I Have Fine Hair, But These 13 Volumizing Sprays Gave Me Blowout-Level Body
Whether you have fine hair that falls limp or thick hair that forms a heavy curtain, it can be hard to achieve the volume that you so desire with your natural density. I’m constantly adding inspo pics of Victoria’s Secret Angel blowouts and bouncy, ‘70s-inspired curls to my mood board, but my strands require a bit of assistance to get that larger-than-life body. My go-to products for achieving such looks? Volumizing sprays—and lots of ‘em.
“A good volumizing spray is one that lifts the hair from the root while allowing a smooth blow dry with maximum lift,” says Owen Gould, celebrity hairstylist and Moroccanoil Global Ambassador. “They basically expand the hair you already have to create the appearance of fuller hair,” adds celebrity hairstylist and Kristin Ess Hair Artistry Team stylist, Marissa Marino. “The best ones give [a] flexible hold so that hair is still movable and touchable.”
I, along with several Who What Wear editors, tested the best volumizing sprays on the market so you don’t have to. Ahead, the 13 that gave our manes gorgeous body, rom-com level movement, and enough hold to earn a day’s worth of compliments.
The Best Volumizing Sprays, At a Glance
Best Overall: BondiBoost Hair Thickening Therapy Spray
BondiBoost
Hair Thickening Therapy Volumizing Leave in Styling Spray
Pros: Long-lasting body, infused with restorative ingredients, works on all hair types and textures
Cons: Honestly, none
Size: 4.23 oz. | Key ingredients: Biotin, vitamin B3, amaranth extract | Hair type: All
It was hard to find faults with this volumizing pick from BondiBoost. Between the facts that it works on all hair types and textures and improves your strands with its leave-in, restorative formula, we had a clear winner on our hands. “The Hair Thickening Therapy Spray is a must for anyone looking for thicker, fuller, and healthier-looking hair in minutes,” associate beauty editor Maya Thomas previously wrote in her review. “Effective for use on all hair types and textures, this lightweight product thickens and expands each strand while adding volume and preventing future damage with a blend of biotin, vitamin B3, and amaranth extract (a natural hair strengthener).”
Customer review: “This actually works. It’s amazing. You can actually use too much and make your hair difficult to brush through. I have fine hair, that used to be thick, but after menopause it’s thinned a lot. Customer for life. Love it when a product actually works!”
Best Drugstore: Kristin Ess Hair Instant Lift Thickening Spray
Kristin Ess
Hair Instant Lift Thickening Spray
Pros: Lower-priced, improves shine, boosts fullness in fine hair
Cons: Wish it did more to smooth frizz
Size: 8.45 oz. | Key ingredients: Litchi extract, chia seed oil, hydrolyzed Keratin | Hair type: All
Hair products can pricey quick, which is why we love a drugstore pick just as much as a top-shelf brand. The pros are quick to call out this volumizing spray from Kristin Ess for not just its volume-boosting properties, but its touchable texture and lacquery shine. “I love Kristin Ess Instant Lift Thickening Spray for adding volume [to] wet hair,” says Marino.” It gives you root lift and volume without residue or weighing hair down.” Plus, it basically doubles as a hair perfume (it has a gorgeous floral sandalwood aroma), and it’s on sale for just $9 right now.
Customer review: “This product makes my hair shiny and looks thicker!! I no longer have to use mousse as this spray is so much easier to apply to hair. On top of that, it smells incredible! It’s lightweight for my fine hair and holds the style. I’ve already bought a second bottle of this miracle worker!”
Best for Fine Hair: David Mallett No.2 Le Volume Spray
DAVID MALLETT
No.2 Le Volume Spray
Pros: Featherlight texture, softens hair, doesn’t add extra weight
Cons: On the expensive side
Size: 5.07 oz. | Key ingredients: Nori, vitamin A, vitamin B12, vitamin C | Hair type: Fine
Anything that the Aussie-French hairstylist David Mallett touches typically turns to gold, and the same goes for his upscale, chic hair products. Le Volume is a strand-fortifying spray that combines Japanese red algae and a flurry of vitamins A, B12, and C to revitalize fine hair while boosting volume. As someone with medium-to-thick hair, but fine individual strands, it’s hard for me to achieve any volume because the density of my hair makes it fall limp. However, a few spritzes of this product into my damp hair before blow-drying is a sure way to get visible lift and texture without my hair feeling weighed down or crunchy.
