hair more lift and movement. It’s a super trendy haircut at the moment, but don’t let that deter you: it’s also a classic that never goes out of style.
2. Textured Pixie
If you’re open to cutting your hair even more, the payoff can be extraordinary. A textured pixie like this style sported by Kris Jenner is short in the back and on the sides, but a little bit of length at top allows you to create texture that covers bald spots and makes your hair appear denser. This is also a great style for anyone who likes to get creative: you can wear it slicked back, a bit spiky, or swept to the side.
3. Side Part
The side part is back. After several years of seeing center parts, which aren’t the kindest if you have thinning hair at the crown of your head, the side part is being embraced and we’re seeing it on every cut, from bobs to super-long tresses. Best of all: no trip to the salon or money spent is needed with this one change.
4. Headband Braid
How simple is Molly Sims’ hairstyling trick? On days when you can’t figure out what to do with thinning hair, a headband braid that matches your hair color will get the job done by covering your scalp and making your hair look so much thicker.
5. Half Up, Half Down
Women with medium or long hair can rely on this easy trick to instantly conceal bald spots and make hair look more voluminous: pull half of your hair up and secure it with a pretty barrette or band, and keep the rest of your hair down. Jessica Albs takes things one step further and adds soft waves to her hair for added texture, which also creates the illusion of more volume.
6. High Bun
Penelope Cruz looks like the picture of elegance, and her chic high bun has everything to do with it. This hairstyle is simple to recreate and can turn bad hair days into amazing ones. Tease your roots ever so slightly to benefit from added volume.
7. Curls and Waves
So you say you don’t want a drastic haircut, lack time in the morning to create sophisticated updos, and need a more low-maintenance way to boost your hair’s volume? Turn to heatless curls and waves, which instantly increase the density of each hair strand, making you look like you have more hair. There are so many great heatless options now, many of which you can wear comfortably to bed, so that you wake up with salon-worthy hair without the added heat damage.
8. Blunt Lob With Long Layers
Keeping the ends of a lob (which stops at the collarbone) blunt creates a fuller line at the bottom of your hair that appears more polished and can be great for beefing up thinning hair. Adding a few long layers to this classic cut ensures it doesn’t fall flat on top and gives you more styling possibilities. The blunt lob with long layers also looks fantastic with texture.
