I feel like I’ve recently struck gold! Perhaps it’s a patch of gold that others have been mining for hundreds of years, but it’s gold, nevertheless!
Before a few weeks ago, I think I’ve used a diffuser when blow drying my hair a grand total of two or three times, if that. When I was in Middle School, my older sister came home with a cool new way to style hair, which of course worked great on her luscious locks. When trying it out on mine, not so much. We diffused it, but it pretty much just turned out snarly and flat. Quite the combination, I know. I may have tried her trick a few times, hence my uncertainty in the number of times I’ve actually picked up a diffuser and aimed it at my own head of hair.
With poor results, I gave up on diffusers and never looked back. Over the years, my hair has developed a much more prominent wave, but I still don’t have “curly” hair, which I mistook for not being able to benefit from a diffuser. But, all that changed when I saw the light shone by Cibu International’s Jenn Mapp in her ever-so-loveable hair tutorials on Youtube.
In unison with promoting Cibu’s Spring Roll Curl Contest, Jenn Mapp had a streak of hair tutorials aimed at curling hair by a variety of different means. Jenn will be the first to tell you, as she often does, that she has straight and fine hair. But, these curling techniques seemed to be working fairly well for her. This puzzled me, especially as she periodically attached a DevaFuser diffuser to her hair dryer for curling and styling purposes.
Diffusers aren’t for anyone but straight-up curly-haired girls, right? Come to find out, I’ve been living a lie. I don’t know where I got the falsehood from, but the blame game isn’t as important as moving forward now knowing the truth. Diffusers still might not work for everyone, but I love blow drying my hair with a diffuser now. It enhances my waves tremendously. I still touch up some of the locks with a curling iron after blow drying with a diffuser, but not nearly as many as I would have felt compelled to had I not gotten such positive results from the diffuser.
For me, diffusing my hair works best if I flip my head over and gently rest upside-down sections of my hair over the diffuser. I go through my hair section by section, without fingering through too much. Obviously what works for me may not work for you so I’d just experiment with blow drying your hair with a diffuser, trying different things, incorporating the use of different products. You never know, using a diffuser on your hair dryer just may be what the doctor ordered, if you have a doctor that’s interested in your beauty habits.
Thank you, once again, Jenn Mapp. To mimic Cibu’s trendy catchphrase, Elizabeth loves you!
