- Error # 1: Smooth your hair every day
You dream of having smooth hair permanently. If they could be silky in addition, it would be perfect, right? Know that the more you smooth your hair, the more you spoil it. For your brushing to last longer, focus on the famous "wrap" technique: wrap your hair around the head very tightly using flat pliers, cover with a net and sleep as well. Upon awakening, your hair will always be smooth and will not have been exposed to the heat of the iron.
- Error # 2: Smooth wet hair
At a certain temperature, the water boils. When you pass your hot plates on damp hair, the heat creates fine bubbles on the hair shaft and weakens the hair fiber. Before using your straightener, make sure your hair is dry. However, do not go from hair dryer to hair straightener, too much heat could further weaken the hair.
- Error # 3: Setting a temperature too high
One must be aware of the nature of her hair before smoothing her hair! If you have fine hair, do not put the same temperature as for thick hair. By default, we tend to choose the highest temperature by telling ourselves that our hair will be smoother, faster. In fact, at each thickness its temperature. Consult the leaflet of your smoothing iron before you start.
- Error 4: Do not use thermo-protective products
Before exposing your length to the heat of the iron, use a thermo-protective product. There are many hair treatments, foams, sprays ... intended to protect the hair when exposed to a high temperature. They will allow you to keep hair smooth, silky and shiny.
- Error 5: Trying to smooth out strands that are too thick
By straining to take strands too thick, under the pretext that you will have finished sooner, you spoil your hair a little more. Contrary to what you think, you will have more difficulty to smooth a thick wick and will therefore repeat several times in the same place, which causes breakage and embrittlement. Ideally, separate your hair into four, before proceeding small wick by small wick.
