12 best hair dryers for all hair types

That feeling of strolling out of a salon with perfectly blow-dried hair is one of life’s little luxuries.

Whether you’re after a voluminous bouncy ‘do straight out of Dynasty or you’re channelling poker straight panels of glass-smooth hair, it’s hard to recreate the same look at home as the one you had in the salon chair.

While the perfect blow dry is best left to the pros, there are ways you can change your technique to get smooth, glossy locks on your own.

How to perfect a home blow-dry

Sonia Ground, senior stylist at the House of Charles Worthington in Covent Garden, gives her top At-Home Blow Dry tips:

• Take your time. There’s no way you’ll get perfect hair on a weekday morning when you have 10 minutes max before you’re out of the door. If possible, dry your hair the night before - if done right, it should hold up the morning after.
• When drying wet hair, be religious about using a heat-protecting product to minimise damage to your locks. Then wait until it’s at least 60 per cent dry before you start styling with a hairdryer.
• Section your hair so that you’re drying your whole head thoroughly. When drying the back (the hardest part), section to the side and dry out behind your ears with your brush. Even if you have super short hair and gymnastic levels of bendiness, you won’t be able to pull back sections of hair away straight up.
• Use the right brushes for your hair as well as the look you want to achieve. Big round brushes for volume, paddle brushes for glossy smoothness.

While technique is important, so too is the