How To Blow Dry Short Hair Bob

My proper noun is Mackenzie, and I have been living in fearfulness of blowouts. It has nix to do with superstition or being scared of electric styling tools—information technology's considering, if you have pilus whatsoever shorter than shoulder-length, blowouts, whether performed at home or in salon, can be the swiftest fashion of robbing the cool from your cutting. In my experience, the second I turn that mechanically produced hot wind on my bob, any resemblance it may have had to she's-with-the-band, lived-in texture or nonchalant surfer waves—basically any visual statements of "fun" or "liberty"—miraculously morphs into a wait of white-knuckled "control." Recollect Barbara Walters.

"You tin can get soccer mom very quickly," admitted hairstylist Tim Rogers this past weekend when I took a seat in his chair at the busy downtown Sally Hershberger salon. In an effort to conquer my fearfulness, give myself greater styling range, and never prove up to a meeting with wet hair again, I had asked the editorial whiz to defy expectations and requite me a cool blowout—one that I, or anyone reading this, could copy at home. Thankfully he obliged, offering a foolproof tutorial that can exist cleaved down into a few primal steps.

First with a Good Cut
Without the right shape, a blow-dried bob will end in disaster. "You lot need beveled ends," explained Rogers, who sliced a few subtly uneven layers into my hair. This will interruption upwards any overly clean, blunt edges, thus deflating the gamble of a resulting newscaster-esque rounded bowl.

Prep Your Canvas
Mist towel-dried hair with a styling spray—Rogers likes Living Proof Blowout, due out this April—to not just protect it from heat damage, but to also give "more than memory" to whatsoever wave you'll manipulate after with a brush and blow-dryer.

Spend Less Fourth dimension (Not More than) with Your Blow-Dryer
"Yous tin can allow straight and wavy hair to air-dry out nigh 50 pct of the fashion," said Rogers, because, specially in the case of wavy hair, this would encourage more than natural movement. Curly hair can turn on the blow-dryer when hair is more than or less towel-dried.

Focus on the Roots
In one case you start blow-drying, to create extra motility, "use a flat brush to stretch the root of your hair in any and every direction," Rogers told me as he combed my hair this way and that under a stream of hot air, then pushed information technology into my face. "This volition create elevator," that's bouncy just not wearisome. For more than volume, he asked me to flip my head upside down momentarily, while he focused the heat at the roots.

Create a New Wave Pattern
Picking up a medium-sized circular brush next, Rogers gave another spritz of styling spray before he wrapped the lengths of my pilus around it, twisting some toward, and some away from my face using the blow-dryer to set the shape with rut. By manipulating the hair in contrary directions, he explained, I'd disrupt any chance of a uniform helmet head look.

Texturize, Texturize, Texturize
Once the blowout was complete, to keep things from looking too pretty, Rogers used a light texturizing spray, then mussed my hair with his hands before breaking upwards the ends with his fingers by gently shaking the hair effectually.

The result? Bouncing, shiny, healthy hair that looked more windswept than perfectly blow-stale. As I tossed it around that afternoon, I felt like a immature Winona Ryder in a leather jacket. When night barbarous, I gave my new blowout a nineties bombshell lift with a boom of Sally Hershberger 24K Think Big Dry out Shampoo—prompting me to apply a cat eye picture of black eyeliner and a swipe of nude lipstick. At dinner a few hours subsequently, a handsome human being friend asked if I had done something unlike to my hair. "I got a blowout," I told him. "It looks cool," he said.