Gorge Northwood is one of London’s most coveted hairstylists, having mastered the art of the fuss-free blow-dry. His enviable client list includes Alexa Chung, Rosie Huntington-Whitely and Gwyneth Paltrow.
“I’m all about women being able to emulate salon looks at home. I think it’s about hair that’s easy, beautiful and natural, not too overdone. Most importantly, it’s about simple hair!”
Rather than go for that dead straight look, Northwood prefers his girls to look carefree but polished.
“I am over that poker-straight blow dry that was big in the 90’s. I just want hair to be smoothed out nicely and look natural.”
When Victoria’s Secret model Candice Swanepoel debuted her new platinum hair, she kept the look modern by sporting a care-free blow dry. Here are Northwood’s steps for creating this thoroughly modern model worthy look at home using the new VS Sassoon Go Travel Dryer.
How to:
- Wash hair and treat it with a spray in conditioner. If your hair is delicate or colour treated like Candice, opt for a leave-in detangling spray to prevent breakage.
- For lift at the root add a small egg-sized amount of volumizing mouse focusing on the crown and then work through hair using a wide toothed comb.
- Using your blow dryer on the highest heat setting, rough dry until 90% of the moisture is removed, remembering to lift hair with your fingers at the root as you dry and parting hair down the middle and drying flat onto face as you go.
For an international jet-setting model like Candice, there’s no better dryer than the new VS Sassoon Go Travel Dryer, which is the first travel dryer on the market with 2000 watts of power so you get all the benefits of an at home dryer with the compact versatility of a travel dryer. It features a concentrator nozzle for sleek frizz-free results and the dual voltage means never having to use those useless hotel hair dryers again. - Start by pinning the upper layers of hair and focus on the bottom sections. Blow dry wrapping sections of hair over a natural bristle brush keeping taught at the root (hair sections should be a similar width as the brush).
- Holding the nozzle right on the brush, pull down through the length of the hair until smooth. For height, blast dryer under the hair at the root and pay special attention to the ends curling the brush slightly under for a smooth polished look. Repeat for entire hair.
- When hair is completely dry loosely blast with air using your hands to arrange hair where you want. Add a drop of hair oil for extra shine.
VS Sassoon Go Travel Dryer
Want the convenience of a travel sized dryer with the drying and styling power of your at home hairdryer? Want a lightweight and super compact dryer with a folding handle that won’t take up room in your luggage? Want a dual voltage dryer with a choice of heat and speed settings plus a concentrator nozzle that will work anywhere and everywhere? Want the power and technology of a professional dryer to create all the latest looks from Paris, London and Milan while you are IN Paris, London and Milan? Yes of course you do! Then get yourself the new GO dryer from VS Sassoon.
RRP $22.95. Model number: VS5344A.
Stockist number: 1800 650 263
Visit: www.vssassoon.com.au
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Hi, I’m Anna the Editor of Beauty and Lace.
Most weeks we go camping,
And with the VSS Travel Dyer I could be Glamping,
The slow conversion of introducing a comfort or two,
It is on my list of things to do!
I really to win this amazing dyer as my hair needs a great one to help with the fizz and give it volume! VS is the best to help my hair♥
NEED to win please xx I love VS Sassoon ♥
I would love to win as I need to spend more time on my hair, rather than always concentrating in makeup, so this should give me the inspiration I need 🙂
My niece is going to regular camps as she is part of the YWCA Youth Parliament. I would love to win this prize for her. She needs to look the part when she is delivering her speeches in the NSW Parliament House.
I would love to win this as I travel interstate every 2 months to see my Granddaughter & this would be perfect for my suitcase & my hair!
Travelling and hair is a breeze
Hairdryers at hotels can’t deal with my thick long hair & my own hairdryer is as heavy as a brick.
My house was robbed last year and they took my blowdryer. I replaced it with one from Target, but the cord is too short and it’s really annoying.
i would love to win this fantastic dryer so my kids can have my old one and not keep borrowing mine
Perfect for the weekend trips, when my bulky hairdryer never fits. Small and compact this is great, VS Sassoon this is perfect that’s no debate!
i would luv to win this for my grand daughter who will be 16 in October she is always playing around with her hair she would luv this and she deserves something nice
My husband and I like to have getaways. We love to have time out in Coffs Harbour NSW. I would love a travel hair dryer.
I never go ANYwhere without my hairdryer, otherwise I would look like Mrs Einstein. A quality VS Sassoon Go Travel Dryer would help me lighter the load when I’m out
A VS Sassoon Go Travel Dryer
Is a must for every frequent flyer
With a fold down handle for easy packing
Although its small and compact the quality is not lacking!
I’m always putting my hair up in a pony, if only I had a fabulous travel dryer I could then wear my long hair down.
