Humdity...and other problems
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Printed Date: July 18 2025 at 1:27am
Topic: Humdity...and other problems
Posted By: palikane
Subject: Humdity...and other problems
Date Posted: July 25 2006 at 3:25pm
| I have moderately thick shoulderlength hair with bangs and layers. Every time there is even a a LITTLE humidity...my hair poofs up...or the layers flip out and I start to look like country singers (no offesne...they jus thave a lot of the flips in their hair). Plus my bangs decide it would be fun to drive me crazy and curl into a wave. I HATE dealing with this! I blow dry &straighten my hair...I change my shampoos and conditioners a lot. I try to dry my hair as much possibel and save the straightner for finishing touches as it does less damage. I am SO upset that this happens...sometimes even when it's not humid it freaks out and curls or thickens at the most random times. Once in a blue moon my hair is straight, and STAYS that way! I protect my hair and try not to damage my hair too much by not adding to many products to my hair. I don't want to try any permanents straghteners...does anyone have tips to seal in the locks so they REMAIN straight>??? Cuz I am so through with all of <<this>> |
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Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 12:00am
| What kind of products do you use? What is your hair regimen? Do you use a flat iron and If you do, which brand? |
Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: July 26 2006 at 12:01am
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OH, and what is your hair type? |
Posted By: palikane
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 12:24pm
| My hair is moderatly thick and mildly wavy bordering curls (it looks so wierd) My regimen includes the basic shampoo and conditioner...I use dangerously straight by Herbal Essences.. Ever so often I use reconstruction by Aussie and leave in conditioner by Garnier. I dry my hair for the most part and use hair protectant by VO5...then I use my Cricket straightener. It use to work wonderfully when I first got it...but maybe I need a better iron. I've bene thinking about a Solia... |
Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: July 27 2006 at 2:09pm
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Ok, you definitly need a better iron. The Solia is great and compare to others, very affordable. I myself own a Sedu. But I tried my friends Solia and loved it. It is heavier than the Sedu, wich to me is a good thing. The Sedu is a little too light for my taste, but it does work wonders. It also gets way too hot on the outside, and the Solia doesn't. That being said, you need to use better products. When you heat style your hair, you have to take extra good care of it. I wrote down my hair regimen on a previous post. It is titled "the fight against humidity". If you click on the Straight Talk forum and go to page number 3, you should be able to find it. It is too much information for me to write it all down again. I know initialy is going to be an investment, but trust me, it is worth it. Your hair is your most important accesory, so treat it right. You don't have to use the Rusk radical anticurl. But do follow the maintanance regimen. For your type of hair, you might want to try Redken All soft heavy cream, instead of Smooth Down butter treat. The butter treat contains wax, so unless your hair is super curly, go with the all soft, as the wax in the butter treat proves too much for people with just wavy hair.
You MUST, and I repeat MUST, do protein treatments once a month and get a trim at least every 8 weeks. You may not need all the products I listed, so you can start slow and see what works for you.
Good luck and Beautiful hair.
Shary
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Posted By: palikane
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 11:48am
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thank you sooo much! I'll get right on it...I am so sick of the poofy
mess that for me is sad excuse for my hair...thanks SharyG! I'll try to
reply after I use all the products |
Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: July 28 2006 at 4:20pm
| You're very welcome, do keep me posted. I'm don't give up. You won't have beautiful hair over night, but it will happen. |
Posted By: palikane
Date Posted: August 15 2006 at 8:19pm
| Okay...well I FINALLY got my Solia yesterday, and let's just say I never knew that the straightner was supposed to glide over your hair in stead of basically raking it (Not that my hair is like the Rake-Type). It's pretty good, then again i did a lazy drying job. It just loves to poof up though the next morning lol. Anyways I went to the salon yesterday and they DIDN'T have the Heat Glide! Needless to say I was a little disappointed since you don't normally find Redken at your local Target lol. I did get the butter treatment but I haven't had the time to do it because of volleyball tryouts (Three days- 2 sessions- 4 hours....fun!) and other engagements but I'm so excited to start doing the protien treatments and such...I'll def keep you posted. |
Posted By: lisalj
Date Posted: August 17 2006 at 9:57am
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Honey I feel your pain. I am a hairdresser who was embarassed to tell anyone my profession during the summer months! Gosh what a frizz ball my hair was UNTIL I started getting Thermal Reconditioning. I started with an Optismooth TR with the flat iron, and now I get the Optismooth cold to give me some body since I have fine hair.
