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Your hair is directly contacting the hot air while pixie diffusing, so using high heat on your dryer could potentially cause heat damage. I use low speed and low heat when pixie diffusing.

Raise the diffuser up until it reaches your head.

Aim to have your hair fall into the diffuser in their natural pattern.

Gather all your hair into the diffuser from below, while your head is upside down.

Wash your hair and add your styling products.

You can change up the sections or positions if you wish. If you want to know other products I like and would recommend check out my wavy hair product recommendations page. In all cases, I plopped for 10 minutes after getting out of the shower, and scrunched for about 2 minutes after adding the mousse. I used Not Your Mother’s Curl Talk Shampoo (quarter amount), Johnson’s strengthening conditioner (half-dollar amount) and Not Your Mother’s Curl Talk mousse (3 handfuls). My routine for testing all 4 diffusing methods: This is a key method I use for balancing out my uneven curl pattern.

I usually diffuse my front left side first because that is my straightest section, so drying it first gives it less change to get weighed down by water. You may also want to consider the sections of your hair and which one(s) make sense to do earlier. They’re usually leaning over rather than truly being upside down.Īnyway, it’s important to consider how long you can stay truly upside down. People often say they can’t style upside down as it messes up their hair. It helps explain the very important difference between truly upside down styling vs ‘leaning over’ styling, with visual examples.

Hiw hidrive hair how to#

If you want to try diffusing upside down the entire time, I recommend reading my post how to style your hair upside down without getting a mess in the back. So when pixie diffusing, I diffuse upside down for about 5 minutes, then move to rightside up (or sideways) diffusing for the rest. I like some of the benefits of upside down, but I am not able to remain fully upside down the entire time that I need to diffuse. I have a post on rightside up vs upside down wavy hair styling if you’d like to learn more about the pros and cons of each. Some people diffuse upside down, and others diffuse rightside up. My instructions on these various methods say which sections to do, and in some cases, which position to do them in. You have to do that to get the diffuser to fit on the dryer I have, but it’s a perfect fit once you take out that removable ring. The diffuser comes with a ring in the base that you can remove to make the opening slightly wider. I bought both of them nearly 3 years ago and they’ve held up great.

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I did find benefits to some other diffusing techniques though, so I may change it up in the future!įor those who may be curious, my blow dryer is the Revlon Pro Collection IONIC Hair Dryer (available through Walmart) and my diffuser attachment is the Xtava black orchid from Amazon. The first diffusing tutorial I ever watched was pixie diffusing so that became my default and it’s what I usually do, still. I’ve prepared to cover four of the ways that I’ve seen discussed most often. How do you diffuse wavy hair? Well, there are multiple techniques. So I’ll cut to just talking about diffusing! I have a whole post on air drying vs diffusing wavy hair already.

Diffusing is a way of blow drying your hair without disrupting your curls, and without heat damage.ĭiffuser attachments for blow dryers basically just disperse the air so that it comes out from several smaller sources rather than the entire barrel of the end of a blow dryer.įor many people, diffusing can help your curls to dry in a tighter pattern, by drying your hair quicker, before it has a chance for the water in your hair to weigh down your pattern. For me, air-drying just isn’t practical because it literally would take all day.