Anyone else hate the hairdressers blowdry?

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Honestly my hair is fine and no matter which hairdressers I go I end up looking like it's stuck to my head.
No volume it's just lank and straight.
Then they go over it with straighteners which makes it even worse.
No matter how many times j say I like volume.
Why can't they do a blow dry with volume.

I've cultivated and grown my balls ..its taken a while and I now speak up when I don't like anything she's done...she's and to wet and re blow dry for me before .

A while ago I got caught in a thunderstorm on the way to the salon and went in looking like I'd gone through a hedge backwards. The woman made my hair look even worse.

"Like it?" She said.
"The cut's fine," I said. " But good job I don't have plans tonight. I wouldn't be seen dead with my hair looking like this."

Then she suddenly came to life and started fluffing around with products and a comb. I assume because I went in looking bedraggled she got it into her head I was some kind of urchin who didn't know how to look acceptable and could be fobbed off.

It was a designer salon on Strand in London. She read my magazine over my shoulder while she was doing my hair.

I never went back.

God I soooo have this problem. I have curly hair. I don't want it blow dried straight. It needs lots of product and a blow dry with volume. My favourite blow dry ever was with big rollers which gave me sleek but bouncy curls I loved it. I asked for this the last time I had my hair cut and the look I got!! "Well I think we've got some rollers soooommmewhere around here...." said with utter disdain. They blow dry it so it is limp and flat against my head and any volume they do introduce falls out within minutes. I regularly go home and rewet my hair, bung my curl cream in it, tip my head upside down and diffuse it. Bingo, head full of bouncy non frizzy curls. Why can a qualified hairdresser not manage this?

lamb EXACTLY! Why can us untrained plebs achieve something acceptable and those who do it every day seem blind to what looks good?

You definite need a different hairdresser. I have fine lank hair too but my hairdresser can make it look full of body and all bouffanty. And she doesn't come anywhere near me with her thinning scissors!

Lexi problem is I must have tried 50 in my life and seldom found a goodun - how do you locate the decent ones? Not like they advertise their individual talents

So agree. The older I get, the starker a straightened cut looks. I have tried lots of hairdressers in the last few years and have only found one who can blow dry it with some body and bounce. There's a vintage -y hairdresser near me, and they seem skilled at blow dries - anything like this near you?

My hair is coarse and curly and short and grey. My hairdresser cuts it approximately wet, then diffuses it almost dry and then spends another 20 minutes finishing it so each curl is cut into the style. Then I do nothing but wash it for eight weeks until the next appointment. She's a national treasure and her phone number is one of the top things I would save in a house fire. I have been to a lot of hairdressers on several continents in my almost 60 years!

My hairdresser said never let anyone near your hair with a thinning scissors and l have plenty of volume. I usually say keep it down now, l don't want a big high head going out. But l love my blow dries. Its my one big luxury. You need to find a new hairdresser. And mine also spends ages removing any dye marks.

I have been disappointed too. Great looking cut when I last went- could see shape but despite saying j didn't want a "bowl" and sleek blow dry ended up with a puffy ball. Time before I could have kissed the guy as he did a choppy Bob with swingy bits and waves. Loved it as my hair so fine. I made the mistake of assuming other guy could do the same...

I love it! But I always stop them from doing the straighteners - poker straight hair does nothing for me.

Yes! It doesn't matter where I go, expensive or not so, there has only been one blow dry I remember (circa 2012) that was impressive.

I've been with my colour/cut combination of hairdressers for years and the colourist is now super well known. But can they do blow drys? No. I'm usually having a keratin 'do too, so I go home looking like a greasy 90s reject til I crumble and wash my hair (usually later that day or my DD screams that she hates me with 'that hair').

It may be my fault. When I say smooth, some volume but no sausage curls or straightening irons, they obviously hear something else. Much like, I never quite get it right having a manicure. When they ask what shape you like. Straight or round always comes out different, and never what I thought. You think I'd learn..

My hairdresser asked me how I'd like my hair dried. I asked her to give me the options. One of them was "with movement" which I opted for and was very pleased.

I think you need to change your hairdressers. The girls at my salon are total blowdry experts, I wish that I could afford to have it done every week. There's a guy who is dreadful but the girls are amazing. They either do a lovely curly blowdry which lasts until I was my hair or a non flat straight blowdry. I've got super thick wavy hair and they have never ever used straighteners. I always know it's going to be a good blowdry when they really pull the hair from the roots as they dry it. When they do nothing more than tickle with the brush it's always going to be a failure.

Why not just get it cut, style it yourself and save some money? I have the straightest hair in the world ( and am baffled as to the existence of hair straighteners), and use big Velcro rollers with a good styling mousse. This gives my hair some volume and lasts until I wash it again 3 days later.

I ask for a rough dry now, I have fine hair but round here they love to pouff it up and according to DH I come out looking like Hilary Clinton so I avoid it..

Mine is mega curly and they all seem to make me have huge hair (think Beyoncé curls)
My current hairdresser is fab, I sit under a heat thing until it's damp and then go. Otherwise I just have it cut and leave, no drying at all. It works best left alone

Definitely do not go back to this hairdress OP, she does not sound good at all. I find the current guy who does my colour on Instagram - I searched the name of salons that I wanted to visit and then followed individual stylists to see photos of their work and that was how I chose.

Alternatively, if you see other women around whose hair you like (and who also have fine hair) ask who does their hair!

Good luck!

I have never been to a hairdresser who has done a good blow dry on my hair, its normally so flat and lanky and straight. I manage to blowdry volume and straighten it without it looking so flat so why cant they? I just go for a rough dry now because its always so bad

My hairdresser is obsessed with trying to tame my thick course hair. I tell her to cut it and I go home with wet hair to dry myself. There is no point straightening it because it goes back to type within an hour.

I think I need to keep searching and they do the thing where they pull your hair round by your chin.
It's bloody awful it makes me look deranged.
I look so much better without poker straight hair.

Why don't you tell them what you want? Don't sit there while she uses the thinning scissors and say nothing. Speak up when she takes out the straighteners...if you don't tell them then how are they supposed to know?

It sounds naff but I ask for a French girl dry and they rough dry it messy with a little salt spray and hair spray. I love it and do it at home now too.
Much better than the straighteners!

I honestly think there are quite a lot of hairdressers out there who aren't interested in blow drys. The main work for them is cutting and colouring. The blow dry is a bit like washing up after cooking a nice meal, the foods the main event but the washing up just gets done quick to get it out of the way.
My hair is wavy and if it's not blow dried well it goes fluffy/frizzy. The times I've told hairdressers that I want it drying, bouncy, not flat, with movement but they still set too with a paddle brush and straighteners. I've been told that it needs to be srraight so she could check the cut had it dried flat by another, then been asked if its ok and when I said I didn't want it flat, she then said oh you should have said, well I had done, so she just ruffeled it up a bit. I've got the type of hair that isn't thick but I've got plenty of it and a few hairdressers have commented on it saying I'd more hair than they realised, I think they get a bit bored of doing it.

Tell them you don't want the straighteners. I always say I want my hair bouncy. The last time it was so over the top full, the hairdresser said I looked like one of the housewives of Orange County and I did.

I know what you mean re the thinning scissors. Once I had a whole haircut with a razor. I then had to go to another hairdresser the next day to have the wisps cut off and then it looked like a basin.

I also sometimes leave with my hair wet and do it myself the way I like it when I get home.