Episode-13 Hair Tools & Smart Choices

This week's episode we discuss at home styling tools, what to buy for styling your hair at home. Along with a brief history of in home hairstyling.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hi, and welcome to Two Chairs, No Filter with Sarah King and Holly, where we bring you real life, real beauty, and an unfiltered conversation.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Welcome to another episode of Two Chairs No Filter with Sarah Kate and Holly. We are back again and we are talking all about hair tools today.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

What should you use when you're styling? What should you should buy? Yeah, exactly. What you should use and what you should buy at home. So we were discussing this probably a year ago because I listened to a podcast talking about the history of home hairstyling. Because we take for granted in our generation that we have all the hair tools accessible for us at home. Whereas our grandmothers, our great-grandmothers and be before had no accessibility to at-home hairstyling. That's why they typically gravitate to a roller.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Honestly.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Absolutely. Yeah. So because that's what they've known. I mean, that was kind of their like precursor to you know us having hot tools and this, that and the other, like hot rollers walked so we could run. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

And a lot of times, like a lot of old school, we're talking grandmothers, like say 30s, 40s, they would home set their hair possibly with a roller, wash their hair once a week, roll their hair up, go to sleep with a bonnet or a tie. Like I remember my grandmother, and she was young in the 80s. I mean, she died at 59. Yeah. She was young to die. Yes. And she would wrap her head head with a scarf to go to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

And she would I cannot imagine sleeping on curlers. No, me either. How like did she sleep sitting up? Like what the hell?

SPEAKER_02 2:03

How did they do that? I mean, I don't know how they did it, but I also think a lot of those spongy rollers had some give to them. I'm not really sure the history of the difference between a brush roller. I remember, um, well, lately on TikTok or on Reels, you see people or stylists putting in a taking a hairbrush, a round brush, and popping a roller on top and then leaving the roller in the hair to give you that bigger blowout look, which was a thing in Europe in the 90s because a girl that I worked with from Ukraine had the brush rollers, like we have some Olivia Garden ones in Salon now. Um, that was a thing, and that's how she learned how to blow dry hair was she had this set of brushes and they would detach, the handle would detach. Yes. So back to the 70s and 80s, I there were these like little metal brushes, brush rollers, they were mini ones, and then they had a pick that would go straight to through them. Um and then come the 80s, the advancement with hot tools came into play, like handheld hair dryers, home permanents, um curling irons, curling brushes, you know, all of those things were very liberating for women.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Mm-hmm. Because I mean, you think like I try to think about my grandma, like she never did, I don't even think she owned a hair dryer at her house. No. Like, I don't think she owned a handheld hair dryer, probably ever, because she went to the salon every week to get her hair washed and set, and then it was set for the week. So she owned a big can of AquaNet and a pick for her hair, but she didn't own shampoo and conditioner to use on herself because she never wash her hair. Right. She didn't own shampoo and conditioner, she didn't own a curling iron, she didn't own a hairdryer. Not that I ever remember seeing, you know, maybe there was a hairdryer as we got older, but I don't ever remember seeing. I know my GG never did her hair.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Yeah, and re because she went and got it done. Exactly. And that that brings me to a longtime client of mine that is probably mid-80s. And when I started doing hair in suburbia in Atlanta, like off Roswell Road, Sandy Springs area, I was the new kid on the block. So I got all of the clients that called in. So one of my clients was sweet Nita, and she came to me every single Friday for a blowout, and she was pretty progressive with her lifestyle because she never had children, and she worked full-time and was an admin, probably what do you think, in the 50s, 60s? And she said that she knew she made it when she could go to the salon and get her hair done every single week. I mean, I can see that though.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

I'd honestly also feel like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

So that was still to this day. Like she worked for Delta, corporate Delta, and she could go get her hair done every week. But you know, and then that brings us to even the last decade, say, since what 2008, 2010, blow dry bars have popped up because it kind of came back in style a little bit. So for a client that says, I need to go get a blowout, a client in my chair the other day said, What exactly is it when a client says, I'm going to get a blowout? You're just simply going and getting spoiled and allowing somebody else to shampoo your hair and professionally blow it dry. Because I will tell you, when somebody else blow dries my hair, it lasts way longer than when I do it myself.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