It has changed my life and frizz is a thing of the past.
I am dressed and ready to go out the door in record time too.
Life is too short to fight frizz.
That's my story...
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Posted By: palikane
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 1:05am
| REDKEN SMOOTH DOWN IS A GOD! I love it sooo much! It made my hair soft and settled it down! I just got like 10 compliments on it today from old friends especially with my new Solia! Now I just need to get hte Heat Prot Spray...! Thanks Shary! I love Redken! |
Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: September 02 2006 at 12:33pm
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Oh! it makes me so happy to hear that! So glad it worked for you as good as it has for me. Another fellow puffy head saved LOL, makes jump with joy. Remember the smooth down line is heavy, so you need to clarify at least once a month to prevent the build up from ruining your beatiful look.
Also if you already got the heat glide and it's working good, you don't have to get the spray. I mean the heat glide is a heat protector, and should be enough.
Anyway, thanks so much for the update! I love to hear about the success stories.
Much love, Shary
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Posted By: Denise Kingsley
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 10:59am
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Since you are using Redken, you should use the Hair Cleansing Cream once a week for clarifying. It is a wonderful shampoo.
Make sure to use the Heat glide on towel tried hair. You can add more as your hair dries, if needed. ------------- Denise Kingsley |
Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 5:59pm
| The Hair Redken cleansing cream is great, however a little too good LOL. If you color your hair you can not use it. It even says it on the bottle. It will strip your color right out. So, if don't color, I say use it for sure, but if you do, get something gentler. Back to basics or Paul Mitchell Shampoo two. |
Posted By: Denise Kingsley
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 7:13pm
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We were talking clarifying shampoos, were we not? All clarifying shampoos will pull color a bit. Some worse than others, and certainly worse than Hair cleansing cream.
------------- Denise Kingsley |
Posted By: palikane
Date Posted: September 04 2006 at 1:11am
| Okay well I got some Pantene Classic Clean Shampoo lying around so I'll keep that dully noted...I still gotta get that heat glidee.... |
Posted By: Sharyg11
Date Posted: September 04 2006 at 1:04pm
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I wouldn't go with the pantene one, too many bad ingredients, including the ones that cause premature wrinkles. When it comes to clarifying shampoos, you really want to get a good one. Otherwise you might end up with super dry hair. Paul mitchell shampoo two at about $5 bucks a bottle is not a bad deal. Cleanses really well, yet is gentle enough, and it smells so good.
I am the number one fan of Redken products, I just love them. But their hair cleansing cream is pretty strong, so I was just pointing that out in case you have colored hair. Yes,all clarifying shampoos will fade color to some point, but this stuff means business LOL. And being that the bottle says "not safe to use on color treated hair" I say if you color, listen to the people that manufactures the product and don't use it (=:
As I said, if you don't color, by all means go for it. I love and will try anything Redken.
Oh! and one more thing, depending on how many times you wash your hair per week, and how much product you use on it, you may not need to clarify once a week. May be once every other week. I personally do it every 3 to 4 weeks, and that works well for me. So don't clarify if don't need to, as it may dry out your hair a little. It will take you some time, but you'll figure out what works best for you.
Much love, Shary
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Posted By: lisalj
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 4:28pm
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Why don't you try what I did?
I got the Chi Quick Smooth It is for softer curls and reduced frizz bigtime.
It is ammonia free and very gentle.
Lisa
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Posted By: palikane
Date Posted: October 14 2006 at 8:04pm
| I think I'll stick with teh Redken...the butter treat is already a blessing...if not I'll try to get the Chi..but it's harder to find :(( |