princess8907, it is difficult. My hair is
not so hard to manage it just takes a lot of time, the longer it gets the
harder it is to manage. And it’s naturally curly a combo of tight ringlet curls
with some wavy curls. It’s too hard to maintain like that and a hassle to wash
every morning so I straighten it. Its long and it takes forever but I do want
to see if refraining from flat ironing every morning will make a difference. I
have also given up brushing. I’m trying to grow my hair to hip length so it
would be nice not to have to flat iron all that every day. I’m going to take
your advice and I think I’m doing well and cutting back. In 8 days I have only
used my iron twice that’s an improvement. I’ll try to keep it up.
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if you hold off on the heat for a little while longer, trust me, youll see a difference
ITA. You will see the diffrence in the long run. My hair has been so much healthier and I gained a lot of length from reducing heat. I'm glad the wrapping worked for you!
i flatiron my hair once every 6 months. I use grease and a heat protectant when i do it. then i use that wrap thingy(forgot what it is called). Lasts for a week.
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Me again, remember I said I used my flat iron everyday and I
didn’t find that it did any damage. Well I decided to try and go without it for
a while to see if it made any difference. Pokahontas gave me a good idea to
wrap my hair at night and I didn’t use my flat iron now for a week, that’s a
world record for me. But I don’t really see any difference except for the fact
that I don’t have to put a lot of products in my hair to keep it moisturized,
in fact I didn’t have to put anything In my hair to keep the shine. So I guess I
will try to reduce it to about five times a week lol.
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pokahontas, thanks for the tip on wrapping hair. I have never done it and decided to try it out last night. It worked well, I didn’t have to get up and use my flat iron. My hair stayed the same way it was when I styled it. I heard that it was also good to do it to reduce hair breakage as well.
That's great! I'm glad it worked out well for you. It really is an effective way to keep your hair straight and smooth but it does take a little practice (at least it did for me).
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pokahontas, thanks for the tip on wrapping hair. I have
never done it and decided to try it out last night. It worked well, I didn’t
have to get up and use my flat iron. My hair stayed the same way it was when I styled
it. I heard that it was also good to do it to reduce hair breakage as well.
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how do you wrap y our hair in order to keep it straight? I have never tried it but if it means reducing the time I spend flat ironing my hair I will try it
You wrap your hair in one direction around your head (I wrap from right to left) like a giant roller. You can use pins to keep in place but I usually just tie in place with a scarf. The key is to keep all the hair really smooth when you're wrapping it so you won't have bumps or waves in your hair.
how do you wrap y our hair in order to keep it straight? I
have never tried it but if it means reducing the time I spend flat ironing my
hair I will try it
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I usually flat iron once a week, only after I wash! I don't relax anymore, so I have to do something because it's way to thick to do anything with it after washing it!
HHC began 08/05, BC 11/05. Healthy & nearly BSL 02/07!
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I flat iron my hair once a week after I wash my hair. One day my hair got kinda of frizzy because it was so humid her for a few days so I did get tempted and flat ironed it and the next day it got frizzy allover again! I read the forums and got NTM and that moisture has stopped my frizzies.
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I read the forums and got NTM and that moisture has stopped my frizzies.
