How I Blowout my Hair Straight with curled in ends.

Hello and welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel. So today as part of my hair care series I've decided to finally show you how I've been blow drying my hair. I learned to do this about four or five months ago. It's taken a lot of practice but I finally kind of got to a place where I can style it like pretty good. This is just how I blow dry it straight with flicked under ends. It's kind of inspired by a lot of 90s hairstyles, specifically Cher Horowitz from Clueless. She has the most gorgeous hair ever. So I tried to kind of replicate that with this blow drying technique. I'm not a professional, I'm not a hairstylist, but this is just what I do. I also have a few tips that I've got from a hairdresser and just generally a few things that I've not heard other people talk about when showing their hair blow drying routines. I'm going to be as thorough as I can in this video, so this is not just going to be a quick how-to. I want to give you as much information as possible so that you can do it correctly. I first need to make a disclaimer because I know that a few people that may have been watching my hair journey for a long time may pick me up on this. You guys will know that I've spent many years on various different healthy hair journeys and I went so many years without using heat at all. I was very much against heat and this was in an attempt to improve the quality of my hair. The reality was it still was dry, it still got split ends and snapped and broke off and no matter how much care I took of my hair over all of these years, it still looks like this when it air dries naturally. Unless I'm doing the curly girl method but as you know I quit that. I feel like I had to say that because a lot of people think I'm contradicting myself whenever I use heat on my hair because I'm obviously so healthy hair focused. People are like why are you using heat on it then? You're just ruining your hair but the truth is I just don't want to look like that anymore. I am willing to make the sacrifice to use a bit of heat on my hair and get a bit of heat damage if it means that my hair can look nice and that I can enjoy it more. So that's my two pence on that. So before we get on to the actual tutorial I'm going to give you a few tips and tricks to know before you get started. If you are a complete beginner you need to know that this is really difficult. It is going to be frustrating, it's going to be really hard, it's going to take you a long time to perfect it. It would take me like 45 minutes to an hour when I first started blow-drying my hair and I would get so frustrated with it. It was just a mess and a nightmare. It's a skill and you have to practice and the more you practice the better you will get at it so please don't get upset with yourself or frustrated if you can't do it because you will if you just keep practicing you will get there. Also you'll need to know that your arms are going to hurt, your thumbs are going to hurt, your wrists are going to hurt, your arms are in the air for like 45 minutes but all of this will go away once you get used to it. You will need obviously a hairdryer with a nozzle. The better quality your hairdryer is the better your hair will come out. A round brush. This is a copper plated one. This basically conducts heat really well so it helps to style your hair with the brush as well as the heat coming from the hairdryer but there is a big tip that I'm going to tell you about round brushes in a minute. You will also need lots and lots of clips and claws. Believe me you need these otherwise it's just going to be a hot mess. You have to clip up the sections of your hair that you're not blow-drying because otherwise it's just going to go everywhere and you're going to just end up with a big frizzy puffy mess. Claw clips are great. Also these like flat ones are really great for just swooping sections out of the way. Heat protectant goes without saying. You can also optionally use like styling products and like styling creams and you know things like serum for afterwards and hair spray optional but it will help the style look better after. Another optional thing is little hair rollers. I'll show you how to use these or how I use them to help create the curls in my hair. You will also need space in front of you because you will be putting the hairdryer down constantly. It's so annoying. I know it feels really awkward to keep doing it but obviously at the hairdressers they never have to put this down. They just do it all bang bang bang bang bang. With your own hair it's quite a different story. Some people have perfected like obviously doing it and then rolling it around the nozzle of the thing and then doing it like this but I just can't do it. Okay so that thing I said about round brushes. I love this brush but I also hate it because my hair gets stuck in this little groove so much where obviously the handle meets the barrel. There's like a little groove that is literally the width of a hair and perfectly gets like a single strand of hair stuck in there like every time. I wish they would design this better. Please Babalist. Please don't. Little screws. Sometimes my hair gets stuck on there. So if you're going to invest in a round brush just look for one that's completely smooth all the way down. There's no grooves or anything that your hair can get stuck in because it is the bane of my life especially for a beginner. It's a pain in the backside so don't buy this one because your hair will get stuck. If you're a complete beginner the bigger the brush is the easier it's going to be. You can get like big massive ones. It will be much easier to blow dry your hair straight with a big one. This size is perfect for this particular style because I like to bend in my hair at the bottom. Basically the smaller you go with the round brush the more bends and like curls and stuff you can create but I find this medium size works fine. Right. Angles. This is a tip that I got from my hairdresser and it's really important because this is the difference between damaging your hair and doing it correctly okay. The angle that you want when you are doing your hair is this. You want the nozzle to be one or two centimetres away from the hair. Do not touch it on your hair. This is how you damage and burn your hair because it's very hot coming out of