Easy Tips for Blow-Drying Your Hair Properly

 Easy Tips for Blow-Drying Your Hair Properly

Are you sure you're blow-drying your hair properly? You really need to pay attention to the

way you blow-dry your mane. Since you use heat to style your locks, too much

exposure to heat will rob your tresses of their essential moisture and leave them dry, dull, and

brittle. Hairdryers use heat to dry and help you style your hair; if you don't use your hairdryer properly, you risk sustaining heat damage on your locks.

What, then, is the right way to use your blow dryer? Here are a few easy tips that will help

you enjoy the results that styling your mane with a hair blower can give you but without

damaging your strands through excessive heat.

1. Squeeze excess water from your hair with a towel before blow-drying it. Blow-drying

your mane while it's still dripping wet is not an effective way to dry it. It takes longer

to dry your hair that way and you're exposing your tresses to heat longer than it is

necessary. Do not rub your hair vigorously with your towel, though. Just gently squeeze

the water out of your locks and pat it dry.

2. Apply a heat-protectant leave-on conditioner or serum before blowing your hair. The

conditioner or the serum will moisturize your strands and, at the same time, shield

them against too much heat. Moreover, the heat from the hairdryer will cause the

conditioner to form a protective coat around your individual strands to prevent further

damage.

3. Don't hold the nozzle of the hairdryer too close to your scalp. Allow a space of eight

to ten inches from your scalp and the nozzle so your scalp won't burn. Also, if the air

from your drier feels too hot against your skin, more seemingly than not it is also

inflicting stress on your hair. In that case, lower the heat setting on your dryer.

4. Invest in a professional-grade hair blower. A blow dryer designed for professional use

will have multiple settings that will allow you to adjust your blow-drying according to

your hair type and tolerance for heat. Such a dryer will also have many different

features that will let you become more flexible in styling your tresses. Two features

that your blow-dryer must have in particular are a diffuser and a cool-shot button. A

diffuser will spread the heat evenly around your head while a cool-shot button will

blow cold air on your tresses and lock your style in place.

5. When blow-drying your hair, make sure you use a hairbrush with boar bristles if you

have delicate hair and wooden bristles if you have thick hair. These types of bristles

are gentler on hair and friendlier with hairdryers compared to brushes with plastic or

metal bristles.

Hair is very susceptible to heat. This is why it is easier to style hair if heat is applied.

However, too much heat is bad for the hair, causing it to become dry, dull, and prone to

breakage. To prevent your hair from sustaining heat harm, you need to ensure that you simply

use your hair dryer properly.