How To Blow Dry My Hair Wavy

When trying to decide what to mail on new year's day'due south eve, we thought a proficient ole way "how-to" beauty post would do the pull a fast one on. Hopefully, this will come in handy tonight and so that you can ring in the new year with a perfectly blown out do (if that'southward the look you're going for;))

Turns out, I've been blowdrying my hair all incorrect—and not simply does it non expect every bit expert as information technology could, but I've been damaging it. I was recently at my friend Janine Jarman's salon (Hairroin Los Angeles), complaining near how I can never make my hair look good on my own, and convinced that I'll never learn, when she handed me the accident dryer and a castor and said "bear witness me how you practise it." I did and she, horrified, said "I see…yeah. That is all incorrect and now I sympathise why your pilus is and then damaged."

She was really relieved because this is a trouble that we tin solve.

To be off-white my pilus is a challenge and even she admits that. I used to have great long, natural-looking blonde pilus. Then I had two kids and proceeded to bleach and chop it and it'due south never been the same. It's curly (therefore frizzy and fuzzy) and broken (and then I have to be gentle with information technology) and it's actually only shoulder length so while I try to grow it out, I accept extensions. It's also naturally blonde, therefore fine. All of this makes information technology VERY hard for me to blow it out. The extensions are long and straight, my hair is brusk and curly. It'south crawly.

Then to exist clear, yes, I was doing it all wrong, simply my hair is absolutely a challenge.

Here's what I was doing wrong:

I was not using product, did not take the right brush or the right hairdryer (my skilful one broke a while ago and and so Brian picked this cheap guy up at the drugstore).
I was blowing the wrong direction, therefore opening up my cuticle and CREATING frizz.
I was putting the dryer far too close to my hair while information technology was all the same really wet (more frizz and damage).
I had no real order and started in the wrong place.
I was doing it Style too fast, creating more frizz.

Here's what it looked like "earlier" when I was done. I hateful, I don't think it looks that bad, honestly, simply does it expect like I just stepped out of a salon? Uh, no. It was still a little wavy, a little frizzy, not that shiny. Good enough for everyday life, only yeah, nowhere near what a pro could do.

And so yes, the finished product, as you can see, is not bully. Let'south move on to how you are SUPPOSED to exercise information technology:

i. Start, towel dry out as much as possible. In that location is no reason to damage your hair by going direct to the blow dryer with soaking wet pilus. I hear that this pilus towel is great and plainly reduces drying fourth dimension 50%. (When Arlyn was reading through, she said she actually had that towel, and it indeed made her hair dry faster…though she said maybe past like 30% merely she liked it because it was felt calorie-free and not similar a large lumpy heavy towel that was ever flopping effectually on the top of her head).

2. Next, you want to protect your hair with a production. Information technology's not like I oasis't tried this but I honestly didn't know what do use for my hair, how much of it to use and at what point to put information technology in??? Janine gave me just a few sprays of invisible oil primer and told me to piece of work it all throughout the hair, evenly, while information technology is still damp. If you take hair like mine, using something that is heat-protective is central. It will human action as an SPF for your pilus, and protect information technology from the sun and heat (and reduce frizz). I detest my pilus feeling production heavy and so at beginning, I resisted, but using this stuff really made a difference and my hair did non feel weighed down by product at all.

iii. Use a gentle wet brush to brush out your hair. I was but using my other bristle brush and not being NEARLY as gentle equally I should exist. She recommended this one.

iv. Then nosotros added a quarter-sized amount of conditioning straightening balm and applied it evenly throughout my hair (avoiding the scalp, because it will get greasy).

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v. Offset big thing I learned: You Have to offset with bangs. Why? Because they are the nigh important part and information technology'southward best to do them at the commencement before your arms are tired, while you however have the patience and before they get too dry and frizzy. She recommended using this brush, then pull the bangs to one side and accident-dry pointing the accident dryer downwards. Repeat the same motion on the other side.

vi. For my pilus, Janine told me to do a flat wrap where yous use the forehead to help shape and bend bangs. When bangs are almost dry, use a large metal brush, which acts as a curling tool, and pull bangs forward in a circular motion for volume.

7. Before going into sections, rake through hair using hands and blow-dry (always pointing downward) to help get rid of some more moisture so you lot are non spending a million years drying each section.

8. Then motion to the crown using a bristle brush and roll the pilus under and back using SO MUCH TENSION while pointing the accident dryer downwards and towards the back of your head.

HOT TIP: Tension is the key to shiny and frizz-free hair.

ix. As y'all continue, prune sections to absurd. Janine told me to clip it similar in that location is a pretend roller in there. This allows your hair to cool down in that shine shape.

To be honest this is where I started to become REALLY fix for this to exist over. It'due south so much work and as Janine kept telling me "it's non a race," simply I but wanted to be done. My arms were tired. I was tired. But I get it. If I take the fourth dimension, a blowout tin can concluding 3 to iv days then that one/ii hr to forty minutes information technology takes to do it properly is WORTH IT.

10. One time you requite yourself a pep talk to keep going (you've got this), move to the side sections of your hair, making your fashion from front to back. We used the big boar bristle roller castor for smoothness, and and then moved to the metal brush to add together more than style, roll, and move. Angle the brush tool the direction you want your hair to become (if you want your pilus down and smooth, the brush volition need to be curled under your hair, as opposed to just lose like in the top right photo in a higher place).

11. Repeat for the remainder of the sections of your hair.

HOT TIP: the sections you piece of work with should not be bigger than the tool you are using.

To give my hair a little movement, my normal routine is to add some curl with a curling fe until information technology looks overnice and voluminous (I did this even when I was doing everything else and so. wrong.) so that's what we did here at the end. The finished product is a lot shinier, smoother, and healthier looking. And look, NO FRIZZ. You may notice the exhaustion behind my eyes from the effort, but okay fine, it was worth it.

In case y'all forgot what MY technique looks like next to Janine's expert communication, here'southward a side by side of the start finished job side by side to the new and improved blowout:

I kept saying to everyone in the office "are you sure the before is bad enough?" and they all would politely simply laugh and say "yeah, it'southward disarming."

And then, what do you guys think? Did I succeed? Have I just go a adult female who knows how to blow out her pilus? I think so.

We just put upward a video of the process, so go check it out if the photos aren't doing information technology for y'all.

A HUGE thanks to Janine for taking the fourth dimension to testify me the tricks of the merchandise. She is the best and you can check out her salon here.

Happy Saturday and happy new year, folks. xx

Photos past Veronica Crawford for EHD