After 15 months of being heat free, I straightened my hair! I decided that I wanted to: 1) do a length check; 2) trim my ends, and; 3) see how bad my ends would look with pressed hair. After my last experience with heat, my hair responded with breakage, stripped ends, and by just being plain old damaged. This time around I wanted to see if staying away from heat, fairly regular trims and my commitment to natural products have made a difference. I was scared, so I tried to do as little as possible.....
Supplies
1. Shampoo, conditioner, deep conditioner
2. Jojoba and Coconut Oils
3. 15 large rollers
4. Hooded dryer
5. Clipping shears
6. Ceramic flat iron
Steps
1. I took out my twists. I did not comb through my hair, but I did try to finger detangle as I took them out. I then put my hair in 10 large twists.
2. I washed my hair with a hydrating shampoo, then conditioned with the anti-breakage conditioner that I've been using to co-wash, then mixed a cholesterol based deep conditioner with some hair mayonnaise, covered my hair with a plastic bag, and deep conditioned for several hours. I think that you could get the same results from deep conditioning under a hooded dryer, but I wanted to use as little heat as possible.
Generally when I wash my loose hair, I put my hair in four sections and wash each section of hair separately, and may even comb through my hair in those sections. This time I was trying something new, and I didn't take my hair out of the twists as I washed and conditioned.
3. After I rinsed out the deep conditioner, I took out each twist and combed through each one and oiled it with jojoba oil.
4. When my hair was loose and oiled, I added a small amount of coconut oil to each section of hair as it was rolled on to the 15 large magnetic rollers. I then sat under the dryer until my roots were nearly dry. I tried to make sure that I kept my roots as stretched as possible while rolling my hair. (It took an hour for my roots to begin to dry - but that was probably because I took such a long time to roll my hair that it had begun to air dry).
5. If I were just trying to straighten my hair, I would have spent more time under the dryer and tried to dry it completely in the rollers, then used my small ceramic flat iron to run over each section of curls. Since I did want to trim my ends, I combed through the curls, then took small sections of hair (about half the amount of hair on each roller) and on medium heat, did 1-2 passes with my flat iron.
6. I trimmed about half an inch of straight hair from each section as I pressed it.
Oh and yes - my hair is continuing to grow, but I have been keeping it about the same length as I grow out my heat damage. I could feel the difference between the virgin hair and the heat damaged section, but my ends didn't end up looking as bad as I feared. Please share your tricks for straightening your hair.
Supplies
1. Shampoo, conditioner, deep conditioner
2. Jojoba and Coconut Oils
3. 15 large rollers
4. Hooded dryer
5. Clipping shears
6. Ceramic flat iron
Steps
1. I took out my twists. I did not comb through my hair, but I did try to finger detangle as I took them out. I then put my hair in 10 large twists.
2. I washed my hair with a hydrating shampoo, then conditioned with the anti-breakage conditioner that I've been using to co-wash, then mixed a cholesterol based deep conditioner with some hair mayonnaise, covered my hair with a plastic bag, and deep conditioned for several hours. I think that you could get the same results from deep conditioning under a hooded dryer, but I wanted to use as little heat as possible.
Generally when I wash my loose hair, I put my hair in four sections and wash each section of hair separately, and may even comb through my hair in those sections. This time I was trying something new, and I didn't take my hair out of the twists as I washed and conditioned.
3. After I rinsed out the deep conditioner, I took out each twist and combed through each one and oiled it with jojoba oil.
4. When my hair was loose and oiled, I added a small amount of coconut oil to each section of hair as it was rolled on to the 15 large magnetic rollers. I then sat under the dryer until my roots were nearly dry. I tried to make sure that I kept my roots as stretched as possible while rolling my hair. (It took an hour for my roots to begin to dry - but that was probably because I took such a long time to roll my hair that it had begun to air dry).
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| Taking out the rollers |
5. If I were just trying to straighten my hair, I would have spent more time under the dryer and tried to dry it completely in the rollers, then used my small ceramic flat iron to run over each section of curls. Since I did want to trim my ends, I combed through the curls, then took small sections of hair (about half the amount of hair on each roller) and on medium heat, did 1-2 passes with my flat iron.
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| Combed out the roller set |
6. I trimmed about half an inch of straight hair from each section as I pressed it.
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| After the press and trim |
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