{"product_id":"bombshell-birch-wood-round-brush-2-5-inch","title":"Bombshell Birch Wood Round Brush — 2.5″","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe size most people should own. Two and a half inches is large enough to smooth a long section and small enough to still set a bend at the ends, which is why it does more of the work in a salon than any other round brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt suits hair from the shoulder down. If your hair is longer than mid-back, the three-inch smooths it faster. If it sits above the shoulder, go smaller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow it is measured\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two and a half inches is the full diameter, bristle tip to bristle tip — the working size of the brush in your hand. Some brands quote the barrel alone and leave the bristles out, so a brush listed at the same size elsewhere may be considerably larger overall. Compare like with like before you decide a size is wrong for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is made of\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirch wood through the handle and barrel. Wood holds heat more gently than metal, so the section warms as you pass over it instead of taking the heat all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoar and nylon together, because one bristle cannot do both jobs. Boar sits close in structure to human hair and carries the scalp's own oil down the strand, which is why hair brushed with it looks conditioned without anything applied. Nylon is stiffer and does the gripping — it is what holds a section against the barrel while you pull.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow to use it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDry to about eighty per cent before the brush goes near the hair. A brush in soaking hair does nothing but stretch it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection properly. Nape first, working up, and keep the dryer pointing the same way the brush is travelling — down the hair shaft, never against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn long hair, lay the section across the bristles rather than winding it tight around the barrel. Tension comes from how you pull, not from how many times you wrap. On hair around the shoulder you can wind it, and that is how you set a bend at the ends rather than leaving them straight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLooking after it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear the shed hair out after every few uses. Hair wraps around the base of the bristles, and once it packs in there the bristles cannot flex. Most brushes are destroyed by neglect long before they wear out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo not soak it. Wood and water are a bad combination over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere it came from\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Louis spent twenty-three years behind a chair in Manhattan — a salon on 57th Street, and years of blowouts before that, nine in the morning until ten at night. A supplier would bring a sample, it got used on clients, and it went back with a list of what was still wrong. That went on for years until one came back right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Peter Louis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41477972459693,"sku":"ASIN B08L5RLX9Y","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0097\/3068\/7034\/products\/Bombshell_Birch_Wood_Round_Brush_2-5_inch.jpg?v=1787377312","url":"https:\/\/peterlouis.com\/pt\/products\/bombshell-birch-wood-round-brush-2-5-inch","provider":"Peter Louis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}