Frequent backcombing is not recommended for people who want to maintain long hair.

I hear Jennifer's voice calling and my hand reaches for the mirror: let the backcombing begin."

Backcombing, braiding, and twisting are some of the different techniques used to form dreadlocks.

Various methods are used to encourage the formation of locks such as backcombing, braiding and rolling.

Cue cutting in loads of layers and a spot of backcombing.

There is also a free ‘top tips’ version of the app, which focuses on Hollywood waves, the perfect ponytail and backcombing.

A humble ponytail becomes an up-do with a little judicious backcombing around the crown.

Those who hung on to their Winehouse wigs from last year are well placed: keep the backcombing but straighten the beehive a little.

Jean was saying, 'II could be the steam treatment but I think it's the backcombing.'

Because backcombing rubs against the scales of the hair's cuticle, it can cause serious and progressive damage to the hair's integrity.

This week Sarah Palin met Donald Trump to discuss backcombing, sorry, politics.

For gentle backcombing and tousling, Alan used the Denman Vent brush.

No more backcombing and certainly no more steam until it grows back into a soft texture.' '

Forties is more complicated with plenty of barrel curls, while Fifties hair is high with lots of backcombing.

“More backcombing!”

LOréal's Modeling Fluid Control was applied to achieve the smoothest finish, with a change of parting and a little backcombing adding versatility.

Backcombing (also known as teasing or ratting) is a way of combing hair which is used to create volume as well as to create certain hairstyles.

Raf Simons at Jil Sander showed severe chignons and backcombing, topped with a faux pillbox hat complete with net veil.

(More, including the BACKCOMBING.)

Photograph: Teri Pengilley/Teri Pengilley (commissioned) Every time I was struggling, the answer was "more backcombing!"

A-line skirts, peacoats, ballet pumps, tunics, psychedelic Pucci-esque prints, optical and geometrical ones, minidresses, block colours, monochrome, flicky eyeliner and backcombing have all become style staples.

Then leave an inch of your hair at the front (this will cover over the backcombing) and start backcombing the rest of your hair, taking it a section at a time.

This was the hardest technique to master: I'd always thought backcombing was invented around the time Tina Turner first topped the charts, but it turns out to be vital for creating the volume and solidity to pull off a wartime hairdo.

Styling of punk and alternative big hair styles often requires backcombing (teasing) and the liberal application of styling aids such as hair spray and hair gel, often in combination with the use of hair dryers.

Next, Palau parted the hair - so far along that it mimicked bangs - then used the brand's Powder Refresh 01 Dry Shampoo, and Quick Tease 15 Backcombing Finishing Spray at the root, to add ample texture and lift.