Blow dry tips???

[newprincesita]

Hi!



I have longish hair, and I don´t really like professional blowouts because they look too prissy, plus I don´t have the time or the patience.

When I blow dry it myself I try not to use a brush, so I can keep some curls, but it goes too flat in no time. I cannot air dry now because it´s kinda chilly now in the southern hemisphere....

I´ve seen people twisting hair in the roots to give it volume, I mean separing it from the scalp, to give it some lift, but I don´t seem to do it right....

Has somebody good tricks on blow-drying to give out?

 

[Plastic'sWife]

yes I have a few that may work for ya:

Blowdry in diff direction all thru out the hair- mostly going 'against' the direction your hair will fall- that is wonderful for voluminous sexy hair.
If you have bangs or even if you dont, blow dry the front sections of your hair forward, when you tilt your head back they will have gorgues volume. Makesure that you lightly mist your hair with hairspray when done so that your shape remains thruout the day. Also, do not apply too much balm or other oily thick products for that will weigh your hair down.

 

[newprincesita]

yes I have a few that may work for ya:

Blowdry in diff direction all thru out the hair- mostly going 'against' the direction your hair will fall- that is wonderful for voluminous sexy hair.
If you have bangs or even if you dont, blow dry the front sections of your hair forward, when you tilt your head back they will have gorgues volume. Makesure that you lightly mist your hair with hairspray when done so that your shape remains thruout the day. Also, do not apply too much balm or other oily thick products for that will weigh your hair down.

Sounds great! Never tried those ones...call me unexperienced...
This trick of blowdrying the front sections forwards makes perfect sense, and the other one of going against the natural fall too....
Can´t wait to try them on

Thanxs Plastic´s

 

[newprincesita]

I thought I migth resucitate this old thread to ask a question. I don´t like the way hair looks when you use too much brushes during the blow-drying, or better yet the way it looks after a nigth of sleep.
How can I achieve that ropey-piecey look without having to go to sleep?

Thanks a lot

 

[satin chic]

Great thread!
I'm definitely going to try what Plastic'sWife suggested. My hair is so thin and flat... Hope it works (at least it seems really logical, so actually it should).

 

[Pink&Glitter]

I like this thread!!!!...any more tips??????

 

[newprincesita]

So many celebrities have their hair nice, bouncy, somehow messy and tousled but it doesn´t look "blow dried" (Kate Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and many many more)
If I let my hair air dry it looks flat in the roots and frizzy at the ends. I definitively need the root lifted!!!

If I blow dry allover my hair the procedure kills my curls and I end up with something like a bad "rachel", because I have a somehow layered cut.

How can I make my ends look interesting, with a slight curl but without being too done????

My roots look better with Plastic´s wife´s advice, but the ends are a total mistery to me. If I use a difuser I get too much curls...

Please, if somebody has tips for blow dry that doesn´t look too done, share.

 

[AriellaV]

When I used to blowdry it all the time, I would part my hair in two sections; the top half and the bottom half. Then from there, I would split it in small enough sections for the blow dryer to cover the hair.

 

[Merrysage]

Consider if your styling products are weighing down your hair. I highly recommend Joico. Work great, don't defeat the purpose of using them and wash out easily.

Another tip for blow drying; hang your head towards the floor and dry that way.

 

[Erin]

Also another tip besides the hair-drying... be sure that you're only applying conditioner to your ends while in the shower... many women do it from the top, and that ends up weighing your hair down when you come to blowdry it.

A tip I CAN offer you on blowdrying is when you believe you're getting near done... clip up the top half layer of your hair... I often discover that, with myself, the bottom is usually still a bit damp, and I want to avoid over-drying my top layer (the most important part!).

 

[incogneato]

great thread! I have been having a terrible hair week, my hair is absolutely flat and shapeless. I am definetaly going to try all your tips!

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

i have the opposite problem. my hair is so thick that it poofs up when i blow dry it. any tips?

 

[newprincesita]

Call me crazy or obsessed withthis thread (I am both) but I´m sure somebody will finally give me the secret I´ve longing for since high school. I´ve improved a lot with the tips I received here, but still I long for THE perfect blow dry I dream of.

I was seeing some clips of Charlotte Gainsbourg for instance this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vN36CwfR0IQ

It´s obvious that her hair has been blown (you can see in the back of the top of the hair a little lift) only obtainable by blowdry, and it has a lot of volume even if she obviously has thin hair (and not a lot of it)

Here´s my obsession: How do you make the ends of your hair look like hers, chunky and ropey (like a day after hair) while, at the same time retaining volume???

P.S: Yes. There was this girl in high school who had hair just like Charlotte´s every single day. And it was not her "natural hair" but obviously styled like that.
Why didn´t I ask her the secret?

 

[adi]

Another tip for blow drying; hang your head towards the floor and dry that way.

i do this all the time, and it works well

 

[MimiMcqueen]

I have very fine and straight hair and it was so hard for me to get that "sexy: volume so, I went over to MUA website (it's an awesome website. try it out) Anyways...most of the gal's there reviewed how great "Got 2 B" Sexy Volume Mousse hair is and OH MAN! It really work's and if you want more volume. Blwo dry your hair upside down. I was soo soo happy when I found this product. I lurve it to death! flat hair is good-bye for moi.

 

[newprincesita]

http://blog.sephora.com/2008/07/oscar-blandis-secret-twirl-technique.html


Do you understarn what this "twirl" technique could be about?

The images show a good result, but they don´t explain the secret...

 

[mousquerader]

^It looks like they blow-dried with a very small round brush and really concentrated on the ends. I'm guessing the twirl technique is kind of like that but they try to wrap chunks of hair around fingers (because that lady has short hair and fingers are the smallest hair tools I can think of).

 

[cosy13]

so im no blow drying wizard by any means but i've picked up a few little tricks-
i part my hair down the middle, and pin both sections of the top layers of hair up... then i blow dry until the lower layer is dry- i use a paddle brush and kind of brush it around...
then i pull the top layer down and swish it all to one side- like a crazy side part, and dry like that, then push that top layer all forward dry for a bit, push it to the other side and its just about dry... that way the hair gets more body from multiple directions...
i smooth out a few face framing layers with my hair iron and then put a bumble and bumble product on the ends to give it a more pieces slept in look... hope this helps a few people!

 

[Strawberry_]

so im no blow drying wizard by any means but i've picked up a few little tricks-
i part my hair down the middle, and pin both sections of the top layers of hair up... then i blow dry until the lower layer is dry- i use a paddle brush and kind of brush it around...
then i pull the top layer down and swish it all to one side- like a crazy side part, and dry like that, then push that top layer all forward dry for a bit, push it to the other side and its just about dry... that way the hair gets more body from multiple directions...
i smooth out a few face framing layers with my hair iron and then put a bumble and bumble product on the ends to give it a more pieces slept in look... hope this helps a few people!

thats very similar to how my hair stylist does it

 

[superbeautiful]

I'm horrible at blow drying. Whenever I get a hair-cut, the stylist blow drys my hair in 20 minutes and leaves my hair all fun and bouncy but when I try to do it all I get is dry frazzled hair. I always closely observe the stylist when she's blowdry's my hair but no matter what I try I can't even get close to the results. Maybe it's the product...