 Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today I'm gonna help you with all your diffusing problems. My diffuser is my best friend. I diffuse every day, well every day that I get ready, because it gets my hair so much more volume, and once I learned how to use it properly, change the game. So if you're watching this, wondering why your diffuser is always making your hair frizzier, I got you. So not only am I gonna give you some tips on how to diffuse, I'm also gonna be kind of like reviewing and showing you the Ion Lux Supercharged Hairdryer. Yes, I have another hairdryer. I think I'm like collecting them at this point, but I wanted to give it a try. A lot of people are talking about it, so let's get into it. Today's video is sponsored by Sally Beauties. If you wanna get any of the products that are used today for yourself, that's where you can get them, and I'll link them in my description box. So here she is, the Ion Lux Supercharged Hairdryer. It's a very chic and stylish blow dryer in my opinion, but it does have the removable attachments. If you wanna use it to blow dry, you can. And it has the same magnetic little clip top there. So now let's go back to the top of the day with tip number one. Tip number one, make sure to use a strong hold gel. You want your hair to have a nice cast on it, so as you're blowing it around, it's not gonna get frizzy. So this is the Maui Moisture Hair Styling Curl Quench and Coconut Oil Ultra Hold Gel for thick curly hair. My hair is not even thick, but my hair loves this gel and it really works well on my son, just FYI. So, smells like a tropical coconut paradise. It is a thick gel, which is a good sign, because that's what we want before we diffuse. And I'm just gonna use the gel on its own. I know a while some of y'all are like, wait, where's the leave-in conditioner? I don't always use a leave-in. I actually have been a lot recently, but I'm gonna take it back to my roots of just styling with one product and see what happens. I will get more hold if I use a gel on its own versus with the leave-in, because the leave-in's gonna give it some more moisture, therefore making your hair a little bit softer, therefore making it a little bit more susceptible to frizz. So let's see what happens. We're even get through, scrunch it up. Okay, gel is applied. Now instead of just grabbing your diffuser and starting to go right away, I always have better results when I let my hair air dry for a little bit and then I diffuse. That's gonna allow my gel to form a cast over my curls, getting a little bit of that crunch. Don't be afraid of the crunch. The crunch is your friend and it can disappear if you want it to. So let this be the very first thing you do when you get out the shower. Put on your gel and then do everything else. Do your makeup, feed your children, figure out your outfit. Do all that stuff while your hair is drying so that it can create that cast and then we'll come back to diffuse. Now for some reason you don't have time to air dry. At all you just gotta diffuse and go. You are gonna get better results by using a stronghold gel versus anything else. I would not recommend using just a leave-in or a cream and then having to diffuse immediately. So if you have to diffuse right away, you have to use a stronghold gel to avoid frizz. So now I'm gonna put on the rest of my face and come back. Now I'm back, full face on and my hair is starting to have a really nice cast. I probably could even let this dry a little bit more but I do wanna see the drying power of this dryer. I want my hair to still be a little bit wet but I have a little bit of the stiffness for me and that's what we want. So not like a full dry crunch but a little bit of like some hard parts, if you know what I mean. Okay, so here's the cool shot button. Then we have three different fan speeds and heat settings. I've pushed this. So when the cool shot is on, the light turns blue. What I do like is you don't have to hold down the cool shot button. You just push it once and it'll stay cool. So your next diffusing tip is slow and steady wins the race. If you have a high fan speed and super hot heat, it's kind of like too intense too much. Sometimes if we're gonna bind, you gotta go there. But if you have the time, you wanna keep it on a low or medium heat setting and a low or medium fan speed. So I'm gonna do probably medium heat and a medium fan speed. Your next tip you're gonna wanna do is dry your roots first. Our ends are usually the driest part of our hair. So you don't really wanna start here and then go up because it's gonna take longer for this part of your head to dry. So start at your roots, dry that first and then work your way down. So as you can see, I'm kinda just gently placing it at my roots, letting it sit for a couple seconds and then moving to a new area to dry. When it comes to getting the top of your head, you could just put it right on there. It has a little prong, so you're still getting some distance and then to slowly move it around. Okay, now that my roots are a little bit more dry, now I can focus on the length of my hair. I don't want to actually do what you see a lot of curly girls do, which is cup everything in here and scrunch it up. I'd recommend this for wavy hair to make your hair more defined, but if you have really tight curls and you want elongation, going like this is just going to shrink your curls even more, making them curlier, which is nice, but it's gonna make it look shorter. So I have a whole video on elongation if you guys wanna watch that video, but I'm not actually going to cup and scrunch. I like to diffuse like this and diffuse down. We want