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hi there today I'm going to show you how
I like to do my blow dry this looks
better and better each day after you do
the blow dry and I've discovered a great
value for the blow dryer itself this is
an incredible blow dryer and it helps me
achieve a really beautiful look this
dryer has some really cool features that
help me maintain my hair health and get
the best outcome when I'm doing my blow
dry that will last me for days starting
with damp dry hair I'm going to use my
blow dryer on the cool setting and it's
really cool cuz you can turn this dryer
up all the way or you can turn it down
I'm going to use it on full blast it's
very very powerful to dry the roots for
a minute or two I'm going to just use it
on cool this dryer has different
settings which means that I can control
how I use it I'm going to press the
button on the front and turn it to
medium or turn it all the way up to hot
which is what I like to use when I'm
doing my roots I'm taking my fingers and
I'm creating a little bit of tension
when your hair isn't naturally straight
the roots are the dead giveaway to the
fact that your hair isn't naturally
smooth and silky so it's really
important to pay attention to your roots
I'm creating a little bit of tension to
actually straighten the roots and make
them look really
smooth when I started to learn more
about hair I realized that the ends are
way more porous so it's important to dry
your roots first so that you don't over
dry your ends because they're more
porous so they dry much much quicker I
added some heat protectant to my hair to
protect it from the Heat and keep it
healthy and now I'm going to do a little
bit of a glaze with the heat setting and
make sure that that product coats my
hair and
activates now we truly begin sectioning
the bottom of my hair I'm going to move
it into two parts and it's really
important that you work with small
sections and detangle the hair before
you use your round brush I'm taking my
round brush and I'm putting it right up
under my roots and then holding it there
securely taking my melody Susie dryer
with the attachment that it comes with
and I'm I'm going to start smoothing the
hair over the round brush and pulling
down the key to a really good blow dry
is smoothing the roots and the mid shaft
of the hair before you even think about
addressing the ends while you're holding
the blow dryer hooking the hair with
your middle finger is going to allow you
to keep blow drying keep using the blow
dryer without having to put it down
which makes all of this way more
manageable once the hair is still silky
from the root to the mid shaft then I'll
start twisting the brush and smoothing
the ends which because they're super
porous which means the hair is going to
dry quicker it's much more malleable
it's very very easy to smooth it out and
I use it on the cool setting before I
turn off the blow dryer which is going
to help me out a lot in terms of making
this last with this hair dryer being
super high-powered it is going to dry my
hair so much quicker which is amazing
once I get the section done then I wrap
it with two fingers and clip it with a
pin it's also important to note that
this blow dryer has a lot of negative
ions that it emits so it gives the hair
a silky smooth effect especially
important when you have really coarse
hair I'm detangling each section as I
lay it down it's really important that
there's no tangle one rule of thumb for
hair health is that you should never use
your round brush to detangle so always
keep a brush handy for that purpose this
blow dryer has custom speeds and you can
use the different speeds of air to
smooth your hair and the different heat
settings to determine what you need for
each section you may just use it on the
same Heat and the same speed for me
being mixed race means that I have a
bunch of different hair textures on my
head some of my hair is very very coarse
and then some areas are very fine so I
like to change the heat setting and I
like to change the speed of the actual
air itself based on that and based on
what area I'm doing because the fine
hair on my head doesn't need full blast
and it doesn't need full heat but it's
really amazing to have a dryer that can
really smooth the coarsest areas of my
hair very quickly this whole process can
take about 20 minutes and it's amazing
what it does when you use that cool
setting you can really get your style
and your blow dry to age very well over
the next 3 4 days and if your hair isn't
very oily when you first do it the way
that the oil from your scalp kind of
travels down the hair makes the hair
look smoother and silkier and more
glossy as you get to day three day four
day five now the most impactful part of
your blow dry is going to be the top of
your head and so I like to do a lot of
volume here I smooth out the roots and
then I section the hair into two and I
make sure that all of it is very very
smooth and the less smooth that you try
to make your roots the more volume
you're going to get so it's a very fine
line between making sure it's not curly
but giving it a little bit more texture
so that you get the bounce and the
volume that you want I highly recommend
this dryer this is the first ever dryer
where it isn't a notched speed so it's
not like high medium low that type of
dryer it has a very customized way of
allowing you to roll the speed up or
down so I love protecting my hair using
that method and smoothing it out that
way it's really awesome I finished up my
pin curls with some hairspray and now
I'm going to use the blow dryer with the
cool setting on a low speed which is
going to Fast Track the hair to be set
and cooled down so that when you take
out the curls they don't fall flat this
is a really important step and as I take
out each pin it's very very smooth and
lovely however there's something that I
love which is a messy beautiful big
voluminous FL dry so I always Whip My
Hair around I mess it up a little bit
cuz I just love the movement and like I
said earlier this blow dry ages so well
so the first day it's really big and
bouncy and beautiful and it actually
becomes more orderly and more curled and
smoothed as I wear it throughout the
week check out this melody Suzie dryer
I'm going to leave a link below it is
absolutely wonderful