I keep reading the term "blow out" in magazines, concerning hair. Is a blowout just going in and having your hair washed and blow dry, with a little bit of styling thrown in? Do many people go into salons for just that?

I guess I'm just not girly enough to know this.

my mother (who is 81) has gone to salons for a wash & style twice per week, ever since I can remember.

Lordy, that must cost a fortune over time!

I expected to open this thread and find you'd eaten three boxes of Cookies or something, lol.

But yes, that's what blow out means (here anyway). I used to get it done every now and then for special occasions. I wear a straight hairstyle but have fluffy, frizzy hair, so I have to straighten it with a straightening Iron every day since I cannot and will not ever be able to straighten it round a round brush with a hairdryer - its easy to roughly dry it and then fix it with the iron.

Now I have this short, concave choppy bob, I absolutely HATE a blow dry unless its my hairdresser (I used to just go down to the no wait, no appointment salons that are everywhere here for a cheap blow dry) because they do it around a round brush and give it lots of body and it looks freaking awful - like a bank teller from the 1980's, lol. Its MEANT to be piecy and choppy! But my hairdresser can do it perfectly.

But at $30 to $40 a pop I couldnt afford it regularly and being a runner, generally my hair gets washed and dried every day.