I agree with mixed beauty i backcomb all the time and my roots are not damaged. Also my mom’s generation were all about this style and her hair was down to her knees, strong and silky.
Here are some pictures of my different backcombing styles through the years. I have very silky hair so curls don’t last all night (unless i spray tons of hairspray and i’m not up for that crunchy feel). In the collage picture to the far left you can see i used the hollywood bump-its and clipped my hair half up however as long as you backcomb the base where the bumpit will sit and hairspray it you should be fine. My hair being silky backcombs don’t last all night but bumpits prevents that, kept it’s shape all night and is fine to dance with (used it for a friend’s engagement). It was the easiest way i’ve found to create this look, normally i have to rest my hands bc i’m so tired of teasing and with this it was really easy, no resting needed.
The middle two were for weddings and you can see the shape difference. the two on the left have a nice curved look to it where the 2 on the right have an anthill like look to it. A bit conehead like, I am not fond of that. So if you are backcombing always remember to provide not only enough height but enough support for the sides of the crown. Once again bumpits makes it super easy to keep the right shape. The reason for the anthill is because most of us don’t tie our hair back every day. So naturally the sides of our hair is used to being parted and are prone to falling on the side that it’s normally parted on. so pay extra attention to that part of the hair.
this was my favorite. I got the idea from a youtube video and i’ll try to look for it. However I was playing around with looks for my halloween costume. That’s all my real hair, not hairballs or bumpits for support however in pakistan you can get some great hairball inserts that work similarly to bumpits so why not?
Anyhow getting a teasing comb like this was great because the metal wider teeth is what’s used to smooth the look. (you tease your hair so it looks like a birds nest reserving a thin layer over hair to go over the nest. however you still get a few crazy hairs that need to be smoothed down andyou can use hairspray, a hot curling iron to kinda brush over the top and force to sit and the wider teeth). Also i used a technique where I parted my crown area (where the braid is) and I used a 1inch curling iron to curl a little hill per se and sprayed with hairspray that was going to be crunchy and strong freeze hold. I then waited for it to cool and teased that. The curling iron helped get that bump shape. I then secured a clip to the back of it and sprayed the top part of my hair with dove. Then I removed it and it kept my hair in place all night. Because my hair is used to be side parted i’ve found when I created the shape i wanted and put a clip in and sprayed more of it the hair **was trained to stay in that shape without needing the support of the clip keeping it in place. **
Anyhow i’ll try to find that youtube video and i wish you ladies lots of luck because I love this look and have bee doing it since 03 for special occasions here adn there and on a normal basis a slightly baccomb according to my parted hair bc my hair is really flat and when you have big cheeks flat hair just makes u look fat.