You sit down, they rake their fingers through your hair, and they immediately start blow-drying. The first step is rough-drying your hair until it’s about 80% dry, using a nozzle that sounds like a jet engine humiliated by a hairpin. Then they section your hair into little triangles, like a human Tetris, and round-brush each piece into submission.
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They never wet your roots. They never use a sink. The only water involved is the single squirt bottle they use to tame a rebellious cowlick—and even then, it’s applied with the precision of a bomb squad defusing a curl. Surprising fact: The average Drybar blowout uses less than 50 milliliters of water—barely enough to fill a shot glass. Compare that to a salon wash, which uses about 2 liters, and you see why they’re saving the planet one dry head at a time.
But what if your hair is a crime scene?
Let’s say you’ve been sweating through a spin class or you just ate a bag of chips on the subway and now you’re carrying the crumbs of your lunch in your bangs. Drybar asks you to arrive with clean, dry hair—that’s the price of admission. Show up with greasy locks, and the stylist might give you a look that says, “I know what you did last night, and so does your hair.”
If you’re truly desperate, you can pay for the “Wash & Blow” add-on. It’s offered at about 80% of locations, but it adds 15–20 minutes to your appointment. So you’re now committed to a full hour of someone scrubbing your scalp to the soundtrack of bad pop music. Is it worth it? Only if you’re a borderline messy person who also enjoys overpaying for a haircut that isn’t actually a cut.
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