I'm gonna be honest, I kind of hate it. You hate having your hairstyle for me. For me, I yeah, I don't I don't love it. I like it in theory, and in reality, I don't. Right. In reality, I always feel like I have to go back and like fix something or like I agree do the curls differently. Like I always am like, is it because we're professionals? I think so, probably. Um so I in theory I really like it, but I in practice I don't. I know bummer, batman.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

But also I when I went to beauty school, I started at age 17, and I was that was 93, I think. And um I went to beauty school in a very French part of Maine because you know, just a really quick geography lesson. Quebec City isn't that far from where I went to beauty school. So a lot of the Canadian immigrants from Canada were in that area and they spoke very broken French, uh French English. English. So we half of it would be in French, half of it would be in English anyway. So we had to style shampoo and set their hair. So a shampoo and set then was using like the magnetic plastic rollers with the prong clips, and so we really were pushed on true hairdressing, you know, setting a proper set with a with a magnetic roller. All the magnetic rollers were where they were plastic, but because um when our hair was wet, it just helped attract for some reason. Like if you had the perfect sectioning and the perfect size base for your roller, you could get that hair on that roller and then pin it, pop them under the dryer for a solid hour, and then brush their hair out with almost like a similar Boris hair Mason Pearson, not that fancy, but that type of a bristle, and then we would backcomb it into place. So, from that standpoint is how I learned how to hot set someone's hair. So I just took that base and was able to transfer it to a hot iron, which a lot of that generation too is like my hair's not gonna hold. My hair's not gonna hold for a week with that. My hair's not gonna hold.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

So that's a little quick rundown on the history of how our I think I bet people like felt like they made it when they could get one of those at-home um blow dryers where it was like a little hood. Yes, like a shower cap that had like a hose that I don't know what to what'd you hook it up to?

SPEAKER_02 8:59

I think it just a hair dryer? It must have been what did you hook it up to? I have no idea what the base it must have like blown hot.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

You don't think you're uh something like almost like a little vacuum, but not a vacuum, like a reverse vacuum.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Is that a thing? I don't know. Yeah, something like that. Something like that. And then it was really making it too as if you could get one of those portable hooded dryers. My friend next door to me growing up, her mom was a hairstylist. None of us ever would have gone to her because I thought of her as going into at those back in the 80s, they were called nursing homes, but now they would be assisted living homes. She would go in there, you know, multiple days a week and do hair. So she had this like portable, kind of like our hooded dryer at work, but it broke down and it was portable. And she would take that back and forth with her and it would do give her permanence to the old ladies in the nursing home. She was the bell of the ball when she showed up there for sure.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

For sure. Everyone loved her. For sure. Everyone loved her for sure.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

So, you know, that was another step. So maybe women went from using the sleeping overnight rollers with a scarf around your head to a hooded dryer. Like you could just sit underneath there while you're doing your housework and get your hair. Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

And then we're getting to the handheld blow dryers. They came into the water. You know, and then you're hitting the 80s, you know, then you're getting that crimping iron. You know, you're getting everything to make big hair. Oh, home perms.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

Yeah. You want to come over, girl, and give me a perm?

SPEAKER_00 10:42

No.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

So then you came into home permanence and then curling irons, hot irons.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

The hot irons, which have are here to stay for sure. I remember when we were um when I was a little girl, so like early 90s, I remember like when we would have sleepovers, like we'd crimp each other's hair. Like one of my girlfriends, like her, she had a crimper, which of course I did not, but like she had a crimper and her mom would just sit there and crimp all of our hair, and we just felt like the coolest. We had these crimpers. But okay, so now flash forward to modern day, when we are doing hair on location for weddings, we have this. I'm I'm gonna call it a mini crimper because I'm a child of the 90s and I used a crimper. Okay, so this is, but now we're calling it a texture iron, okay? And this texture iron is like a really mini crimper, and you do it right at the base of your hair, and um, and just at the top, just like right at the roots, right at the base of your hair, you just do a little bit of crimping, and it's a hot iron, and it makes a little um micro crimp in there, and it gives you volume. So it's awesome to use in updos, or if you just have really flat hair and you're just like, I just want some oomph under here, like it is a really great tool to have. It's a like definitely an add-on in your toolbox. Like it's not you don't use it all the time, but it's a great add-on to have. But anytime people see that, they're like, What are you doing? What are you doing to their hair? And I'm like, Oh, it's a texture iron, and they're like, it looks like a crimper. And I'm like, okay, well, if you're from the 90s, it is a crimper.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

