to wonder why hairdressers seem to be incapable of blow-drying hair without resorting to straighteners?

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And I don't like straighteners.

Why can't they just do a normal blow-dry anymore? It seems that whether you want your hair straight, curly or wavy, the straighteners come out. I feel like the hairdresser is cheating a bit, there used to be skill involved in a blow-dry.

Straighteners damage your hair and I don't want then used on my hair.

The hairdresser asked me at the beginning how I wanted it dried, I said "just a good blow-dry please", she then said "okay then shall I go over it with the straighteners or curl it?" I said "no thank you". Then she did it anyway.

And I know IABU because I didn't tell her to stop. I just sat there, made a face, then didn't leave a tip.

And, they always tug really hard on any knots, it hurts! I need to find a good hairdresser.

That was Crow Road ones in Anniesland

I wouldn't return to a hairdressers that couldn't dry my hair without straighteners. Being able to dry hair with tension is a basic skill that's learnt at hair college, isn't it?

I go to the Rainbow Room in Stirling and they don't use straighteners on my hair. The blow dry it into a lovely bouncy bob. MyDD goes to one of the Glasgow branches and they don't straighten her hair either. She has luscious Kate Middleton hair which looks great blow dried. It's expensive but they are very good.

Mine doesn't use them on me, she knows I like my waves big and bouncy and has never suggested it, although she has shown me how to use them for curling. I use them at home to sort out wayward bits of fringe but that's about all.

I now go for cuts and blow drys to a 'Little Old Lady/Shampoo and Set' place near DM.

Seriously, it's these types of places bread and butter. Their stock clientele have never heard of/use straighteners, unless they lived through the roaring twenties!

I have a shoulder length, layered bob, very thick, corse, crinkly hair. Always comes out well.

I go somewhere else for my colour. As much grey as I have, I'm not ready for lavender hair (yet). :-)

Giraffe and Littlewhitebag how much would a cut and blowdry be in Rainbow Rooms? There is one fairly near me. I don't get my hair cut as regularly as I should so if it isn't too much, I could try it since I wouldn't be going often!

Chica me neither, that's why I've been to so many! I just can't find a good one.

If you don't want your hair straightening and prefer a more natural blow dried look to enhance a great cut, ask for a Wrap Dry.

Colleges don't really teach a range of finishing skills these days, they just teach enough to enable the students to qualify.

It's up to the student to improve their knowledge and skills after qualifying in the same way you don't become a great driver on the day you pass your test.

My hair dries straight if the time is taken with it. My hairdresser is good and asks if I want straightners used.

Not sure but it varies on who you see - if you go to the top stylist then they are much more than the newbie! So they are all a different price scale for same thing.

Also rainbow rooms have the training academy which means you can get it done very cheaply but it is overseen by the top ones.

The hairdresser's I go to never uses straighteners.

Which one are you near? My DD goes to the one in the West End - Great Western Road. If that one is your nearest i will ask her who does hers.

New stylist vote with your feet. I've changed hairdressers about 3 times in past 2 years as they either want to colour it too dark, 1 hairdresser didn't cut well (she looked so bored too) and the 3rd when I asked about highlights but colouring grey roots tried to argue the toss even when I asked her nicely.

I voted with my feet, now with Sean Hanna, pricey but they do what I say!

Have to say even my Supercuts (when I went for a fringe trim a few years ago) even they wouldn't use straighteners and I was thinking of buying the steam ones and they told me no, bad for the hair. I was v impressed with that advice though they knew their stuff.

Rainbow Rooms in Glasgow don't always use straightens. In fact they seem very keen to do 'bouncy curls' (not with straighteners) even when you want it straight.
I've had mine blow dried straight a couple of times instead of then using straighteners.

Do you ask them not to use straighteners? Sorry if you already said, don't have time to read the thread properly...

I trained as a hairdresser and we learned how to do a proper blow dry, though I can see why if you were going to a cheap, chain salon they'd do it quickly and use straighteners to perfect it. When you train, you are given a time limit in which to do each task, and if you had a cut and finish, they'd use heat tools as well because it gets the nicer look much quicker.

However, if you're going in for a blow dry and they're using other tools, then that's silly because you've gone for a proper blow out, so you should either complain or say 'Please don't use straighteners, I just want a blow out.'

My hairdresser does a fab blow dry lasts for days. Sometimes I ask her to straighten it too, but she always asked what I want. £25 cut and blow job in west lothian. Not too far from Glasgow! You could get the train?

Every time I say no straighteners they get very annoyed at me and insist on doing it anyway, so I don't know why I get given an option. :(

Sniggers at Glaikit. :o

I trained in the 90s (mid) when every second cut was the "Rachel". Lots of layering and blow drying with a big round boars hair hairbrush. I don't work as a stylist now but the odd time I do my friends hair they want it straightened. Nothing flattens all that lovely volume than bloody ghds. Plus I'm gonna say it. Ghd curls look shit.

Russell Cowie on Dumbarton road in Partick. Probably the best blow dry ever, I had about 12 round brushes in my hair at one point. Beautiful curly do that lasted days. Apparently he sends everyone to blow drying classes! He does a great cut but you want the -not quite a junior but not yet a stylist - to do the blow dry.

Hee hee at Glaikit

But is 'blow out' a proper phrase? It's been an age since I went to the hairdressers, so I have no idea what to call anything anymore!

Just don't do what my friend's grandmother did a few years ago when her hairdresser went to do the usual set-with-rollers-sit-under-the-dryer thing. "I think I would like to try one of those blow jobs this time."

My usual hair dresser blow dries my hair straight with no straighteners, but last time I went I saw another hairdresser. I asked her to dry it curly because I'm trying to embrace my natural curl, and she blow dried it straight -then used straighteners to put the curl back in!-

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