soslychic said:
cafe_au_lait said:Also, it may be the WAY you are straightening. I was natural for two years (now I am texturized), and then and now I have this problem too! If you use a flat iron to straighten, it is probably because, just like rollersetting your hair, if you roll it on the roller with the ends not perfectly smoothed out, they wont come out straight. When you comb through a section of your hair to flat iron it, the ends curl up and you flat iron them like this, leading to straighter roost/middle than ends. Solution: Run your flat iron behind a comb for each section. The comb should have a small teeth as your hair/size of your sections can stand, without ripping out too much hair. (I use a rat tail comb only when I am doing TINY sections and have combed through it several times with a normal comb) So imagine the comb gliding town your hair with the flat iron chasing it, maybe even touching it -- the closer they are to each other the better (so the ends don't have time to kink up). This ALWAYS gets the ends straight.
If you are using a hot comb, then it is an issue of PRESSURE. Imagine it like this -- first off, it's the BACK of the comb that actually straightens the hair, and the teeth just act to hold the kinks straight so the heat can lock it in (just like our flat iron scenario). Therefore, the more pressure your hair has with the back of the comb, the straighter it will get. This is why when you hold the hair our at an angle and run the comb straight down you get a harder press. BUT, by the time you get to the ends, there is nothing to hold onto and it is harder to make them press against the back of the comb with force. (I hope I am explaining this well). Solution (albeit it not a perfect one): Angles, angles, angles! Just try as hard as you can to curve the comb out or donw as you get towards the ends of your hair. If may flick them out a little, but usually this puts them in more contact with the back of the comb than just going straight down.
Sorry this is so long, I hope it helps!
cafe_au_lait said:Also, it may be the WAY you are straightening. I was natural for two years (now I am texturized), and then and now I have this problem too! If you use a flat iron to straighten, it is probably because, just like rollersetting your hair, if you roll it on the roller with the ends not perfectly smoothed out, they wont come out straight. When you comb through a section of your hair to flat iron it, the ends curl up and you flat iron them like this, leading to straighter roost/middle than ends. Solution: Run your flat iron behind a comb for each section. The comb should have a small teeth as your hair/size of your sections can stand, without ripping out too much hair. (I use a rat tail comb only when I am doing TINY sections and have combed through it several times with a normal comb) So imagine the comb gliding town your hair with the flat iron chasing it, maybe even touching it -- the closer they are to each other the better (so the ends don't have time to kink up). This ALWAYS gets the ends straight.
If you are using a hot comb, then it is an issue of PRESSURE. Imagine it like this -- first off, it's the BACK of the comb that actually straightens the hair, and the teeth just act to hold the kinks straight so the heat can lock it in (just like our flat iron scenario). Therefore, the more pressure your hair has with the back of the comb, the straighter it will get. This is why when you hold the hair our at an angle and run the comb straight down you get a harder press. BUT, by the time you get to the ends, there is nothing to hold onto and it is harder to make them press against the back of the comb with force. (I hope I am explaining this well). Solution (albeit it not a perfect one): Angles, angles, angles! Just try as hard as you can to curve the comb out or donw as you get towards the ends of your hair. If may flick them out a little, but usually this puts them in more contact with the back of the comb than just going straight down.
Sorry this is so long, I hope it helps!
I use a flat iron and I had thought about that before that by the time I get to the ends theres nothing pulling them straight so I flat iron them kinky. The small comb method sounds great! I'll have to give that try.
