If extra-straight hair appeals to you but don’t want to loose your natural waves for good, a blow out is a good way of getting the look you want without the commitment. The perfectly straight, sleek hair as seen fashioned by many stars might seem hard to get at home without professional hairdressers to help, but with the right tools and techniques, anyone can have extra straight hair without a trip to Cheltenham to the hair salon.

Blow-drying is also a very useful styling technique even if you are not a professional hairdresser no matter what type of haircut you have. This stylist method helps add fullness and texture to the hair while lending a polished hairdressers result to your style.

What you’ll need for that professional Hairdressers finish:

1. A paddle or round brush.
2. A hairdrier with an tools to concentrate and direct air flow and reduce frizz.
3. Large clips to hold up sections of the hair that you are not working on.
4. Products to help smooth and straighten hair.

How to:

First, it is important to begin with just washed hair, especially if you want the look to last more than a day. Start by patting wet hair with a towel until the excess moisture has been removed, then shape the hair into the style that you want. Begin drying the end, back part of the hair to start with. Keep the hair that you aren’t working on at this time clipped up away from the hot air. If your goal is to straighten the hair, use the brush to stroke hair from root to ends, directing the hot air on hair as you comb the brush through.

If you want to keep some of your hairs natural texture, blow dry hair by directing the hair drier towards the roots and combing through the hair with your fingers. Work your way through the back of the hair and through the sides. When you reach the top sections of your hair, use a brush to lift hair straight up and blow dry.
Raising the hair from the scalp in this way will help to add volume to your hair. When hair is almost dry, the style you want will decide how you should finish the blow-drying. If you want extra straight hair, keep blow-drying hair as before until hair is completely dry. Then, use a styling iron all over the hair and add a smoothing pomade to finish the look. If you want a more textured look, separate small sections of hair and lift them up. Twist each section slightly and apply a low heat until each section is dry. Then, allow each section to fall naturally and shake head slightly to let the hair fall into a natural position.

If you like to add a slight curl or wave at the ends of your hair, use the round brush to curl hair into the shape and angle of your choice and dry each part until throughly dry. You can create more texture by using styling gel and your fingers to shape individual sections of hair. When blow drying, it is vital to make sure the hair is compleatly dry so to prevent frizz. Complete the look with gental holding spray.

A blow-dryer can be a adaptable tool for creating a wide variety of appearances. Whether you want a sleek, straight look or sultry, sexy fullness, following this professional hairdressers advice can help you achieve the look you want at home.

Not only are there curling irons of varying size and shape, but there are flat iron tools as well that can take you from curly and full to sleek and silky in minutes. With these new tools (with price tags ranging as low as £20.00 to £150.00 or more for the more professional hairdressers use) you can have whatever you want in terms of curl or lack thereof. But you need to know a few important rules before you begin using these appliances, both to give the best possible results and to make sure you do the least possible amount of damage to your hair.

For thermal styling, always follow these simple rules:

Rule Number One: Always start any thermal styling process with clean, DRY hair. Whenever possible, your styling session should start by shampooing and conditioning the hair with a moisture-rich formula in both your shampoo and conditioner. In addition, follow up with a leave-in conditioning spray to protect the hair during the drying and thermal styling process. A build-up of gel, mousse or hairspray from previous styling will only result in stickiness, clumping, and possible damage, so cleansing the hair before thermal styling is essential. Remember, the hair must be TOTALLY dry. Only slightly moist hair will not only respond poorly to the thermal styling, but applying the heated appliance to damp hair will cause the hair to literally “cook” in the resultant steaming, expanding the hair stem and forcing the protective moisture from the coating of the hair.

Rule Number Two: Use the right sized tool for your hair. Unless your hair is well past your shoulders in length, you should choose a flat-iron appliance whose heating plates are approximately 25mm to- 35mm wide. Wider irons are certainly available, but are only necessary for those individuals with longer hair. For most woman, the smaller tool offers easier control, and lighter.

Rule Number Three: Work with the hair in small sections and use only as much heat as necessary to straighten the hair. Many women buy a flat iron, and complain that they don’t work well. Usually it’s because they are overloading the iron. If you try iron too much hair at once, you end up with an uneven application of heat, as the hair against the heating plates gets most of the heat, while the hair in the middle isn’t heated enough. In addition, if you try to straighten a section that is too thick by heating the hair longer, you only end up overheating the outer layers of the hair, and potentially damaging it. There is also the danger of damaging and burning the hair if you use too high a setting on the iron. Take a piece of tissue paper that has been misted with water and place it between the heating elements. The proper setting will quickly evaporate the moisture without marring the tissue. If the paper shows any sign of scorching or discoloration, then turn down the heat setting of your iron before you use it on your hair. Divide your hair into sections no wider than the heating plates of the iron, and straighten slices no thicker than half the width of your heating plates. By working with small sections and slices, you can apply the heat evenly, and will get the desired straightness with fewer passes of the iron.Rule

Number Four: Use a light amount of styling product to maximize the life of the style. By lightly misting the slices you are straightening with a bit of hairspray and allowing it to dry fully (or by using a small amount of gel or mousse as you dry the hair) you will get a straightening result that will last longer than styling the hair without it. This is also another reason for beginning with shampooing and conditioning, since applying the product to hair that already has product on it from previous styling would most certainly get a build-up of chemicals.