Beauty

[Ms X]

@SurferWife You are so lucky to still have your genius hairdresser!  I lost mine in high school.  I, too, use Wen (the rice formulas) and rely on that and a good cut to carry the day.  My hairdresser does a good job, but neither she nor anyone since has measured up to that one hairdresser named Stu so long ago.  I had my hair cut up and down Newbury Street for another 20 years but never had such a great cut.  Whenever I find a hairdresser I like, I give her/him my address so that I will know if he/she changes salons.  That is crucial.  I lost track of my hairdresser for a few months a few years ago, but she did let me know where she was within a couple of months.

[mima]

I have to blow dry.  Believe me.  My hair takes at least 4 hours to dry.  I have coarse thick hair that soaks up water like a sponge.  I do let it dry naturally if I am not going out.  It dries with cowlicks (sp?) all over.  The cowlicks are very hard to flat iron out (more damage).  When I blow dry, I can get most of the cowlicks out with less ironing.

Washing my hair at night is not an option.  It would still be damp when I went to bed and I'd wake up with a stiff neck. I also would wake with really bad bed head.  LOL

[151949]

I do not use WEN  and I do have to blow dry my hair - it is very baby fine and poker straight. If I don't wash it daily and blow it dry it has NO BODY on it's own. However, because my hair is so light and I wear it short so it dries in less than 30 sec so I don't think that small amount of heat damages it. Where we live it is very humid so if I tried to let it air dry it would be damp all day. It's very nice that the OP found she has curls when she leaves her hair to air dry!

[Jacie]

I blow dry my hair, it's the difference between looking like a frizz ball or a well kept head. I don't need Chaz Dean's advice on anything thank you!

[Sabear]

9 times out of 10, it's obvious when a woman lets here hair air dry.  IMO , it looks terrible.    Very few people can wear a wash and go hairstyle successfully.

[Trix]

I have kinky curly hair.  It dries fast, but in order to blow it into any kind of style, or straighten, the dryer has to be on a dangerously high heat.  I own a nice hairdryer, flat iron and styling brush, but rarely use them.  I have come to like my hair in it's natural state and usually reserve straightening with the dryer to my hairdresser.  Of my tools the Calista brush is the one I reach for the most.  The heat from the brush does loosen the curls, and because the aim is just to loosen I can use a low heat setting.  

[shoesnbags]

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@Rachb wrote:
I have to blow mine dry. If not, my hair is flat flat flat.

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I have to second this!  My hair is thin, fine, and poker straight.  If left to dry on its own, it looks like that baby fine hair on a 6 month old.  It takes a blow dryer to put some lift and curve into my hair. 

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Sabear wrote:

9 times out of 10, it's obvious when a woman lets here hair air dry.  IMO , it looks terrible.    Very few people can wear a wash and go hairstyle successfully.

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@Sabear

ITA ...  It definitely depends on not only the type of hair, but also the chosen hairstyle.  Volume doesn't just happen by itself, and I wouldn't be caught dead with a bunch of air dried curls.   At some point, they become stringy ... not an attractive look!

[suzyQ3]

I have naturally very curly and frizzy hair. Most of my life I fought it by blow-drying an/or chemical straightening and usually keeping it very short.

About three years ago, I just had had enough of that. I started letting my hair grow with the help of a very talented stylist who understands my hair. I started air-drying it using very good styling products. Now that it's shoulder length, I will blow-dry on low with a diffuser for just a little bit in order to help speed up the drying process.

I would never go back to trying to make my hair something it just isn't.