QuoteReplyTopic: Flat Iron with Thio Straightener Posted: December 12 2006 at 5:33pm
No it is not OK, and doing it will cause mayor damage. The only thio treatments formulated to be used with heat are the ones for Thermal Reconditioning. Applying heat with the regular (cold formulas) will not make your hair any straighter, it will just cause damage. You may not see it rigth away, but in a couple of months, it will be breakage galore!
The neutralizer with the regular thio straighteners has to be applied on wet hair anyway (otherwise, again, mayor damage) so flat ironing is worthless, because you would have to re-wet your hair.
Even the Thio that is formulated to use with heat, must be applied by a chemical expert. Otherwise you will end up with a nightmare. Believe me, I know. I spent $600 to get TR, and it took my hair two years to recover from the damage. My hair broke off and fell out in clumps. My scalp had this white film on it which you could see on my frontal hairline. And I ended up with a bald spot on my frontal hair line, which took me two years to grow out enough to layer it and blend it in with the rest of my hair.
Not to mention all the money in treatments. I could not wear my hair down for almost two years because the breakage had caused different lenghts on my top layer of hair. So it was visible. And this was having a professional stilyst apply the treatment (actually 2 stilysts)who had been trainned by Bio-Ionics reps. However they were not chemical experts. It takes a real chemical expert to do TR. I didn't know any better at the time. But trust me, after that happened I did alot of research.
So if that can happen with a professional stilyst, imagine what could happen, with someone with no expirience at all.
Don't do it, it is not worth it. And the people doing it, are people who have not done any research and are taking it upon themselves to do things that are not supposed to be done with the treatment. Chemical treatments are alot more complicated that people think.
With thio, you are actually disconecting the disulphide bonds in your hair (the "chain link" molecules that form hair). Your hair is in a very fragile state at that point. Applying heat to hair that has been treated with a thio formula not intended for that purpose, will destroy the hair from the inside out.
I now use regular thio (no heat) and for my type of hair, the results are way better, and I couldn't be happier.
Good luck and great hair,
Much love, Shary
Edited by Sharyg11 - December 12 2006 at 5:36pm
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I was woundering, is it ok to flat iron your hair after applying a thio straightener, before applying the neutralizer? How exactly would this be done? would i wait for my hair to dry naturally between the straightening step and the neutralizing step or would i blow dry it?
I heard of this being done before to achieve straighter hair, but im not sure of the details.
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. My scalp had this white film on it which you could see on my frontal hairline. And I ended up with a bald spot on my frontal hair line, which took me two years to grow out enough to layer it and blend it in with the rest of my hair.
. I could not wear my hair down for almost two years because the breakage had caused different lenghts on my top layer of hair. So it was visible. And this was having a professional stilyst apply the treatment (actually 2 stilysts)who had been trainned by Bio-Ionics reps. However they were not chemical experts. It takes a real chemical expert to do TR. I didn't know any better at the time. But trust me, after that happened I did alot of research.
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