How to Prevent Damaging Your Hair With a Curling Iron

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Lauren and today I am here to discuss how to prevent damaging your hair with a curling iron. Curling irons most that you buy, you want to make sure that you buy one that has a heat adjustment on it. It actually tells you the degrees that you can go to. If you have finer hair, you want to keep your adjustments more on the medium, medium high. Adjusting the right temperature for your curling iron for your hair is one of the easiest ways to prevent doing any added damage towards your hair while using a hot tool or curling iron. What you are going to do, now most products these days that you use in order to style your hair are easy and are thermal protectants. The thermal protectants that you can have you will start by putting them in your hair right when you are about to blow dry. After they are done blow drying and you want to go through with the curling iron, you are going to section the hair. Now in order to prevent any damage from it, you are going to make sure that you set, your heat setting is at the right place for your texture of hair. And then you are going to use a thermal protectant and you are going to spray the hair from root to end. Make sure that it glides over. Smooth it down. And then use your curling iron. Your curling iron in other ways, so you want to make sure that you kind of feel the hair and make sure that it's not getting too hot. You can actually feel the curl begin to set. So keep your hand there. If it's burning your hand, it's burning your hair. It's a good rule of thumb. So make sure that you don't hold it on your hair too long, that it's creating damage. You want it on there just enough in order to warm it. And in order to give it enough heat in order to actually have the hair stay within the desired curl that you are looking for. Again it's very crucially important to use hot tools products in order to prevent your hair, and protect your hair from hot tools. Plus also to pay attention to the setting as to what you are leaving your hot tools on. That is how you prevent damaging your hair from curling it."