One look we fell in love with was Reese Witherspoon’s 60s inspired updo from the Oscars. Although it’s not technically a ponytail, we thought we could interpret it into a style you can easily achieve at home.

1. Wash and condition with Full Shampoo and Conditioner.

1. Detangle hair and apply an egg-sized amount of Full Thickening Mousse and spreading it evenly through damp hair. Tip: For added humidity protection, spritz your hair with No Frizz Straight Styling Spray after applying the mousse.
2. Separate your hair into 2-inch sections, and blow dry with a round brush. Lift each section of hair toward the sky as you blow-dry, directing hot air toward your scalp for an extra boost of volume.
3. Gather the top section of your hair. Tip: to find the perfect amount place your thumbs at your hairline, in line with the arch of your eyebrows, then run them back to the crown of your head). Clip this hair back and out of the way using a banana clip while you work on the rest of your hair.
4. Now, gather the bottom portion of your hair back into a ponytail a little underneath the crown of your head. Secure the ponytail with a either a clear elastic, or one that matches your hair color.
5. Take the top portion of your hair that you set aside, and spritz the underside with Full Root Lifting Spray. Blow dry this portion again with a round brush for extra volume.
6. Using bobby pins, pin that top section of your hair first at the crown of your head to give the impression of height without the teasing. Take the tail of this section and wrap it around the base of your ponytail and secure with additional bobby pins.
7. Once the hair is securely pinned down, take the Full Root Lifting Spray and lightly mist it over the ends of the ponytail. Add extra curls to the ends of the hair with a curling iron – for extra fun!

Throw on some statement earrings and you’re ready to go!

Full Thickening Mousse is a finalist in the Hair Styling Category, along with Aveda’s Control Force Firm Hairspray, Blow’s Blow Out Hairspray, Fekkai’s Essential Shea Tame and Style Pot de Crème, and Ojon’s Volumizing Brush-On Mousse.

Last year, Living Proof took home three CEW Awards: Best Hair Styling Product Prestige for Full Thickening Cream, Best Hair Care Product Prestige for No Frizz Shampoo, and the coveted Indie Beauty Award.

The CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women, Inc.) is a non-profit professional group comprised of over 4,000 beauty industry executives based in New York. The winners of the CEW Beauty Awards will be announced on May 20^th, so stay tuned!

Dear Amazing Hair Product Persons,

I am a licensed aesthetician and have tried every major hair potion that promises fabulous hair at my finger tips. I have always been completely sad and let down, until I tried your Full Thickening Cream yesterday.

I seriously have the finest, most terrible, multiple personality type hair a person could ever be cursed with (thanks to chemotherapy and radiation 12 years ago) and unfortunately, they don’t make a medication for my type of hair.

However, the Thickening Cream has totally taken my normal 25-minute routine of drying, teasing, serums, sprays, straightening into less than 5 minutes! I apply a small amount to wet, towel-dried hair, blow dry and that’s it! My hair is totally bouncy, perfectly flipped, perfect looking and amazingly soft!

I love this product and have already told all of the girls in my office as well as my clients that I have seen today about it! Amazing!

Sincerely
Amber, aka girl with the nice hair

We want to hear more stories like this! Have any of our products made you a more confident woman today?

The Full solution includes Shampoo, Conditioner, Root Lifting Spray, and Thickening Cream. For all information regarding shipping and/or availability, contact your local SpaceNK Apothecary or head over to www.SpaceNK.co.uk.

Tools:
Wide-toothed comb
Boar bristle round brush
Blow dryer with nozzle
Jeweled hair clip or pin

Products:
Full Thickening Mousse
Hold Flexible Hairspray

1)       Start with clean, damp, towel-dried hair. For best results, we recommend washing and conditioning with Full Shampoo & Conditioner.

2)      Comb an egg-sized amount of Full Thickening Mousse through your hair.

3)      Quickly blow dry your hair with a round brush to remove excess water. We recommend dividing your hair into 3 to 5-inch sections, to speed up the process.

4)      Then create 2-inch sections of hair, and wrap each section around a round brush (as you would with a curling iron). Heat the sectioned hair with your blow dryer, and keep your hair wound on the brush for a couple of minutes until the hair is fully cool.

5)      Release the section once it is cooled by slowly unraveling the hair from the brush. Mist the section with Hold Flexible Hairspray. Do this for each section until hair full and wavy.

6)      Create a deep side part and sweep your hair to the opposite side of the part. Pull a little bit of the front piece forward for some volume.

7)      Take your hair clip or slide and pin it back just above the ear.  Mist Hold Flexible Hairspray over the entire style to keep it in place.

Hint: skip to 2:45 for the ultimate “Wow!” moment!

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• The most volume will be achieved if you have some layers in your hair, whatever the length is. Make sure to ask your stylist to give you some layers if volume is your top concern.

Don’t Overly Condition the Hair

• You certainly want to have your hair well hydrated, but be careful not to excessively moisturize with heavy masks as this can tend to weigh the hair down, especially if your conditioners have lots of oils and silicones. This weight may counteract the benefits of a volumizer or thickener, like Full.

Style with Heat

• Applying Full to clean hair and blowing it dry will maximize your volume. Air drying will give you texture and definition, but usually not as much volume as heat styling.

Remember That Different Products Do Different Things

• Full is a thickening product; it is not a root lifter. Cocktail Full with Full Root Lifting Spray if that is the look you want. And experiment — have fun with your hair until you find your favorite style.

Coloring helps

• For those of you who color or highlight your hair, this will give it added texture and will help give the appearance of more volume.

Here’s what they have to say:

You see, sisters of the [thick] tresses, some of us were born with thinner, less luxurious hair and we do everything we know to do to give it a little “umph.” So, please celebrate with us that we’ve found this Full Thickening Mousse from Living Proof.

Its light, airy formula is designed to provide each strand of hair on our heads with the texture it needs to look full and the body we so crave. That way we can say, “Oh, we just don’t know what to do with this hair of ours. It’s so full and luxurious!”

Needless to say, we’re incredibly happy to hear that they’re fans. We love hearing feedback, so if you’ve tried and tested Full Thickening Mousse, you can leave us your thoughts either here in our comments section or over at our Full Thickening Mousse page’s review section. We can’t wait to hear from you!

When we introduced Full Thickening Mousse back in September, it was an instant hit. Allure Magazine awarded the mousse with the coveted 2010 Best of Beauty award in the Best Breakthrough category.

So what makes Full Thickening Mousse so special? It incorporates the breakthrough Poly Beta Amino Ester-1 technology into an ultra-lightweight formula that’s perfect for even the finest of strands.

Poly Beta Amino Ester-1 creates thousands of microscopic thickening points on each strand of hair, giving you just the right amount of natural texture for natural moving fullness and thickness that lasts all day.

So if you thought you could never have Bridgette Bardot-bombshell hair, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see the transformation that takes place after you use Full Thickening Mousse. Try it out for yourself and let us know what you think!