The Wrong Way to Use a Flat Iron on Hair

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Lizbeth Muller from Liz's Hair Design in Hollywood, Florida, and today we're going to show you how to straighten out curly hair. I showed you what happens when you use it correctly, but what I did not show you is what happens if you don't use it correctly. Notice how smooth I'm going down the strand of the hair. Smooth one motion. Not too tight on the hand, and I'm going straight down. If you want to use a bend, you can just by bending the iron in like this and it's a bend. I want her to be a little bit more straighter. I'm just going to go over it again. If you proceed to not use the iron correctly and you're not used to it, what might happen is, and it's hard to take out, but I can take it out. You may little lines in the hair. First of all, if you don't close enough you're not going to really straighten it out, but you're going to tend to do this. If you kind of stop like that, you'll tend to crease the hair leaving little lines. Look at that. It's kind of hard to tell, but you'll leave little bumping lines because it's not smooth. You're stumbling in the hair. You're shaky. It's got to be one smooth motion. If you do this, you just go over it like that again."