Haircare Over 50: How I Care For My Hair As It Changes With Age
Amanda Ramsay is an award-winning professional makeup artist who specialises in makeup content and education for mature skin. Known as your over 40s makeup expert, Amanda has worked with thousands of Aussie women, including celebrities and personalities like Julia Gillard, Sophie Monk, Delta Goodrem, Collette Dinnigan, Jackie O, Miranda Kerr and Mia Freedman.
As we get older, our hair naturally changes - it might become finer, drier, thinner, or more fragile. You may notice a loss of volume, increased frizz, or find that your usual products just aren’t cutting it anymore.
The good news? With the right products, you can nourish, strengthen, and style your hair with ease and confidence. I’ve done the testing so you don’t have to.
Below are the products I keep reaching for because they’re simple, effective, and totally worth it.
Sleek, Frizz-free Finish: Color WOW Dream Coat Supernatural Spray
Why I Love It: Humidity and age-related texture changes can leave our hair looking puffy or unruly. This heat-activated spray smooths frizz and locks in shine for up to three washes. It acts like a mini keratin treatment without the salon visit. Note that this is not a treatment, purely something to help you style your hair, without the frizz.
Perfect for: Fine, frizz-prone, or colour-treated hair.
How to Use: Spray generously, like I mean really drench damp hair in sections, then blow-dry to activate. The result? Sleek, smooth, shiny hair - no stickiness or build up.
Root To Tip: Davroe Scalp Remedy Brush
Why I Love It: Our scalp health often gets overlooked, yes, I know it’s another thing for us over 50’s to fret about - but it’s essential - especially over 50, when circulation slows and hair growth can stall.
This brush exfoliates, improves blood flow, and helps remove build up from styling products and dry shampoos and the kicker, it feels flipping amazinggggg.
Perfect for: Flakiness, thinning hair, a scalp refresh and a de-stress.
How to Use: I like to use it any time of day on dry hair to relieve a little stress and tension, but you can also use it in the shower with shampoo. It’s a gentle, feel-good way to stimulate healthier hair growth from the roots.
11 Benefits, 1 Simple Step: Eleven Miracle Hair Treatment
Why I Love It: If you’ve watched my videos, you’ll know how much I love a multi-tasker for the time-poor woman! This leave-in treatment does everything - hydrates, strengthens, detangles, protects against heat, and adds shine. It’s especially great for hair that’s thinning or brittle because it nourishes without weighing hair down.
Perfect for: Dry, dehydrated or colour-treated hair.
How to Use: Apply a small amount to damp hair focusing on the mid-lengths to the ends, comb through, and style as usual. It’s the ultimate no-fuss product.
Weekly Reboot: Georgiemane 10 Minute Hair Mask
Why I Love It: As we age, our hair needs more moisture - but we don’t always have time for long treatments now do we, my friends?!. This rich, hydrating mask works in just 10 minutes to repair and soften hair, without making it feel greasy. I recommend this to everyone that will listen, it’s really that good. I have my 20 year old niece hooked as well!
Perfect for: Damaged, dull, unruly, or brittle hair.
How to Use: Apply to clean, damp hair, again really focus on the mid-lengths to the ends. Leave on for 10 minutes while you shower, shave, cleanse your face, exfoliate your body, sing your favourite song a few times, whatever you need to do to make those 10 minutes count - then rinse thoroughly.
Fullness: VIRTUE Volumizing Mousse
Why I Love It: This lightweight foam delivers serious lift without stickiness. It’s ideal for fine or thinning hair that needs a root boost plus body and bounce. Think of it as volume in a bottle.
Perfect for: Flat or limp hair.
How to Use: Work a decent blob into damp roots and blow-dry. It gives that salon-style fullness we all love—perfect for mature hair that lacks volume.
Instant Volume: EVO Haze Styling Powder
Why I Love It: This styling powder is a volume miracle. It’s my hairdressers little secret weapon that I’m here to share with all my fine, limp haired ladies! A little tap at the roots creates instant texture and lift without teasing or heat tools. It’s amazing for short styles or fine hair.
Perfect for: Fine or flat hair needing texture and lift.
How to Use: Tap into roots, rub into the scalp gently, and style. That’s it. Ideal for those low-effort, high-impact hair days.
Thicker, Healthier Locks: Hairification Grow Shampoo, Conditioner & Pure Grow Leave-in Spray Treatment
Why I Love It: Thinning hair is a common concern after 50, and this nutrient-rich trio is designed to help. It supports a healthy scalp, strengthens strands, and is sulfate-free so it won’t strip aging hair. Did I mention it smells blooming amazing, the best smelling shampoo in my collection - it’s earthy and grounding for the flighty menopausal chick!
Perfect for: Hair loss, shedding, or peri to post-menopausal hair changes.
How to Use: Massage shampoo into your scalp and leave for 1–2 minutes before rinsing. Follow with conditioner from the midlengths to the roots. Comb the conditioner through and rinse. Then lightly towel dry and section your hair, spraying the Leave In Treatment onto roots. Give yourself a little head massage, then style as usual.
Final Thoughts: Your Hair, Your Power.
Dull, thinning hair is a part of getting older. However with the right tools and targeted products, hair after 50 can be just as beautiful than ever before. These handpicked products are designed to work with your hair’s changing needs, not against them.
Whether you’re after frizz control, scalp support, volume, or hydration, each of these favourites has earned a permanent spot in my beauty arsenal.
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