Discovered something about flat ironing
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Topic: Discovered something about flat ironing
Posted By: cookiesnkream
Subject: Discovered something about flat ironing
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 7:29pm
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Maybe u guys already realized this,, maybe not,, but on saturday i was flat ironing my hair( i quit the salon!!! yayyy and it came out perfect) and i was wondering why even when i kept the iron down at 160 and 180 my hair practically burned my hand when i touched it!! i suddenly realized that if u swoop the iron down ur hair too quickly after the last one you are perhaps doubling the heat so my 180 was actually equaling 360!!! and if u do it a 3rd time u might be tripling the heat u began with YIKES!!!! i know its gonna take longer but i think its better wait a few seconds b4 touching the iron to my hair again after the first swoop,,,i cant believe this didnt dawn on me sooner! ------------- Hair type: 3b some c?, fine strands, last relaxer sept 05, never again!!! current :ap length on sides,,nearly bsl in back, damn those old frazzled ends! I am hair OBSESSED |
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Posted By: jasmine2g3
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 10:44pm
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I always pause in between each stroke b/c when I touch my hair it practically burns my hair so I know the iron would. ------------- 
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Posted By: aseya
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 1:13pm
| I never thought about it like that before! I guess what I'll do now is just iron my whole head and then go back and do it again, so that by the time I finish the top and go over the bottom again it'll have cooled down. |
Posted By: Supersugar
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 3:26pm
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I don't recommend doing it back to back, Aseya. That's likely why a lot of my ends started looking like raggedy old threads. ------------- Make every day you have count, before the time comes for you to count every day you have. |
Posted By: cookiesnkream
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 7:04pm
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i MUST go over my hair more than once ,, my hair is super duper curly LOL ------------- Hair type: 3b some c?, fine strands, last relaxer sept 05, never again!!! current :ap length on sides,,nearly bsl in back, damn those old frazzled ends! I am hair OBSESSED |
Posted By: Pokahontas
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 7:54am
| I never thought of it like that either but that really makes sense! I will wait a while before swooping the iron back down also. I need to do more than one stroke also....probably more than two in certain sections. |
Posted By: aseya
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 4:58pm
Did you use a heat protectant? I ususally need to go over sections more than once. But I'm thinking that maybe if I had a better quality iron, I wouldn't have to? |
Supersugar wrote:Posted By: cookiesnkream
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 7:05pm
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i think if ur hair is supercurly like a 3b regardless of what iron ur using ur gonna have to go over it twice or even more,,, unfortunately,, i def have to go over more than twice in many spots but now i will try to be patient...  ------------- Hair type: 3b some c?, fine strands, last relaxer sept 05, never again!!! current :ap length on sides,,nearly bsl in back, damn those old frazzled ends! I am hair OBSESSED |
Posted By: Supersugar
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 10:49pm
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I did. But repeated pressure and heat on your hair - particularly the ends, which are the most fragile - is going to overcome any heat protectant with time. A better flat iron will give you better results the first time, though. ------------- Make every day you have count, before the time comes for you to count every day you have. |