How to straighten your bangs correctly?
Bangs often become an integral part of the image. It can complement the hairstyle, give the face a severity or, on the contrary, prettiness, as well as hide skin imperfections: wrinkles, scars, redness. However, women who wear bangs know how difficult it can be to style them at times. Several options for straightening it are considered below.
At home
Hair dryer
The most common hair dryer that every woman has can act as a hair straightener. Using a hair dryer is one of the most common ways to straighten bangs as it is simple, quick and affordable.
However, you should adhere to a number of recommendations for the use of this equipment.
- It is necessary to use a hairdryer only on clean hair. If you don't have time to wash your entire head, then try to gently wash only your bangs.
- Before you start straightening, treat the strands with mousse or foam. This will help your hair to frizz less and keep its shape longer. In addition, after the mousse treatment, the strands will be more manageable during straightening.
- Use a round brush while blow drying. Brush the bangs inward. Thus, a traditional version of straight bangs with curved ends is obtained.
- Better to use a natural bristle brush. When the hair dryer is on, direct the air stream from top to bottom. The use of a constriction tip is recommended. Forget about turning on the diffuser. This mode threatens with the fact that the hair will simply fly in all directions and it will be rather difficult to put them back in an even straight bangs. Cool air mode after styling will help to consolidate the result.
Use styling wax to add style and some boldness to your bangs. This will make the hair look a little messy, which is now a fashion trend.
Iron
Women with curly hair are familiar with this tool. The device straightens curls and can also be used to straighten bangs. There are also several rules for this.
- Use a ceramic coated iron. It, unlike metal, does not destroy the hair structure and therefore does not particularly harm the bangs.
- If the hair in the bangs is already damaged, they are thin and thin, then choose the lowest temperature for straightening.
- The whole procedure must be performed on dry hair. If the strands are damp, a hot tool can set them on fire.
- Before straightening, treat the bangs with gel, foam or mousse, separate a small strand a couple of centimeters wide, clamp it between the plates and iron it a couple of times from top to bottom.
- At the end of the procedure, sprinkle the bangs with hairspray to fix the result, but be careful: if you overdo it, the bangs may lose their lightness and airiness, become sticky, dirty, and a very unaesthetic icicle effect is possible.
Keratin
Keratin straightening is good not only with an excellent result in the form of even, straight strands - after this process, the hair becomes shiny, which looks very aesthetically pleasing and prestigious. This is the kind of shining hair you see in the video that advertises hair shampoo.
Before the procedure, the curls are well washed with a deep cleansing shampoo so that the molecules of the restorative agent can penetrate into the very depths of the hair follicles. Next, the bangs are dried with a hairdryer, then keratin is applied, the strands are again dried at medium temperature.
Then the bangs are straightened with an iron at a temperature of 210-230 degrees. This stage will allow the product to penetrate into each hair and regenerate its damaged cells. Then the hair is rinsed with warm running water. To consolidate the result, it is recommended to treat the hair with a high-quality professional mask. The effect of this procedure is possible within ten weeks.
However, if a woman is not sure that she will be able to perform all the steps correctly, then it is better to contact a salon for professional help.
other methods
It is better not to use a hairdryer and iron on girls with damaged or burnt hair. You can use other methods to straighten your bangs.
- After shampooing, apply a moisturizing balm to your hair. Process the bangs with it 2 cm from the roots, wash and dry the strands a little. Next, you need to comb the bangs in one direction and stab. After the hair dries, the bangs can be loosened - it should turn out to be straight.
- Rinse your bangs, apply styling mousse to your hair, roll the strands while still wet with Velcro rollers.
- To straighten curly bangs in a woman whose hair is naturally curly, you can use leave-in styling products: lotions, gels, creams, oils.
- For a longer retention of the styling shape, the bangs are recommended to be profiled. It will become lighter and easier to style.
- Trim your bangs at least once a month. The regrown strands look messy and are more difficult to style.
Traditional methods
So that the hair lends itself well to straightening, but does not create the effect of a slicked dirty bangs, you can additionally use folk methods of care. Most often, girls make masks to straighten bangs.
- Combine honey, fatty kefir and coconut oil in a bowl in a ratio of 10: 10: 20 ml. Lubricate the bangs with the mixture, wrap a towel around your head and wash off the mask after two hours.
- Mix colorless henna, water and castor oil in a ratio of 20 g: 50 ml: 20 ml, respectively. Treat the bangs with the composition, rubbing thoroughly into the roots. Leave it on for a couple of hours. Henna has the properties of enveloping the hair with a film, thickening and straightening it. It is recommended to perform the procedure every two weeks.
- Make a mixture of burdock and castor oil, add vitamins A, E, B, and treat the hair with the resulting substance. Leave the mask on for an hour and then wash off with warm water.The product should be used once a week.
In the cabin
Straightening in the salon is one of the most optimal methods. The fact is that only in the salon is it possible to carry out a high-quality procedure that will not harm the hair. In addition, this effect lasts longer. However, the disadvantage is the high cost of the procedure. Different methods are also possible in the salon.
For example, the method of straightening with keratin has already been described above, which, if you have certain skills, can also be used at home.
Another way to straighten your hair at the salon is by curling and dyeing. During these procedures, the structure of the hair changes under the influence of special professional products that smooth and smooth the cuticle, provide the hair with nutrition, fill it with useful substances. The procedure is repeated six months later, when the roots grow back enough after staining.
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