I have lost many hours playing around with my pixie cut, experimenting with different ways to style it, and working my way through hundreds of products to find a whole host of favorites along the way. As someone with bleached and over-processed hair, my goal is to maintain as much health in my hair as possible while looking fabulous. In this article, I share some of the best styling products for short fine hair and explain how you can use them.

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#1: Color Wow Dream Coat Spray

This product is an all-around saint. It’s a protective coat for your hair; it protects against the dreaded humidity fuzz. It’s weightless so you can drench your hair in it and not feel a residue like you can with some products. There’s also a Dream Coat specifically for curly hair.

Styling Tips: This spray needs to be the very LAST product you use before blow-drying and will require a section-by-section blow-dry to get the best glass-like hair results from it. So, if you’re planning just a rough blast dry, maybe skip using this spray that day. It won’t do any damage; it just doesn’t get the optimum results.

#2: Kevin Murphy Powder Puff or Redken Powder Grip

I’ve put these two products together because I can’t choose between them. I swear by volume powders for the majority of styling for a whole number of reasons. They hold so well (handy, because that’s the entire point). Also, they’re reworkable. Hairs dropped? No problem, get your fingers in at the roots again and manipulate back into place! Best of all, they’re invisible; people generally want soft-looking hair that looks fabulously effortless and like it has no product in it. Redkens’ Powder Grip is the stronger out of the two and perfect for that fauxhawk style that you don’t want to fix multiple times a day. Powder Puff still has a significant amount of hold, but I find it is that little bit more pliable, so it’s one of the best styling products for short fine hair!