A 70-Year-Old With Thinning Hair Loves the Paul Mitchell Sculpting Foam

A friend snapped a photo of me from behind recently, and I was shocked at what I saw. While I’ve always had supremely thick tresses, I spotted a small patch of thinning hair right at the crown. Whether it’s from excessive dyeing in my 20s and 30s, or just the result of aging gracefully, I’ll admit I was thrown for a loop.

Cut to me frantically searching high and low for products to diminish the thinness, and we’ve arrived here—at my discovery of the Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Sculpting Foam. This mousse was picked up by over 10,000 Amazon shoppers in the past month alone, per the retailer, so its increasing popularity certainly has me sitting up and taking notice. It’s packed with ingredients to help thicken, build body, and add volume to fine, thinning hair. It also has conditioning ingredients to help amplify shine, which, as someone who’s always on the lookout for shine enhancers, definitely gets my vote. It’s scented with citrusy notes of lemon and neroli, too—talk about a zesty jolt for your locks.

Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Sculpting Foam

Even though my hair is pretty thick, I’ve noticed that it starts to look thinner and more lackluster around day four of a blowout. I’m intrigued by this mousse’s ability to add lushness and extra oomph to said blowout right from the start. The brand recommends shaking the bottle well and squeezing out a dollop (golf-ball sized dollop for short-to-medium hair, tennis-ball sized for longer hair), then distributing evenly with a wide-toothed comb before flipping your head over and blow-drying upside down. The result? Bouncy, voluminous hair that’s worthy of a hair flip or two.

Speaking of those 10,000 Amazon shoppers, this mousse has skyrocketed up the charts—it’s currently Amazon’s best-selling hair styling foam. It’s also racked up an impressive 7,000-plus five-star ratings, many of which specifically call out the mousse’s ability to transform thinning tresses. “Out of all the volume products I have used, this one actually works for me,” said one 70-year-old shopper with thinning hair. Another shopper with “extremely thin” hair said it “adds body” and “tremendous shine” to both straight hair and natural curls.

Since I come from a decade where mousse left hair feeling pretty crunchy, I’m a bit wary these days of, well, mousse. Thankfully, this Paul Mitchell foam does just the opposite, according to this shopper who said it “poofs up” their thin hair and “doesn’t leave hair crunchy at all,” and this one who said it gives hair “more body without making it stiff as a board.” Whew.

Still other impressed reviewers with thinning locks said this volumizing foam “plumps” strands and leaves a “nice shine,” plus “lasts until the next wash.”

As someone who, quite frankly, never thought I’d utter the words, “My hair is thinning,” I’m 100 percent on board with incorporating the Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Sculpting Foam into my hair routine. Pick it up for $17 on Amazon, and shop more volumizing products from the brand, below.

Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Shampoo

Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Boost Volumizing Spray

Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Firm Finishing Spray

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