And they're so amazed that by giving that little crimp, like just that that that diameter of like maybe an inch, inch and a quarter at the root or at the scalp, it just gives that bump.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

It adds so much oomph in your hair. Like, it is really amazing. Incredible tool, love it. Um, there's a couple different ones on the market, but I like as small of a crimp as you can get. Um, I feel like the bigger one, I've seen ones that are bigger, and it's just hard to hide it, I think. So I think when you get a really micro mini crimper, it does um it's easier to hide. So with when you're using that, you just want to make sure that you leave enough hair at the very top to lay over what you've crimped so it kind of masks, like you don't want crimping on the very, very top of your style. You just want it to like hide under as like a base, almost like a backcombing.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

You know, you don't want to pick up a section and you always want to go underneath. So you'd use that the same way.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

It is, it's a similar technique. And a lot of times when I use the texture iron, I don't do any backcombing in in a style, but you still can also. It just is extra texture in there. So, you know, fancy, you know, 2000s verbiage is a mini crimper and we love it, but 1900s speak, it's a mini crimper. Did I say that wrong? I probably said wrong. Like it's like 2000s is the texture iron, 1900s is mini crimper.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Right. So 100%. And so like that would be a bonus. So, what would be the basic hot tools that and how would you advise somebody to buy a hot tool for home?

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Okay, so I think that I mean, my basic, like have to have is a hairdryer. And I'm can't say that I'm super particular with a hairdryer, but I always want to buy a hairdryer that has one of those directors. That is not a what the heck is this for? Chuck it thing for me. I think most people have, I think most people do that. That's why I'm saying that. Because that gives you it's called a director because it directs the air where you want it to go. Okay, so it makes it from just like blowing all willy-nilly when you have nothing on to actually pinpointing that air where you want it to go, which is great for styling, especially smooth styles. So you can point it on your round brush exactly where you want it to go, and that's where the hair is gonna be blown. It's not just gonna blow around like a wild animal. Okay. So definitely find a blow dryer that has a director. I like to have a blow dryer that has a good bit of power. Um, and I like to have a blow dryer that has a cool shot on it. Those are kind of my bare minimums that I have to have. I um airflow.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

I use all the speed. Airflow. Oh, yeah. Because I have different heat winters. If you're a little willy with high speed, high heat, and I would start with medium on both.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

I I would agree. Generally, when I'm like just trying to get all the moisture out, I'm a medium heat, high output. And then once I'm trying to really smooth, I keep a medium heat and a medium output, and then I add the cool shot at the end to really set it in. So I those are kind of necessities. So you need to have the heat that you can change, you need to have air speed that you can change, and have a cool shot that you can add. Um, otherwise, I'm not real particular about it. Honestly, like if you want to find a good hairdryer that's just kind of all purpose, like it's a, you know, a one for your extra travel bag or whatever that you just leave in there all the time. TJ Maxx is a great place for those. Like for tools, I think that's great. For products, it's literally terrible. I would never recommend for you to buy products at a TJ Maxx, even if it says, oh, this is the one that my salon sells. It's not. It's diverted, it's old, it's not gonna be good. I digress. I will say I can recommend buying hot tools at TJ Maxx, especially if there's something that's like new out on the market and you're like, oh, I do kind of want to try that style, but I don't want to spend, you know, air wrap prices or whatever. I don't want to spend the most because I'm not sure if I'm even gonna like it. So like I've done that with um, I ended up with a triple barrel barrel curling iron from TJ Maxx, and that is how I get kind of that wavy, loose beach wave kind of look in my hair, and people are always asking me how I get it, and that's what it is. It's a triple barrel curling iron, looks like a W and you just kind of squeeze, and you know, it's a crimper. It's a crimper, it's a bigger crimper, you just move it down strand. So that's a great um like I love having that tool, but definitely not necessity. My other necessity after a hairdryer is a um curling iron. A curling iron is my necessity. Um, and I even with as long as my hair is, a one inch is super all-purpose for everybody. I would use a one inch on uh Holly's short hair, her bob. Um, the only time I'm doing smaller than a one inch if I'm going to a half an inch or a three-quarter inch, is if you have a pixie and or you have naturally curly hair that you just want to refine some of your curls, I would use a tighter curling iron for. But otherwise, a one-inch is really so all purpose for me.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