Best for Thick Hair: Moroccanoil Volumizing Mist
Moroccanoil
Volumizing Mist
Pros: Offers up to long-lasting volume, boosts fullness without adding weight, smooths frizz
Cons: Nothing, honestly
Size: 5.4 oz. | Key ingredients: Argan oil, Dead Sea salt | Hair type: Fine to thick
If you have thick hair but struggle to achieve volume, this Moroccanoil mist is the one to try. Ultra-light to avoid adding extra weight to already-heavy hair and packed with a strand-smoothing dose of argan oil, this formula is a godsend for people with high-density hair who struggle with volume. “This product doesn’t get sticky at the roots, which I tend to find can happen with other spray volumizers,” says Gould. “It provides texture and long-lasting volume.” Plus, you can get up to 72 hours of volume and 50% more fullness when you spritz this stuff.
Customer review: “Tried so many different ones but this spray is the best! I am really curly and sometimes the weight of the hair makes flat top of my head and this one is a lifesaver!”
Best for Roots: Roz Hair Root Lift Spray
Pros: Non-sticky formula, effective lift, enriches hair
Cons: On the expensive side
Size: 5 oz. | Key ingredients: Mushroom root extract, rice water, radish root | Hair type: All
Since I deal with heavy hair, it’s hard—nay, nearly impossible—to achieve volume at the roots of my hair. I’ve chopped my hair to my chin to rid myself of the weight, and still, my hair falls flat at the scalp. That was, until I introduced the Roz Hair Root Lift Spray into my routine. This non-sticky, vitamin-enriched spray is practically a hair-tease in a can, just without the excess hair spray and knots. It works on all hair types and boosts volume where it’s hardest to achieve it (the root, of course) while keeping your style in place all day, without causing buildup on your scalp.
Customer review: “I have alopecia and have lost [a] lot of volume on my head. I didn’t want to have to use hair spray every day to hold the volume, which didn’t even last long. This gives amazing natural volume without making your hair stiff and smells amazing.”
Best for Thinning Hair: Bumble and Bumble Thickening Dryspun Volume Texture Spray
Bumble and bumble
Thickening Dryspun Volume Texture Spray
Pros: Easy to use, offers impressive lift, beautiful scent
Cons: Some shoppers cite grittiness
Size: 3.6 oz. | Key ingredients: Zeolite, silk powder | Hair type: Fine to medium
WWW editors have nothing but rave reviews for Bumble and Bumble’s Thickening Dryspun Volume Texture Spray, but the stuff really shines when used on thinning hair. This dry volumizing spray is a last-step product, meaning you spritz it onto your hair after styling. But if you want to take things up a notch (especially for thinning hair), you can use a damp-hair volumizer first, and this spray afterwards. The zeolite and silk powder-infused spray offers thick, touchable texture that takes your locks to the sky. Plus, Thomas recommends this spray for its enchanting scent: a bouquet of lemon, bergamot, apple, and water lily.
Customer review: “Helps me achieve volume I normally can’t. It’s basically a super light hairspray but way better. I have baby fine hair & this brand is the best. I’ve tried cheaper stuff, & it’s not the same. Will always come back!”
Best for Dry Hair: IGK Body Language Rice Water Plumping & Thickening Mist
IGK
Body Language Rice Water Plumping & Thickening Mist
Pros: Hydrates hair, boosts shine, offers heat protection
Cons: Can leave a slight residue
Size: 7 oz. | Key ingredients: Triple rice blend, vegan liquid collagen, pea peptides | Hair type: Fine
For a volumizing mist that does it all, look no further than this pick from IGK. As someone with dry skin and hair, I find myself needing to look for hydrating beauty products all around—which is why I reach for IGK’s Body Language mist when my hair’s feeling dehydrated. It’s packed with rice water and vegan liquid collagen to moisten, plump, and detangle the strands while adding a glossy shine, making your mane look even more moisturized than before. It’s also been concocted with heat protection to further shield dry strands.
Customer review: “This is the perfect formula for my hair. I have fine hair, but a lot of it. Some smoothing products weigh it down and make it slippery. This adds some bulk and hold as well as volume and it dries really straight. I appreciate that I can just spray on the product and the heat protectant is part of the formulation.”
Best for Damaged Hair: K18 AstroLift Reparative Volume Spray
K18
Astrolift Reparative Volume Spray
Pros: Humidity-resistant, preserves style, nourishes damaged strands
Cons: Expensive for small bottle
Size: 4 oz. | Key ingredients: Seaweed, arginine, K18Peptide, natural polymers | Hair type: Fine to medium
If you’ve experienced hair damage from excess color treatments or heat styling, you might worry about adding extra products to the lineup for fear of accentuating breakage or split ends. However, K18’s AstroLift volumizing spray is here to simplify your glamorous, big hair routine without adding extra stress—or even heat. This damage-healing formula is infused with a blend of peptides and polymers that work hard to reverse battered strands at a molecular level, which also works beautifully on fragile and mature hair. You can also use it on dry hair to boost thickness, a huge perk for those trying to keep heat off of their damaged strands.
