Hey everyone and so happy to be talking to you guys.
So as you can tell by the title of this video, this is a voluminous hair tutorial.
So it's definitely not the first time that I've made a video
about adding volume to hair.
Volume is just so universally flattering on anyone, literally, anyone.
If you think about it what does gravity do to everything on earth?
It just kind of keeps us grounded, keeps us, you know, down.
What does that do to our faces over time?
It makes everything kind of droop down.
So what volume does, is you look airer,
you look like you're standing taller.
Youthful kind of careless, so much more movement in the hair.
So when I was inspired to do this voluminous tutorial,
I knew that I had to share with you guys the Get Lifted Root Spray by eSalon.
This stuff smells amazing.
I want to bathe in this.
Most of you I'm sure have heard or I hope you have heard
if you've watched any of my videos,
you've heard me talk about eSalon so, so many times
and if you watched my LA Vlog, just a couple weeks ago,
where we went to LA,
we met with the people from eSalon
and I was just so inspired and like I said,
I definitely thought, you know, I need to go back to my favorite thing
and do an updated video on how to add, like proper volume to the hair.
All I use is a blow-dryer and a brush and a few products.
Okay, so my hair is about 50 to 60% dry.
There's definitely still a lot of wetness at the scalp and at the root,
which is where we need it to have enough wetness
so that we can still train the hair and really lift the hair.
So I'm gonna start with the Get Lifted Root Lift spray by a eSalon
and spraying that all over my roots.
And it smells amazing.
So I feel when I use a root lifter, it almost doubles as like a dry shampoo
because I feel like it so makes the blowout lasts so much longer
and not only that you're left with incredible volume.
So pretty awesome, right?
And fact that it smells really clean, it doesn't smell necessarily like perfumy
or like you just, you know, apply that styling product.
It actually, feels like, you know, your hair is like freshly washed.
So that's what it smells like the second I-- So that's awesome.
So once I've massaged the product through,
you can kind of see that even though with wet hair, it already wants to lift.
So that means the product is working.
So then I'm going to go ahead and blow out my hair.
I'm going to put my head upside down
or over direct the hair in the opposite direction of where it's going to be laying
and that's what's already going to be creating some of that volume.
So say, the hair on this side is, you know, falling this way,
I would blow it out in the opposite direction this way.
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So now that I've got the roots pretty dry, we're gonna go in with a round brush.
I like to use a big, big round brush on my hair
and the reason for that is because I have fairly straight-ish hair.
Obviously, I have a lot of like kinky kind of waves
but my root for the most part is straight.
So I have a lot of clients thinking that the bigger the round brush,
the bigger the volume and that's not necessarily the case.
So for someone that has really kinky, really wavy curly hair
but still wants volume at the root,
if you use this big brush, if you can see like...
I'm never gonna get it as close to the root.
So basically, you're almost leaving a little bit
that never gets brushed by the brush
and you get airflow at it
but you don't get like the tension from the brush.
So if you have very hard to rule hair, very heavy hair,
I would use a smaller brush and that's just
because you can get a lot closer to that root
and really manipulate the hair in the direction you want it to go in.
Another little handy tip with using a hairbrush
that just a couple of days ago a client had a question that was, like,
"Wow are you ever gonna explain this?"
And it's kind of-- To me, it seems like very common sense
but I figured if she asked, you guys probably have the same question.
So a lot of people will say, like,
"I will not even take a round brush to my hair
because it'll get caught and stuck and it's super scary
and I end up having to cut like a chunk of my hair off."
and that is super scary.
So my tip for her was, when you are just trying to get root at the volume,
you don't need to, like wind the hair all over the brush.
So when you grab that section, say, I'm blow-drying this section here
and say, the blow dryer is aiming, airflow this way, like towards the ends of the hair
and I'm grabbing this brush and I'm tucking it under here.
The whole point is that we don't really necessarily twist.
You see how I just got hair in there,
then that creates a big tangled mess.
So, you treat this as if it was like a flat brush with bristles coming up at the hair,
but even though you have bristles all around
that's just to help you at the end when you try to bevel
and it makes it go a lot faster
because technically, it's like an endless sided brush,
there's not only one side that it works on.
So imagine just tucking that in there with the air flowing this way
and you just come down, then when you're at the end,
if you want a little bit of beveling then you can kind of twist still with the air on it
and then you get beveling.
But when you tuck that in, like at the hair base, you just tuck that in.
Don't move it, don't try and like angle it.
Once it's in there don't move it, you just glide it down.
So if any of you have that challenge,
I hope that this has, you know, helped you understand that.
So okay.
So I'm gonna be using my hair parted down the middle,
as I usually do.
So one of the best tricks to add volume
is to not blow dry with the part.
