To thank you for all of your participation in the blog over the last year, we’d like to give you one of my favorite brushes. The Ibiza! It has a lightweight cork handle and the most perfect bristles. The one I’m giving away is a medium sized one, just a little bigger than the picture above and can be used on pretty much any length of hair!

Leave a comment if you want to win! And if you tweet or blog about this post, just leave an extra comment with the URL to your tweet/post! I’ll close comments on Sunday morning before choosing a winner. Good luck and THANKS for reading. Wink.

On day two of our anniversary celebration, we are giving away a bottle of SachaJuan Ocean Mist. This is one of my favorite products and I’m sure you all know that by how many times it’s been mentioned on here!

Post a comment if you’d like to enter this giveaway! You can also tweet about or link to this giveaway on your blog for an extra chance to win (URL must be included in comment). Two entries max, y’all!

I’ll close comments right before choosing a winner on Friday morning! Good luck!!

Today is day one of our Hairdresser On Fire one year anniversary party! To celebrate we have a lovely tutorial today. This tutorial is for that girl who loves her beach vacations for the awesome hair it gives her. There are many variations of this blow-dry, depending on how big of sections you use. I did pretty small ones on Erin, but you can play around with it and decide what you like best for yourself!

Try it out and send over some photos!

I’m not sure if this hairstyle has a proper name, but I’ve always just called it a mermaid braid.

This quick (which is my favorite kind) little ‘do is something I often toss in when my hair is getting dirty. I think a braid is the best way to hide oil and dirt when you have already used more dry shampoo than you are proud to admit. I’m not sure of any bad effects of dry shampoo, but I don’t care for the cakey feeling it can give my hair if I use it too many days in a row. I wear this (but add a pony tail) when I run so that I don’t have to worry about bangs flopping in my face. I also prefer this look to ugly sports headbands. People will be jeal’ that you’ve added glamor and class to your work out, and they’re stuck with with some crummy headband that never did it’s job properly anyway. Try it!

Plus I literally can whip this guy out in 5 seconds. Faster than you can say “Bob ‘s your uncle”. And definitely faster than you can type it.

I’m not sure where I saw this picture, but I am obsessed.

There are four major points of obsession…
The short ribbon=obsessed
The Bumpy Roots (done right!)=obsessed
The long pretty hair, not too dark, not too light=obsessed
The length=obsessed.

My hair is certainly not short anymore, but it’s not long yet either. Sometimes I think of going short again, but pictures like this remind me that I’m really a long haired girl at heart. I think it’s romantic and fairy tail like.

I really love this picture. So sorry for not crediting it properly!

Here is our fun little blow dry tutorial. I’m so excited to get it up! I have been putting off this tutorial for a while, because it is really hard to explain a blow dry properly. There is a lot of information that you forget you ever learned once it becomes second nature to you. Then you’re whipping them out just like you’d tie your shoe.

There is so much info, that I would have to have someone doing a blow dry in front of me so that I can tell them “do this here or do that there”. There are wrist movements and brushing patterns, they are really quite complicated!

Two things I forgot to mention: The smaller the brush, the more curl and volume you’ll get (but it can look funny on too long of hair). And make sure you blow dry working your way from the roots down instead of drying the ends first and working upwards.

Also, rough drying=getting the water out just with your hands and blow dryer before you start trying to create the shape with the brush and sectioning..

I hope this all makes sense! I’m a little nervous about how this will go down. Make me proud!
(hint: the video is pretty long, so it might be kind of choppy, depending on connection speed, unless it is allowed to completely load before watching)