Styling 101

Towel Drying

If you are like me and you are in a hurry towel drying involves placing the towel on your head and going to town with it. If you want smooth hair, stop and dry your hair out by placing (kindly) the towel on your head and squeezing it down the hair in one motion. Make sure you go downward. Going all crazy pushes the cuticle every which way giving you frizzy hair.

Brushing

Start at the ends and work your way up. The ends usually get the most tangly. Work through your hair in small sections getting the ends un-tangled and then work your way up to brushing from root to end. I have seen people rip through their hair time and time again literally pulling out clumps and breaking off the ends of their hair. Be kind!

Blow Drying

When blow drying, always apply a heat protectant. These often are silicon-based but if you are washing your hair properly and use a small amount, it won't matter. Also, like towel drying we must have order to our madness. Don't go to town with the blow dryer! You know what I am talking about, waving it around your head like a weapon of mass destruction. Think beautiful thoughts and blow dry downwards always keeping in mind those little cuticles - push them downward and you have smooth and shiny hair, push them upwards and you get ugly. You only need to blow dry your hair 80% and nature can do the rest.  Any more and you risk frying your hair - literally!!!!

Applying Product

For those of you who love their products - Be careful! You can always add more product but you can't take it away once it's in there. Apply a small amount, a good rule of thumb is to apply a dime-sized amount at first. Disperse through your hands and start at the nape (base of the head) and work your way up. This insures that if by chance you do have too much product that your roots don't get too greasy or weighed down. You can always add more product here or there as needed. If you are using a volumizing product that is for the roots, I would add a small amount to the crown area, which is where people generally want the volume.

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