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SissySpaced

Hi All,

I'm taking a plunge and I'm going to give up my hair straighteners. I got my hair coloured and cut at the weekend and the damage the straighteners have caused was fairly noticeable. I got the dry broken ends cut off but my hair is really really thin.My hairdresser was certain that it wasn't the colour that was causing the damage.

So I guess my question is... how do you style your hair day to day without the use of a hair straighteners or curling thongs etc. What products do you use? Any little tricks?

I have shoulder length hair with some layers. My hair is wavy, sometimes more curly sometimes more straight. If it was either one or the other I'd be happy but sometimes the hair on my left side will be wavy and the other side will be full on curls. In other words it looks ridiculous. I'm still going to be blow drying my hair. I'm thinking of getting one of the ion ones. I have a good-ish one at the mo so I'm not really keen on spending the money if they don't make alot of difference.

Thanks in advance.

The Lovely Muffin

I use John Frieda Frizz - Ease Straight Ahead Style Activating Shampoo and John Frieda Frizz - Ease Straight Ahead Style Activating Conditioner and I leave the conditioner on my hair for an hours (sometimes more) and I don't need to use the straightener.

At weekends, I use [URL=John Frieda Frizz - Ease Weather Works Daily Shampoo[/URL] and John Frieda Frizz - Ease Weather Works Daily Conditioner and they don't make my hair dead straight, but it's not wild/frizzy either.

Before I dry my hair I spray the John Frieda Frizz - Ease Straightening Potion Heat Protecting, Straightening Spray and John Frieda Frizz-Ease® Heat Defeat™ Protective Styling Spray and my hair is lovely, soft and shiny.

And sometimes, not very often, after I dry my hair, I put some of the John Frieda Frizz-Ease® Straight Fixation™ Smoothing Crème.

At Xmas I got a free set with the Blonde shampoo and conditioner and tbh, I have blonde highlights at the end of my hair, and it just made them lighter ad more noticable. It did make the rest of my ahir a lighter colour, but not as noticle as the highlights. So I wouldn't use it again, unless I wanted my hair to go a lighter colour/blonde.

My hair is naturally curly and after it's blowdried it went frizzy/wild, but since I started using the JF products, it's dead straight.

Even before I started using the John Freida products, I rarely used the straightener.

SissySpaced

That's great thanks a million!!

Magenta

Ionic hairdryers make a huge difference, my hair is frizzy and dry but I don't need to straighten it if I use the ionic hairdryer.
Or you could put your hair into plaits when its wet and then it will be wavy when it dries.

pookie82

Magenta wrote: »

Or you could put your hair into plaits when its wet and then it will be wavy when it dries.

That's a really good idea, you'd end up with structured waves rather than in-between hair. Don't plait it too tight though or you'll get the crimped effect.

mood

Do you not get the bobbin make at the ends of your hair?