How to Make Hair Stay Straight All Day

Keeping your hair straight all day can be a challenge, especially in extremely humid weather. But there are measures you can take to battle the elements and keep your locks "surfer girl straight" for as much of the day as possible. Just how much work you have to put into it depends on how much curl you are straightening. Hair that is just wavy or that curls only with humidity has a better chance for success than tresses that border on frizzy. You may need nothing more than a round brush and a hairdryer. Or, it may take straightening serums or hairsprays and an upscale ceramic hair straightener.

Things You'll Need

• Blow dryer (1500-1800 watt)
• Large round brush with firm, but soft bristles
• Ceramic flat iron
• Straightening serum
• Hairspray

Instructions

1. Wash your hair as you always do. Condition it to protect it from the straightening iron that you'll use later. Towel dry your hair.

2. Massage about 1 tbsp. of straightening product evenly through damp hair. If your hair is past your shoulders, use as much as twice this.

3. Gently blow-dry your hair on the lowest heat setting. You can focus on one section of hair at a time to help get it entirely straight. Gently brush your hair from root to ends while drying it with blow dryer. Positioning hair away from head, pull and straighten it with a brush, stretching the hair. Aim the brush down, not up, to straighten most effectively.

4. Work in more straightening serum as you dry. Curlier hair will need a few drops worked in by hand periodically as you dry your hair.

5. Finish with a hair straightener. Ceramic flat iron straighteners are recommended as the final step. Slide the heated flat iron along divided sections of hair.

6. Consider rebonding. If nothing you try at home works, talk to a stylist about rebonding, a straightening process that lasts for about six months.

Tips & Warnings

• Daily straightening can be very hard on your hair. If you straighten every day, you need to deep condition your hair at least bi-weekly to avoid split ends and broken strands.