How to protect my hair from Flat Iron?
by admin on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | 4 Comments
I use pantene shampoo and conditioner. I always let my hair air dry because I hate blow drying. I have a pink professional corioliss hair straightener and before i use it I spray FX Special Effects Flat Iron Spray. It’s a heat protector.
But my hair is still getting fried. The Straightener is not too hot because I keep it on a lower setting. What products will stop this from happening?
I wouldn’t use any product on your hair or on the hot iron before using it.
You’re right to keep it at the lowest setting, but sometimes that setting doesn’t work for some kinds of hair.
Might sound silly, but I would consider going to buy one that isn’t a professional iron, reason being is: they don’t heat and high and the heat doesn’t last as long while its on your hair.
The majority of professonal irons carry soo much heat its nuts.And do sometimes lead to singed hair.
Leave in conditioner the night before might coat your hair before hand, and consider taking bigger partings when you straighten.
Do you have permed – overly colored or majorly damaged hair? Its hard to give an accurate consult when I don’t know your hair type or why its doing what its doing.
Go to a salon, and find someone thats been doing hair for 6-10 years, call ahead of time to ask. 6-10 years because -2 years they wouldn’t have enough experience to tell your appropriately whats going on and anything over 10 years, and they won’t know crap about straightening.
Bring your straightener with you and any products you use, explain whats happening and see if they can straighten your hair for you and help find you a solution. It’ll only cost you about 25 bucks or less, and problem solved.
HTH~
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Use Redken shampoo for dry/brittle hair. You can’t get it in grocery stores, but they sell it at hair salons. Its more expensive than Pantene, but its worth it. Also spray Chi Iron guard on your hair before straightening it. Its like $14.00. I hope this helps.
Stop!!! don’t use anything before you flat iron your hair, products that say it is going to protect you from the heat is a lie… When you flat iron your hair you should do it all natural nothing in your hair then afterwards you can put a little oil or serum so it can flatten out the rest and take out the frizz I am sure you will be ok for the rest of the day
I would say try using CHI products and line of flat irons. There flat Irons tend to run pretty expensive but they dont fry your hair. Try using The Iron Guard Spray from CHI. I use all of the CHI line on my hair, and it isn’t fried. Yea maybe some of my dead ends but nothing big or un normal from any other straightener. It all depends on the Iron too.
Hope this somewhat helps!