Blow Drying

Tools and Product List:

• hair dryer with nozzle
• hair mousse
• paddle brush
• round brushes
• pin tail comb
• sectioning clips
• cape
• heat protection spray
• sea salt spray
• denman brush

General points about blow drying

• before the blow dry wash the hair and comb hair with a large comb( afro comb) thoroughly->will reduce the trauma on the hair
• before you start look at the hair type: is it coloured?, dry?, broken/damaged?,...; do a consultation with your client/model and know which products you have to use
• blow dry(just blasting) until 80% of the hair is dry (semi- dry hair)-> only then you start the proper blow dry
• add products into hair; don'z add them into soaking wet hair
• apply heat protection
• you can use hair mousse but pay attention that it is not the sticky kind of mousse
• don't apply too much of the products into the roots because otherwise they will become greasy
• you can also apply a small amount of sea salt spray into the ends
• clean your hands before you start the blow dry
• make sure the back of the hair dryer has a filter on!!, otherwise hair can get stuck in there
• nozzle on hair dryer-> the nozzle is important  for the direction of the air flow
• don't put the hair dryer between your legs!, put it into a holder of a trolley or put it aside

Sleek Blow Dry:

Steps:

• make sure your sections are straight
• put in mousse before you start
• you can use a paddle brush or denman brush-> denman brush will give a little bit of a lift
• hold your thumb on top of the hair and slide down the brush
• for the side sections go slightly into the face
• flick at the ends?-> flick up the ends while going through with the brush
• don't put new (wet) sections onto finished dry sections
• make sure the hair is really dry otherwise the blow dry will collapse
• after the hair is completely dry dress it out
• if you want to have more of a lift even though your are doing a sleek blow dry , you can use one of the round brushes for the roots and finish  the blow dry off with the paddle or denman brush
• for my sleek blow dry I used a paddle brush as my model had long hair and it just made it easier
• I started from the back and worked up to the top of the head and then went over to the sides
• I also decided on a slight side parting

Volume/Curling Blow Dry:

Steps:

• if the person you are working on has a fringe, dry the fringe first
• start at the back-> section off the crown area into a u-shape as you don't want to see where the sections were later
• section off the sides as well
• then section off another u-shaped section
• use the round brushes; larger brush->bigger volume/lift/curl
• we want to achieve a lift and curl
• check that the nozzle is in the right position
• power/heat on high; if you have someone with damaged hair use high power and medium heat setting
• take a section and lift it up high
• always start with the roots-> angle hairbrush and hold hair dryer in a certain angle->sketch for that in the notebook
• keep going into the roots with the brush a few times to get a nice lift
• when done with roots and mid length(everything has to be dry) ,dry the ends->curls won't need as much drying time
• for doing the curls use the round brush like a tong
• roll in the hair and heat it up with the blow dryer
• roll out the brush
• set the curls with gribs if necessary
• also remember that the hair sections should always be brush size
• upper u-section-> heat up the roots from underneath and above
• if you want to backcomb the curls later use dry shampoo instead of hairspray as the hairspray can be too heavy and will ruin the curls
• use hairspray for the ends and don't spray from too close

-> during this lesson I realized that blow drying, even the sleek blow dry, is not as easy as I imagined :)

-> unfortunately I only managed to do the sleek blow dry during the lesson so I need to do the volume and curl blow dry at some point at home

->and even though the sleek blow dry is not too complicated I should practice it as well as I kept forgetting certain steps while doing it, I forgot for example to add the mousse before I started and I need to work on my sectioning and keep them really clean and straight the next time