How to Flat Iron Your Hair

Easy way to flat iron/straighten your hair. Get that salon look at home!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Flat Iron, smoothing product, I recommend Redken heat glide or align. Smoothing serum like Redken glass, or Frizz-eez. Clippies, any kind, even boby pins works.

1. Depending on the length of your hair, put about a dime size amount of smoothing hair product in your hands, rub your hands together to help distribute the product and put the product in wet hair, you can even use a comb to comb through to the ends.

2. Dry your hair all the way dry. Damp hair will not straighten. As a liscensed cosmetologist, I do not believe in flat irons that claim you can straighten wet hair, all they will do is burn and destroy your hair.

3. Now that your hair is dry, add some more product to it. This will not only help keep your hair smooth and shiny all day, it will protect your hair from the heat of the flat iron. If the hair starts smoking and sizzling, that's ok, it's just the product. But excessive smoke and burning smells mean that your flat iron is turned on way too high and is burning your hair.

4. Leave the hair from your ears to your neck down. Clip up everything else out of the way. Using the fine teeth of your comb, comb a piece of the hair in your nape. Your comb will help you guide your flat iron through. Comb from the root, leave about a 1 inch space between the comb and hair root and that is where you will put your flat iron. Insert the flat iron and follow your comb to the ends of your hair.

5. If your hair is extremely course and curly, while you are running the flat iron from roots to ends you can wiggle the flat iron from side to side. This will help tame those unruly curls. Finish straightening the nape section and move onto the crown. Clip the sides of your hair out of the way. The smaller your sections while straightening, the better results you will acheive.

6. Straighten your sides and bangs last. After all of your hair is straight, add a little shine serum to your hair. You can also use the cool button on your hair dryer and lightly go over your hair, this will lock the style in place. Or mist with a little hairspray.

Tips & Warnings

• Always be careful when using thermal tools. Check the temperature of your flat iron by running a paper towel through it, if the paper towel turns brown, your iron is too hot!

[missadd]

on 9/29/2009 great article!