hair technical session: blow drying

For this technical lesson, Lottie showed us how to blow dry hair professionally either in a curly or straight style. She included the different brushes and products we would need to use to create the perfect salon look as well as the techniques. She explained this is the hardest thing for any stylist and if we could master this we could master pretty much anything as a hair stylist.

We began with a practical from Lottie showing us how to create both styles.

After the practical it was time to get started on either our Kate heads or our partners hair. I chose to work with a partner so I could practice on a different kind of hair and get the jist of a real client. My partner firstly began but when it came to swapping over we had run out of lesson time, we arranged another day to create a straight blow dried look. 

These are some of the products we used to create the look in class.

Product List: 

• Shampoo
• Conditioner
• Hairdryer
• Paddle Brush
• Denman Brush
• Wide toothed comb
• Pin tail comb
• Heat defence spray 
• Sea Salt spray
• Mousse 

I began by sectioning the hair off into 3 sections, either side of the head and then a back section. I began with the back middle section and sectioned this even further. Using a Denman brush I began by turning my hair-dryer on to a low heat and started at the root of the hair I blew some of the heat on the top and underneath of the hair making sure the root was firstly dry then keeping my thumb on the brush I slowly moved the brush downwards at a gradual pace and a good tension. I did this a couple of times until I felt the hair was dry and a smooth as possible. I basically repeated these steps all the way down my models hair and then when I got to the top of the head and the last section I pulled the hair up to create some more volume. I then moved onto the section of the hair which did not have my models fringe in and repeated the same steps till the hair was smooth and straight. I then again repeated for the last section but when I approached the fringe I sectioned this off and blow dried it upwards and backwards towards the ear.