do you straighten your hair? if so..how?

[Shanz]

When I was little I used to have nice long very straight hair, but then i started dying it and cut it short. Ive kept it short for about 6 years (between chin and just about the shoulders length) and Ive recently started to grow it out--now its just past my shulders. Because Ive dyed it so much, its now poofy and frizzy--not nice and straight (but not like crazy poofy and frizzy--just damaged) I didnt realize how long much hair I actually had until i curled it yesterday and it took me TWO HOURS! I would like to straighten my hair but no matter what I try its straight for about a half hour..then goes Poofy. Any suggestions?

 

[Elyse]

A couple of my friends did that Japanese Straightening. It is a couple of hundred but they can walk out on days with 100% humidity with wet hair and it dries perfectly straight. I want to smack them as I bounce around with my straight frizzy hair in that weather. haha

 

[haleyandmark]

Mark's aunt is a hair stylist and she tried out this new thing on him - permanent hair straightning by CHI. I don't know if it's the same thing that your friends did, Elyse, but his hair was straighter than mine and I use a straightner! It has since grown out but it looked really good! It also cost a few hundred (not for him since he was a lab rat, lucky!), but I think it would probably be worth it.

My hair is not at all naturally straight. If I let my hair dry naturally, I will have fly-a-ways galore, along with frizzy, burnt out hair. I messed up in high school when I dyed my hair a different color every other week (my best friend was in cosmotology), and I messed up even more whenever I first got to college and my roomate (with bouncy curly hair) decided to use an iron (as in a clothes iron) to straighten my hair! Boy did that mess it up!

Sooo, now, I use my regular shampoo/conditioner, but when I get out, I put this stuff called 'John Freida Hair Serum Lite' in the ends of my hair, then dry it with a dryer, then straighten it in sections with my Revlon straightner - it works really well and I got it for like $20! It is quite the morning routine and sometimes I just fed up with it and let my hair go crumpy looking, !

Good luck

 

[Coco'smommy]

CHI Iron...they are wonderful....expensive but work great & it stays. My daughter has curly hair. My SIL is a cosmotologist and she used her CHI iron on DD & her hair looked great until I made her wash it. I let her go two days because she was liking it so much. She even slept on it and it still looked good.

 

[marciafinn]

The chi straightener is supposed to be the best. My friend is a hair dresser and she said this is the best straightening product in the world. I also use a good shampoo & conditioner to help fly aways and a deep conditioner once a week. If you are straightening it is best to let the style go a few days without washing which also helps the oils build in your hair which protects against over-styling. One of my friends has extremely curly and when our friend straightens it she'll go about four days before washing and her haid still looks great. Also using an ionising blow dryer helps keep your hair from getting frizzies and fly aways.

 

[Ronin1]

I have that type of annoying hair that if it dries naturally, it's totally frizzy and wavy. I use a flat iron every single day. It's just a necessity for me to make my hair flat. I used to have a really expensive one and it kept shorting out. I recently bought a really cheap one as a back-up for my good one that went out. It works really well for the price I paid. I have to say however, I just went on a trip with about six other girls and they had the really pricey flat irons - $200+ each. I tried them and they worked like magic at making my hair totally straight straight. Now that I've read these posts, next time around I'm going to have to get a CHI :D

 

[Lolita]

Chi

I use a Chi Iron but first I blow dry with a Chi dryer. I use the Biosilk Silk Logics product before using the Chi to avoid drying out or damaging my hair.

 

[tesster]

I understood that hair straightening was the next most damaging thing for hair to hair removal. I'd be weary, especially since your hair is already so damaged.

It sounds like the frizziness has come from overprocessing and more processing might just be the worst thing you could do. I'd talk to a professional stylist (definitely before buying something on ebay) before doing anything.

I'd try not dying your hair for a good long while and using a very good conditioner. I like Joico conditioners a lot. You can get it at many salons. They aren't cheap ($18ish/bottle), but worth it. Any good intensive conditioner is probably going to be your best bet to combat the un-natural frizzies.

If your hair were always frizzy from birth (like mine), I'd agree with everyone else.

Good luck!
Julie

 

[Maniago]

I like soya want straight hair products.

http://www.salonlines.co.uk/forwomen/?p=1&category_id=294&product_id=834

 

[catneon]

Wow that CHI thing sounds great. The one thing you need to do before is recondition your hair. Go to a good salon you trust and ask for a great miracle working damage repair mask the kind of stuff you need to leave in over night. Trust me a few years ago my hair had gotten so dry and frizzy nothing seems to work, I was able to get a great product to hydrate and repair my damaged dry hair and it was like night and day I was able to use a simple straight iron and my hair was sleek and shinny. Since then I regularly(a few time a month) use simple product like frizz ease, or a 3-5 minute repair conditioner to keep it up.

Catherine