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i knew a boi once with really really frizzy hair, who always straitened it out because it would have looked funny if he didnt. i think i had seen him once with his friz hair and it looked horrible - a big poofball of funkyness. he was a really really hot boi though and he had delicious hair after it was straightened. i saw him do it once and this is what he did:
he simply got a crimping iron, but instead of allowing it to sit in the same place long enough to form crimps, he would pull the hair through it to flatten it out. just in case you guys dont know what a crimping iron is... its this thing that gives you 80s hair (when you use it like it was meant to be used) - a contraption that looks like a big fat tong that plugs into the wall, and has bent metal sheets on the inside that fit together like wide teeth and heat up like a curling iron. come to think of it you could probably use a curling iron the same way.
i have really long hair - its almost down to my bottom. i noticed something interesting about it - which is that if i dont comb it or brush it after i take a shower and i just leave it all messed up from the rubbing with soap and conditioner, it will dry with lots of really cool curls in it (well the bottom half does anyhow, my hair is too long to be curly all over because its so heavy it weighs the top down). the curls will last for days and days - until i wash my hair again. i dont have to put anything in it. if i do comb it out after a shower it might get wavy, but there are no curls. and if i sit there with a blow dryer and comb it flat while drying it, it comes out perfectly strait and stays that way for days. i dont even need to do anything to it. i dont wash my hair every day i think that this is totally uneccessary - i wash it maybe once or twice a week. my hair is in absolutely wonderful condition and i think its because i dont wash it more than i need to. i bet if you did the wash it twice a week thing and blow dryed it strait after washing, it wouldnt dammage the hair.
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Will this crimping iron damage my hair? I use a blow dryer right up close to my head and a round brush to straighten mine, but I've been told this will really damage my hair.
I wouldn't think it would damage your hair. I've got perfecly healthy hair and I've been blowdrying every day for a year. Maybe its due to the fact I have oily hair and have to shampoo and condition it everyday (Or it looks like hell).
im not any kind of hair expert at all, but i doubt that if you only did the crimping iron or blow dry thing once or twice a week, and didnt do anything else to damage your hair (wash it excessively or pull a brush through curly poofballs every day) it would turn out fine. like i said, the boi who did this had delicious hair, and im sure he did it often or else his hair wouldnt have been strait 99.9% of the time i saw him. his hair is possibly not the same as yours, it could be stronger, but using the crimp iron isnt like aiming a nuke at your head - your hair will probably make it through, its not like bleaching it 3 times in the same day which will make it fall out. if you are worried, just take the time to notice damage early and youll save your hair and you can try something else. the crimp iron is pretty much the equivalent of a curling iron - if you are pretty sure that those will ruin the kind of hair you have then be careful with it.