How to Straighten Hair with Heat Protection Spray

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Using heat to style your hair can damage your hair over a long period of time. Thankfully, there are many heat protection products that can reduce the damage that heat does to your hair. Use a heat protection spray before you dry or straighten your hair for best results.

Steps

Prepping Your Locks

Start with wet hair. Make sure that your hair is clean and has been properly conditioned. If you shampooed, ensure that all of the shampoo is washed out of you hair before applying conditioner. Rinse your hair with cool water before stepping out of the shower. A cool rinse ensures that your hair follicle is closed tightly and minimizes hair loss.

Detangle your hair. Use a wide tooth comb to detangle your hair before drying. Begin at the ends of your strands and work your way up to your scalp. Do not tug too hard on any tangles in your hair.

Apply a heat protection spray. Before blow drying your hair you should apply a heat protecting spray. Hold the spray bottle about a foot from your head and spritz your wet hair. Make sure to cover the entire surface area. Heat protection spray can be found in the haircare aisle of most general and beauty stores. Select a heat protection spray that can be used on wet and dry hair.

Drying Your Hair

Blow dry hair with a paddle brush. Avoid using a round brush to dry your hair if you intend to straighten your hair. Trade your round brush for a paddle brush. This will guide the hair into a straighter position.

Blitz the hair with the cool setting. Set the straight hair with the cool setting on your hair drying. Heat is helpful when you are styling hair. The cool setting on the hair dryer helps to keep that style for hours.

Spritz the hair with a heat protector. Before you apply more heat to your hair with the hair straightener, spritz the strands with the heat protection spray. Make sure that you select a spray that you can use for both wet and dry hair.

Straightening Your Hair

Divide your hair into sections. Section off your hair into at least three different sections on each side and the back. Decide which section you would like to work with first and clip the other sections of hair out of the way.

Straighten each section. Work the straightener through the strands of hair. Set your straightener to a medium heat setting. Move slowly through the hair but do not stop and hold the straightener on the hair. This will damage or burn the hair. Using a low setting will require you to drag the straightener through your hair multiple times, which can damage the hair.