it. You don't want to be touching your hair as you're going down. You want to keep like at least a one or two centimetre distance from your hair and the nozzle. Also you don't want it to be on the barrel like this. You want it to be at a slight angle so it's just directing off the barrel like just hitting off the barrel on that hair that's on the end there. You'll know if you're doing it right because you hear this like noise and that's the noise you want to hear because that means you've got just the right angle and the air is like going through the holes. I don't know how it works but that's that's what my hairdresser told me okay. That's what you want okay. Not this. Not this. Not this. This. Got it? Good. The only time that I will touch the actual hair is if I'm doing a cold shot of air because then obviously it's not going to damage your hair. Also if you ever see me doing that it's because it's on cold. I'm not going to put this hot air straight on my hair. This is another reason I hate using straighteners. They scare the bejesus out of me because I just don't like the thought that my hair is being pressed together by these two scalding hot plates. It just doesn't... I don't know. One other thing to mention depending on your nozzle. I only realised this recently but my nozzle is slightly slanted that way so you could like turn it round and now it's slanted down that way. Do you see what I mean? Not all nozzles are angled but if it is just pay attention to which way it's pointing because it can affect the air flow and the results of your hair. Okay so now that those key tips are out the way let's get on with the tutorial and how I do this. Before you start drying your hair is the time you want to put in your products. I never used to do this but I've started doing it and I find that I get better results when I do. So first I'm going to use this Aveda Damage Ready. My grandma gave me this. It's just for repairing hair and it's also a heat protectant at the same time and also I've made sure that my hair is already detangled. Next I'm going to put in my volume mousse. I've only recently started using this and it pretty much changes the hair game. My hair looks so much thicker it just lifts it at the root a little bit. I don't use this every time but if I want my hair to look extra scrumptious I will use a root lifting mousse. Let it poof up a bit and I get this just all evenly over my roots. A bit more at the back. You can put this all the way to your ends but I prefer not to just because it can, I don't know, it can make your hair feel a bit rougher and I want as soft hair as possible so I just put it on my roots and you have to make sure your hair is wet when you put that on. And lastly I'm going to put on some kind of heat protectant or styling cream. I sometimes use this one by Kiehl's. It's a smoothing straightening cream and just makes your hair look smoother. It's got lots of silicone in it but today I'm going to use my pure silicone spray. I don't use this all the time because it's literally pure silicone. I did a video all about silicones. I'll leave it up here. Make sure you check it out at some point or just subscribe so you can come back and watch it later and you can get this for 15% off I believe in the description. I've got an affiliate link, not sponsored, and a little bit goes a long way so I try not to use too much. If you use too much it can make your hair look really like just not good. Helps protect the hair and it also makes it really manageable, super smooth and glossy and just basically like Barbie hair. Obviously that's a lot of styling products to put on your hair before you've even started but again I don't use all three of them all the time. I just wanted to show you all of them today. Now my hair is all prepped I'm gonna roughly blow dry. Usually I do it without the nozzle because it just is quicker and I will just make sure that I dry it all in a downward motion which will just help with the frizz and will help with the straightening style. And then when I'm drying my roots I lift my hair up and kind of dry it up so that I can get a bit more lift and volume at the roots. Okay so now my hair is about like I'd say 80% dry. It's still like a slightly bit damp to touch. That's where I want it. I start with the bottom. I'm gonna clip all the rest of my hair up and then I split it again into two sections straight down the back and whichever section I'm starting on first I will clip up the other section. Trust me it just makes it so much easier. So I'm gonna make sure this is already detangled before I start. I'm gonna split it in two again. I feel like you can't see me very well with this t-shirt. Maybe I should change tops. Maybe black was a bad idea. I'll be back. I like to start at the back because it's just easier for me and whatever side of the hair that I am blow drying that's the hand that the hairdryer will be in. It's just the way that works easiest for me. You might find it a different way but I'm pretty sure this is the easiest way. So you've got to get used to using both hands for both tools. So since this will be laying at the back of my hair it needs to flick in this way. So from here it will be in this way because from the back it will be in. But to start off I will just focus at the roots get them nice and dry and then I will start going down and I'll do about three or four passes and on the last couple I'll make sure that it's really going in the correct direction for the flip. And then you can see I'm rolling the brush up and down and just continuing to roll it back up again to really make sure that that flick is going to be set in there and heated. Okay now either I would set it with a cold shot or if I want to make sure it's really defined I will just roll it up in a little roller. Doesn't have to be super perfect but just while I do the rest of my hair so that that can kind of set and cool down and then the little flick or the little bounce that you've added will just be a little bit better. And then I'm going to move over to the next section and now I'm going to move on to the other side. And here I'm just cooling down the rollers with the cold air button and this is just to speed up the process because I wouldn't roll my whole head I just do a few sections at a time leave them in the roller for a few minutes and then usually take them out. Okay and there's our