Hair Brush School

1. The Paddle Brush:

This brush is perfect for a style that is smooth and sleek without a lot of volume. This brush is best for longer styles. I like to use the paddle brush, when blow drying, to get the majority of moisture out of the hair before using a round brush.

• My Wet Brush Pro Select Paddle Brush, 4 Ounce

2. Soft Bristled Round Brush:

This brush is gentle on tangles yet gives enough tension to smooth out wavy hair. Using this brush will help achieve a volumous style with shine because of all the bristles smoothing out every strand of hair.

• Olivia Garden 2" 100% Natural Boar Bristles Round Hair Brush Eco-Friendly Bamboo

3. Thermal Round Brush:

This hair is like a curling iron when it heats up. Thermal means that the brush has a metal barrel which conducts heat to the hair from the blow dryer. This can speed up blow drying and create bouncier curls.

• Cricket Technique Barrel Hair Brush

4. Combo Brush:

This brush has both boar bristles and nylon bristles. The combination of bristles makes this brush versatile in that it can create styles with curl and lots of volume or a straight sleek style.

• Olivia Garden 3 1/4" Ceramic Ionic 100% Boar and Ionic Bristles Combo Round Vented Hair Brush

5. Bangs Brush:

Sometimes bangs can be extremely unruly (as in you wake up and they are sticking straight up in the air) so you need a brush that provides a lot of tension so you can put them back in place! If you would like a curled under bang use a smaller version than the brush in the picture. The brush size shown is more for a straighter look for a side swept bang or blunt straight bang.

• Spornette's Prego Brush

6 & 7-Smoothing Brushes:

For smoothing down fly aways or putting hair up in a pony tail this type of brush is great. Stylists would use this brush for up-dos.

• Kevin Murphy Smoothing Brush