We're always hearing about new ways to perfect the at-home blowout and finally achieve salon-worthy results. News flash: We have never once found this to be true. I mean, we can achieve a nice blowout at home, but salon-quality? Not quite. We're not going to tell you that these tips will help you finally master that salon blowout at home so you can save your $50 for other pursuits, but we will say that these little tricks will most assuredly step up your home style&#;substantially. The amazing things is, they all revolve around one tool, and it's not your blow dryer. Enter the round brush. It's a magical item that can be worthless unless you know how to use it the right way. If learning how to use a round brush was something Mama passed down to you on your first day of kindergarten, this article probably won't tell you anything you don't already know. For those that play a losing battle with this rotund tool each morning, prepare to have your life changed&#;or, at least, just your hair game.
Link to FUYI BRUSH
Wicki58/Getty Images
Don't Use It Until Your Hair Is Almost Dry
Beware: You're arm will feel like it's about to fall off if you start using your round brush too soon. Hair will be easier to manage and style once it's mostly dry, plus you'll save valuable time.
Now, If You Take Only One Tip, Let It Be This
When you're using your round brush, it's important to work by small sections that are wrapped around the brush once. The wrapping part is the most crucial technique when learning how to blow dry hair with a round brush. If you wrap more than once you'll likely get the brush stuck in your hair (ouch&#;that's the kind of mistake you only make once), and giving it a half wrap will only result in curled under (or out) ends&#;not the loose wave we're aiming for.
Wrapping each section around the brush once is the one thing that entirely changed my at home blowout result. Give it a try for yourself and you might just find you're one step closer to that salon-worthy blowout you've been trying to master for years.
One of my *most* frequently asked questions is how I get volume in my hair. And even though I&#;ve done hair tutorials in the past, I want to be better about directing y&#;all to those posts and finding new ways to share my tips for volume. I also want to break things down even further for y&#;all so achieving volume becomes less and less intimidating. There are several things I do to get volume in my hair but I think the *most* effective thing I do is round-brushing my hair. That being said, I want to talk specifically about my tips for how I do it in an IGTV video.
This video (and post) is for those of you that have been too intimidated to try and want to learn the absolute basics of how to actually do it. I totally get that it can be overwhelming &#; trust me I was there once! But I&#;m telling you, with a little practice and technique, you 100% can do it!
The company is the world’s best Disc Brush supplier. We are your one-stop shop for all needs. Our staff are highly-specialized and will help you find the product you need.
Y&#;all can see the IGTV for the full tutorial (especially if you&#;re more of a visual person), but I also wanted to outline my tips in a blog post as well.
You can start with your hear really wet, but it will be a much better experience if you get some of the moisture out first! If I&#;m in a rush, I&#;ll towel dry well and then rough dry my hair (without a brush) before sectioning and starting to round brush.
You can put the product in right away or wait; it doesn&#;t matter as long as it&#;s still somewhat damp. I personally put my product in right away. I don&#;t really have a favorite product at the moment and I&#;ve actually been using a few different ones lately.
I&#;m sure there are more ways to do this, but I wanted to share exactly what I do and what works for me. I&#;d love to hear if this is what you do or if this works for you!
I hold the blow dryer in my dominant hand and the round brush in my non-dominant hand. When I was writing this, I was like wait that can&#;t be right because my left hand (non-dominant) has terrible dexterity. But I went back to the bathroom to see if that&#;s actually how I did it, and it is! So don&#;t worry, you&#;ll figure it out.
You&#;re going to need to use your dominant hand for holding the blow dryer because you need better hand-eye coordination there. I tried to do it the other way, and it was a mess! The &#;blow-dryer hand&#; sort of leads the way and is the hand you&#;ll use to grab new pieces of hair (while still holding the dryer &#; we&#;ll get there in tip 4) as you continue to blow dry your hair.
Something I&#;ve heard a lot from y&#;all is that you get frustrated with the round brush because your hair gets tangled in it. And I totally hear this! But I want to shift the way you think about the round brush &#; I think this might help keep this from happening, especially for those of you that have longer hair.
Instead of thinking of the round brush as something you wrap your hair *around*, think of it more as simply a brush that&#;s round (lol this sounds so silly to type out but stay with me). So instead of wrapping your hair all the way around it, try this. Take a strand and lay the middle of it along one side of the brush (so that it sort of grips it) and then pull outwards (towards your ends) as if you&#;re just brushing your hair. This is what you&#;re going to be doing mostly.
And then I want you to try this&#;After you do that a few times and get the hang of it, start spinning your fingers around the handle of the brush as you approach the end of your hair. I call this technique the &#;Roly Poly&#;. The purpose of doing the &#;Roly Poly&#; is so that you can continue to round brush one strand of hair without it falling off the brush &#; so you can continue to brush and blow-dry the same piece over and over.
At first, it can be tricky to figure out what to do with your hands when round brushing your hair. I have a technique I used called the &#;Middle Finger Grab & Re-Grab&#; that helps in the process.
The Middle Fing Grab & Re-Grab &#; So like I told you above, I hold the blowdryer with my dominant hand. When I need to &#;re-grab&#; a strand of hair to run it under the blow dryer again, I&#;ll use my middle finger (from the hand holding the blowdryer) to pick up the hair and then RE-wrap it around the round brush. Working through each individual strand to get the desired result. This is great for anyone who has cowlicks like I do!
*
After watching the video, let me know if you have any further questions and I&#;d be happy to break anything else down for y&#;all! I hope this helps!
In the video, I&#;m using the Olivia Garden 2 1/8 in. round brush with my Dyson hair dryer. I wrote a blog post on why I love the Dyson and think it&#;s worth the investment here!
If you want to learn more, please visit our website Wheel Brushes.