So with the part meaning that if the hairs falling this way,
I don't wanna, like blow out going this way
because I'm never gonna get as much volume.
So what we do is we kind of trick the part
and we're going to get a cross-section like this over the top
and this here will be about 4 to 5 sections.
So we're going to go across,
so I'm just going to start with the front
just because that's what you guys see the easiest.
So that is my first section
and you see how it's across instead of like a vertical that way.
So if you're good, you would have clips
and you can clip your hair the way...
So do you see how it's adding airflow to the bottom?
It sounds kind of productive because it seems like I'm having it down.
But all I'm doing is adding heat to that root area
because now we're going to flip it up
and the fact that this is warm now, this is going to react to the brush.
So wherever I angle the brush, now the hair is going to take that shape,
since it's already warm.
So now going in this way,
now we're actually going to add a little bit of that beveling
and roundedness and just not moving that brush,
just keeping that in there.
Once we've let go, go ahead and work on the ends,
whichever side you want it to bevel in.
I'm going to bevel it in towards the face.
So going to be doing the exact same thing for this section.
Trying to avoid letting any of this wetness
or moisture still from this section of hair to touch this hair that's already dry
and have already set in the shape, you want it to be in.
So once I have that top section pretty dry,
I don't want it to get mixed in with the hair on the bottom that's still wet.
And the reason why we did the top is to get some of that moisture
that was still in the hair attacked first that way we can really train that top hair
and now we give it a few minutes to set while we work on the bottom.
I'm just going to go ahead and grab that into one big section
and then really just tucking this in
and this is just my technique this isn't...
necessarily like the trick to get...
the best volume but I just tucked that
because it doesn't mess with any of the shape of anything we blew out.
I clip it this way so that there are no dents
and you have your hair out of your way so you can work on these bottom sections.
So now I just want to get this hair here like 99% dry.
We don't have to worry so much about the volume on this hair under
because with the weight of the hair on top you're not going to see that.
The only way you can add volume to the top with this hair
is if you actually tease it.
Because no matter how much bounce I get up here,
if that hair then falls on top, this will fall.
So basically, just don't focus so much on the volume on the hair down here.
All we wanna do is smooth it out, add some beveling to the ends.
If that's the look you're going for
or if you want just a smooth sleek blowout.
For now, all I want to do is get all that moisture out
and make it as smooth and sleek as possible.
Okay, so now that the bottom section is done,
I'm going to release that top section
and see if there are any kinks.
Just kind of go over a few more sections and we are ready.
As you can see that just by setting it like that I have gotten a lot more volume.
So as you can see definitely, more voluminous than I typically wear,
which I obviously like this style much more
but of course, it does come with a little bit of effort.
But obviously, when you use the right products it makes it that much easier.
So the next step is going to sound almost a little bit counterproductive
because we're trying to add volume, we want no weight to the hair.
But in order to give it even more of that like brilliance and glamour,
we do have to add some shine into the hair
and especially, like through the ends
because we didn't focus on, you know, making it smooth and sleek necessarily,
we were just trying to give it that Va-Va Voom Volume.
So I'm going to go in with a Sleek Dreams Smoothing Balm
and it's an anti frizz that smooths from the inside out,
holding that shape that you've just created,
which is exactly what we want for this style.
And we don't need much.
Obviously, I'm just going to rub that all over my hands
so that we don't get just like one pocket of intense product.
And of course, as with all eSalon products, they smell absolutely amazing.
Just so good like literally, like you just left
like better than the salon.
I feel like everyone like said, "Your hair smells so good when you leave the salon".
But I feel like they're just so, like normal to me.
But I don't think of that as, like, "Ooh luxurious!"
But all of these products really do make me feel like I smell different
and I smell clean but also very, like feminine and soft.
So it's not one of those, like, "Ooh, it's too much hairspray."
You know, kind of smells so...
So anyway, if you do have a little more time one day this week to try this out.
Add a little volume to your hair
and you will see that you feel like you are literally, floating on clouds that day.
So, I definitely know that my moods are set based on how good my hair looks.
So if you'd like to try some of these awesome eSalon products
that I've mentioned today
and a million times before, do check them out.
They're always so good to me
and they have a 50% discount code for you guys.
So when you're done.
Don't forget to check that out in the description box down below.
I've actually, already stopped the video.
I went and had lunch, I came back, I've put on the smoothing balm
and as you can see, it's been about 50 minutes
and my hair is still hanging up pretty well.
So basically, if the hair kind of last
that first 50 minutes, it'll basically last.
Because now it's cooled off and it's set.
So once it's cooled off,
it's not going to really change shape
unless you're in, you know, intense humidity.
It was so good to sit here and talk to you guys
about my absolute favorite thing, hair.
I love you guys so much.
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