Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All

How to Get the Perfect Blowout at Home

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• Publisher: Abrams Image
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781419721069
• eBook ISBN: 9781613129883

New York Times Bestseller Picture this. Your hair is a mess and you feel like a nut. You open your Drybar book and you feel better already! The Drybar Guide to Good Hair for All is the ultimate handbook for at-home hairstyling. Author Alli Webb, a long-time stylist and life-long curly hair girl, founded Drybar in 2010 as an affordable luxury—offering women a great blowout in a beautiful and fun atmosphere. Today, there are more than 60 Drybars across the country, with more opening every day. Drybar's book makes it easy for women to get the Drybar look at home. Webb shares her tried and true tricks and tips in three in-depth sections featuring more than 100 style-inspiration photograph and step-by-step tutorials. Bright, upbeat, and loaded with style and substance, this book will give readers everywhere a good hair day at home!

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EDITOR: Rebecca Kaplan

DESIGNER: Jenny Kraemer

ART DIRECTOR: Andrea Rell

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Denise LaCongo

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015956325

ISBN: 978-1-4197-2106-9
eISBN: 978-1-61312-988-3

Text copyright © 2016 Alli Webb/Drybar Holdings LLC

All photos © Max Wagner unless otherwise noted:
© Cameron Webb: front cover, Step-by-Step photography, this page, this page, this page
© Clark Dugger: this page, this page
© Charley Star: this page, this page, this page
© Kimberly Genevieve: this page
© Jamie Chung: this page
© Jeff Sarpa: All Drybar Product Images

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My mom ...

absolutely adored reading and spent a lifetime trying to get me to fall in love with books. However, hair was always my passion, and while my mom didn’t love it the way I did, she happily blew out my curly hair all the time. As a young girl, I was so lucky to have such a supportive mother who always encouraged me to follow my dreams.

I’ll never forget how excited she was when she learned her very own daughter was writing a book. While I can’t share this book with her, I can dedicate it to her. So here goes:

Mom, wherever you are, I thank you and I love you. I would not be the woman I am today without your unwavering love and patience. This book is my gift to you.

Rozi Landau 10/16/1950–1/29/2016. Alli & Rozi 1984 Hollywood, FL

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
A Girl and Her Blow-Dryer: The Alli Webb Story

What is Drybar?

Aperitif: Make Every Day a Good (Hair) Day

SECTION 1
Prep School: Everything You Need to Know about Your Hair (IMHO)

SECTION 2
Bag of Tricks: The Tools You’ll Need for Making Your Own Drybar Magic

SECTION 3
Hey, Good Lookin’: Drybar’s Signature Styles

The Straight Up
Straight with a Little Bit of Body

The Manhattan
Sleek and Smooth

The Cosmo
Lots of Loose Curls

The Mai Tai
Messy, Beachy Hair

The Cosmo-Tai
A Little Cosmo, a Little Mai Tai

The Dirty Martini
Tousled and Textured

The Southern Comfort
Big Hair, Lots of Volume

SECTION 4
Beyond the Blowout: Other Styles to Know and Love

The Perfect Pony
To the Gym and Back

The Fun Bun
Not Just for Bad Hair Days

The Barmaid Braid
AKA What Bangs?

SECTION 5
After Party: Making Your Look Last

The Dry Tai
AKA The Mai Tai in a Minute

The Straighter Up
Second-Day Hair, Served Neat

SECTION 6
Q & A Session (Questions & Alli)

10 Core Values

Thank You

Acknowledgments

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INTRODUCTION

A GIRL AND HER BLOW-DRYER: THE ALLI WEBB STORY

Alli, 1988 Boca Raton, FL

Yep, that’s me. Back then, I was Alli, the girl with the crazy, impossible, unruly, super-duper, totally uncool curly hair.

At least, that’s how I felt.

I know, I know. It might not look that bananas to you. It just looks like hair. But trust me, waking up with a wild nest on top of your head in a world where supermodels like Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford were the hair idols of the day was enough to make anyone want to stay in bed. Some nights, I would struggle for hours before bed. If I blew out my hair, then slept on it, it would surely have to be less frizzy when I woke up, right? Wrong. Most mornings before school, I would lock myself in the bathroom with brush and blow-dryer until my brother banged on the door, yelling for me to get out. Some days, my hair semi-cooperated before I left the house. Other days, I threw it in a bun. Most days—even when I had a really cute outfit on!—I felt as if my pursuit of having even one good hair day was a complete and utter lost cause.

How did those shampoo-commercial girls get that freaking hair? It was a conundrum to me. Seriously. Bouncy hair became one of life’s great mysteries—something only the secret society of professional hairdressers knew about. I tried every product I could get my hands on and experimented with every brush under the sun. I washed my hair in the morning and pulled it into taut braids to get it to de-frizz. I deep-conditioned it at night and slept on it in hopes this would help calm it down. I listened to old wives’ tales, clipped tips out of magazines, and even ironed my hair with an actual iron, the kind used for clothes.

As I got older, I started g...

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