I want to add in back to the hairdryer and a curling iron is the weight of the item. You don't think about while we're style styling our hair, how heavy something is until you have it in your hand for a long time. And when you get larger than a one-inch iron, some irons are so heavy. So, aside from it being awkward already working on your own head and then holding your shoulders, your arms over your head with your shoulders, you are going to want something on the lighter side. And again, with the iron, you want a heat dial too, if possible.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

A definite heat dial, yeah. So, um, with the hair dryer, you're right about the the weight, Holly. And I do feel like when you're looking for the lighter ones, it that's probably where you need to go and talk to your stylist about getting you one if you don't if she doesn't carry them in her salon, getting you one that's gonna be a salon professional one because the professional ones are made for us to use them all day, every day, five whatever days a week. Um, and so they are just lighter.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

The ergonomics are better for us.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

The ergonomics are gonna be there. So if that's something that's hard for you, your wrists are not as strong, or your arthritis or your shoulders or whatever is not great, that's where you want to make sure that you're getting one that's lightweight, and that's probably gonna be a professional quality, which is going to be more money.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

So know that it's gonna be, you know, a couple hundred dollars as opposed to a fifty dollar or sixty-five or something like that. But if that's not such an issue for you, if weight is not hard for you, whatever it's you know, for your teenage daughter or whatever the what, you can get away with a heavier one, and that's where I think you can do a good job of finding something in a reasonable price point just at the T Jammer.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

And take into consideration the density of your hair, how long does it take you to blow dry? Because it takes me a lot longer than somebody with thinner, finer hair. And also, am I gonna blow out my hair, my wavy hair, or am I gonna let it go curlier? So those attachments are your friend. And then also, if you do go on the higher end with a hairdryer because you have more hair to dry, that's gonna be a better investment than if you have fine hair and you don't blow dry your hair a lot. You could just kind of go with a cheaper version of any hairdryer, and also just keep that um warranty information or register on a higher end dryer because we found that out the hard way.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

We sure did, we sure did. Um, so with our um temperature controls, we talked about on uh the hot tools, curling iron. Um, I have a little story about that. We were um at the farm last weekend and I walked in the bedroom and our sweet girl was curling her hair, which is great. That's so fun. I'm glad she did that. Um, and I had gotten her a nice um curling wand, a curling iron, the same one I use at the salon at home. I'd gotten that for her for Christmas, so I was so glad she's using it, right? Um, I go in her bedroom and all I can smell is burning hair.

unknown 21:19

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

And I was like, what temperature are you using? I lost it. I was like, what are you why does it smell like burning hair in here? And her response was, I thought it just was supposed to smell like that. I said, yeah, if you're cooking your hair, what in the world? So um come to find out, she's got it cranked all the way up. To what temperature? To the highest. It's 4:30, my friends. 4 30.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Um Would you bake cookies at 4:30?

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Absolutely not, but she's baking her hair. That is always what I say to people. If you can bake cookies at it, one, you need to be using heat protectant, and two. Be careful. Turn it down. So um, really, a a 350 is great. That is perfect amount for you. Like, that is a perfect amount for almost everybody. Are there people who need their hair that hot, like their tools that hot? Yes. But by and large, most people don't. Right. Most people don't.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Yeah, just okay. So the cooking or the baking.

