Why Hooded Dryers Are Better Than Handheld Blowdryers

Have you ever wondered why your hair feels lighter, bouncier, and much more moisturized after a session under the hooded dryer, than your hair feels when it has been rapidly blown dry? How can 30 minutes to an hour of domed heat result in soft, luxurious hair, while less than 15 minutes of blow drying leaves the hair feeling hard, swollen, and thirsty?

While no heat is best of all, domed, hooded dryers are simply better sources of healthy heat than hand-held blow dryers for the hair. Though both heat tools have flaws, the blow dryer is much more damaging to the hair overall. When choosing which heat tool you'd like to you use, you should ask yourself, which would I rather for my tresses?

a.) a 20 minute Category 5 hurricane?
b.) a 45 minute moderate breeze?

This article will walk you through the top 5 reasons that hooded dryer heat, or domed heat, is preferable to blow drying:

1.) Blow dryers are the hotter, more direct heat source. Blow drying depletes and removes moisture from the hair strands more violently and rapidly than a hooded dryer. That rapid heating within the shaft ,caused by hand-held blow drying, is extremely damaging and can lead to all types of hair breakage issues. With hand-held blow drying, there is a much greater probability that you will experience splitting, cracking, or peeling of the hair shaft as a result of moisture loss from the blow drying activity.

2.) Hand-held blow drying results in higher levels of manipulation and added stress to the hair. Hand-held blow drying increases damage from manipulation activity because it allows uncontrolled hot air to blow the hair around wildly. Domed dryers do not blow the hair strands all over or cause them to move wildly about. In fact, most hair styles that utilize domed dryer heat involve "controlled hair" where hair is usually set on rollers, rods, or is already molded into shape. Hand-held blow drying, on the other hand, tends to involve hair arrangements that are more random and wild. Much of the damage from using the heat of your hand-held dryer is aggravated even more by the manipulation you must use to tame the hair as it dries..