I've lost many hours playing with my pixie cut, experimenting with different ways to style it and working my way through hundreds of products to find a whole bunch 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 fantastic. In this article, I share some of the best styling products for short, fine hair and explain how to use them.

This product is an all-round saint. It is a protective layer for your hair; it protects against the dreaded moisture lint. It's weightless, so you can drench your hair in it without feeling any residue like some products. There is also a Dream Coat especially for curly hair.

Styling Tips: This spray should be the very LAST product you use before blow-drying and you should blow-dry section by section to get the best vitreous hair results. So if you plan on just letting your hair dry rough, maybe skip using this spray that day. It won't cause any damage; it just doesn't deliver the optimal results.

I put these two products together because I can't decide between them. I swear by volumizing powders for the majority of styling, for a whole host of reasons. They hold so well (handy, because that's the whole point). Moreover, they are reworkable. Hair fallen? No problem, put your fingers back at the roots and manipulate them back into place! Best of all, they are invisible; people generally want soft-looking hair that looks fantastically effortless and as if there is no product in it. Redkens' Powder Grip is the stronger 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 to be a little more flexible, so it's one of the best styling products for short, fine hair!