I recently went on a long overdue trip to the beauty salon to get my hair cut. It had been almost six months, and my hair was becoming a haven for split ends, and it just looked too long and straggly. In my misguided attempt to grow my hair out, I totally avoided the barber’s shears for too long.
Every time I go, they seem to take off just a little too much length for me. Even if I say half an inch, I end up coming out with at least two inches cut off the bottom. Not that it’s all that bad – of course it makes your hair look way healthier. However, it makes me leery of going because they just take too much off.
At any rate, this last trip I learned a valuable lesson about how to blow my hair dry and give it much more body and a prettier shape. It was some sort of method the stylist called over brushing or combing – something to that effect.
I’ve always had a hard time with getting more volume around the crown of my hair. I asked her how to remedy that. She said it’s really important to get a high quality large round brush. This helps to lift the hair away from the root and create more body and volume – it also reduce blow drying time which makes it better for your hair since there is less heat contact.
She showed me how to take the round brush and dig it under the crown of the hair and the top of the head. She said to then take it over to the OPPOSITE side of where you normally part your hair. This creates more volume and more body because you are blowing it dry for a few seconds in the opposite direction of where the part will ultimately lie.
It really does work too. I had a nicely rounded crown, and it had noticeably more body than when I just blow dry everything in a straight forward way, straight down and out. This way, I get the volume at the roots and it helps my hair look fuller throughout the whole day.
I also added a little Bumble and Bumble hair spray for a root boost – it’s a thickening hair spray, so it helps to naturally boost the roots and create the illusion of fuller, bouncier hair.
