Beautiful Blowouts

Have you ever had a beauty experience (treatment, product, advice, etc) that completely changed the way you feel about yourself? I have – the blow out. I was in my late 20′s when a friend of a friend, who was a stylist asked me if I had ever had my incredibly thick, naturally curly hair blow dried straight. I was stunned. You could blow dry curls straight? I had tried in vain for years to tame my curls and most attempts left me looking like I had a fuzzy triangle on my head. I stuttered some sort of reply of disbelief before he pushed me into a chair and pulled out the hairdryer. The results stunned me – smooth, glossy, glamorous, STRAIGHT locks attached to MY head. I felt something like a million-bazillion dollars. From then on the blowout was a solid part of my beauty routine.

Now I have to be honest I generally don’t blowout my own hair. Its far too thick and I don’t have enough arms to separate the hair as well as holding the brush and hairdryer (plus it takes me on average 90 – 120 minutes to do it and a stylist can do it in less than an hour). I’m very lucky in that due to its thickness my hair looks better as it gets dirty so a single blowdry can last me from 5 – 7 days as long as it doesn’t get wet. There was a time where I was getting my hair blown out every 7 – 10 days but lately I’ve been holding back doing around once a month or more often if special occasions or events abound.

I want to show you what a difference a good blow out can make so I’m taking the risk of embarrassing myself with some photos* that will best illustrate the power of the blowdry:

This is what I tend to look like when I get up in the morning:

My natural curls when they’re “done”:

And a selection of Blowouts:

There is nothing like being beautified by a professional and if you have an important event coming up I highly recommend getting a blowout – I’m convinced mine have contributed to everything from successful job interviews to landing my husband!