3 Ways To Air Dry Thick Hair | Kenra Platinum

In the salon, we always have clients who love coming in to get that full beautiful blowout. However, sometimes clients just want a low-maintenance finish and want to be able to be on the go or they might be getting in for a last-minute cut or a color retouch service. Air dry cream is the perfect product to finish them with, so that you can create a polished, purposeful, end results, but that's really easy to wear this air dry technique is called smooth waves. This is great for anyone who has a more medium texture but high density. So for my client here, what I'm looking at is how much curl pattern she actually has and then, in terms of the end result, this set is great for creating smooth defined waves that really maintain and hold that frizz. In the first thing I'm gon na do before I start my set is: how will dry my clients, hair? If you remember from our previous set the amount of moisture we leave in the hair should directly correlate with how much curl pattern they have so because you can see. My client here has a little bit more wave. We'Re gon na leave more of that moisture in because that's gon na really help us maintain and control any of the frizz that might be exposed. So I would say it's a good idea to towel dry, just the mids and ends very slightly, but definitely leave some of that moisture in to apply product with someone that has more curl pattern and a more medium texture. I am gon na use a little bit more than the dime size benchmark. This is kind of more like a quarter amount and I'm gon na work this through the mids and ends, but also not be afraid to work it in the base, as well for increased fullness and even more style memory. Layer encounter platinum, thickening. This remember that anytime you're layering products in while using air dry cream, it's so important to use air dry cream first, just so that it absorbs into the cuticle layer and decreases your air dry time by sixty percent, as I'm layering this product and a pro tip To make sure that it's evenly saturated throughout the hair is to dispense the mousse on your comb, I like using a wide tooth comb just because it's easy to get through the hair and then working it through in subsections. This is one of my favorite product application tips that I love using for any client. That'S looking to maximize longevity that their style has, while the mousse is going to create fullness. It'S also going to help make sure that we're locking in the shape, we're creating now that my products all applied, I'm going to figure out where my client wants to part their hair and I'll adjust the way my air dry set is placed according to that. I'M going to focus on achieving the back part of my set first, so we're just gon na section out the front of the hair and clip it out of the way, unlike the last set with this one, we're still gon na be over dragging the hair. But I'm definitely gon na utilize, a brush and higher tension to really smooth out the hair. This is gon na purposely elongate my clients, natural curl pattern, while making sure that we're smoothing any flyaways starting in the back nape subsection, I'm gon na brush the hair. Until it's nice and smooth on all surfaces of my subsection and twist it into place a protip as you get to the ends of the hair is to not be afraid to brush through them as needed. The more you smooth it out, the better that end result will be because my clients, hair texture, is more medium and it's definitely high density. I like securing the subsection with a clip just on the end now we'll move on to this top subsection and do the same thing. A pro tip for achieving max volume is to over direct the brush all the way up, 180 degrees, so that all of these hairs at the base are elevating to really create that added volume in the crown I'll do the same thing on the side. Subsections you'll notice other than my clients, part line. I use my fingers to subsection out each quadrant. This is really important because, although we want our subsections to be clean, we don't want really defined lines, because those will be harder to brush out and create a natural flow to end result. So just make sure that your part lines are nice and natural, but still clean to customize. This look. If you're looking for even more smooth waves, you could totally do more buns than just the four that I did customize this to each client, just based on the M result. They'Re looking for this next air-dry technique is an anti-frizz set. This is gon na be great for anyone who has the natural curl or wave but wants to really control frizz as much as possible. What'S really important, for this look is to make sure that the hair is extremely wet. I wouldn't even recommend towel drying it at all. Until you get some of the moisture out, naturally anytime, we disrupt the cuticle pattern of the hair for this set it's gon na create frizz. So you want to avoid that as much as possible from the start for product application, we're gon na use a dime size, but we're gon na use that amount per quadrant. So for about this amount of hair, based on her texture and density, I'm gon na use a dime size of the air dry cream. You want to make sure that you're really coating the hair with this product so that it can receive all of the benefits, including anti frizz. Once I get each subsection coated the product, then I can start kind of scrunching the hair up squeezing out some of that moisture and allowing some of these curls to start coming together. I'Ll continue applying product this way, all throughout the top of the hair. Once I get all the product evenly saturated throughout the hair, I like to tote my clients head back just slightly to let it fall, but again, I'm being so gentle with the hair. So it's really important to make sure you're not raking through it you're, not creating any tension, because any tension will elongate, curl and again create frizz. So this is just to help continue to encourage those curl groupings and maintain as much smoothness as possible to continue encouraging movement. I'M gon na have my client do the same thing tilting her head and just scrunch on either side. You can see all the definition. My client has because her Kroeger things have come together, so this is predominantly how we want to let her air dry just to ensure that we're maintaining as much force as possible anytime, you touch the hair, that's gon na encourage frizz. So just let her go like this and then one thing you can do is use these little clips to kind of lift the curl groupings and set the hair for volume. Once the hair dries and the moisture is more removed, you can feel free to shake it out and break it up a little bit, but again until the moisture is gone. This is how you want your client to air dry. A pro tip when executing this air dry set is to make sure that you don't disrupt the hair until it's totally dry, especially if you want to flip the hair over and achieve more volume and kind of shake. It out. Just make sure that it's almost 90 to 100 percent dry before you even do that. The last technique I have to show is a soft wave technique. This is great for any clients that have a higher density and especially longer hair, as it creates a beautiful soft motion, while still maintaining a lot of volume start. This set, I'm going to part my clients hair. She typically parts on this side, however, because her hair is so long and it does have quite a bit of weight to it. I'M actually gon na set it on the opposite side. This will ensure that she experiences as much volume as possible when she takes down the set to ensure there's as much movement as possible in the hair. It'S important to towel drive really well, especially through the mids and ends before you apply product product application. For this set is going to be about a quarter size and I'll focus on working it through the mids and ends for this set. I want to encourage as much natural movement as possible, so I'm gon na treat the hair just like a fabric, not using too high of tension and being really gentle with it, taking large subsections and kind of placing them. According to how my clients, hair naturally, Falls. I'M going to use a little bit of our counter platinum, texturizing taffy. It'S really gon na help me smooth flyaways, but also encourage the shape I'm creating for this set. I'M gon na do a two strand double twist to do this I'll wrap one strand over the other, and I'm also going to twist this second section one more time, so each one gets twisted forward and backward which helps to ensure that the twist stays in place. You can see, as I'm sub sectioning out the hair, I'm really just letting it organically happen. Don'T get too bent up on making your sections perfect. The more naturally are the more natural the end result. It'S also okay, to remember that any imperfections of the hair while you're setting it will also make it look more natural. Another great pro tip for creating as much movement as possible is to do these in smaller subsections. If you do decide, you want a little bit more body and volume versus texture and movement. You can always create these and bigger subsections. The smaller the subsection, the more texture you'll see. Soft waves is one of my favorite techniques to educate my clients on because the technique is super simple, being just two strand twists and it's something they can do at home.