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Just overheard a new stylist say blowouts are 'just drying hair' and I had to walk away
I was grabbing a new bottle of shampoo from the back room and heard this fresh cosmo grad telling another new hire that blowouts are basically just drying hair with a brush. I had to bit my tongue so hard. Like girl, no. A proper blowout is about tension, sectioning, and knowing how to use that round brush to get volume and smoothness. I have been doing this for 7 years now and I still mess up the back crown sometimes if I rush. It made me realize how much stuff they don't teach in school anymore. My teachers drilled us on blowouts for weeks. Has anyone else noticed newer stylists skipping the basics because they think it's easy money?
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kevin_williams4d ago
The real problem here is that schools are turning out stylists who think hair is just something that dries, but they are missing the whole physics of it. A blowout is basically engineering a shape into the hair using heat, tension, and brush placement. If they don't get that, they are going to be the ones fighting cowlicks and flat roots for years until they figure it out through trial and error. What scares me more is that clients are starting to think a bad blowout is normal because they don't know what a good one feels like. So the standard drops and then everyone forgets what proper tension even looks like lol. I heard a master stylist say once that a blowout is 90% technique and 10% product, and that stuck with me more than anything from school.
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brooke_murray4d ago
That 90% technique stat is real but tension isn't everything, heat control matters just as much.
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