Top Rated Flat Iron Reviews’ Hair 3 Straightening Secrets You Probably Don’t Know but Need To
Top Rated Flat Iron Reviews Presents…How to Get the Sleekest Hair Possible
Reading flat iron reviews can only get you so far. You’ve also got to know how to use your straightener. And if you’re in the market for a flat iron, you clearly want to straighten your hair and get it as sleek as possible. I mean no one flat irons their hair so it will be quasi straight.
And in that case, here is some of my advice for how to get a great flat iron press.
1) Use The Best Flat Irons On The Market
We’ve already been over a lot of different kinds of flat irons but these flat iron reviews were some of the best, according to the users, by price range:
Best lower priced flat irons $0-50
Best mid-priced flat irons $50-$100
Best high priced flat irons $100-sky
- FHI Heat Runway Professional Ceramic Tourmaline Styling Iron
- Sedu Ionic Ceramic Tourmaline Straightener
- ghd Professional Advanced Ceramic Flat Iron
2) Use The Best Straightening Products and Heat Protectants
Using a good quality flat iron is very important but it’s also important to use products that can protect your hair from heat damage, make your hair straighter and sleeker, and protect it from humidity and other elements of the weather. Check these products out.
Moisture Block Product
Heat Protectant
Straighter Hair Product
3) Use The Best Techniques and Tips
1) Don’t use too much product.
It is better to use to little product than use too much. You can always use more but it is hard to take product off of your hair once it is there. The reason why you don’t want to use so much product is because it will weigh your hair down and your hair won’t swing or “swang” like you want it to. If you are using a crème, start off using a dime sized amount. If you are using spray, just lightly spray each larger section of your hair once. It’ll get the job done.
2) Use the chase method
I have some of the hardest hair to straighten known to man but I got my best presses using the chase method. The chase method is when you comb or brush through your hair first and then immediately follow through with the flat iron. The brush I used for this method is exactly like this brush: Conair Go Straight Hair Brush
3) Use small sections
Using small sections of hair will ensure that you get all of your hair straight. When I would use larger sections of hair I would find lots of sections of my hair that would still be wavy because the flat iron wouldn’t be able to heat and straighten every strand of hair. Not what you want after a two hour flat iron session.
4) Get down to the roots
When you think about it, movement in your hair starts at the root. The ends of your hair can be bone straight but if you don’t straighten the roots of your hair, you will not have that swing and bounce like you want. Just be careful to not burn yourself. Get as close to your scalp as possible without touching the scalp. Trust me on this…you don’t want to burn your scalp.
5) Have patience
Because I have so much hair, it would take me forever (if forever can be considered two hours or less) to flat iron my hair. By the second hour, I would get so tired and frustrated that I would start to forget the techniques that had started doing in the beginning. Don’t give up. You don’t want one half of your hair to be fly and the other half to be tragic. If you don’t have somewhere pressing to go, take a break for a while and then come back to it. In the end you’ll be glad you took the time to do it right.
So remember, if you are patient, only use a little product, and apply some tension to small sections of your hair starting at the roots you should have the sleekest and straightest hair possible.
If you need any read any of our other flat iron reviews please start with Babyliss flat iron review.
Oh and by the way, read How To Choose a Flat Iron….it breaks down choosing a hair straightener to a science (kind of lol).
Toodles,
