Hair straightening methods at home and at the hairdresser

What to choose: hairdryer or iron

Hair straightening with an iron is a classic of the genre. This is the easiest and most common way to give hair smoothness. For girls who regularly use this device, the process has been worked out to the smallest detail: washing your hair-drying-straightening-fixing the result. However, not everything is as simple as it seems at first glance. Such a simplification of the procedure for straightening strands extremely negatively affects their condition. Life-giving moisture evaporates from the hair, it becomes dull, dry and lifeless. Have you ever dreamed of such an untidy hairstyle using hair straighteners?

If you intend to take care of your hair while performing the procedure with an iron, listen to our advice. Before thermal styling, be sure to wash your hair with shampoo with silk proteins or silicone. The second type, however, is contraindicated for ladies with oily scalp, since silicone strongly clogs the pores. But if you have dry patla, which has been tormented by irons for several years, you can’t imagine a better silicone. Yes, it slightly contaminates the roots, but at the same time “seals” the delaminated tips and porous holes on the hair cuticle along its entire length.

Straightening will be harmless if you first moisturize your hair while washing with a mask or rinses with Shea butter or Macadamia nut.

• It is not necessary to carry out an ironing several times on the hair, achieving the highest quality result.
• Divide the hair into sectors and begin to straighten, starting from the back of the head.
• Be sure to keep the styler at a right angle.
• Make sure that the temperature of the plates does not exceed 150 ° C.

Straight hair without or with ironing should still remain shiny and healthy. To do this, we recommend using a thermal spray or cream. Such products are available in most series of hair care products: from Pantene budget lines to Osis and Matrix luxury markets. The product is applied to the hair immediately after natural drying or before applying the hair dryer. The cream envelops each hair with the thinnest layer of a protective film and repeatedly reduces the harmful effects of high temperatures.

How to straighten hair without ironing? You can use a regular hairdryer with a hub nozzle and a flat brush. The hair dryer is only suitable for lite-smoothing, because it is unlikely to cope with fluffy and naughty strands. A small nuance: only wet hair is straightened with a hairdryer.

How to choose a styler for styling

Not every girl knows how to choose a hair straightener. The most “ancient” styler models were equipped with metal plates. It turned out to be almost impossible to control their temperature, they quickly glowed and mercilessly burned the ends of their hair.

• Modern heating elements are covered with a layer of ceramics.
• More expensive models with tourmaline spraying are designed for professional use.
• Marble plates are the most difficult to heat up, but such irons, unfortunately, are quite rare.

Remember: the more difficult the hair is to style, the wider the forceps should be.If you have dry hair, models with ionization and a steam humidifier are suitable. Before using such a hair iron, you need to pour a small amount of distilled water into the heater hole.

Long-term straightening methods

Even if you have long known how to straighten hair with an iron or hairdryer, you may not always have the time needed for this procedure. Then hairdressers and stylists come to the aid of lazy people. By analogy with perm (carving), chemical hair straightening was invented. The active composition is applied to the curls, then the strands are processed with professional irons.

Chemical hair straightening

Long-term straightening is intended for thick hair of normal or oily type. Dry, colored and lifeless, it will only ruin: from the ammonium hydroxide, which is part of the chemical preparation, the hair cortex is destroyed. The effect of "chemistry" lasts at least 3-4 months. If you want your hair to be always smooth, revisit the salon about once every six months.

Bio hair straightening

A novelty in demand in all salons is bio-straightening. It does not damage the hair structure, while at the same time keeping the hairstyle mirror-shiny. During the session, the master uses only gentle amino acid compounds. They contain substances “native” to the human body that fill damaged areas of the hair and seal open pores.

Girls who are not ready for chemical or bio-straightening can try keratin styling. It also has a prolonged action, but again needs frequent updating. "Eternal" straightening is still under development, but it is also quite real. In the meantime, the choice of curly girls is limited in several ways.