NEED HELP!!!! Trying to STRAIGHTEN my NATURAL HAIR!!!!

[sweetpeadee]

Okay, so I plan to straighten my hair around Thanksgiving but when I used try straighening my hair, I got nothing but a puffy...puff (for lack of better words!). Last year, after going to a Dominican salon in Columbia, SC, (around Thanksgiving '09 and Christmas '09) I suffered heat damage, so I have sworn of others doing (esp. straightening) my hair. I really want to master straightening my own hair with out getting a puffy, frizzy mess or stringy, burnt mess!!! So its up to me....with the help of my LHCF fam!!!!


I have several questions for naturals who straighten their hair:

1. What products do you use BEFORE, DURING and AFTER straightening your hair?

2. How do you straighten your hair? Blow dryer, flat iron, both? Step-by-step processes are MORE THAN WELCOME!!!! As are pics!!!!!!!

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!

 

[lovely_locks]

I wonder this too!

 

[LuvlyRain3]

I saw an article on straightening natural hair from a members blog. I think it was westNDNbeauty

I needed this app!!!

 

[sweetpeadee]

I saw an article on straightening natural hair from a members blog. I think it was westNDNbeauty

I needed this app!!!

I just looked and it says: westNDNbeauty has no blog entries to display.

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[julzinha]

Here are a few youtube videos:

YouTube - How to straighten Natural Hair

YouTube - Flatiron Tutorial - for NATURAL HAIR

YouTube - Tutorial: Straightening / Flat Iron Natural Hair Tutorial [reloaded]

 

[Nonie]

There are several threads in the forum on this topic. Here are two:

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/ha...00194-naturals-whats-best-way-straighten.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/ha...ype-4-secret-perm-straight-hair-one-pass.html

 

[Bun Mistress]

I would look at nonie's link. for me the key was a very good DC the night before Shampoo, make sure that there is no oil on your hair.Condition again(my first DC has oil and is a moisture DC, the second is usually Aveda DR). Then is small sections detangle, blowdry(tension method, thena brush once 80% dry. Then I flat iron with the comb chase method. It's not easy and when I do it it takes a while to dry. When my style doesnt she can do it in under two hours, me around 4. But this is how I get perm straight hair. And also, Always use a heat protectant. Cant say that enough and limt your pre flat iron products to two your heat protectant and a leave in. The leave in should not contain an oil. Aveda DR line has a leave in that is also a heat protectant. It is a detangler too. I have alsoused morrocan oil in the past and the smooth line. Hope this gets you started.

 

[LuvlyRain3]

I just looked and it says: westNDNbeauty has no blog entries to display.
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Sorry I didn't mean her lhcf blog. Here's the link

http://www.confessionsofablogvixen.com/2010/09/my-journey-to-perfectly-flat-ironed.html



I needed this app!!!

 

[sweetpeadee]

Thanks julzinha , Nonie, @ Bun Mistress and @ LuvlyRain3!!!

Does anyone about straightening NATURAL hair with curler and sitting under a blow dryer? Trying for as little heat/ possible heat damage as possible! I know BostonMaria has used this method before! Any, and all, input greatly appreciated!!!

 

[tmhuggiebear]

Hey, check out this thread:

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/ha...ew-discussion/298845-naturals-straighten.html

Pinkskates basically how she flatirons her hair as a natural. If you didn't already know she is a natural with waistlength hair and wears her hair stretched or straigtened most of the time.