For those who flat iron.....

[Kiadodie]

do you roll it and dry it and then flat iron or do you wrap it wet and dry it that way and then flat iron it??? Which one makes the hair look better?

Thanks!

 

[Leslie_C]

I dont think it really makes that much difference how u dry it because the flat iron, especially a high end ceramic one, really smoothes it out. I think the key is not using anything on the hair to weight it down. Ive only used mine a couple of times, but I air dried in a ponytail and then flat ironed and it looked very nice.

When I went to the hair salon, she would wash, deep condition, come my hair straight down like a bowl all around my head and sit me under the dryer to partially dry,

then she would blow dry it and flat iron with a bump. Then she would wrap it, cover it in saran wrap and put me back under the dryer for about 10 minutes. After that she would comb it down to style, and it looked really good. Its the nicest my hair ever looked, like the box of a perm!

HTH!

 

[Dolce_Dawn]

I agree. I don't think it makes a difference. I wrap, dry, then flat iron.

 

[myco]

I usually roller-set and then flat iron the roots. My hair looks completely different depending on whether I roller set, wrap, or blow-dry it. I hate the way it looks when it's been blown-dry from wet, so I stopped doing that long before I worried about damage. Wrapping gives me smoother strands but I don't really like how it looks.