Blow Drying | Style Like a Pro

Part 2: Was I Born with This Bad Wig?

Posted by Sandy on December 2, 2009 with 0 Comments

As for styling, haircuts are there to frame our face. Get it, a FRAME, not the end all be all scenario. If your long hair seems to be dragging you down, have it cut to shoulder length. if you are getting a little thicker under the chin have that long hair cut to shoulder length and the front cut to frame the neck and chin. Any hair hanging straight down from brows only accentuates the thick neck area and says you are hiding your face. Shorter hair or bob hair cuts should never have roundness to them. Please, stop rounding out the bottom of your bob. Stop rounding out those short layers with a round brush. Elongate the roundness, by pulling out the brush before the hot curl has hardened into the curl. Any roundness in your “look”dates you. (fyi www.stylelikeapro.com on how to blowdry your hair easier and faster with fewer tools). Ususally soft long layers help the hair to flow. I agree with Oribe, that shoulder length or longer hair needs to be more blunt and not look so thinned out on the ends. It gives the style weight, or substance, not evaporate into nothing.

There you have it. I spilled my guts. Use what you may. At Style like a Pro, my desire is to teach women how to take charge of their styling needs easily, efficiently and to feel great about themselves when they leave their home!

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Featured DVD for Cost of Shipping and Handling

Posted by Sandy on November 30, 2009 with 0 Comments

Looking outrageously great on your own can be a breeze. Style Like a Pro DVD series empowers women to easily create the looks they want—and the simple techniques on this video will turn hours of trying into a few minutes to succeeding.

This DVD captures Michelle Obama's style!

Most importantly, everything is shown the way you’ll see it in the mirror, eliminating that often-confusing extra step of translation from the Salon. Great for ALL lengths of hair!

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Don’t You Just Love a Bob?

Posted by Sandy on August 21, 2009 with 0 Comments

Do you know why?

Because the Bob has been around since the time of the Egyptians and Nefertiti and her bangs. Bangs are just a smaller version of the Bob.

Classic Bob with curved ends

Want to know how to simplify your Bob blow dry?

We as a human race carry a round brush with us 24/7. How wonderful! But most of us have no way of realizing that is OUR HEAD. Let me tell you how to use that round brush to get your bob to be smooth and the edges to gently curve under on their own.

Instructions:

After drying the roots of your hair somewhat (at least 5o% dry) Part your hair down the back of your head. With the paddle brush in left hand place the brush close to the back part by reaching across the front of your face to the back part. And keep the dryer in your right hand. Pull the brush from the back part to your cheek. Continue till the hair is dry and naturally falls in a nice curve. For longer hair you can use your neck as the round brush, also. repeat the same on the other side of your head.

Reason:

1. Faster under 10 minutes for a beautiful silky looking style.

2. Fewer tools, your favorite brush and maybe a flat iron. The paddle brush bristles are far more comfortable on your scalp than a round brushes. a round brush is hard on your wrist and makes today’s Bobs’ too round.

Other Help:

For more information on blow drying a Bob or other simplified styles in fast, easy and repeatable methods with fewer tools and products visit www.stylelikeapro.com . Or email sandy [at] stylelikeapro [dot] com. I’m always here to help.

1 of 8 DVDs

Every style longer than 3 inches always has some curve format to it, whether it be a big curve with a round brush or an elongated curve (like above) youcan use what god gave us our HEAD!

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Why Do I Have So Much Hair Breakage?

Posted by Sandy on July 14, 2009 with 0 Comments

Where is your hair breaking?

Is it at the ends, the midshaft, or at the root of your hair? Is it around you hairline?

Could she have some hair breakage? YES!

Ends…

If it’s at the ends, perhaps you have not had a hair cut in over 6 weeks. Get a haircut and a moisture treatment and then condition your hair appropriately at home. Condition from midshaft through the ends. Rinse only for 10-15 seconds. Always blow dry at the scalp first before even attempting to dry the ends.

Midshaft….

If your hair is breaking at the midshaft, perhaps you went through some severe stress or… Do you wear ponytails alot? The stress from the band on your tail could cause hairs to break.

Scalp….

Lastly, is your hair breaking at the scalp? Again, personal stress could be the culprit. Poorly applied hair color or lightner could stress the hair. Also if you are drying your hair with a high powered T3 type dryer, concentrating the nozzle in one area could cause extreme bleaching and weakening of the hair. I did it to my own hair and I am a professional. Be extremely careful!

If you have hairline breakage, that hair tends to be finer, thus perhaps weaker and maybe the type of brush and dryer you use are too strong for that hair. Sometimes using a fine boar bristle brush and low heat and air strength is the best for the hair line.

