MilkChocolateOne
Well-Known Member
Help please...I'm at a loss. I know I'm doing something wrong but I don't know whaterplexed. I've never been able to get boucy swinging hair when I flat iron. Here's what I did last night
-Pre-poo with AO GBP
-Clarifying wash with PM Shampoo Three
-Moisturizing wash with KC Come Clean
-Deep conditioned for 25 min with AO Honeysuckle Rose with Argan oil mixed
-Rinsed and t-shirt dried for 15min
-Applied Chi Iron Guard to each section(sprayed in my hand then applied to the hair to avoid stickiness) before blow drying with tension method using my denman(focused on roots mostly) dried hair till 80% dry
-Applied pea sized amount of Chi Silk Infusion to entire head and sat under hood drying for 10 min
-Flat ironed with comb chase method using my Babyliss Slim(it has a dial to turns up to 19 and I was on 10 or 11), I focused on my roots and mid-strands mostly
-I attempted a silk wrap with cling wrap and sat under the dryer for 10min
-I kept a fan on me when flat ironing to cool the room (it's not warm in my apartment but still)but my hair came out puffy
Any suggestions would be great! I straighten once a month for length check but I'm always so displeased with the results of the actual flat iron process that I keep my hair in a french braid or a rope braid to hide the lack of swing
Too many steps, too many products and possibly not the right products. I get the best results when I use 1 shampoo(cleansing without stripping or making the hair hard), 1 conditioner (it has to be smoothing and moisturizing) and 1 serum/heat protectant/leave-in(different people use different things). Also Aubrey Organics honey suckle rose is not smoothing or moisturizing enough for me to use if I am going to straighten my hair. Chi Iron guard and silk infusion are drying to my hair. The saran wrap is not a good idea either, it causes my hair to revert. I am just throwing different things out there.
so i figured it would probably be alright in a few day and it would get bigger.. well it did NOT. and here's whats worse my ends were really dry!! so after abt 8 days i said #%$& it im gonna just moisturize and seal before my ends break.. so i did (using neutrogena silk touch leave in cream and almond oil) that was abt 3 days ago and my hair STILL looks just as weighed down as it looked on the 3rd day BEFORE i moisturized and sealed so i cant really tell if moisturizing it made it worse or not. this is also my first time using almond oil (i usually use EVOO) and i've heard that its not necessarily all that light of an oil. but i dunno if the problem is that leave in that my hair dresser used (probably cause i've used the neurtrogena leave in once before and it didnt seem to really weigh my hair down) anyways the real problem is how do i fix this without having to wash my hair and start over? i only wash my hair every 3 weeks (which ive done for years) plus i dont even own a pair of flat-irons to straighten it again... and if i tried to wear it natural for the last 2 weeks the prob is i've had my hair straighted every 3 weeks for years not to mention the fact that the two times ive tried wearing my hair natural it broke off bad.. the point is, if i washed it and it was natural i wouldnt have any idea HOW to take care of it. so is there a way i can fix this without washing it? in another thread someone suggested bantu knots which i thought was a good idea until i realized i'd have to add yet ANOTHER product (a setting lotion) to make them work and i think too many products in my hair is the problem in first place *sigh*.. any tips?
(never even hear of them until abt 3 days ago) but wouldnt i have to use some type of setting lotion to make the curl stay? same as with bantu knots? and i've got so much product on my hair already (seriously it looks like strings hanging down 
) that i'm really trying to avoid throwing another one on... but if nothing is working and it still looks this bad then i might break down and try to throw some curls in... 
Currently I use Essentious Shine Daily Moisturizer from Brock Beauty on BrockBeauty.com and I love it. I do use a hair/scalp conditioner on dry spots but I don't get those very often anymore. Another suggestion I have is grapeseed oil. I use it as a heat protectant and an added plus is it adds a lot of moisture to my hair so I don't need to moisturize it for a couple days even after flat ironing.
Hope this helps.
