Blowout...Or Not? | Alyson Lupo_Reallife+Curlygirl

Hello again, everyone, if you notice I'm wearing the same outfit. I did in my last video it's because I'm trying to work smarter and not harder and try to batch a little content here and there, where I can I'm too lazy to change my outfit. So this is what we're going with. I hope you like it, because I'm really a fan of these new earrings and this felt like fall, and I did a little fall sort of orangey Brown on my eyes today. So this is what we've got going on, but I have got a very exciting video. It has a question in it, though, and the question is: is it a blowout or not? I have been doing my hair a different way lately and it's um. I I call it a French Bob, it's a French Bob, that's what it is, but if you're like me, your wavy layers down at the bottom, your little bits at the bottom tend to sort of duck tail out. They kind of flip. Even this little guy is trying to hint at what I'm talking about here. So I've been doing something really unique when it comes to drying my hair - and that is I've been using this guy right here. But my hair still looks wavy right. So is it a blowout or not? Is it curly girl, friendly or not so check this out uh? This is how I've been styling, my hair recently, and you be the judge. These are the products we're using today. We'Ve got hair story, new, wash original Kevin Murphy hair Resort and, as I am leave-in conditioner, I'm taking off my plopped towel and just sort of assessing the situation, I'm going to shake my hair out and just arrange it into place. I think this is the number one thing that people forget to do: arrange your hair, if you like it when it's wet you'll like it when it's dry, yes, I'm using a comb, I'm using a wide tooth comb, a pick to just really arrange things. How I like it no matter what I do to the back, though using my finger as a roller using a comb. The back just keeps flipping out. I'M also going to twirl these bits at the top. Just so that I like, where everything is landing and then I'm going to bust out the diffuser and oh my gosh, yes, the round brush, how is this going to go? Well I'll show you, okay, run low speed and low heat, I'm going to use the round brush to do the job. That, just my my hand, can't I really just want to make sure that it's curling under at the back. This is a French Bob. It'S got a certain look to it, and just holding the diffuser up has not been cutting it lately. So bringing the round brush in to do the job, both on sort of a bottom layer and on a kind of middle of my head layer up, has really made a huge difference. Is it blowout? I don't think so because then I'm going to come in with the diffuser, so the diffuser helps me get that shape back in my hair, I'm going to use the round brush around my ear so on these wispy bits that I'm growing out from the pixie and Then I'll come back in with my diffuser again to sort of Judge all that up help those curls start to form. My hair naturally wants to bend and if you know you know, if you are a quote, unquote fake wavy, like me, you know I'm using hair story, undressed, it's a texture spray, it's sort of like a salt spray without the salt, it's like a really really lightweight Spray gel before I go in with that section on my left to really help the curls pop up a bit more and I'm sure I'll do the same. There we go at the back and then I'll do it at the front. I really like to use it right before I diffuse each section, because it is a heat activated, quick drying product. So if I Spritz it all over and then diffuse my hair, it just disappears it it just it doesn't do what it's supposed to do, but if I put it on and then immediately hit the diffuser with it while it's still wet, it makes a big big Difference so I twist some of those pieces I spray it on and then I load the diffuser and then hold it there for a few seconds on low speed, low heat, you can do medium speed. You can do medium heat if that works better for you, and it just really helps those curls to come back together with the bangs. You don't need to do much, we're not going for blown out bangs, but it takes a while for our curl patterns to develop. So it looks completely normal for your bangs to be on the straighter side. Now, let's move on to clipping Our Roots, there is a definite art to this. I'M telling you and it's going to take you a while to get it right, don't get frustrated. I admit. I'M better at doing them on my clients than I am on myself, but I want you guys to see how I do it at home. There'S no wrong way to do this. I promise you and it might take you a dozen times before you feel like you've got it, but that's okay. So I've got a couple on the front a couple on the sides, one on the back, I'm just putting them where I need a little bit of lift because again going back to the fact that our wave pattern takes a little time to develop. It really gives me a little bit more texture at the root to have those clips in they're also going to make it possible for me to maintain some height that I wouldn't be able to. Otherwise it's all intentional. So if I know there's a piece flipping towards my eyes, it's going to bug me all day, I'm going to flip it the other way and then hold the diffuser up to it and that's going to make a huge, huge difference. And now I'm diffusing with the Clips in I'm creating that bump at the top. That'S my lift, lift is from the top of your head. Volume is out from the sides, so I'm going back and just setting this is sort of the final set with the Clips. In with the diffuser, my hair is already probably 80 85 percent dry, and now I'm just setting everything into place. You can even bump down that heat to cool. If you want to I'm going to do that in a minute to just give my scalp skin a blast of cool air, and it really helps to set everything now, I'm just checking is everything living where I want it to be. Where do I still want a little bit of volume, or where do I want to modify this shape a little bit, and then I pick those pieces up and then hit it with the diffuser one bit at a time almost done. But you see how this is taken shape there we go now, I'm popping it down to low heat should be on cool, probably on no heat. It feels so good. At this point, remember I've hardly done anything with my bangs since it takes our wave patterns. A little while to develop it's totally totally fine to have bangs that are straighter they're, not curly, bangs we're not going for a bang blowout, but you know all right now: we've got the back all done. Looking really good quite pleased with how this has turned out, and I would go so far as to say it doesn't look like a blowout at all, so it's really just all about using the right tools. You know what I mean foreign. I mean look at these results, though it doesn't look like a blowout right, not even the back wavy through and through. So I would say when you need gross okay, still wavy through and through just with the little added control. So you be the judge you decide. What'S right, for you, all, I'm here to say, is use the tools and techniques that work for you. The rules are what you make of them. Have a happy holiday friends, talk to you soon, bye foreign