the airflow to be pushing all of our hair down because if you're pushing it up, that'll just raise your cuticles and make everything frizzy. So remember, you wanna just go like this and try to just hover everything down so that your hair's laid down and flat and not up and frizzy. I also like to keep it moving so I'm not keeping any heat in one area for too long. So remember to think about your goals, is your goals elongation and just for it to be dry or are you using your diffuser to create more definition? So if you're creating more definition, scrunch it up. If you already have super curly hair and you want it just to get dry and not shrink up, you're gonna blow dry down. One of my goals with diffusing is also volume because I have very fine hair. So as you can see, I like to flip my hair around a lot that way and my hair's not gonna be too flat. I'm gonna keep it moving and grooving. Some of you might be wondering when to use your cool shot. Use your cool shot button anytime you feel your hair getting really hot. We're not trying to get heat damage while keeping our hair curly, okay? We wanna do heat damage, there's plenty of ways to do that. But if you feel your hair is getting a little too hot every so often, go ahead and click this cool shot button. That way you kind of cool everybody down. And I do like that. I don't have to hold it down on this blow dryer. Now if you're ever in a hurry and you wanna use your high fan speed and ultra heat setting, then you wanna keep your dryer as far away from your hair as possible that way you're not blowing too much hard air and blowing around your curls. So I'm gonna put on the highest fan speed and show you how I do that. So as you can see, my curls are looking really good, they're still defined and we are avoiding a bunch of frizz. So now that my hair is pretty much dry, I'd say it's about 95% dry. I feel comfortable with touching it now. You could apply some oil to your hands to also reduce frizz. So I'm gonna grab my Matrix, a curl can dream oil, put that on my hands, and then I'm going to kind of scratch. This will give my hair some shine and also break the cast. So if you hate hold, you don't want your curls to feel crunchy, you can go ahead and apply this. But as I diffuse, I'm going to slowly break apart my hair so that it can get bigger. Scrunch your hair until it's dry. If you start scrunching it while it's wet, you're gonna create frizz. So make sure you have that cast and then your hair is dry and then it's safe to scrunch. Now let's say you get a little too wild and carried away with your diffuser like this. And you notice a little, not even frizz, but not as defined curls as you want. You can always go back and fix it. You don't have to start your whole wash day over. So right now, I mean, it looks pretty fire. But let's say I want to fix like this little part. Let's just be super, super picky with it. And you're not happy with how this looks because it got a little carried away with your diffusing. You could just add a little bit of water. Just go over it and there you go. There's already product on your hair so you don't want you to add any more, but you always could add a little bit more gel and kind of just smooth down any flyways, protecting the outer layer of your curls. Any little frizzy spots, I don't really see any. We did a really good job. Now that my hair is dried in a more elongated state, now I can go back in for more volume because now my curls are past like the shrinkage stage because they've already dried in a longer form. So now I can kind of fluff it out. And I do that by diffusing upside down. Oh, all right. Oh, little side part action. Sometimes my hair tells me what it wants to do. Apparently we're doing a little side part. Okay, so there you have it. My day one hair using only one product and one bomb diffuser, not bad. So overall final thoughts on the Ion Luxe SuperCharge Hair Dryer, it works great. As you can see, I've been using it in a couple of my videos. I do like that it has a memory feature. So whatever settings you use last, when you turn it off, when you turn it back on the next time, it actually remembers your settings. So you don't always have to change your settings every time you turn on your blow dryer. So that's pretty cool. Since this does have Ion technology, that's supposed to make our hair shinier, reduce frizz, reduce heat damage, and just overall dryer hair faster. So I love the look. I like how compact it is and it does a great job. If you're currently looking for a new blow dryer diffuser, this could be the one for you. They are available at Sally Beauty and they retail at $249.99. So I'll be sure to link the hairdryer and the gel I used in my description box below. So those are all of my diffusing tips for you. I hope this was helpful. Leave a comment below. Let me know if you've already applied some of these diffuser tips to your routine and which one was like a game changer for you. I think mine was waiting until my hair has a cast, but I just would not recommend diffusing your hair with only a cream styler. You need something with hold, gel, mousse, something to give you a cast. Letting your hair air dry first also reduces the amount of time you have to diffuse. Therefore, you're putting less heat on your hair, which is always a win. If you have any diffuser tips of your own, leave a comment below so we could try out what you do to make your curls pop in. And if you enjoyed this video, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week. You also can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok at Ms. Bianca Renee. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.