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By Endy Wong [ 19/01/2009 ] Publishing Free Articles Zone articles is subject to our Publisher's Terms Of Service |
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There are 2 heat styling methods to straighten your hair: blow drying straightening and flat iron straightening.
The argument that blow drying straightening is better than flat ironing straightening is partially invalid, because blow drying can still increase the temperature of your hair significantly.
In fact, if you blow dry too close, you would make the water in your hair evaporate so fast that it forms quickly expanding steam bubbles inside the hair cuticle which damage it permanently. This can also happen if you flat iron your hair while it's wet. Anyways, the point is that high temperatures are involved in both circumstances. If silicone were not appropriate for use with heat, then you would not be able to blow dry with them either. If you're not convinced, stick your hand directly in front of the blow dryer when it's on the highest heat setting.
Heat styling of the hair does break some of the bonds in the hair semi-permanent straightening, which may be why you say your hair is becoming less curly. The reason is that you iron so often that some of hair bonds don't have enough time to reform completely. Not all of the bonds may necessarily reform when you add water. This isn't necessarily bad however, because heat cannot generally cant destroy bonds, only break them temporarily, and they will always reform eventually, if they do not reform right away. Relaxers however are a different story. Anyways, just deep condition every so often to keep your hair strong!
What does make hair break, become damaged, and dull looking is when your flat iron is not hot enough, or when it's too hot, brushing your hair too much when it's wet, back-brushing, and not using conditioning products. Many people think that if it's too hot, it's going to burn your hair, so they put the setting too low (this is bad!). There is some truth to the "it'll burn my hair!" , but it takes a lot of flat ironing for this to happen (which is why you get hair trims every so often to get rid of damaged ends), or if you get your hair stuck in a curling iron.
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