How The Heck Do You Straighten Your Own Hair?!

[wendy+5]

Just had my hair cut into a shoulder-length bob. The hairdresser straightened it for me and I thought it looked good so I bought some straighteners.

Flippin' 'eck! You need to be a contortionist! How do you do it?

[Grogg]

get yourself a butterfly clip and clip up 2/3 of your hair and straighten the bottom bit. Use the length of the straigteners to get around the back. Let down the next layer and repeat until it's all done. Don't rush the straigtener through your hair and use a brush or comb to hold the bit being straigtened.

What straighteners do you have?

[PinkGrapefruit]

Similar to the person above I do mine in three sections, tie up the top 2/3 of hair (i.e. leaving anything from about the middle of you ears down) and straighten the bottom section, then let down the middle section -straighten that, then let down the last section. I find it easiest to hold a comb in my left hand and straighteners in right hand. The straighteners should follow the comb down the length of the hair so that the hair is flat when the straighteners pass through it. Hope that makes sense!

[chuckley]

divide hair into pig tails, then gradually work up horizontally on one side then the other.

[flutterbyuk25]

also try using a straightening balm/serum. apply tiny bit to wet hair, blow dry then straighten. It helps to straighten and smooth the hair (no idea how!) so that you need to straighten it less. I use TIGI Bed Head Control Freak Frizz Control & Straightener (250ml) which is about £12 in hairdressers. Sounds pricey but I bought it in December and use it every day and have only used about a fifth of the bottle so far!

In relation to the straightening itself, do as others have said and clip up into section to make it easier. Also depending on how much hair you have and your hair type you might be able to get away with just straightening the top layer as the underneath will not be seen.

Just practise til it feels right, it can take awhile to get used to using new straighteners!

Good luck

x

[jac/norm]

My hair is also in a bob and it borders on affro. I use the method the above posters have suggested with hair grips to section it. I also GHD`s but, there plenty of other good ones out there.

[gilliana]

As other posters have said, clipping your hair up and working in sections is definitely the way to do it. It helps to work from the back and move forwards. I find that, no matter how hard I try, I can never get it as neat and straight as the hairdresser, but maybe that has something to do with the products, and the fact that they blow-dry it so well. I suppose it takes patience too :)

[pavlovs_dog]

im the most cack handed person going, but it honestly does get easier (and less time consuming) with practice

[craftyfox]

i have slightly longer than shoulder length hair and tried many different kinds of straightners (friend is a hairdresser and i got to try samples) and i bought a pair of remmington wet to dry ones and they are brilliant no flaffing about trying to dry your hair first just wash divide into sections and strighten and i have to add that i have a bad shoulder from an accident in work in i find it easy to use :j

[CL]

I always found it really difficult, but if you run a comb/brush just ahead of the straighteners (brush in one hand and straighteners in the other) it really helps.