Hi, I'm Jean Godfrey-June. I'm the beauty editor at goop,
and I'm here today to answer one of the most common questions I get in my Ask Jean column:
"How do I do an amazing blow-dry that looks like I went to the salon?"
We're gonna talk to Harry Josh. He's the hair guru of all time.
He's done the hair of every beautiful woman on earth, including GP.
But this blow-dry is gonna work for anybody.
So whether you're someone who may not have this incredible thick, wavy hair like Renee,
you'll still be able to benefit.
I'm gonna start off with some sectioning clips. Now for sectioning your hair,
the most important thing you want to do is create five clean sections.
If you do not have organization with your blow-dry, you will be defeated, and it will not be a good blow-dry.
And this works no matter what your hair type?
Correct. If you've got fine hair, straight hair, frizzy hair, it shouldn't make a difference.
You have a section here, a section there, a section there, and then the full back was just divided down the middle.
And we have a bun here, and this is our down section because this is where we're going to begin.
Having a blow-dryer is really important—having a strong blow-dryer is beyond important.
Now this particular dryer happens to have an ion setting. Ion settings are basically to help defrizz hair.
As I grab my section of hair, I am really aiming the nozzle down.
What we're doing is we're kind of laying down all those short bits on the hair
that really will help keep it nice and smooth, super shiny.
You can feel how soft that feels already with just one pass.
Oh yeah.
Really nozzle and airflow, which is just this little guy here, is gonna make a big difference.
Now what I've created in this particular blow-dryer is two different nozzles.
I happen to be using the finer nozzle, so when I'm tugging with that brush it's compressing
all that thick hair into this silk finish.
Cup that in your hand and you're gonna comb through it once just to make sure there's no knots and tangles.
You really want to just hover right above it and pull it.
Maiden voyage everybody!
And spin that brush, and you're just gonna slowly, slowly guide that above. And you want to go slower.
She's actually going too fast for this.
You want to actually get it dry while you pull.
If you take your time doing the blow-dry well, you'll be able to milk it for three days.
And you'll have great lipo muscles!
Yeah, and you'll have great arm muscles.
Not so shabby! That is really not so shabby at all.
So this is great because you get the goal, which is having that nice finish on the end that has a bit of a kick.
There's gonna be lots of hair tossing today.
Lots of hair tossing today—I can feel it already.
Now all we have left is what I call the Mohawk.
Or we can leave it!
Or we can leave it and you can totally do a little topknot there if you run out of time.
Take out an inch section from the front and get rid of all that in the back.
So now, for everyone who's watching, what we're gonna do is
we're gonna blow-dry her hair down toward her nose.
So that when she wants to kick it back, it'll have so much lift, so you're gonna get a little volume by doing that.
Just kind of rotate the brush forward as you're starting to pull
and take all that texture change into consideration.
All right so, as you see, we get a great bouncy section. Every dryer has a cold feature.
Now what's great about this specific cold shot is that it comes out literally arctic.
Why that's important for a blow-dry like this is because when you've got those beautiful bends
and shapes and you want to lock them in,
you're gonna see right now—I'm gonna get you to actually blast the cold air.
So turn it on. Roll it out. Look at that, all that kind of flipped.
Look at that, guys! Check that out!
You can see the difference between that kind of bend and not doing the cold-air bend.
Yeah! No product in there. That's crazy!
No product. Here's a great hair hack.
I know everyone gets a lot of these kind of flyaways and broken hairs
and they really are prominent after a good blow-dry.
If you are somebody who uses a brow gel, we're just gonna start to tack all this down.
And it doesn't weight it.
It doesn't weight it because it's basically just conditioner
and I'm working my way through the hair until they're all gone.
So this is the finished result.
I'm just super impressed about the five sections, going really slow,
and I didn't ever expect to have my hair look like this after I blow-dried it.
After you blow-dried it, no less. Like you've had it done in salons, but for you to be able to do that,
really, really impressive, and I hope everyone learned a ton because I know she did.