How To Give or Get The Perfect Blowout !
Time Required: 15-30 minutes, depending on length and thickness of hair
Steps:
1. Start with freshly-washed hair.
If you have dry hair, condition in the shower. If you have fine hair, condition only the ends. Blot hair — never rub — with a towel to get rid of excess moisture. You can’t do a blowout with super wet hair or it will take forever. To keep your blow-out intact over several days, make sure to rinse hair thoroughly after you wash to get out any conditioner residue.
2. Apply product to towel-dried hair.
A good styling product is key to the perfect blowout. It adds body to fine, limp hair, while women with thick, curly hair need to keep the frizzies at bay. Plus, products actually keep hair from getting oily. Spritz damp locks with a volumnizer spray or mousse before blowing hair dry.The secret is to coat every strand of hair with product.
3. If you have dry hair, work in a leave-in conditioner, a straightening balm or shine serum.
Start by coating the ends, working your way up the hair shaft. Finish by combing the product through hair.
4. If you have flat, limp hair, spritz a thickening spray or work in a mousse. Stay away from gels.
5. Break out the blowdryer.
If hair is still pretty wet, use a dryer to remove excess moisture before you start the blowdry or let hair airdry for a few minutes.
6. Separate hair into 4 sections.
Divide combed hair into sections (front, back, right and left sides) and secure with clips or ponytail holders. I find winding hair into mini buns — two in the back and one on each side — works best. If you have super thick or heavy hair, try dividing each of your sections. One above the other helps manage the blowout. Leave out a section to start with.
7. Stylists know the secret to the perfect blowout is to start with your fingers.
Pull your fingers through hair starting at the roots. Pull hair out a few inches and hold it while you use the dryer to shoot air at the crown on down. “A brush can only get so close in,” says Manhattan stylist David Dieguez, in the July 2007 issue of Lucky Magazine. Dieguez suggests holding hair super taut, “otherwise, moisture stays in the hair shaft and frizzes it up.”
8. Move on the round brush.
Now that your roots are dry, it’s time to move on to a round-barreled brush (Ken Paves prefers a “mixed-bristle brush” — a mix of boar and synthetic bristles). Pull the brush through hair as you blowdry, pointing the nozzle downward onto hair (this supposedly helps with frizz). Celebrity stylist Ken Paves likes to start with the ends, because they tend to dry fastest.
9. As you pull the brush through hair, follow the brush with the dryer.
I love Dieguez’s tip in Lucky, “Imagine there’s a point six inches in front of your nose. Stretch the hair toward that point as you dry. It sounds crazy, but when you’re done, the tips won’t flip under or up — they’ll just sort of fan out over your shoulders.”
10. Lock in style with the “cool button.”
The last step for each section is to pull hair taut with the brush and blast it with cool air from your dryer. You can also each dried section up in a Velcro roller.
11. Continue through all sections until hair is dry.
12. Finish off with a serum.
Shampoo-Out of Africa
I misread the article title 3 times! That gal in the picture looks like she’s having a great orgasm.
Semen, Serum its all good! LOL Of course substances can substitute as hair gel or semen er serum.
The infamous “hair gel” scene
Anyone want to collaborate on a shampoo that both cleans, builds body and finishes with a great orgasm?? Our “IDEAS” are commodities and as such are known as “Inventions”! I bet you didn’t know that! You are an Inventor and you never knew that! So just submit your entire business plan, personal information and financial history to our “Global Brain” at marisasung@gmail.com! Don’t call us, we’ll call you if we see a suitable fit! 🙂
Larry the Inventor
I will call you Larry, Anonymous! Who are you anyway? An idea of a person or an actual idea that has been implemented to create a useful commodity? I really don’t know because you are Anonymous, Anonymous! Your phone doesn’t ring because I am calling? so I guess using that same logic you don’t exist because I am responding to your comment. 🙁
We are now officially divorced as we were never married! 🙂
OK, call me Larry….but I’m really not that abrasive. I can generate ideas and implement….given the right circumstances. Ha
What? No medical history required? Are you lowering your standards? My phone isn’t ringing….must be you.
Medical History is only required for potential sex partner(s) not potential business partners. You should really know the procedure by now. You must be an IDEAS man but not an INVENTOR! Or an IDEAS man who steals INVENTIONS from others but in fact believes that those INVENTIONS are your own! 🙂
Another thing, I never call men they call me! So yeah, I guess that is me not ringing your phone (whatever that means.)
I like these cheap divorces! No sense making a lawyer rich. Hey….there’s another idea…a red button on the kitchen wall that implements divorce when pushed. Or is that an invention? And how do I know you’re not real? OK…it’s a ghost standoff.
Maybe I am a Venture Capitalist and maybe I have Bill Lions (Gate?) laying around looking for an Ideas Woman? We all need to dream.
Why the 10 year Marriage Licence? Where I reside, they only give you 5 years for a Drivers Licence! It’s easier to lose marriage skills than it is to lose driving skills, but both could result in accidents.
Hit me with your best shot……
I know right?? I have divorced many men who I never married in the first place! I think I am on to a another great IDEA! Check out the 10 Year Marriage License by Nancy Lee! I am still trying to produce “The Invisible Fence For Men” I wish you were a Venture Capitalist with Bill Ions of Dollars in Reserve Funding so that we could raise the money to IMPLEMENT these IDEAS and turn them into actual INVENTIONS! Believe it or not, I am full of IDEAS as I am an IDEAS woman with the IMPLEMENTATION Business Plan but I am lacking the FUNDING for the INVENTION! 🙂
Check out “The 10 Year Marriage License” Article by NancyLee
http://www.asiancemagazine.com/node/9097
Curb Your Enthusiasm – The Larry David Sandwich
I always wanted to serve people sandwiches based on their personality type with the proper presentation. I started making faces on them with olives and/or pickles for my extended family=they were not amused at all! For instance, if you are gold digger, you get a lot of Russian Dressing, if you are “Anonymous” you get a sandwich with nothing on it, if you are White and a Cold Fish from Rye, NY you get cold White Fish on Rye, you get my drift! 🙂
BTW Hillary Latos invented the convertible shoe with the screw on heel! Jour Nuit, check it out on her blog! She is an INVENTOR! The shoes are gorgeous and celebrities wear them on the Red Carpet! 🙂