Remember being a teenager and paging through magazines looking at all the perfect hairstyles? Then you grow up and realize that a skilled team of people with a slew of tools helped the model achieve that look. If you saw the same model pre-makeover she’d look a lot like you do in the morning, barefaced and in need of a deep conditioner. The cool thing about beauty products and styling tools is that it gives everyone a chance at transformation. Styling tools take your hair from wet to dry, from curly to straight and from limp to voluminous. Get the right tools and you can change your world.
Blow Dryers
The blow dryer is the basic workhorse of your hairstyling operation. If you have money for nothing else, get the blow dryer. You can use it to do basic blow outs, and you can create curls by braiding or knotting wet hair and blow drying. That’s a start. The best professional hair dryers come with attachments and like diffuser nozzles and allow you to manipulate the settings to best suit your comfort level and styling needs.
The HSI Dryonizer 3300 is a professional ceramic blow dryer with a touchscreen LCD on the side to access functions and settings. It has an 1875 watt ionic ceramic HeatBalance motor for drying and styling power. The Dryonizer has dual-speed capability, and with three heat settings and two air flow nozzles, you end up with the capability to have salon styling right in your bathroom. And it’s not heavy, so your arm won’t ache after doing your hair.
The Curling Wand
If you love curly styles, you will eventually need a curling wand. Most of the time people buy one size and stick with that, but the really picky girls who know that you need, sa, a 2” barrel to get bigger, more disco era style curls will end up with a drawer full of implements which can be a pain in the morning getting ready for work, or if you only have 15 minutes to refresh your look before a date. If you had a styling tool with the interchangeable curling wand set you’d be able to fine tune your hair styles with less stress.
The HSI Groover Kit has four wands, from ¾ inch to 1.5. The ceramic tourmaline coated barrels heat up in seconds and can evenly distribute heat along the curl to lock in sophisticated style. There are 8 HeatBalance microsensors in the Groover’s base to regulate heat from 170 to 450 degrees, so you can feel safe curling both your own hair and hair extensions. Now you can create a smaller curl for bangs and then use a larger barrel to set the rest of the hair without fumbling through a drawer or switching plugs in the outlet.
Flat Irons
Stick straight hair doesn’t always come naturally. And even if your hair is straight naturally, you may still use a salon style flat iron to make it look even and professional. Curly hair extensions can be straightened as well. So once you have blowouts and curls down, you’ll probably be looking to add straightening tools to your hair styling arsenal.
A great tool to look at would be the Glider Ceramic Flat Iron a 1” ceramic flat iron that heats up in seconds. The high quality ceramic plates feature that same 8 HeatBalance sensors that heat the plates evenly throughout. It heats up from 170 to 450, and you can actually use it as a curling iron (2 for 1!) because of the floating plates rounded edges. That means you can be super straight from roots to tips, then bend the ends of the hair to take the severity out of the style, but you didn’t have to switch to another tool.
Accessories
Now that you’re a pro at styling with heat tools, you’re going to need a few accessories. The argan oil hair spray gives you the argan oil infused hair product you need to protect hair from scorching and brittleness along with a brush to make your blowouts more sensational. The argan oil works with the heat to create gloss and shine, so that’s a win-win. A heat resistant glove protects the hand when using curling wands and flat irons, so that’s a must have. A lot of brands are throwing those in for free when you purchase a styling tool, but just in case, it doesn’t hurt to have an extra.