A real woman is rarely happy with herself.
There is always something to improve and improve, and logic is not the place here.
Therefore, the owners of straight strands love curls, and young women with wavy hair are constantly trying to straighten them.
How to straighten hair with an iron?
This is the question of the century, to which it is simply necessary to know the correct answer.
How to straighten hair with an iron: what tools will be needed
The straightening procedure is not as simple as it seems. In the old days, it was possible to comb wet locks in the hope that they would lose their waviness or spray water on their hair, trying to tame their violent temper. Today it’s not so.
Manufacturers of cosmetics are trying their best, offering consumers shampoos, conditioners, balms, sprays, creams for smoothing hair. But for complete control over the situation, a special curling iron is needed - an iron for straightening hair. Before you figure out how to straighten your hair with an iron, you will have to buy a device.
The choice will have to be made between several types of rectifiers: with ceramic or tourmaline coating, with ion-ceramic or metal plates. Metal irons are the most dangerous for hair. They burn the hair rods, make the strands dull, and the ends split. Curls can suffer after 1-2 applications.
Irons with ionic and tourmaline coating are expensive and are most often used in professional styling. Ion radiation gives the strands shine, minimizes damage from overheating, and restores. Pottery in home use is preferred. Using such a device is easy, it does not injure hair. True, it heats up for a long time, but evenly.
What else you need to pay attention to:
• the presence of a temperature regulator (for girls with brittle hair, thin by nature, this is especially true);
• the width of the working surface (the wider it is, the more hair can be processed simultaneously);
• the presence of additional functions (for example, the shape of the plates, allowing you to twist curls at the tips, or nozzles in the kit).
In any case, choosing a suitable iron is not worth saving. Health and beauty of hair is more important. In addition, it is not known how much it will cost to restore damaged yarn.
How to straighten hair with an iron: preparing hair
The main rule of the procedure is to work only with clean strands. No grease, styling remnants or freshly applied varnish! Therefore, before straightening the hair with an iron, they must be washed with a suitable type of shampoo.
There are shampoos and balms that promise incredible smoothness for fluffy hair. And everything would be fine, but such remedies most often make hair heavy and deprive of volume. This feature must be taken into account.
Conditioners are applied to the ends of the hair, so products of this kind with a straightening effect are difficult to find. But smoothing masks really make your hair more elastic, obedient and make it easier to stretch.
On clean curls you need to apply a thermal protection product: cream, foam, spray, mousse, serum, gel. They provide an additional effect, most often fixing. If the hair rods are thick, strong, and the hair is long, you can use a cream (thin strands of the product will oily, as if the head is not washed). All other means are universal.
It is important, after applying thermal protection, to comb through the hair with an ordinary flat comb with rare teeth to evenly distribute the product. Now you can start drying. It is good to blow dry your hair with a brush using a special round comb with hard bristles. The strands should be combed with smooth long movements of the roots to the ends, while simultaneously directing a stream of air from top to bottom.
It is not possible to straighten hair with an iron until it dries. High temperature will destroy wet hair rods and destroy their structure.
How to straighten hair with an iron: sequence of actions
First of all, you need to heat the iron. The heating temperature is important to control. If the hair is soft and obedient, 120 ° C is sufficient. If the curls are steep, the hair rods are dense, rigid, the temperature can be made higher, but not more than 200 ° C.
How to straighten hair with an iron? To process first one side of the head, then the other.
You need to proceed as follows:
• to separate a lock of hair from an occipital part;
• fasten unnecessary hair with hair clips-crab so as not to interfere;
• fix the forceps at the roots and smoothly move down to pass the entire strand to the ends;
• repeat pulling a second time;
• go to the next lock.
If the hair is very thin and needs volume, you can leave a few strands at the roots untight. They will give the hairstyle the necessary splendor, while the hair will look mirror-like smooth.
After processing the strands is completed, the result must be fixed with varnish, spray or wax (if the hair is short). The main thing is not to overdo it: the hair should look alive, and not tightly varnished. For thin hair, products with strong fixation will not work.
If it is important to get a larger volume, you need to raise the hair and apply varnish to the roots. In addition, you can use a professional tool for root volume.
How to straighten hair with an iron and what should not be done
Hair straightener allows you to get beautiful, delightfully smooth curls. However, it is important to know not only how to straighten hair with an iron. It is equally important to understand what absolutely can not be done.
1. Use an iron every day. Twice a week - this is the maximum that will save the health of curls. More frequent use will quickly ruin your hair. They will begin to split off, fall out, lose their lively shine and elasticity.
2. To process dirty locks. Firstly, the iron will emphasize untidiness and completely spoil the whole impression of the hairstyle. Secondly, the plates will become worse heated.
3. Passing plates on a lock, it is impossible to linger. The pulling speed should be the same, and the movements should be smooth, sliding.
4. If the plates are Teflon-coated or made of iron, you should not use indelible, heat-protective or hair care products on your hair. When heated, they stick to the metal and can ruin the device.
5. Use a straightener on wet hair. The structure of the hair from this is destroyed, and the scalp can be seriously burned.
If the hair is brittle, you should completely refuse to use the ironing. In extreme cases, it is imperative to use strong thermal protection, and set the heating temperature to a minimum. For thin hair, high heat is too much stress.
Regular use of the hair straightener requires constant enhanced hair care. They need restoring masks, balms, good (preferably professional) shampoos. Be sure to cut off the split ends of the strips once a month. If the structure of the rod is damaged, the straightener should be discarded until the hair is completely restored.
