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Summary: Always use a diffuser when drying medium curly hair. Style curly hair using a hairdryer diffuser with tips from an Aveda salon instructor in this free hair care video.
Holly Zapata is the Director of Education at the Aveda Institute in San Antonio, TX. She graduated from the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis, and she has been a hairstylist for 20 years....read more
"In drying this curl formation you want to start by diffusing it. You want to diffuse it about half way. When you are finished diffusing it then you can let it air dry. That way the curl gets bounced in there but it doesn't get too big by diffusing it too long. The final thing that you could do when you are finished diffusing it and you have kind of got it air dried about 80 to 90% is you could put in the humectant palma and what that is going to do is it is going to like I said attract the moisture from outside, put it into your hair and it acts as a catalyst. You want to use about a pinkie size, use your pinkie and scoop it out, rub your hands together really really well, work it from the ends up into the hair and it really helps distribute that moisture. The next bounce factor is the half inch to one inch bounce. It is very soft. You almost don't even realize you have any curl in your hair. If you feel like you have some fuzz or some curl in the back you might want to try to work your hair into curl and you probably are in this bounce factor."