how to use a flat iron??

Start with clean towel dried hair. Add some product made for heat styling. I use Loreal Hot Straight. If you have any frizz, you may also want to consider using a de-frizzing serum. John Freida has an entire line devoted to this type of hair, and they are actually really good products imo.

 

Use a wide toothed comb to evenly distribute the product from roots to ends. Blow dry hair with a round brush, it may help to divide your hair into about 3-4 sections starting with the bottom.

 

Once your hair is dry, you can now straighten it. A lot of people just like to go in and straighten the whole side of their head, but enless you hair extremely thin hair this method most likely won't work. Instead, section your hair off as you did while blow drying. You can section your hair into 4 sections, one on each side of your head. Or you can section your hair off in layers going up your head, which I perfer.

 

I have very thick hair so it usually takes me about 5 layers to straighten my hair. The key is to straighten as little hair as possible in one stroke. The less hair you have between your iron is more hair that has the potential of becoming straight within one pass. You do not want to swipe the iron repeatedly over hair, especially if your are observing your hair's health. 1-2 swipes should be enough with a good iron.

 

Start working with the bottom layer of hair and work up to the crown, sides and bangs. If you have extremely curly hair, it could take up to an hour for an amature, I take an hour, but my stylist takes 10 minutes, amazing isn't that? Anyhow, once your done, be sure to finish off with some hair spray to keep that look in place, if you have layers, you may want to consider texturizing with paste or styling clay fingering through your hair then fluffing, not usually necessary for pin-straight look though.

 

hope this helped sarah :)