Charlotte-Sofia Artistry: Volume Blow-dry

Hair lesson 5, 11.11.14, Tutor, Emma Croombs

Volume Blow-drying

What you’ll need:

Dolly head
Clamp
Hair-dryer
Water spray
Sectioning clips
Round Brushes
Paddle Brush
Pintail/tail comb
Serum
Velcro Rollers

Tutor Demo:

Brush through dolly head using a Paddle brush
Section off hair into 3 sections, 2 at the front & 1 at the back using a pintail/tail comb, secure sections using sectioning clips.
From the back drop down a small section and secure rest back up with a sectioning clip.
Put hair-dryer onto hot setting and high speed, depending on the hair length/thickness etc, will depend on the size of round brush you use, for the dolly head Emma used a medium sized round brush.
Place round brush under section and lift up guiding your hair-dryer over the top, nozzle facing directly onto the hair. The reason you lift the hair whilst blow-drying is because you want volume with this blow dry in contrast to the straight blow dry we did over the last 2 lessons.
Repeat steps until full head is done.
If you were doing this on set, and for example; the model etc wasn’t due on set for another hour pop in Velcro rollers to hold the volume.
Dress/add serum/back comb after Velcro rollers have been removed.

Lesson Overview & evaluation:

I really enjoyed this lesson, I thought I had achieved good volume and removed all kinks from the hair, along with a good shine.

My blow-drying technique definitely improved since last time, I managed to finish the full head in quite quick time, which I was pleased about as I'm usually pushed for time and end up rushing to finish.

My initial blow dry had a middle parting, because I still had time left I also did a side parting, and then put a full head of Velcro rollers in to hold the volume, I also used the Velcro rollers to smooth out the ends of my dolly head as they were quite frizzy.

I did a directional set with my rollers to achieve maximum volume in the directions I wanted, I thought the placement of my rollers worked really well. I was happy with the final look, and thought I'd followed the brief well.

The one thing that I feel I need to practice on is getting more comfortable with alternating between the brush and the hair-dryer, make it a cleaner transition, apart from that I was really happy with how the lesson went, which feels strange to say as I'm usually very self critical.