Why Jonathan Van Ness Wears a Fishnet Cap While Blow-Drying His Curly Hair

As you may know but will be thrilled to learn if you didn't, Jonathan Van Ness — star of Queer Eye, those adorable Uber Eats commercials, and life in general — is launching his own hair-care line. We don't have much info about it yet (other than that it's happening under the same parent brand as Biossance's), probably because the products are still very much in development. In fact, JVN himself has been testing them.

We already know Van Ness's preferred way to air-dry his hair, but when it comes to heat-styling, he encourages his curls with a diffuser. Nothing too shocking there. But it was what he was wearing on his head during the drying process that really intrigued us: a fishnet cap.

"The traditional use of a diffuser requires you to push it all the way into the hair and work it around section by section in order to aerate all the strands. But by putting the hair in a netted cap, it actually takes out a ton of work," she tells ishonest, explaining that the net helps lift your strands away from the scalp so you're hitting them more evenly with the dryer. "This technique allows you to dry the hair and really define your curls without all the traditional work of using a diffuser pushing up into the hair so much. It's a faster way of doing the same thing without requiring you to do a full arm workout in the process."

Stylist and Olaplex ambassador Tracey Cunningham agrees. "Most people like to scrunch their hair when they diffuse it. When Jonathan uses a fishnet cap on his hair, it actually is doing the same thing as if he was scrunching the hair," she tells ishonest. "The fishnet cap is holding the hair in place which allows it to set. Depending on your hair type and texture, when you do this, it creates a soft curl or loose wave."

Van Ness is clearly onto something because, in the next clip, he shared how gorgeous his 2A/2B curls look after they've been dried in this clever way. "Volumizing for curly hair," he wrote over the video.

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