Hairstyling Ideas & Treatments : Permanent Hair Straightening Techniques

Hi I’m Emilia and I’m here to talk to you about a few techniques you can use to straighten your hair. When you’re applying the relaxer, you can actually apply it with your hand. You want to make sure first you’re wearing gloves. And a lot of people like that because you can really smooth that hair out and make it a lot smoother. It’s just easier to work with your hands. Another technique is using the back of a comb, and just sort of just brushing that relaxer on and really pulling out that hair because really what a relaxer does is it softens those bonds in your hair and when you apply the neutralizing shampoo or neutralizer depending on which type of relaxer you will use.

That’s when the hair hardens back up. So whatever shape you put that hair in, that is when, really the neutralizer is one of the most important steps cause that’s what finishes off the relaxer. So you can use a comb with it and could apply it that way, you can smooth it that way. Another thing you can also do is let’s say you’re trying to reshape your hair. You’re not really wanting complety straight look, your wanting maybe a little bit larger curl, you can also at this point apply the neutralizer. It won’t work with a traditional relaxer because a traditional relaxer you’re shampooing in but with a non traditional or ammonium hydroxide base relaxer, that’s got more traditional neutralizer that you would actually apply like this.

You can put your hair into rollers and that will add some nice bend to your hair and give your hair a little more lift because sometimes people feel like when your hair is first relaxed it’s really flat especially when you’re used to having a lot of curl. So whenever you’re relaxing the hair you really just want to make sure that you’re careful with it and you’re using your hands or comb, you never actually want to comb the hair though because when you comb the hair with the relaxer on, you can rip or pull that hair and cause a lot of breakage. So whenever you are relaxing the hair just make sure you use some of the techniques and you’ll get a great result.