Customer review: “I’m incredibly impressed with K18’s new AstroLift! I have the thinnest and finest hair, and I’ve never been able to achieve volume. In the Texas heat, any type of styling to my hair is impossible to keep. Until now! This spray didn’t weigh my hair down at all. I actually look like I have more hair, and it feels healthy.”
Best with Heat Protection: Olaplex Volumizing Blow Dry Mist
Olaplex
Volumizing Blow Dry Mist
Pros: Shields strands up to 450°F, strengthening formula, adds glossy shine
Cons: TBH, none
Size: 5.07 oz. | Key ingredients: Jackfruit polysaccharides, bamboo extract lipopeptides, pea peptides | Hair type: Fine to medium
As aforementioned, it’s important to remember to use products with heat protection when styling your strands with tools. Introducing Olaplex’s protective volumizing mist, which not only shields your hair from too-hot temperatures when blow-drying, but also imparts movable volume without coating the hair in a heavy residue. “Using Olaplex’s Volumizing Blow Dry Mist is one of my favorite ways to create body and volume while also providing heat protection up to 450°F,” says Thomas, calling out its unbeatable shine, strengthening formula, and ability to preserve styles. “The bouncy blowouts you create at home will never look better.”
Customer review: “Brilliant product, leaves my hair feeling thicker and best of all, great heat protectant. I leave months and months between haircuts, and even my hairdresser has noticed how little split ends I have.”
Best for Dyed Hair: Color Wow Raise the Root Thicken and Lift Spray
Color Wow
Raise the Root Thicken and Lift Spray
Pros: Strand-strengthening formula, color-preserving finish, impressive volume
Cons: Can be drying if applied too liberally
Size: 5 oz. | Key ingredients: Elastomers, hydrolyzed keratin, provitamin B5 | Hair type: All
Shoppers with regular color treatments, raise your hands! This one’s for you. Color Wow’s Thicken and Lift Spray has a lightweight, ultra-volumizing formula that promises not to yellow or darken your hair color after application, along with a myriad of other benefits. It also moonlights as a heat protectant and works on all hair types, meaning that this spray is a total crowdpleaser—whether you wear your natural shade or not. Enriched with root-lifting elastomers, strengthening hydrolyzed keratin, and protective vitamins, this formula isn’t just good for volume; it’s actually good for you.
Customer review: “This root spray gave my wavy, and usually stubborn hair a noticeable boost of volume, especially at the crown. The crown is normally my problem area. It made my hair look fuller and lifted without weighing it down. After using it, my hair feels soft and bouncy. It’s not stiff or sticky at all which I appreciate. I love that it keeps my style locked in while still feeling natural throughout the day.”
Best for Frizz: Alfaparf Milano Semi di Lino Leave-In Volume Spray
Alfaparf Milano
Semi di Lino Leave-In Volume Spray
Pros: Smooths strands, adds body, hydrates hair
Cons: Relatively small bottle
Size: 4.23 oz. | Key ingredients: Glycerin, lactic acid, castor oil | Hair type: Fine
“A great volumizing spray should feel weightless, add grip at the root, and offer heat protection so you’re not layering multiple products,” starts Sean Michael, owner of the Boston-based Salon Beau. “I love Alfaparf Milano Volume Leave-In Spray because it delivers lift and fullness while keeping the hair soft and hydrated. It also provides thermal protection, making it perfect for blowouts without the worry of dryness or stiffness.” Plus, it’s great for managing your hair in the face of humidity and static.
Customer review: “This works amazing for my fine hair. It’s lightweight not full of alcohol, and has a very pleasant smell. I like to use a little at the roots the next day as well. I love how this feels and smells. Overall, it gives great Volume for those fine-haired girlies. I wish the bottle [were] a little larger, but this is a wonderful product IMO!”
Best Texturizing: SexyHair Big Volume Flex Texture Spray
Sexy Hair
Big Volume Flex Texture Spray
Pros: Adds touchable texture, smooths frizz, offers natural movement
Cons: Some shoppers cite dryness
Size: 5.8 oz. | Key ingredients: Not listed | Hair type: Fine to medium
Texturizing sprays are a different ballgame, offering touchable body and, yes, often volume. But in the end, these spritzable products have more in common than you may realize. “Volumizing sprays work by lifting hair away from the scalp and creating space between strands, so the overall shape looks fuller and more dimensional,” explains Clayton Hawkins, celebrity hairstylist and SexyHair ambassador. He’s “obsessed” with this volumizing texture spray from SexyHair for its touch-activated texture, dynamic lift, and frizz control.
