I’ve been going to same hairdresser for around 18 months, overall I’m very happy with the service, have changed salons with her when she moved, I can get booked in easily, and she never grumbles about my hair being very long and thick (problem I’ve had in the past with some hairdressers just not drying it properly and ending up frizzy again within the hour).
So I go to her to have my roots done every four weeks, and usually a couple of blow dries a month if I’ve got things I want to look especially presentable for.
The problem is that they use these teeny tiny micro fibre towels that aren’t big enough to even go round an adults head fully, and she never tries to towel dry any of the water out first, this means she’s blow drying with an incredibly hot dryer onto sopping wet hair, and that water runs all down my neck and everywhere. Today I was put in a plasticised cape and water had run down it all the way to my toes. Is this normal?
Will it damage my hair to be continually blow dried all the way from sopping to bone dry? Surely it takes longer and therefore gets more heat damage?
Sometimes I randomly find little scabs on my scalp and I’m beginning to wonder if these are caused by how hot her dryer/metal brush get?
My hair is very long (almost to my bottom), very thick and also naturally wavy (used to Shirley Temple esque tight ringlets when I was little but they’ve dropped as I’ve got older and more grey), so surely her job would be made much easier at least towel drying out some of the moisture out first?
Or is there some scientific hair dressing reason why she does it this way?