unknown 22:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Can you bake cookies at this temperature? If you can, you need to be more careful and turn it down. So I had her crank it down. She's at like a 320 or 360, which is plenty of heat. Um, but we had a solid learning lesson about uh your hair should not smell like it's burning because if it does, you are. Um, you know, it's all out of love. But I was like, what are you doing? She said, How long can I, how many seconds can I hold this on my hair at 430? I said, none. None. You can turn your thing down. Like turn it down. Oh my God. So I would rather, and I told her, I said, I would rather you go over your hair twice with a lower heat and then do it once at the highest heat. Right. Like you are cooking this hair, cooking it. So um keep that in mind. I always would like you to have a temperature control on any of your hot tools, whether that's a flat iron or a curling iron, and keep it in the 350 zone and use a heat protectant, which I probably cannot say and stress enough on this podcast.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

You know, at one of the classes I took in the more recent times, they talked about the hot blowing air round brushes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So those, some of those are easily 450. Easily.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Well, it gets so hot and there's metal there. So it's really, really hot. And if you're using it from like soaking wet to fully dry your hair, that's damaging. Or like towel-dried hair, like that's soaking wet to me. But like towel-dried hair to fully dry, that's you're doing a lot of damage. That is a lot of heat on your hair. So, what I always suggest to people when they're when they say, Oh yeah, I use that hot brush, blah, blah, blah. I say blow out the majority of the moisture from your hair, like 75% of the moisture from your hair with your regular hair dryer, and then section out your hair with clips and then go in with that brush.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

100%.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Because you just that little last 25% is much less damaging than soaking wet to fully dry with that. It's just too much heat for your hair.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Plus, with our hair being the most fragile when it's wet, those bristles on those brushes are very harsh, and you're gonna get a lot of split ends or breakage possibly. So definitely proceed with caution.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

But I think that's a great tool, and I they really did blow up, and I think that a lot of people have really started liking styling their hair once they have one of those brushes. So I think that they're great, and I do love them for people who are using that. I agree. But just make sure you're using it the proper way and still using a heat protectant with that, too.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Uh yes, I agree. So definitely look for a heat dial if you can, and if not, it's okay. Like just proceed with caution. Right. Just use it the right way. Right. And then what else? A flat iron. What would you recommend with a flat iron? I would recommend, you know, one again that is probably one to one and a quarter plate with a beveled edge, and what a beveled edge is, it gives you that roundness around the edge instead of it just being squared off flat, because there's nothing pretty about a flat square wave or bevel.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Right. And with that beveled edge, it's just like a slight curve on the edge of the um plate, basically. And that helps you if you want to use it as a curling tool as well, which is a little bit more of an advanced move, I guess, with a with a flat iron. But I think that there's a use for that. I like if you have naturally curly hair and you want to like straighten and curl at the same time instead of straightening and then trying to get straight hair to hold a curl, which is difficult. Um, you can straighten and curl at the same time with a flat iron. So having that beveled edge is a big bonus. Bonus. Bonus. Yeah. It's an almost a necessity because I don't think you can get that curled edge with a really square plate. I think you do need that beveled edge to really get a good bend in the hair.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

And I also feel like a lot of my younger clients are better with a flat iron curl than they are with a curl and iron.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

I think so too. And I it's some in some ways I think it's harder, but in some ways I think it's easier because it's just one thing. And you just clamp it and then you turn and then you pull a little bit, okay? But like with the curling iron, it's like you gotta start that properly, it's just curl your hair. You start towards the base, you flip it, you keep kind of moving down the hair shaft. Um, and with longer hair, it just, you know, you it has the tendency to get tangled up in there, truthfully. So I mean, I get my hair tangled in there. So, and I'm a professional, but I think that it is, and you know, you clamp it the wrong way and then you get a line in it, or you know, you clamp it and you turn it the wrong way, and then you've got this line in there, and you're like, now what do I do with that? Shoot. So I think it is a little easier for younger women to um to master the flat iron curl as opposed to um just a regular curling iron curl.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

So that opens up the difference between a curling iron and a curling wand. So the wand is not gonna have the clamp that a c that a regular basic curling iron would have, which sometimes with long hair, especially hair as long as yours, is easier in some cases to to use.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Yeah, because you're just wrapping it around in that. Um, I will say I like a curling iron on my long hair more because it really surrounds the hair and gives it the proper amount of heat to hold a style a little bit better. So I like a curling wand, but I don't feel like it does as well on my longer hair as when I have like my shorter natural hair. Right. And you just But I do like it. I like the curls on it. It gives a different curl, and I do like it.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

