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| This is the kind of "blow dryer" I remember my mother's haridresser using, only my mom faced away from and under the blower so that the heat blowed on her hair and not her face (duh!). The heat wasn't real hot but it blowed it dry enough for my mother's hair to be pressed and curled. Oh yeah, only one dryer per customer was needed. |
I am fifty-five years old and when I was a child there were no blow dryers or hood dryers for the home. My mother would wash my hair in the kitchen sink then make me go outside with a comb and dry it in the sun. The good old reliable sun -Nature's lamp and heater. It's free, it's good for you in small doses and it's everywhere. The only problem is supply - it can be very iffy in certain places and certain times of the year. If it was cold or rainy she would open the oven door and place a small stool in front of it where I sat combing my hair.
Although air-drying is the least-damaging, hence the "best" method of drying hair, practically speaking it may not be the best if it means wet hair when you leave home. Indirect heat like a hood dryer helps to speed up the drying process without causing damage. Both methods are simplistic but when compared to the blow dryer which blasts intense heat up to 400 degrees a mere inch away from the hair, they almost seems like the common sense thing to do. I put my blow dryer down in 2009 and have never used it once!
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| I often dry my hair in a warm room, next to a heater or a fireplace. Once I set my waves I let my hair dry without touching or combing it. |
