Joseph DiMaggio, Master Session Ambassador for Davines North America
How-to:
Create a center part and apply Davines Your Hair Assistant Blowdry Primer to the root, layering the product onto the hair.
Blowdry the hair with your fingers, beginning at the top to smoothen and seal the cuticle.
Starting from one side, take vertical sections of the hair and apply Davines More Inside This Is a Dry Texturizer and brush to distribute.
Take those vertical sections again and use a 3/4 – 1 inch wand to create a back and forth wave – wrapping the hair once in front for a few seconds and then behind.
Continue to do this until you reach the ends of the hair, which will be left straighter.
Once you’re done working the wand throughout the hair, lightly brush out the top and hand tousle to finish.
Things to keep in mind –
“Definitely blow dry down the cuticle first before you do anything. Even if you’re getting a fluffy texture, you still want to seal your cuticle as much as possible before using heat styling tools. Your cuticle is always open unless you blow-dried it. That’s kind of an a-ha moment for people at home and most hair stylists, to be honest. Unless you actually seal the cuticle with the blow dryer is the only way to do it. Irons won’t do it. If you use irons on air-dried hair, you’re putting 400 and something degrees direct to the cuticle dehydrating it. That’s where it breaks and gets dried.”
On natural hair –
“Natural hair, the first thing you would do is blow dry it first to seal the cuticle and get a nice, clean, smooth gloss at first. Then go at it with the iron. Nothing really changes at all, except for the blow dry will be a little bit more intense.”
“Use a mixed bristle brush. Whether that’d be a flat brush or a round brush, as long as it has boar bristles and nylon together because that would give you the maximum control, polish, and tension…. start with a little bit more saturation so that we lock in the moisture instead of just drying it out right away.”