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I am attempting to grow my hait long all over my head. I am about 3/4 of an inch on the sides and about 3 inches on top. I have grown it long before and used gel and it held in place fine. But now since I began growing it i dont wash my hair every day like before and i am using good products on my hear and taking good care of it. It seems now that my leave in conditioner is no longer holding the curls and now even as i tried my gel i used before, it is starting to wave like crazy. I need help, I have never owned a hat in my life since none look good in my opinion and even my friends opinions. I need something to straighten my hair or anything else to keep the curls to a very minumum. it only curl on the top of my head, i have never had the sides long ever in my life, but even now, they have no sign of a curling. Just the damn top!!! Thank you. Curly
Please help people, no responses yet and I have no idea on how to handle the problem. Cutting it is out of the question...but will be the last resort to ending this curly madness.
Curly
hi, i've try some times to straight my hairs, because i have some natural waves in my hairs... and i've try that to see how can i look like with straight hairs. Try to use a curling iron! Yes, it sound crazy, but here is the method, tested with the iron of my mother (:-D):
Make the iron hot
When it is ready, thake some hairs and put them between the iron and the little part who hold hairs, when people want to curl hairs
Instead of turning the iron, pull the iron away with your hair in
if you've done it correctly, you'll gain some straight hairs! You will maybe need some practice before...
The result does not stay there a lot of days, but it replace your curly hairs! ;-)
This was the home-trick i've find by trying things of my mother! ;-)
Good luck, and tell us if it work for you...
Lhari
Hope this helps.
The methods recommended in the previous responses may help you temporarily straighten your hair, but remember that using a hot curling iron on your hair will damage and weaken it, and eventually be counter-productive to your goal of long hair. Try the straightening balm first. This is a product that you put on your hair to tame it. But why not celebrate your curliness instead? I, for one, love wonderful curly hair on a man. Whatever you decide, Good luck.
I would go with Mary and would avoid any drastic measures to change the texture of your hair. Why not celebrate your curls? Mine have helped me a lot through the awkward phase. I didn't see a need for gel or other means to tame the mane, it just falls into place and stays there. A disadvantage of having curls is, however, that it seems to take forever for hair to grow to a decent length.
But ladies love curls... .
Hi,
I'm having kind of the same problem. I've had straight (and short) hair for most of my life, and now that I'm letting it grow out, I'm getting this annoying curl to it that makes it stick out alarmingly at the sides. Gel doesn't seem to tame it.
My solution? Grin and bear it. Yes, it could look better, but from what I read, it's going to generally look like crap while you first try to grow it out anyway. I keep my goal in mind - long, long, damn fine looking hair. And if it's going to have a wave to it when it grows out, even better. From what I can see, once I get a little more length on it, it'll either pull down the curling with its weight, or otherwise clear it away. So I'm not tooo worried...although I do keep trying to smush it down out of habit.
Kier
I have a problem similar to that, but the sides are curly and the top is straighter than the sides. I thought it looked really stupid, but I went home for christmas, and even know it wasn't that long, and still isn't tremendously long...about 3 1/2 inches all over, I got compliments on it. that was the last thing I expected. Anyway, my point really is this, people that have a certian type of hair, staight or curly, want to change it somehow. I mean, I have heard of people with straight going to curly , I have heard of people with tight tight, I mean, tight, curls trying to go to straight. I am the same, but you got to live with what you got. and if you got curls, DON'T TOUCH THEM. Cause when your hair gets to a good lenght, they will look really nice. You just got to live with the intermediate pain, which will be all worth it in the end.
alex