Hair straightening Tips N Technique

How To Straighten Your Hair

Before attempting to straighten your hair, get it about 80% dry by blow drying with a diffuser, blotting with a towel, or waiting until hair dries naturally. It will require alot of heat if you have extremely curly hair, but always remember to use a shot of cool air to set the locks you have just straightened.

Wash and condition hair. Blot dry. Hair should be almost dry when you begin. Gather up hair into several sections and secure or clip hair on top of your head. You will be drying the bottom layers first. Follow the brush (with your dryer) down the sections of hair as you straighten each section and be sure to keep the dryer moving. Take down a new section of hair and procede as directed above. Work your way up the layers until all sections are dried and straightened. 

The oval (elliptical) shape and natural crimp of Afro-Caribbean hair makes it difficult to straighten without damage.
Hair Straightening Options

• Temporary straightening 
  
• Chemical Straightening 
  
• Non-Toxic Relaxing Method 
  

Relaxing Hair With Chemicals - The chemistry of the relaxing process is identical with that of perming, with the breaking of disulphide linkages and re-forming of the hair shape (in a straighter arrangement this time, rather than in curls), followed by re-making of the linkages.