I do a lot of travelling to sheep shows around Australia so need quite a few clothes for judging and it would be nice to have a less bulky hair dryer to fit other essentials in!!
My hair is frizzy and dry,
it is enough to make a girl cry.
This dryer will help me have great locks,
and a hairstyle that no-one knocks.
Have a VS Hairdryer for years
Now, on it’s way out
Don’t want to wake up
One chilly morn
That mine
Needs to be reborn.
I’d love to win a Vidal Sassoon Go Traveller Dryer because this girl is busy and on the go and likes her goldie locks, dry and styled, looking like a goddess.
I despise using hotel/motel hair dryers and having my own VSS travel dryer will solve all my problems. No more frizz hair! No more worrying that it will explode in my hand and set the room alight! No more unusual burning smell!
Would be the ideal present for my Mum who is just about to go travelling around Australia in a caravan for at least 12months!
OMG.. I’ve wanted something like this forever!!
Thank VS for finally delivering this ripper….
I would be more than happy to use this anywhere…anytime!!
I would love to win this I am a curly, frizzy hair tragic! I have been told VS is the only dryer to use!
I want hair that is going places without flying everywhere
Fabulous to have a dryer that gets the job done & does not take up much room.
I would love to win this, never mind the travel, although it is something i am contemplating…but would dearly love a dryer!
I haven’t had a decent hairdryer for years and my hair definitely deserves an upgrade in tools. Bring it on beauty and lace!
It would be perfect to take to Fiji for my best friends wedding!
My hairdryer’s filter is beyond cleaning…the whole thing needs to be replaced.
I have fine hair which is coloured so I need to take extra care at blow dry time. The VS Sassoon hairdryer would make my blow dry a lot more fun.
I so desperately need a new hair dryer as mine is so antiquated and rather useless, and this amazing little compact version from the awesome and superior VS Sassoon would be absolutely brilliant!
I’d love to win a VS Sassoon Go Travel Dryer so I could have big hair, soft curls and volume boost. Which would give me the self confidence needed to infect others with my presence and they would all follow in my new found self assuredness, personal judgment, ability, and the power of VS SASSOON!
VS Sassoon Go has delivered the ultimate Dryer – one that is lightweight, professional, with heat and speed settings to suit, , gets rid of my frizz , and will make me glam :*
I’d love to win it for my Mum for when she goes travelling!
This quality hair dryer would come in very handy while I am out and about.
When I lived by the beach I could get away with the wet hair look but in the city it would definitely be bad form. Vidal Sassoon was a hair god and I would love a commemorative piece of his empire.
I currently have a VS hair dryer which I love but is too big to take with me when we travel. So I then use my partners one setting, way too hot hairdryer which guarantees I get the frizzes. Would love this!
I Have Crazy and Frizzy Hair if I had this Hairdryer I could take it Everywhere and Never Cause a Scare.
If I had this Travel Dryer on the day of my Wedding, my hair disaster may not have been so bad. Travelling away to be married, I readied myself. I had put rollers in my hair the night before and was feeling very relaxed. 1 hour beforehand I decided to take them out. I looked like ‘Shirley Temple’ only with ten times more hair. No matter how I tried, the curl would not brush out and come under any control. My only way to tame it was to wet it. By this stage, the Wedding only 5 minutes away, I pulled my wet hair up in a very unglamourous bun and went off to be married. The wedding photos tell it all.
See you just never know when such a useful tool can be called upon. I’d love this travel hair dryer.
I’d love the VS Sassoon Dryer …. daughter used my old dryer to dry her cabbage patch doll, dryer has melted cabbage all over it!
It would be great to have this dryer to take on any trips for those occasions when there is not one readily available at your place of accommodation.
No need to look bad when you are holidaying in a caravan!
I travel often and I find washing my long hair is a hassle because it takes so long to dry! So I need to get my hands on a travel dryer, as they’re portable, light and do the job!
My hair and my two daughters hair are all extremely thick and long. I have to hair dry our hair every time we wash it otherwise it takes all day to dry on it’s own. It would be great to have a back up dryer at home and also take this one with us on our holidays.
I love luxury when I go away,
hubby says I pack too much to play,
this dryer would make us both smile,
being very worthwhile.
After 20 years its time to replace my tired old hairdryer with a great new one.
I’ve got a brilliant head of gorgeous hair, which refuses to lay down!
Vs Sassoon like me to change my life!
So frizzy and flat, the bane of my head,
My mane always looks lifeless, dead.
I need a tool that can make me look ‘done’
VS Sassoon’s Travel Dryer just might be the one.
I don’t currently have a hair dryer, a nice travel one would be great, it could easily fit in the space in the cupboard
Sleeping on wet hair during winter is no fun – time to change it up and sleep with warm dry hair!