Brushes rectangular or round?
In the shops of professional hairdressing supplies, many people run their eyes: what kind of brushes there are! Each of them has its own functions. A comb with short, thickened sparse denticles will help unravel unruly curls. Rectangular with a rare nylon or natural bristle is ideal for laying long and thin hair. Flat rectangular or oval brushes with short dense bristles smooth the hair well, giving them shine. Rectangular with holes and soft plastic teeth designed to model hairstyles on wet hair using a gel and giving a radical volume when drying with a hair dryer. Round air-permeable brushes with a nylon bristle on a metal base (brashingov) are necessary for the owners of straight hair: using them and a hair dryer, it's easy to twist the tips or make curls. Brushes of small diameter are optimal for laying bangs and short haircuts, larger ones for hair up to the shoulders or below. They are often electrified and split. Brushes with metal teeth are also not the best choice. They electrify the hair, damage their structure, scratch the scalp, and also get hot during the hair dryer, drying out their hair.
What is the most comfortable comb?
When choosing a comb, be sure to draw the end of her teeth several times in the palm of your hand: they do not have to scratch the skin. Give preference to wood and plastic: iron can lead to the appearance of split ends. The shorter your haircut, the more thin and frequent can be comb teeth. Combs and combs with wide sparse teeth are perfect for curly hair or hair after a perm, they are also convenient for combing wet hair. Comb with teeth of different heights and a long thin handle, it is good to comb the hair at the roots, so that the hairdress looks lush. And with the help of its handle it is very convenient to make a parting or gently divide the curls. Do not forget to brush your hair systematically. On it there are means for packing, and hair quickly become dirty.
Hair dryer some like it hot!
The main characteristics of a hair dryer are the power and temperature of the air flow. Before buying, be sure to determine: do you need it to just dry your hair, or for styling? If you are more important than the first, keep in mind: the stronger the hair dryer, the faster you dry your hair. For short hair, the simplest hair dryer with a capacity of 600-1400 watts is suitable, and for long hair choose more powerful models, about 2000 watts. Optimum for drying hair is considered to be 60 ° C, with a higher probability that you will dry your hair, they will become brittle and begin to be ground. Strongly damaged hair is suitable for models with ionization or vapor emission functions: they dry hair as carefully as possible and improve their appearance, giving shine and silkiness. If you like to do complex laying, pay attention not only to the number of additional attachments, but also to ensure that the dryer has a "cold" mode: cool air will help fix the hair and it will last longer. The standard concentric nozzle in the form of a tapered cylinder is good when you put your hair behind a strand of hair with a brush. With its help, you can straighten them, create an additional volume at the roots or divide them into parting. Owners of disobedient curly hair are useful nozzle-diffuser with special "fingers", dissipating air. Thanks to her, the curls look neat, and short hair acquires an extra volume. A nozzle in the form of a round brush with retractable teeth will help create beautiful curls on long strands (it prevents them from tangling). And for those who prefer to take a hairdryer with them on trips or a fitness club, a compact hairdryer with a brush headpiece is useful. It is not so powerful, but it's very easy and quick to put hair to them. Professional hairdryers for hairdressers are powerful (more than 2000 W) and dry hair faster, but handling them is difficult: they are very heavy. If you keep this hair dryer too close to your hair, you can burn it. Therefore, if there are no stylist courses behind your shoulders, it's best to choose a model for home use. And do not forget to apply hot styling before drying!
Stylers straighten or curl?
Numerous forceps for waving and "ironing" for straightening hair have a common name - scalers. The goal is one - to give shape to clean and dried hair. Recently, even multi-models have appeared, which can be used both as ironing tools and as nippers, capturing a strand of hair between the plates. To keep the piling long, the width of the strand should not be greater than the diameter of the forceps or the width of the ironing plates. Therefore, if you are always in a hurry, choose wide ironing and thick plies. But if your dream is small elastic curls, you will have to accept the loss of time: they are best obtained with forceps with a diameter of 1.5-2.5 cm. Note that the model you selected has a temperature adjustment: for styling thick and hard hair it is necessary to heat the styler to 180-200 ° C, while thin, colored or damaged hair is 150-160 ° C (models without a temperature sensor are usually automatically heated to 180 ° C). Protect your hair from damage using a special coating, such as ceramic or Teflon. Some models are equipped with a steam function, due to this, hair is less affected by the effects of high temperatures. However, this is not at all an occasion to give up protective means for thermo-packing - mousses, sprays, serums. In shops for hairdressers, you can also find ironing corrugations and spiral forceps for vertical curling. However, using them is somewhat more difficult, so please be patient and practice beforehand. Modern stylers "treat" hair much more carefully than primitive models 10-15 years ago, but frequent hot styling can still damage your hair. Therefore, try to use them no more than 1-2 times a week. If you need a long lasting result, choose the most powerful models. For example, a rectifier with a power of 50 W guarantees a stable laying for 3 days.
Curlers to become curly is very simple!
The most modern and comfortable are electric curlers (thermobigi). The stand with them is connected to the mains, and after a few minutes they warm up to the desired temperature (best if you can also choose it). It remains to wind on them dry hair, fasten with special clips or stilettos - and after 10-20 minutes, when the hair curlers cool, curls are ready. The least damaging to hair is a thermal bath with the function of steam or velvet (velor) coating: they reduce heat and do not allow the hair to tangle. Thermobigi of classical form - an ideal option for laying short and mid-length hair, for long ones, the so-called thermobigi-boomerangs made of flexible plastic are more suitable. They are very convenient to use, because you do not have to fix the strands additionally. To curls look natural, wind the hair on curlers of different diameters: on smaller ones - the crown and whiskey, on the large - the back of the head. The width of the wound strand should be equal to the diameter of the curler or be slightly smaller - then the curls will be elastic and will keep the shape well.