One-Step Styler Blowout Tips: Soft Curls Edition
One-step styler, blow dryer brush, hot air brush… whatever you want to call it. Here’s a few tips to help you get a salon quality blowout at home the next time you use yours.
1. I strongly recommend always using a heat protector with any hot tool, but if you are going to use a brush like this PLEASE do your hair a favor and prep it with a heat protector. Your hair is directly up against the hot brush.
2. DON’T AIR DRY. The problem 99% of the time is that the hair has already dried in whatever undesirable state and then you go in and try to manipulate it and now it just won’t go. The hair needs to be fully wet, not just damp, for you to be able to control any kinds of cowlicks, growth patterns, waves, or curls. If you get too dry just re-wet with a spray bottle of water and start again. Your best chance at controlling anything is taking it from fully wet to fully dry in the state you want it to be. It will stay in the new state until it gets wet again.
3. Always use it on the LOW setting. Honestly, using it on HIGH is just way too much…even with heat protection. Again, it’s right up against the hair. It can’t get any closer. Too much heat will compromise the hair, and make this not a sustainable method of styling for you for much longer if you get my drift. It gives you more time to work with the hair and really use your other hand to get it smooth.
4. The front is the most important, and the finest, the quickest-drying hair on your whole head, and where it tends to grow in multiple directions. Start there, and spend a good amount of time on it. Don’t move on to the rest of the blowout until that part is done. I usually take about a 2″ wide vertical “headband” section all along my front hairline from one ear to the other. Then take a horizontal section across the back of the head and work your way from the bottom up. Then to the crown, and then your last section is the top of the head in front of the crown and behind that very first section.
5. The top of each section (closest to the scalp) will always be more dense and therefor hold more water than the ends of the hair. The same amount of passes with the brush all the way through would crisp up your ends before the top is even dry. I suggest passing the brush through the top half of the section a few time before you run it down the full length of your hair to the ends.
6. Make sure you roll the brush at the ends and never just pull straight down because you don’t want to take out the curls you just worked so hard to put in. A good blowout is always polished on the ends, that’s what really finishes it. Try to keep the tension on the section all the way down and roll the brush a few times at the very tips to make sure that all the hair gets pulled through the bristles and roll back up towards the scalp… try to keep it moving and not sitting in the same position right up against the hair for too long.
So the flow of my blowout goes like —->>>: (Front Headband- then Back- middle layer- then top layer- then rough dry (on low to make sure it’s 100% dry)- then rough dry (on cool)- to finish.) Annnnd done!
Hope these tips help. Wishing you good hair days everyday! Xo
I love this HOT TOOLS PRO SIGNATURE Detachable One -Step Hair Brush and Dryer . It comes in a bunch of sizes. Bonus: you can use it without the brush attachment on. I always end with a rough dry. Finish with an overall cool rough dry. And done. One Step, no curling iron needed.
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