The Hair Dryer Experience

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Everyone hates the hair dryer, well at least 99.99 percent of us do. LOL

 

However I can only speak from my personal experiences. I can remember riding the city bus to the South end of town (I lived in the North end) to get my hair done as a child and I hated the experience but loved the results of my “press and curl”.  But as I became a teenager I can remember the “Ultra Sheen” relaxer and I guess my mom and her friend decided to become “Kitchenticians” and made a decision to relax my hair with a super strength relaxer!

Now I’ll have to get back with you later on that subject. But I can remember the roller set with the small rollers and how long it took to dry under what seemed like the hottest temperature ever! My ears were on fire, my neck burning.  The temperature setting on the dryer must have been on “scald” because my head was hot. LOL. But most of you know the price we will pay for Beauty.

As I grew older and matured to a level of patience I realized that sitting under the dryer didn’t have to be such a painful, tiring borrowing experience. With the new modernization and evolution of styles in the hair industry and onset of the tech world our dryer time experience is cut in half and the sitting time changed from frustration to “ok” I can do this!

When blow drying came on the scene in the late 1970’s early 80’s that was a game changer  for the black hair experience and we went from one hour (sometimes and extra thirty minutes) under the “heat dome” to approximately 15-20 minutes under the hair dryer.  And with new technology, cellphones, laptops, tablets, macbooks, kindles we can sit under the hair dryer and check our email, bank accounts, make a grocery list in our notes, pay bills, delete old unwanted “pics” and God forbid login to social media accounts!

For those who have “Google Docs” one can even work on school lesson plans, business plans and share, all while sitting under the Hair Dryer.  That logon (social media) will cause one to lose track of time and before you know it the Hair dryer has clicked and time is up unless your hair is the length of “Rapunzel” LOL You are now free to move about the salon, Have a beverage until your stylist is ready to complete your hair for the day.  I hope you’ve had a pleasant experience thus far. 🙂

 I digress!

7 thoughts on “The Hair Dryer Experience”

  2. Yvette

    Yes, I definitely understand the hair drying days of 1.5+ hrs under the dryer, and that’s with large rollers. But, thanks to my Kindle to get me through the 1.5+ hair dryer hours.

  3. Diana Miles

    I still hate the dryer, but prefer a roller set since my hair and humidity are not friends! I start w/ rollers and “set” the hair at Genesis and finish at home w/ the same type of dryer. My.mom would say no one rolls like Alesha which is true! The hair on the rollers looks like thread purchased in the store. When I finish the drying time at home, I can start a load of laundry, start dinner, finish work, etc.. I have to use the blow dryer in between visits to Alesha since i can’t roll my own hair. I let it air dry or will use the hood dryer before i blow dry it. Love my roller sets w/ Alesha, so it’s worth the “dryer punishment!”

  5. Brenda

    How many times we’ve heard customers complain about the hair dryer. Surely you don’t want to leave with a wet head. But that was 10 years ago. Now it is some services that are being done and you come out looking like a million dollars without the hair dryer. Evolution

  7. Felicia Ceaser

    I want to know what happened with that Ultra Sheen relaxer lol. The dryer experience has come a long way. I remember being little and getting my hair pressed Mrs Mary Jean, Stephanie Daniels mom. Eventually I would get a hair roller set and because I was so small I had to sit on a stack of magazines so the heat would reach my hair. I kept faint asleep which caused my head to bob and I’d never dry. Thanks for bring back that memory Alesha 😉

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