Right. And the key is is starting mid, you know, in the middle shaft of your hair and working towards the ends and wrapping it or rolling your curling iron in the direction you want your hair to go. So away from your face typically. And then in the back, I always tell people for at home use just do enough to blend the curls from the side because the back of your hair isn't your business, it's somebody else's problem.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

100%. Somebody else's problem, what it looks like back there.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

100%. And then what about um hairbrushes? Like, how do you select what kind of hairbrush is when to use that?

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Um, so that just depends on what kind of style you want. So, say like with your like short bob, you want this like voluminous kind of hairstyle. Most people think to use a bigger diameter round brush on that um to get the volume false. You want to use a smaller brush to get that good volume. So on a um on a bob, I'm using not bigger than a one and a quarter inch brush.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

Right. I mean, think about it. I think your tip with a smaller brush is easier for the individual to be able to control their hair as well because it's less weight, it's less you always think about or back to my hair school days, um, you use the base, you know, how much hair is under lives underneath the section that you're trying to style. So you don't want to go beyond the diameter of the iron or of the hairbrush.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Right. So when you're using a two-inch diameter round brush, because you're thinking, oh, I want this big curl in my little bob, that you need like a two-inch section of hair that you're wrapping around that round brush. You probably don't have that much on your head to put on that round brush as this at a pixie cut, right? You can use that bigger um, you know, two-inch round brush when you've got super long hair and you're wanting to get that um blowout look on really long hair with it just like a big turn under on the ends, if that makes sense. I'm trying to describe that, what I'm seeing in my head. So that's when you're wanting to use that big brush is if you have super long hair and you want this big um, you know, curled under ends, and that's it. You aren't looking for volume with that, you're just looking for a bend in the ends. And with short hair, you just don't have enough to do that with a two-inch wide brush.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

You just want to concentrate on where the hair lives underneath where you're taking the hair from because if you're taking hair in a two-inch section from two inches back or two inches forward, you're either gonna get less volume or more volume.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Right. It's just gonna be not a cohesive hairstyle when it's all said and done. And it's gonna be a lot of effort. So it works better to work in a smaller section. It always works better to work in a smaller section, no matter if you don't feel like parting your hair off or not. Because every single time when you go and take this gigantic section, you're like, oh, that didn't style right now. I gotta separate it out, anyways. Might as well just started with separating it out and pinning it out of the way and curling in proper size sections. That's right. For the tool you're using, because it never works out to just take half of your head and put it in the curling iron. It doesn't. Never. I can I can tell you that for a fact on my own head and on my client's head. And it never pays to rush.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

That makes it and that brings me back to the hair drying. After another good tip with the cool shot is making sure that the hair is 100% dry.

unknown 32:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:01

And that cool shot doesn't tell you if your hair is extra cold when you hit it with that cold shot, that is gonna be still needing a little bit more heat to get that excess or that leftover moisture out because moisture creates frizz or creates flatness. So the key takeaway, make sure your hair is a hundred percent dry, then follow it up with your hot tool.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

That was another hot take from Holly.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

Right?

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Holly hack. Sorry, hacks with Holly. I can't remember it's hot. Hacks with Holly or hot take with Holly. It doesn't matter either way.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

But like I get so tired of drying my hair that I have to step away. And then when I come back and I feel my hair, I'm like, oh, I need to hit this with more heat. So the air conditioning this time of year acts is my cool shot.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

I love that hack. That's a great hack. It's true though, it does help you if you're kind of like, is this is my hair dry? I can't really tell. Like, let it cool off, and then you'll know if it's just hot or if it actually is still wet.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

So yeah, and whether you put it for a metal barrel or a wooden, you know, Boris hair brush, that's your preference. Just get something that you can manage on your own. And then pretty much last the last couple of things that I think we could finish off with is what's the difference between a detangling brush and when I see back in school, back in the 90s, we didn't have the difference between a detangling brush. We were just taught to comb the hair out with a wide-tooth comb because a regular hairbrush is very harsh on the hair. But now with technology, we have detangling brushes.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

