Anonymous wrote:All the blowouts seem like a lot of work! Have you tried a little oil (argan from Trader Joe’s works great) and twisting it for air drying?
I let my almost wavy/sometimes frizzy hair air dry to damp, then add a few drops of oil and section into 4 parts. I twist each of these and clip back in a banana clip. By the time I get to work and let it down, it’s smooth and wavy

Anonymous wrote:Ok. I have similar hair, and went curly ish for a few years during the pandemic (after flat ironing my hair for years). I would shower at night and let it air dry then sleep on it. I like it fine but not great, and it's highly variable.

Then! I got my hair cut at a salon in Miami while on vacation, and the stylist gave me a modified blow out and it looked SO GOOD. Had wave, bend, body, but smooth. And he suggested I go back to blow drying, but not flat ironing.

In a moment of financial weakness, I bought the Dyson hairdryer. And it has changed my life. It's fast, smooth, works well on lower temperatures, and is easy to style without flattening out all the body. My hair has never looked so good, my cuts last longer, etc. I keep it wavy on vacation, but generally blow dry after washing otherwise.

So my rec before you do something more permanent is to try a fancy hair dryer. I didn't think it would make a difference, but it sure did.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an unlimited one in Chicago that’s $175 a mo. It’s 100% worth it (I have similar hair and am so bad at doing it hate it). Instead I go straight from the gym, work for 50min while someone else does my hair, and get ~5 days out of it looking good (2 or 3 down then pulled back into a nice looking pony). I probably average 5 times a month

Looking at the dc dry bar subscription, it looks like it’d work out to roughly that if you get the 2x a month and budget in your head for 3 additional ones at the $14 off price. I get that full subscriptions are nice bc you don’t think about the incremental cost of each one when you decide to go again

Do you exercise in between blowouts? How do you maintain it? I sweat so much when I exercise that I cannot maintain it for multiple days.

I do - and pretty intensely. Combo of dry shampoo, blow drying the roots, and whatever products the use that keep it from frizzing. When I blow out at home, it definitely doesn’t last as long. It doesn’t look perfect but still plenty presentable for work

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Anonymous wrote:I have an unlimited one in Chicago that’s $175 a mo. It’s 100% worth it (I have similar hair and am so bad at doing it hate it). Instead I go straight from the gym, work for 50min while someone else does my hair, and get ~5 days out of it looking good (2 or 3 down then pulled back into a nice looking pony). I probably average 5 times a month

Looking at the dc dry bar subscription, it looks like it’d work out to roughly that if you get the 2x a month and budget in your head for 3 additional ones at the $14 off price. I get that full subscriptions are nice bc you don’t think about the incremental cost of each one when you decide to go again

Do you exercise in between blowouts? How do you maintain it? I sweat so much when I exercise that I cannot maintain it for multiple days.

Anonymous wrote:I have an unlimited one in Chicago that’s $175 a mo. It’s 100% worth it (I have similar hair and am so bad at doing it hate it). Instead I go straight from the gym, work for 50min while someone else does my hair, and get ~5 days out of it looking good (2 or 3 down then pulled back into a nice looking pony). I probably average 5 times a month

Looking at the dc dry bar subscription, it looks like it’d work out to roughly that if you get the 2x a month and budget in your head for 3 additional ones at the $14 off price. I get that full subscriptions are nice bc you don’t think about the incremental cost of each one when you decide to go again