first under layer of little flipped in. So now when I'm moving on to the next layer I just throw it all to the back and then whichever hair I'm working on I bring forward so that you don't end up blowing the same section twice. But yeah so I'm now going to separate like the top the very top crown of my head because I will do that last and again I'll start from the back clip the rest of this side up somewhere and we're basically just going to do the same as what we did at the bottom. I like to get it in the brush first where I want it to be and then I'll pick up the hairdryer because otherwise it just gets really fiddly so I just find it easier to just put the hairdryer down get your brush where you want it to be make sure it's at the right angle pick up your hairdryer and then get going and move on to the other sections. Sometimes if I've taken too small of a layer at the bottom I'll end up with like quite a tall section in the middle and I could either just rectify that by putting the brush like this and drying it like this or I could split this in two and dry it from the top like that but I think to save time I'm just going to try and dry it with the brush like this. Sometimes it flicks the wrong way if it's doing that I just go back over it and try and flip it in but it's usually because the hairs were just not laying properly on the brush. Okay there we go now sometimes I'll just leave it like this I wouldn't bother like putting rollers in every time because it does take a bit longer I would just go in with a cold shot if I wanted to make sure it was really nice and smooth sometimes if I've really pressed for time I'll just leave it at that but it does mean that it will maybe frizz up after a few hours. I want it to look super nice today so I'm going to make an effort and roll my sections. It can be a little bit annoying because then when you're doing other sections you can accidentally pick up bits of hair that's already in the roller and it can get a bit messy but that's just the nature of doing hair. Moving on okay so we can see it's starting to come together the last section to do is the top. This is the most important bit because this is the bit that everyone sees because it lays on top of your head so again I'm going to start at the back and this is probably like the hardest bit to do. I take my section I'm going to get this bit out the way now admittedly this section is probably too wide but I honestly can't be bothered to go any narrower because it just takes forever so I just try and make it work honestly. The back is different because I'm going to dry it upwards you'll see what I mean in a minute so first of all I'm going to make sure it's tangle free then I'm going to place my brush where I need it to be right under like that and this is the weird bit I'm going to basically over direct it upwards because I want some volume at the crown. I'm going to take my hair dryer like this which looks like a super awkward angle but I've found it's just the easiest to go up like this and I try and go as slow as possible and then I get to the ends and then when I get to the ends I try and like blow dry them like this so that I can get that bend like going in the right direction. This will be harder with long hair because obviously you can only go as far as your arms can reach but with short hair this works great. Then I've got to put the hairdryer down get it all set up again because honestly this is so fiddly I want it to be as perfect as possible because my back is my problem area so I want to make sure it looks good. So as you can see it's pretty tricky still haven't mastered it but you know I just do what I can. All right put it in a roller and actually at this point because this top section is quite big I'm going to split it in half. With this hair I'm going to focus on drying it upwards. Get my brush in there right in the root and then so I'll go up a few times and then I'll go on the side like this. Okay and now we're just left with this front section so I will probably do my bangs separately so I just shake all of this out so that I've got all these short pieces and clip them to the side. I go again up and back I blow dry it back. I will get my parting and smooth it round. So lastly with my fringe I usually actually use this because I find it so much easier this is the Babyliss Big Hair Wand I guess. It just spins and I can spin it like this and it works perfectly then I just pop it in a roller for like I don't know 15 minutes and I'm good to go. I'll show you how to do it with the brush. I'm just trying to dry it forward and rolling it under because I feel like it gives it a nice bouncy kind of look and I also make sure to lift the roots and I go under like this to make sure it's like lifted and bouncy because my hair's very flat I don't have a cowlick I don't have like volume at my roots anywhere on my head so I have to kind of create that myself. I hate this, this is why I hate this brush because my little bits of hair keep getting stuck in here. Right now I'm going to hold it in the brush so it's nice and warm and then I'm going to finish off by popping it in a roller. Okay I've just cooled it down with the cold air to speed up this process and there we go it looks crazy like that is what I want for my fringe. I like a big bouncy bang and it does kind of calm down once you get it to where it wants to go and then throughout the day it just kind of calms right down and looks really cute. To finish off the hair I would usually put a little bit of serum because my hair at the ends and especially at the back is extremely dry I'm in need of a trim so I will just run this at the back so that the back ends don't start fraying out throughout the day. I mean they will anyway eventually but it's nice to keep them looking nice and slick. I'm going to finish with some hairspray just so it holds. I don't always use hairspray only if I want to look extra nice and that is it and that's it that's my finished hair complete. I am back in my other t-shirt now, I keep swapping my clothes around. So that's how I've been doing my hair at the moment. It could change, I could start doing it differently, I might make an updated version if I learn any new tips or ways of doing it. If you liked the video please give it a like and if you want to see more please subscribe. 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