Other recommendations……

Don’t shampoo your hair every day. If you must try this…Get a shower cap. In the morning, before you get into the shower dampen your hands from the shower rub them in your hair (where you have bed head) put on the cap. The heat while you shower and the moisture from inside the shower cap will reinvigorate your hair. Then, when you go to rearrange your style the hair will respond almost like you had just washed it.

As far as a styling product for stressed out hair ends, apply a serum to the ends. 3 pumps into the palm of your

All long or short ends need moisture reinforcement!

hand while the hair is wet, 2 pumps prior to ironing your hair and 1 pump to protect the ends from our drying environment.

Hope this helps
sandy [at] stylelikeapro [dot] com
and at Phoenix Salon and Day Spa

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What is the Best Shampoo?

Posted by Sandy on July 6, 2009 with 0 Comments

In my experience as a Hair Colorist

for the past 20 years, there is no such thing as THE Best Shampoo for everyone. There are a number of factors that make a shampoo the best shampoo for you. Even all the brand names up and down the price point spectrum have many different shampoos to chose from, depending on your hair/scalp needs. Personally, how I chose a shampoo for my hair are these…

Recommendations:

1. Recommendation from my stylist or a friend who has similar hair texture or hair needs(ex. dry versus oily scalp)
2. Scent of the shampoo.
3. Cost of the shampoo. Generally speaking, the higher the price point the more luxurious the shampoo. This translates into using a lesser amount to get the same result. By using less you actually can get more shampoos out of one bottle. This way the cost per shampoo has gone down.
When all the recommendations are taken into consideration, only you can decide what is the best shampoo for your scalp/hair needs.

Below are some shampooing guidelines I state in Style Like A Pro DVD’s.

Shampoo and conditioning guide inside

Shampooing Guidelines:

a. After applying shampoo to your hair, only scrub your scalp and massage the rest of the shampoo through the ends of your hair. Never scrub the ends of long hair, this motion roughens the hair cuticle. In turn you will have to use more conditioner than generally needed or have difficulty combing your hair.
b. In conditioning your hair only apply the product to the mid shaft through the ends of your hair. Scalp hair does not need conditioner. Rinse only for 10 seconds. Rinsing longer only conditions your drain. You be the judge, remember the towel, your hands, the hair tools and dryer all pull moisture from your hair, so don’t be afraid to rinse less.
The more moisture that remains inside the hair shaft the easier it will be to style your hair.

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Is Letting Our Hair Dry Naturally All that Good?

Posted by Sandy on May 13, 2009 with 0 Comments

Yes

If you have natural or manufactured curl that becomes fuzzy when you blow it dry.
If you want more time to do other things in the morning.
If your hair is intensely thick. I’d say add a little hair dryer heat to the scalp area to start the drying process.
If you shampoo your hair at night…..BUT, and that’s a BIG BUT never go to bed with wet or even damp hair. Damp hair is very elastic and weak. When you go to bed the friction between even damp hair and the pillow can cause damage to the cuticle or outside layer of your hair. Breakage! Shedding of the weaker hair.
If all you want to do is Fluff and go.
If all you do is flat iron your hair. Remember, your hair still needs moisture in it for protection from iron heat. apply a protective serum, first.
Does your hair need help?

No

If you want volume at the scalp. As the hair dries the heaviness of the water in the hair weighs it down, like lead anchors. Even applying a volumizer at this time is silly, because a volumizer is applied to prop hair up, not to compete with water weighing the hair down. It’s advisable only to add a serum or leave-in conditioner to the ends of your hair at this time.

If you want your hair to respond to your blow drying/ styling efforts. Once hair is completely dry, it takes more effort to style hair with a brush and dryer. Hair that is wet is malleable and easy to put in whatever style you are able to do. Meaning the hair is responsive.But, hair that has thoroughly dried has hardened into it’s own particular shape. Thereby, making it virtually impossible to style your hair without adding water to it, again.

What’s a girl to do?

If it’s in your genes to let your hair dry naturally, let it dry naturally for 15 – 30 minutes after toweling your ends of your hair.

Next apply protective serum to the ends.

Then apply volumizer to the scalp and push the roots of the hair up, for a little volume.

At this point your hair is sufficiently dry or moist to easily start styling fast and efficiently.

This is a similar style To Michelle O'Bama's

The question remains should we let our hair dry naturally or should we modify? It depends on your hair type.

There are DVD’s that will interactively help you learn to style your hair in 10 minutes to get out the door fast, looking like you have been styled by a Pro.

You can do it!

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