These Layered Cuts Make Thin Hair Look Instantly Fuller

Layers carved into an already short style can make a less-than-full crown look more voluminous and add some shape to a style that can look completely flat if all one length.

Coils and curls can create natural thickness on their own, but a head of curly hair can still look thin. Shag style cuts can fill in gaps around the face and disguise thinner ends.

Compared to a one-length blunt cut bob, layers add a textural element that makes hair look fuller. On Keira Knightley, layers are super subtle and focused on the slightly flipped ends of her cut.

Thin, longer strands can look ratty at the ends. Redirect the focus with shorter face-framing pieces and precisely tapered ends.

If you’re looking to build thickness toward the ends of the hair, take a cue from Miley Cyrus and create a shag-like style that’s smoother up top and heavily layered on the bottom.

Reneé Rapp dangles her layered waves, which give her soft highlights lots more dimension.

Curls naturally add volume to shorter hair, but on straight pixie haircuts, layers are key to preventing the style from looking flat and helmet-like.

Make lob-length hair look intentional and not like you’re delayed on a bob refresh by having piecey bits cut into the style.

Layers are also helpful for hair that flows well beyond the shoulders. Avoid stringy-looking ends with feathered pieces cut in from the mid-shaft, down.

The highly polarizing mullet haircut is an extreme layered style. This more modern and wearable version shifts more gradually from a pixie-like top to a longer back.

Naomi Campbell switched up one of her signature looks, the one-length bob, for this bluntly tapered version that’s longer in the front, shorter in the back, and capped with below-the-brow bangs.

Over the years, Jennifer Aniston hasn’t strayed far from her very distinct straight and layered haircut, only going back and forth between this longer version and the shorter, iconic “The Rachel”.

Jennifer Lawrence is in her long hair era, and this smooth blowout is made better with some light layers toward the front.

If you don’t want to go full shag on curly hair, toe the line like Natasha Lyonne with shorter curly bangs and tiered tendrils throughout.

Keep the length without having hair look long and limp by cutting a single tier of hair just around the face for dimension.

Bella Hadid’s blowout is very ’90s supermodel coded, thanks to flippy layers and side-swept bangs.

Cutting layers into a shorter bob allows tossed-over bangs like this to fall less flat while adding some volume at the crown.