Customer review: “This product worked wonders for my straight hair. I used it on my wedding day! It is very lightweight and helped my hair hold volume. I’d buy again!.”
Best for Blowouts: Unite Boosta Volumizing Spray
UNITE Hair
Boosta Volumizing Spray
Pros: Improves shine, has a weightless texture, includes heat protection
Cons: No complaints
Size: 8 oz. | Key ingredients: Not listed | Hair type: Fine
If you’re like me and prefer to craft a quick blowout whenever I can, the Unite Boosta spray might be your new favorite. Becca Raziuddin, Director of Artist Education at Blo Blow Dry Bar, calls out this density-boosting spray as a personal favorite for its weightless feel and noticeable volume. It works best when used with heat and a round brush, especially when styled on fine, limp strands. Plus, it “layers well with other products [and] has a fresh scent,” she adds.
Customer review: “In my experience, volumizing spray doesn’t hold up to its promise. I decided to give BOOSTA volumizing spray a try, though, after reading the positive review of another user (“older woman with fine hair”) who has similar hair challenges—and I was absolutely AMAZED. I thought for sure I’d regret not adding mousse or any other styling products, but the BOOSTA spray was all my hair needed—it actually gave me better results than I’ve ever had (or hoped for). My hair held its volume throughout the day, even in humidity, AND was soft and shiny. This will be my go-to product from now on!”
What to Look For In a Volumizing Spray
- Formula: When choosing the right volumizing spray for you, it’s important to keep in mind the qualities you appreciate in hair products. In this instance, you’ll want to keep an eye out for something that feels lightweight and non-sticky in your hair, while also having touchable texture that keeps the hair soft, not crunchy. (Take the strand-softening David Mallett No.2 Le Volume Spray, for example.)
- Lift: Stylists stress the importance of volumizing sprays that offer lift at the roots, and I personally recommend the Roz Hair Root Lift Spray for that. But another key characteristic of a good volume-boosting spray is one that offers movement and body throughout the hair—meaning large, bouncy texture throughout the entire length.
- Extra benefits: Nowadays, it’s not enough to just enhance volume. So many of our category-winning picks offer added perks like heat protection (ahem, the Olaplex Volumizing Blow Dry Mist and Color Wow Raise the Root, to name a few), frizz control (the Alfaparf Milano Semi di Lino Leave-In works wonders), and hydration for parched hair (I use the IGK Body Language for that).
What should you avoid in a volumizing spray?
“I avoid anything that feels sticky or heavy at the root—once the hair is weighed down, the volume disappears,” muses Hawkins. “I also stay away from formulas that leave a white cast or build-up, especially if I’m working on camera or red-carpet looks where the finish needs to be seamless.”
Raziuddin points out that you can often spot a buildup-causing formula before you even try it. “Formulas that are heavy with oils or thick silicones can flatten hair instead of lifting it,” she explains, to be sure to check the ingredients list before heading to checkout.
How else can you give your hair extra volume?
“Aside from volumizing sprays, you can layer in a few other products or tools depending on the look you’re going for,” says Michael. “Texturizing powders or sprays are great for instant lift at the root, especially on finer textures that tend to fall flat. Hair spray can also help set the volume you’ve created.”
Marino adds that oftentimes, it’s your blow-drying technique that sets your style up for success. “You can really set in the volume when hair is wet,” she explains. “Use rollers to set and lift. Also, blow-drying with your hair parted in the middle and then flipping to one side afterwards gives an instant volume boost around the face.”
Both Hawkins and Michael vouch for good old rollers, too. “For that soft, long-lasting fullness, round-brushing at the root or adding rollers after your blowout can make a big difference,” says Michael. “I’m addicted to old school hot rollers!” Hawkins adds.
How We Chose
I chose the best volumizing sprays on the market by analyzing top-performers in 2025 in the volume-building category and trying a handful myself. My fellow beauty editors tried their hands at different formulas—many of us having a range of hair types and textures to take a more holistic approach—and further whittled down our final picks. From there, I consulted with celebrity hairstylists and salon owners to see which products they genuinely use in their practice and get their expert insights on what to look for, application tips, and what to avoid.
Why Trust Us
At Who What Wear, we know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Over the years, our editors have tested thousands of products—including skincare, makeup, haircare, and nails—while also working closely with trusted experts, like renowned dermatologists, celebrity makeup artists, and other leading industry insiders. Together, this ensures every guide is well-researched, inclusive, and relevant to you.
We focus on formulas that deliver, whether they’re affordable favorites or luxury investments. Our product selection is based on tangible results, ingredient know-how, and what we’d truly recommend to our closest friends and family members.
