Hairstylist Jen Booth walks through the 90s blowout: hot air molds the hair, cold air sets it. She lifts sections, over-directs for volume, and uses shears to blend bangs around the face. The key is working with natural texture, not against it.
So just remember teaching your guests that hot air molds it, cold air sets it. So like, she wants that big voluminous blowout, like making the tools work with the hair, not against it. And so when I take that out, look at her. It's like all these bangs when they were in all black. 'Cause a lot of times people will just keep cutting trying to create that shape, and a lot of times our hair does not naturally live like that, so we gotta use the heat to give us that shape. Same thing, and I do have that— oh, sorry, Jen. We do have that overdirection, so I'm letting it dry or lift there, pulling it out. Oh yeah, I see that, I see that, I see that. Now it's starting to give her that shape, and we didn't even dry back here. So this is, this is what most people want to do when they blow dry hair. No, no, no, no. Okay, we want to work with that hair, like give it some shape, bend it. Unless you're working with somebody that has super curly hair and you need that straight, that might work, but you got to make that hair bend. I'm not sure why it's so comfortable. Look at that. She just needs a little bit more blending right here. So yep, so what I'm gonna do— so you see how that to that is— I'm actually gonna just lightly, lightly— I'm just talking my shears lightly And that's gonna start to blend that just a little bit softer. Ooh, yeah. It works really good when you talk to the hair like that too. See, that looks good. And look at her face shape. Look at that. Now we actually can see her face. It's not just hanging there.
