Straight hair is in. There’s only one problem, you were cursed (or blessed depending on what type of curls you have) with curly or wavy hair. I'm tempted to give you the lecture on accepting yourself just as you are, but I'll bite my tongue for now and give you a step by step guide on how to straighten your hair instead:
1. Wash and condition your hair as usual. Conditioning is very important- it helps protect your hair against the heat.
2. Towel dry your hair by gently blotting hair with the towel. Remember that wet hair is more vulnerable to damage so be gentle with your hair when it is wet.
3. Put a protective product on your hair, such as Biosilk hair straightening gel or Pantene frizz control with added conditioner, before you blow dry your hair. Make sure you dry the heck out of your locks!
4. If you use a straightening product, which I suggest you do, put it on your hair now and distribute evenly.
5. Now here comes the fun part. Plug in your trusty flat iron and while it heats up brush out your hair and separate it into layers and sections.
6. Using a brush or comb, select a small segment of hair from the bottom section that you did not put up. Hold it out straight and run the flat iron over the section starting at you scalp and working down. If you have thicker curls it is best to go slow or repeat the process several times.
7. Never spend too much time in one spot. You could fry your hair and who wants to deal with split ends anyway?
8. When you are finished with one layer repeat the process until you have finished all of your hair.
9. When you are finished straightening, style your hair until you get that hot chic look you’ve been wishing you were born with.
10. Spray in some volumizing hair spray and show your new luscious locks off to the world!
*Posted for credit for JRN 412
The Author
- Katherine Seipp
- "I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." -Audrey Hepburn
8 comments:
Great how to! Once I grow my hair out I am going to follow your instructions and see what happens. I think that my hair will be impervious to wrinkle after I follow your steps!
I starighten my hair every stinkin day because it is so curly. I am really gonna start using heat protection to help not give me split ends. Thanks.
Your hair looks perfect like every day- of course you would write about this it totally fits.
Being the retard that I am, it took me like a year to figure out that yes, that whole dividing your hair into layers and sections is, in fact, necessary.
Eighth grade was not good for me lol.
But this is a really good how-to. And I also especially liked the intro.
my hair used to be all emo long. I straightened it. Lets not tell anyone about that.
this "how to" was very informative i learned a lot good job
what do you recommend for someone like myself?
Great "how to" article! There is straightening serum by Paul Mitchell that works very well. I'm not exactly sure what the product is called though. A ceramic flat iron always works great! (:
I always have kinks! Grrrr. My hair is so thin and it's in that wretched place between straight and not-wavy-enough-to-be-pretty.So I'm very attached to my flat iron, but I've never used any straightening product. In Thailand I was too cheap to buy an adapter for my wonderful flat iron, so I had to go every single day without blowdrying or anything. Results: not to cute!
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