Well, those are gonna have a flexible bristle for you, so they're gonna be gentler when you're brushing out while it's wet because that is when our hair is the most um fragile. What's the word? Fragile. Thank you. That's the word I'm looking for. It is fragile, so you don't want to go in there with this like stiff, bristled brush that's not gonna have any give to it. You do want to go in gently with, you know, some sort of detangling wet brush or a wide tooth comb or whatever, whatever you choose is is okay. Um, but you just want to be gentle with it. And so I think that the you know, the new wet brushes, detangling brushes, whatever you want to call them, um, they have give, they have flex, they have gentle bristles to really get through the hair without damaging it. And stretching when it's fragile.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

Because uh the elasticity in our hair just keeps stretching, stretching, stretching when it's wet. So if you put something too harsh of a bristle on your wet hair, that's what causes it. So yes, right. But a side tip with those detangling brushes, you don't want to use those as a blow-drying brush. Right. Some of them, because of the extremely flexible bristles, could potentially melt back to 450 in your hair. And that's a whole nother subject for another day.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

Um, yeah, so keep your tools in a place that you can always adjust the heat. That is really like that's the first thing you're looking for when you're buying a new tool is make sure that it has some sort of adjustable heat settings. Whatever the tool is, be able to adjust the heat is hot take from Saraka. That's right. That doesn't roll off the tongue as well as hot takes from Holly, but we can call it hot takes from Holly.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Come up with a little catchphrase for you, too.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Someone please come up with a cute catchphrase for me because I need one. Send it in our comments. Sneaky, sneaky, I don't know. Something sneaky's a bad word, but not bad. But it's not saying what I want it to say. Anyways, come up with something cute for me. Yes, I need something cute. A hot take from Holly, a hack hawk, hacks with Holly. I need something for me. I have hot takes.

SPEAKER_02 36:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

Somewhere. We hope that we kind of helped you a little bit with the daunting task of having to buy new hair tools for home. And if a side note before we close this one out, if you look at your brown brushes or if you look at any of your hairbrushes and they're completely disgusting, you wouldn't pass it to a friend to use, clean it out, just take the excess hair out of there. If the bristles are frazzled, like you don't need to come at me.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

Don't come at me like that. Because you know mine at home are a stupid mess. They're so bad. But oh, if your round brush, if the um bristles look like either a split end or they look like they've been melted, get a new one. Throw them away. Because that's gonna be really harsh. That is gonna be damaging to your hair, even though you think you're doing a good job while you're you know round brushing your hair, those are those are damaging to your hair as well. So um that's part of the mechanical damage that we talk about. So check on your brushes. Perhaps you need to replace some of them. I just replaced the wet brush at our house. Um because it had lost all those little ball things on the end and it was just scratching the mess out of everyone's scalp. Yeah. Yeah. Ow. Oh, uh, ooh. And I'm like, if you don't like this, you can do it. You can cut your hair, do it yourself, or cut it. Um, anyways, so I but to be fair, the brush was looking a little rough. It was a little bad. So we have new round or we have new um wet brushes. So all is well at our house now. Well, and that when in doubt, just ask your stylist for guidance. Absolutely. We know things. We sometimes just forget that we know things that other people need to hear from us. That's right. We're always happy to share though.

SPEAKER_02 38:10

Always. So that will conclude us this week on another episode of Two Chairs No Filter. Make sure you follow, share, and like us. And you know, pretty soon we will master this because we do this to completely uncut. I will say that. So we do not edit these episodes. So can you tell? Yeah. Coming soon will be video. So once we master the next step, it's baby steps. You just have to start.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

We're baby stepping this, but we're enjoying it, and we're so thankful for everybody who's here for the ride. Listening. Let us know if you have anything you want to hear us talk about, any questions that you've always wondered or things that came up that you were like, man, I wish I knew the answer to that. We're happy to share. You know, we're professionals, but we aren't doctors. We don't know everything. No, we just have a good time. We're just having fun. And we're glad to have you. So thanks for joining us this week, and we will catch you next week. Bye. Bye.