Curling your hair with foil?

[MsLizziA]

Im thinking about experimenting with this. What do you ladies think? Think it would be damaging? Safer? Chime in please. The picture of the mini tutorial is attached

She pin curled the hair into foil and then flat ironed. I would love to hear Nonie 's take on it.

 

[Lilmama1011]

That sounds damaging to me , sound like it will keep unnecessary heat focused on the hair

 

[Nonie]

MsLizziA, I'm with Lilmama1011, I don't think it's a good idea. I shared my feelings about it before in this post: http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showpost.php?p=10043098&postcount=28

 

[guyanesesista]

Looks pretty but I agree with Nonie.

 

[ravenhairedcharm]

Girl what? Please leave that alone before your hair ends up on life support. I'm just playing, but please don't.

 

[lovebug10]

Double post. See below

 

[lovebug10]

Call me crazy but I think that this is less heat damage than directly flat ironing the hair. Anyways why don't you spray the hair with a flexible holding spray, pin curl and sit under a dryer for about 30 min. Then when it cools take out the pin curls and spray again with a flexible holding spray.

 

[CurlsBazillion]

hmmmm weird...foil doesn't really get hot but then again I never thought to put a flat iron to it sooo....Idk, what's the point? I remember moptop maven doing something like this for a deeper conditioning vid ...I really didn't get it then and I'm still not understanding why an overhead dryer and a plastic cap wasn't good enough.

 

[Leeda.the.Paladin]

I dont know about that either. Isn't aluminum a really good heat conductor?

 

[lovebug10]

yeah thats another thing... I don't think aluminum gets too hot. Have you every grilled something on a grille and wrapped it in foil? the foil is warm but never soo hot and once you take it off the flame its cool enough to touch. Maybe warm but never hot. It takes alot of heat to melt aluminum or get it extremely hot which explains its use in science chemistry classes or for cooking purposes. You would never use an iron skillet on a grille b/c it would get way too hot too quickly.

 

[MsLizziA]

yeah thats another thing... I don't think aluminum gets too hot. Have you every grilled something on a grille and wrapped it in foil? the foil is warm but never soo hot and once you take it off the flame its cool enough to touch. Maybe warm but never hot. It takes alot of heat to melt aluminum or get it extremely hot which explains its use in science chemistry classes or for cooking purposes. You would never use an iron skillet on a grille b/c it would get way too hot too quickly.

lovebug10 i was thinking that too! Maybe its not as hot as we are assuming it might be