Okay, get your heads out of the gutter people! I’m talking about blow outs here duh! (But I did get your attention :p).

Alright, so for the longest time I just didn’t get the point of blow outs.  I mean, why would you go to the salon just to have your hair washed and dried?  It honestly seemed like a waste to me.  Then one day I heard about blow dry bars, salons specifically offering blow outs and just blow outs, no cuts, colours, etc.  Thus my interest was sparked; there must be something more to blow outs than just a wash and blow dry.  Yes, their certainly is.

If you want to hear more about the blow out craze read my article about it here.  In the article I talked about Blo Blow Dry Bar, which is North America’s first blow dry bar with 16 locations all across the United States and Canada. There are a number of other blow dry bars across the continent as well (just Google “blow dry bar” and your city to see if there is a location near you).

Anyways, this leads me to Platinum Entourage.  With all my research and writing about the craze I knew I had to have a blow out.  I was itching for one.  I wanted my hair to be washed and tousled into Victoria Secret voluminous hair.  So after a quick Internet search with the words “blow out” and “Las Vegas” I came across Platinum Entourage which is LV’s first and only blow dry bar.  Surprising I know.

Platinum Entourage is located at 6670 S. Tenaya Way, which is about a $30 cab ride there and back each from the Strip.

Basically how it works is you are given a menu which offers eight different styles to choose from (all costing $35).  You can choose from Victoria Secret runway hair to freshly tousled beach waves to the perfect chignon and more. I chose “the Soho” which is “wildly shaken curls, the bigger the better”, whereas my friend chose the “Platinum Signature” which is the Victoria Secret hair.  I would have done the signature too but my hair is too short for it (not technically, but for the way I would have wanted it, yes it is).

Anyways, my friend got her hair done first then I was after her so I took some photos with my iPhone to document the process.  She got her hair washed and probably had a scalp massage thrown in.  I chose not to get my hair cleaned because I washed it that morning and then there is the fact that because they were going to do tight curls it would hold better if my hair wasn’t freshly washed.

After the stylist (blower?) washed her hair she took her back to her station and dried a little bit of it and then put the top part in huge curlers for volume. Both my friend and I were facing away from the mirror probably for that “wow” factor at the end (think Extreme Makeover, and no I don’t mean Home Edition).

After some more blow drying and curling at the ends (as well as a glass of sangria – hello, it’s Vegas!), I have to admit, her hair was the best I have ever seen it.  It was so full of volume and literally looked like the models’ hair from the Victoria Secret fashion shows.  It was crazy!

The "after" shot (it did lose some volume by the time this was shot, about four hours later). And yes, we did go to Victoria's Secret after we got our blow outs.

This was how mine ended up too.  It was crazy curled, I seriously don’t know how the heck they did it, it looked like I had a perm.

So, would I get a blow out again?  Yes! But I think I would only get it done for a special occasion.  It was nice to get it done in Vegas and I’m glad we went but it was a very expensive cab ride and the curls did fall a bit by evening time. With that being said, I am glad we went though, it’s always nice getting pampered and it’s certainly a different experience than having your nails done.

Have you been to a blow dry bar?  What were your thoughts?  Worth it or skip it?