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If you have curls, I'd say a blow-drier is a must. I know that my life before learning how to use a blow-drier properly was very different, in terms of how my hair looked.
Here's what I do:
I only comb my hair in the shower, and then only delicately. Never when it's dry - that just turns it into a horrible mess. I also use a wonderful conditioner called Aussie's Miracle Frizz Remedy - wonderful and also smells delicious. I have had compliments about the smell of my hair when it's washed, alone.
After washing my hair I wrap my head in a towel - though I don't towel dry as that breaks a lot of hair. I leave it in until my hair is rid of excess moisture. Then I take off the towel and finger comb it to get my parting right etc.
Then I can do one of two things:
My regular routine would be to blow-dry my hair upside down with diffuser attachment, and to scrunch the hair in my hands while I do it. Also since my roots are pretty flat I lift it up at the roots and blow hot air in there to get a little volume. I only dry the hair until it's almost dry, not completely dry as that gets it to start going frizzy. Then I turn my head the right way up again and straighten things out a bit with my hands. Sometimes I wet my hands a little and run them through the hair if I think I've overdried it.
The second option, that might work for ladies with straight hair and wanting loose curls, is to use velcro rollers. I set my hair in large velcro rollers (it's very easy to do and you don't even need a mirror), and then I put one of those plasxtic blow-drying caps over my head and attach the blow drier to it. When the air goes through it it swells up and acts like one of those seat hair-driers in salons. I have to sit there for about 40 minutes to get it right, but then when I take the cap and rollers out, it's a near salon perfect finish.
On humid days, I'd advise using a moisture-retardant spray before you dry the hair.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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