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02-24-2006, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 24
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Repeat, but serious..
Ladies, I recently got my hair blown straight. Pre blowdrying, the curls were pretty and nicely wound. Now, they're a multiple straight patches. Is there anything that I can do?
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02-24-2006, 02:52 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 5,284
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You may *possibly* have some heat damage. Give your hair some time to recoup before getting too worried. Sometimes it takes a few weeks for your hair to go back to normal.
The only thing I can recommend is doing weekly deep treatments until you hair appears to go back to normal again.
HTH
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02-24-2006, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 17,446
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Or it could be permanent. I know one person on this board who had to do the BC because her flat ironed pieces simply would not revert.
I would love to do a blow out every once in a while...but I don't want to risk damage, now that my hair is finally in good condition.
But just wait it out and see. 
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02-24-2006, 03:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,324
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It's not possible to straighten your hair with a blow dryer and it never returning to curly is it?
My sister did it and her hair didnt go back to being curly for like 4 days. It scared her to death, and she never flat ironed or blow dryed her hair again
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02-24-2006, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 25,082
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Wow, this has never in my life happened to me with a blowdryer, flat iron or hot comb! How is that possible?????
I would just condition the heck out of your hair and avoid all heat.
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02-24-2006, 03:48 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 17,446
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It just gets fried/damaged. Hair is just protein, etc. It's like a wool sweater, really. If you hold an iron to a wool sweater for long enough, it will burn, and nothing you can do at that point will restore it to its previous condition.
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02-24-2006, 03:52 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,242
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Wool sweater, indeed. In fact, as Lorraine would say, it's your finest wool sweater!
Seriously, though, I vote DT, rinse and repeat.
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02-24-2006, 04:08 PM
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#8
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 5,284
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Yup. If an excessive amount of heat is used, you can very well damage it to the point where it permanently straightens(and breaks off).
Luckily, I haven't had issues with permanent straight pieces.
CaribbiAmphibbi, hopefully your hair isn't permanently damaged. Just do the DT's and see what happens.
Good luck!
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02-24-2006, 04:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 24
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Thanks everyone! It's been about 2 weeks, so I may be in for another BC. But I will DT for sure. I'm new to the NC community, so please excuse my excessive use of jarjon.
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02-25-2006, 12:56 AM
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#10
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,696
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Re: Repeat, but serious..
This happened to me too...only it was blown straight and then they used a flat iron.
In the end, after multiple shampoos I still had a lot of bone straight hair in different areas....
Those areas of straight hair ended up breaking off over the course of several months.
Luckily, I have a lot of hair and the breakage wasnt noticeable.
Im sorry this happened to you too. I dont know what went wrong. I can only think she used too much heat.
Next time, I'll go for a Dominican blow out.
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02-25-2006, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 10,699
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Scary! I don't use heat on my hair other than with DTs and I am lazy about that. I've been toying with the idea of flatironing, but after reading this thread there is no way in hell that I would jeopardize my hair with extreme heat. It's taken me this long to actually like my hair and get out the chemicals and try to grow it. Extreme heat just seems too risky and not worth it, especially since the flat hair look is so boring and one dimensional (no offense to those with that natural hairtype, but it is not my natural hairtype and at this point in my life, I do not prefer type 1 hair at all).
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(taking a break from posting starting late august 2009)
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02-25-2006, 02:44 PM
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#12
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 24
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Re: Repeat, but serious..
[quote="*Ani
Next time, I'll go for a Dominican blow out.[/quote]
I had an Egyptian Blow out. Is the Dominican method gentler?
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02-25-2006, 04:03 PM
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#13
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 5,284
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Re: Repeat, but serious..
A Dominican blow out still uses heat, but most of the heat is from a hooded dryer. It's what most in my area call a Roller wrap: Set the hair on xl magnetic rollers to dry, take rollers out to brush (and wrap), and then use a curling iron or flat-iron(somtimes a blow-dryer) to smooth and style.
You could still experience damage if it's done improperly.
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02-25-2006, 04:05 PM
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#14
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 5,284
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Re: Repeat, but serious..
A Dominican blow out still uses heat, but most of the heat is from a hooded dryer. It's what most in my area call a Roller wrap: Set the hair on xl magnetic rollers to dry, take rollers out to brush (and wrap), and then use a curling iron or flat-iron(somtimes a blow-dryer) to smooth and style.
You could still experience damage if it's done improperly.
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02-25-2006, 05:42 PM
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#15
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 25,082
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Well, I have never had problems and I've done this monthly for years. I go to the salon only, and I have coarse hair - maybe the hair getting straightened permanently is fine? I don't think it looks boring at all, nor does it look flat. I absolutely love the length, shine and silkiness. I think I have a couple of nice straight hair photos in my album and I will be getting it done again this week to have my hair trimmed, so I will post again. I like that I can do this and then wash my hair and have curls again - the best of both worlds.
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Get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. -Muhammad Ali
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02-25-2006, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,696
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Your hair looks cute straight Amneris. I dont know why this happened to me and the original poster. My sister gets her hair flat-ironed all the time and her curls have never disappeared like mine did.
I also know ladies who wear their hair pressed every day and it still bounces back to curls once they shampoo.
I didnt feel like the stylist was burning my hair. I really have no clue what happened, but I am very apprehensive about doing this again.
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02-26-2006, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 465
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Re: Repeat, but serious..
[quote=CaribbiAmphibbi] The same thing happened to me when I was transitioning... they used that really really hot iron with that stove thingie.. which I never even saw before.. and I had some hair that never went back curly.. they got cut off when I BC'd.. you can try to do a protien treatment..something strong like Apoghee..not sure if that's spelled right..and then a DT..that might help... it helped me last January I think it was.. last year not this year.. I blowdried and flat ironed my hair.....and lost some of my curl and that's what helped it to go back to normal... not sure if your curls will come back or not.. mine didn't.. the time from the damage was done..till I BC'd was about 5 weeks..
I hope your hair goes back to normal!
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02-26-2006, 10:35 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 465
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I think that's what it may be.. I have fine hair.. and it's not coarse..it's pretty thin.. so that is prolly why that happens.. I can only speak for myself though..but I think that's why it happened to me..
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02-26-2006, 11:29 AM
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#19
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 24
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Now that you mention, the hair that won't revert was finer. More of a 3Aish texture. My 3c hair is just fine 
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02-26-2006, 12:41 PM
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#20
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 818
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This has happened to me as well, and my hair is extremely coarse. In my case, I think it had to do w/ the fact that I was using a crappy flat iron, at a very high setting, and was pressing very hard w/o even trying to detangle/smooth my hair first (I was getting frustrated w/ how hard it was to straighten my hair and how long it was taking). Afterwds, I had a couple of patches in my bottom layer that did not revert, and after a couple of weeks I just snipped off the straight pieces.
I swore I wouldn't flat-iron my own hair after that... but I got restless and bought a Maxiglide. I used it yesterday for the first time, but was much more cautious - deep conditioned, applied heat serum, brushed and put my hair in braids to dry (to loosen the curl), smoothed each section with a boar bristle brush, then used my flat-iron on the lowest possible setting (1). My hair isn't stick straight, but I don't care - I really want to do everything I can to minimize heat damage (although I think there's always a risk when you flat iron).
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