)OMG NONIE!!!!! your hair looks JUST LIKE MINE!!! :shock: what do you do with it after curl formers? wear it curly or flat iron? do the ends stretch as well? i don't have curl formers but I might try those bendy roller things. im so excited
Yes, I straightened after that. I put the CFs on dripping wet hair and let them stretch it as it dried. I then wet each CF section with a heat protectant spray. (In the past, I would just press wet-to-dry from that shrunken state, and since WTD presses are what give me a smooth finish, I can't press w/o them but I decided this time to do it with a heat protectant as my "liquid" instead of water. I particularly felt safe doing this because the directions do say to spray immediately before flat ironing.)
The result looked like a blow-out--which is what happens anyway, but I got it with only one pass, when I think I would have to do a few or in sections along the length to get it to look like that, before when I'd just flatiron WTD from the shrunken state. So this is how it looked:
And then I finger parted narrow sections and applied heat protectant serum to seal my hair making sure every inch was well coated, not heavily but just making sure I didn't miss an iota of my hair. Then I'd pass the iron over that once. The length became very smooth. Even the ends were smooth--you can sorta see that in the lower right hand corner of the pic below:
The serum kept my hair from reverting. I had no burned smell AT ALL during the process or after or when I washed my hair (which is when my hair shrunk fully to normal=full reversion). I must mention that besides the protectants I used during the flat-ironing process, I think starting this protection from the conditioning stage (I conditioned with CHI Infra Thermal Protection) may have contributed to the successful press/results and the absence of damage. I used an iron at 446 degrees F (230 degrees C).
ETA: I have worn CF results out to work but I wasn't too happy with not being able to separate the coils. I hate that look like you just took out rollers and didn't comb your hair, but I haven't figured out yet, how to separate 4B coils from CF without the ends looking frizzy. So I went to work looking crazy like this:
Please ignore the beads along the hairline. I usually brush the edges of my hair to give a neater appearance so no one knows that it isn't so obvious that I bother very little with my hair after waking up.
I would do it but i don't have a hooded dryer and i currently have kinkies installed
I didnt know you relaxed.
the thought of no burned smell sounds good to me! 
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now that's what i call PROGRESS
