BlackMasterPiece
Well-Known Member
I went to several different Dominican Salons wayyy back in my relaxed days and one thing I noticed across the board is that they're very anti-coarse type 4 hair. I could be two weeks post relaxer and they will talk about you right in your face and say it all in spanish to the other stylists with no shame because they think you don't understand they'll be like ugh tengo pelo malo and stop several times in the process to tell you "mamie ju needa ruhlaxa!"
- I always had to bring my own products because they had the absolute cheapest industrial type of products
- They would roughly and quickly set my hair in rollers and put me under the dryer in extremely high heat for about an hour
- Once your hair is dry...after ALLLL that heat they blow your hair out from root to tip using a very rough brush on the highest heat setting....there was always smoke.
- Also, in order to get your roots straight they take their ultra high powered blow-dryer with a concentrator nozzle and focus the heat on your scalp and they brush the rough comb over your scalp to get your roots straight....it hurts....but eventually you grow accustomed to it.
In the end you are left with hair that is weightless, flowy, soft and lightly dances in the wind its definitely beautiful.....but thats only because its been blown into oblivion....there are ways to get that result with much less stress to your hair.
I could never get that blow-out on the regular because it would cause dryness and breakage.
Another phenomenon is... often, when you go to the Dominican Salons, many of the girls that get the blowout on the regular are coarse type 3s or 4a silkys so they have very resilient hair and its very long....so many women will look around them at all this long flowy hair....and get the mistaken impression that it is this blowout technique that got all these girls hair long...when its really just hair-type that allowed their strands to withstand that much harsh manipulation and still retain.
- I always had to bring my own products because they had the absolute cheapest industrial type of products
- They would roughly and quickly set my hair in rollers and put me under the dryer in extremely high heat for about an hour
- Once your hair is dry...after ALLLL that heat they blow your hair out from root to tip using a very rough brush on the highest heat setting....there was always smoke.
- Also, in order to get your roots straight they take their ultra high powered blow-dryer with a concentrator nozzle and focus the heat on your scalp and they brush the rough comb over your scalp to get your roots straight....it hurts....but eventually you grow accustomed to it.
In the end you are left with hair that is weightless, flowy, soft and lightly dances in the wind its definitely beautiful.....but thats only because its been blown into oblivion....there are ways to get that result with much less stress to your hair.
I could never get that blow-out on the regular because it would cause dryness and breakage.
Another phenomenon is... often, when you go to the Dominican Salons, many of the girls that get the blowout on the regular are coarse type 3s or 4a silkys so they have very resilient hair and its very long....so many women will look around them at all this long flowy hair....and get the mistaken impression that it is this blowout technique that got all these girls hair long...when its really just hair-type that allowed their strands to withstand that much harsh manipulation and still retain.