Blow Dry with Curled Ends

Curled ends. CURLED. ENDS. I hate doing this. It's hard to get the right control.

I like doing my curls with a thermal iron.

But this is another of the Volume blow dries. It's the same technique as the blow dry with shape, but instead of letting the ends flow, you twist the hair around the brush to make a curl. It's hard to get a very tight curl with this technique, and you usually end up with a more beachy wave. Megan's hair has some natural curl to it, so the curls held together better.

The back needs a little help...

Of the three Volume blow dries, this is one I struggle with the most. I'm never quite sure how to style it after. Do I leave it in the tighter curl? Do I brush it out a little?

I left it relatively tight this time, but next time I might brush it out more.

Blow Dry with Shape

My first blow dry on this blog! This mannequin is called Vanessa. She's got the longest hair, so we use her a lot in class. As such, her hair is TERRIBLE. It's so hard to work with. I need to practice more, and try different blow dries on it, because not everyone who comes in for a style by me will have great hair.


So a blow dry with Volume and Shape is a pretty basic blow dry. The goal of it is to add movement to the hair.
The root area is fairly straight. This is where the volume is. The ends then move freely in a directed shape.

I always struggle with this blow dry. I never feel like the ends get enough movement, or the right kind of movement. They seem almost...messy and uncoordinated.

The front has some good volume at the sides, I like how to blows away from the face.

The back, see what I mean by the ends not having anything uniform? I feel like it just isn't quite right.

Sheets

So at school we get practice sheets with all the skills we learn, and we have to complete them in order to get marked. Makes sense.

Since I've just finished Mod 1, I have blow drys, braids, upstyles, and curls. So those are the skills I'll be practicing. These won't be signed off or marked, obviously, but the practice is good.

I think two a day will be good. In school when we have practical days, we're supposed to get five or more signed off a day.

I don't want to lose these skills, so I need to practice. I hope I can improve them too, so I can hammer them out when I'm back in school. Boom, boom, boom.

Especially braids. God, I need to practice braids.