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Dec 19

Preventing Heat Damage & Selecting an Effective Heat Protectant: The Science.

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flat ironin' with EClark! by Tonya Mckay Temperatures encountered during blow-drying, flat-iron straightening, and hot curling processes can be high enough to cause severe trauma to the hair. Results of this can include cracks in the cuticle layer, bubbles or voids in the cortex, frayed and split ends, chipped and ragged cuticles, faded color, diminished curl and increased frizz, as…

Sep 21

How to Straighten Natural Hair and Minimize Heat Damage

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Watch as SumetraReed demonstrates how to achieve fluffy, smooth, straight hair with one pass of the flat iron! My major heat styling tips? Only blow dry damp hair (not soaking wet hair) and definitely use the chase method (as demonstrated in this video) during the flat ironing process (wherein you chase a fine tooth comb with the flat iron)…

Sep 21

How to Prevent Heat Damage from the Flat Iron – Natural Hair

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by KandyKurls I typically straighten my hair once per year, but I have actually gone as long as a year and a half. When I do straighten, I want to do it the safest way possible and I want it to last a solid week. No use in using all that heat on my hair if I’m just going to…

Sep 21

The Heat Junkie Detox.

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photo courtesy of Mini Marley by Sabrina Perkins Jonesing for heat? Yea, it can happen to the best of us. Somehow a cute and different hairstyle (like straight hair) can turn into an overused crutch and it wouldn’t be so bad if it…wasn’t so bad! Heat styling should be used moderately and if you are way past that point, then…

Sep 21

Heatless Curls on Flat-Ironed Natural Hair

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by Shelli of Hairscapades Just coming on here very quickly (well, not really, because I spent two hours putting filters on these iPhone pics, emailing them to myself, saving them, renaming them, uploading them … while “multi-tasking” and watching Duck Dynasty! LOL!) to share how I got these pretty curls, with no additional heat, on my 2 week old flat-ironed…