Hair Salon Tips & Tricks You Can DIY!

Want a hair professional’s advice, but don’t want to pay the high salon price? No need to shell out the big bucks for a classy coiff — the ladies from fab NYC hair salon Butterfly Studio gave us the blow-by-blow(dryer) on scoring styling tresses when you don’t have the time or money for a salon visit. Here’s advice straight from the salon’s hairstyling professionals:

Kattia Solano on how to create va-va-voom volume:

1. First, apply a volumizing product on damp hair.
2. Then flip your hair over and dry it upside down, which is the key to creating volume at the roots. At first, it will look a bit out of control, but you can set the hair with Velcro rollers or smooth out with a curling iron.
3. If you use a roller set, blow dry with heat for a few minutes and then finish with cool air.
4. Remove rollers and brush or run your fingers through hair. If you use a curling iron, then you can set the curls in place by spraying 2 inch sections with hairspray and curling.

Dana Vuljevic on reducing oily buildup in hair:

“If you have oily buildup: add a 1/2 teaspoon of dishwashing liquid, such as Palmolive or Dawn, to your shampoo.”

Nicole Descoteaux on ditching hairspray buildup:

1. Shampoo hair as normal to prepare.
2. Create a paste with baking soda and water.
3. Work the paste into hair. Comb through and leave on for five minutes.
4. Rinse and condition for optimum results.

Kattia Solano on making hair grow faster:

“Brushing your hair 100 times a day will not make your hair grow faster.It simply stimulates the scalp, but it will cause breakage. To help your hair grow faster, simply massage the scalp for five minutes at a time. This will also stimulate the blood flow and will NOT cause breakage.”