Blowing out your natural hair can be very easy and painless. Below I have compiled a complete list from start to finish on the most effective way to blow out your natural hair. These steps will assure you have less breakage, more control, and smoother hair.
How to Blow-Out your Natural Hair
- Shampoo your hair with a cleansing shampoo. I recommend doing this twice, rinse and remove as must water as possible
- Apply conditioner and rinse. I recommend a normal conditioner, or a light protein conditioner if your hair is in need of the protein.
- With a tee-shirt, remove all excess water
- Add leave-in conditioner to damp hair not dripping wet hair
- Let your hair air dry for a few minutes. Allowing your hair to dry a little prior to applying heat helps the cuticle to close, trapping more moisture inside of the hair’s cortex
- Hair types 1a-2c: let air dry hair to 60-70%
- Hair types 3a-4c: braid and or two-strand twist your hair into 4 – 6 sections and let your hair air dry in those braids/twist until 50-60%. This will elongate your curls and help in the stretching process.
- Starting with the first section, apply your heat protectant from roots to ends—this should be done for each section. If using a high-quality heat protectant, you will not have to use as much product. Apply a heat protectant to each section on 60-70% dry hair for 1a-2c hair types, and 50-60% for 3a-4c hair types.
- My favorite heat protectants for blowing out my hair are:
- Matrix Total Results Repair Break Fix Leave-In Elixir – you can read more about this product here.
- Design Essentials HCO
- My favorite heat protectants for blowing out my hair are:
- Applying heat protectant to damp hair also acts as a filler and sealant to the hair’s cuticle, resulting in more protection for the hair shaft
- Blow-dry your hair with a nozzle in small, easy-to-work sections. This will control the hair and prevent damage from tangles and getting too rough. Repeat until you have dried all of your hair.
- Conclude with a cool blast and style your hair as normal. Ending your blow-dry with a cool blast helps to keep the work you have done…done. Cool air on hot hair seals the bond that was created when blow-drying allowing the blow-dry to be more effective.
I can wear my blow out for two weeks before I have to cleanses my hair again. I find wearing high buns and cornrows during physical activities helps keep my hair straight longer. Tying my hair down with a silk scarf at night helps to keep my natural oils on my hair instead of on my pillowcase and keeps my edges straight.
See these steps in action…
I hope you found these steps to be helpful and can achieve a great blow-out. I would like to invite you to sign up for my newsletter, this way you will always be in the know with all things MA!
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When you already have a blowout and it starts reverting what can you do? Can you use a blow dryer to straighten it again?
That is an option…I honestly encourage my clients to only place heat on clean hair. If you start to revert in the first week yes hit it with a blowdryer! If its week 2 try wrapping your hair. This is a technique where you wrap your hair against your head to give shape and promote straightness…you should do this every night if possible to get the most out of your blowout! I also link to bun and corn row my hair to extend the blowout! Especially when I workout! Hope this helps
Thank you so much for responding!! This is only day 3 so I will try the blowdryer. And always wrap it even though I dislike it lol. Thank you again!!
Thanks before I used only serum then started the blow out. My hair appeared dry and in two days it was back to its thick kincky nature difficult to manage and style so by the end of the week it’s always covered with a scarf. But now I have learnt that I must moiturise it with leave in then proceed …
Glad this post was helpful! It’s all apart of the learning journey!!!