What did I tell you?

Several weeks ago I wrote about flatiron addiction and today when I catching up with some of my favorite blogs I found an this article on Bellasugar. It's from the American Academy of Dermatologists. Do trust your friendly Hair Girl here, I won't steer you wrong.

Blow-drying

The tools needed for a good blow-dry

1.Products:

-Kevin Murphy Staying Alive Leave in conditioner

-Kevin Murphy Anti Gravity Volumiser

2. Good Blow-dryer like the Chi Rocket

You need heat and tension for a smooth blowdry.

Read my post on Blowdryers for some more good ones.

3. Brush; mine is an Aveda ceramic brush. I like ceramic brushes because they heat up and that helps smooth the hair

4. Something to clip up sections of the hair.

I section my hair into 2 sections front and back and I work from bottom to top. If you do it this way, you don't have to clip up what you've already done.

The finer the hair the thicker the sections can be. If you have really coarse hair you're going to want to take pretty thin sections so you can get all they way to the root.

I do the front first because it's most important (also, if you get tired on the back it's doesn't matter as much).

If you want more volume at the top then have the hair cool

down around rollers.

I love velcro rollers (avaliable at target or any beauty supply) because you don't need clips to hold them in and they don't leave marks in the hair.

There you go a quick smooth blowdry.

Curling with a Flat Iron

You need a smaller flat iron with rounded edges on the plates. I don't usually curl hair with mine because I just use a curling iron. But if all you have is your flat iron you can still curl your hair. I snagged this from youtube because it's a really good demo on how to do it.

Blow Dryers

A question I get asked often is does the kind of blow dryer really matter? YES! Well unless you don't mind spending 30+ min blowing out your hair. With all the new technology out there be it nano, ionic or tourmaline they cut down the drying time in some cases by half. I will tell you what I use as a professional and then list some of the other tops according to my internet friends.
The Chi Rocket is what I was using in salon until a few weeks ago when mine broke apart. I really like this blow dryer, but I think it's really not made for heavy use i.e. all day everyday.

Now I've switched to FHI Heat and I'm really liking it. It's super light weight and dries really well.

Last, for the good yet inexpensive dryers we have the Infiniti by Conair Professional Tourmaline Ionic Styler Dryer


And the Revlon Tourmaline Ionic