You're Blow-Drying Your Hair the Wrong Way
...or, at least, I always did-which is why I gave up the whole pointless endeavor in disgust a few years ago. But now this: Nathaniel Hawkins (one of the loveliest, funniest stylists ever to touch Paris Hilton's head) says the most important thing to getting an actually straight, actually unfrizzy, actually long-lasting blowout is that you MUST GET YOUR HAIR ABSOLUTELY, COMPLETELY, TOTALLY DRY. This SOUNDS easy, and you may THINK that that's what you're doing, but when hair is hot it's near-impossible to judge whether there's a last lingering bit of dampness. Blast your hair with the cool button. That's it. With your hair cold, you'll be able to tell where it's damp (a.k.a. where you need to go on blasting hot). If you start by spritzing with a heat-protecting spray, it will look even better-but it's really the drying-till-the-bitter-end that locks in the blow-dry.
"Get the perfect blow-dry with tips for every hair type."
In an odd turn of events, my dryer has just broken in such a manner that the ONLY thing that now works is the cool setting ... so I shall recommend senior features editor Heather Summerville's all-time favorite, the Conair Yellow Bird Dryer-which she loves because "it works, it's affordable, and it's yellow."
-Cristina Mueller, senior beauty editor
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