Help flatironed my hair for a wedding...

skegeesmb · 01-07-2011, 06:33 PM

And my bang area has heat damage. I don't wear my hair straight that often because I work out a lot, but I guess my bangs couldn't take it.

Here's the damage:

What can I do to get it to kind of resemble the rest of my hair? I can't do twists because the ends unravel, and the hair won't stay. I've just been wearing it in a ponytail bun because I don't want to do anymore damage.

I also have a piece in the back that no matter what I do it doesn't curl and looks like a piece of fluff.

If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to cut the straight hair in the front in July, by then I should have a bit more length in the front.

Butterfly_Curlz · 01-07-2011, 07:45 PM

Not that it matters too much at this point but did u use a heat protectant while flat ironing? If not that could explain some of ur problems. So could using heat at too high a temp.

Also what did u do 2ur hair after u flat ironed it?
I recently flat ironed my hair the other week & had no problems w/it reverting. However the next wash/styling day after I flat ironed I did wash, did a deep conditioning protein treatment w/heat & then restyled as usual.

A protein treatment could definitely help & as far as keeping the twists in u could either twist then put a roller on the ends (for hold & curl) or else u could do bantu knots so that all of ur hair will curl until ur hair gets bk to its original condition.

HTH

skegeesmb · 01-07-2011, 07:56 PM

I did use a heat protectant. I'm thinking the heat must have been too high for the front. I have a pretty good flat iron so I don't have pass through the hair a lot. The only thing I did differently this time was I spiral curled my hair (think shirley temple'ish).

I'm going to try a protein deep conditioning treatment and see if that will help some. I will be cutting that hair though if it doesn't curl back up.

pprMACHEheart · 01-08-2011, 05:09 PM

I was just about to suggest that you try the Apohgee protein treatment. I've heard a lot of people having pretty good results from it.

Zikomo7 · 06-27-2012, 12:50 AM

Everyone's suggesting ways to hide it, but the heat from the flat iron has permanently broken down the bonds in your hair. Cut it off and use less heat