Helpful Tips and Tricks for Straightening Your Hair

Everyone at some point in their life has given in to the trends of their time. There were the "bell-bottom" jeans in the seventies, perms in the eighties, and belly shirts in the nineties. Now into the new millennium everyone appears to be sporting straight hair. Here's one method to straightening your hair that can easily give you the sleek style that everyone is after.

Apply Smoothing Serum - Straightening is obviously not the best care for your hair, and over time repeated styling can damage your hair. To achieve a sleek style and hide whatever damage may be done, apply a smoothing serum to your hair before straightening. Divide your hair into halves, pour a quarter size amount of serum into your palm and rub in your hands until it is just a thin layer on your palms. Next, work the serum through each section of your hair, paying special attention to flyaway's on top and to the roots.

Divide Into Four Sections - Straightening your hair can get pretty difficult when your hair is not separated, and hair that has yet to be straightened falls along hair that has already been straightened. To prevent this from happening, and to make your hair a little easier to style, first divide your hair into two sections, one on either side of your head. Then divide those sections into two more, a front and a back of each section, creating four in total.

Straighten From The Bottom To The Top - Now that you have four sections, if you want to make straightening your hair even easier, start from the underneath layers and work your way up. Using a clip to hold back what hair you are not straightening in each section, pull out 1 inch sections of hair starting from the bottom. Straighten hair by slowly moving the straightening iron down the small section. Then, instead of running straight off of your ends, release your hair when you come to the ends. This will minimize damage to your ends and keep your hair from splitting further.

Apply a Top Coat of Hairspray - To keep your style lasting all day, apply hairspray to your brush and run it through your hair slowly. Repeat this about four times in sections of your hair, rather than trying to make one spray cover your whole head. Once you've run your sprayed brush through all of your hair at least once, hairspray any flyaway's on top. This process should keep your hair sleek and straight all day long.