How Do I Use a Flat Iron on African-American Hair
A flat iron should be used after a blow dryer if hair is too coarse. Find out how to test the heat from a flat iron with help from a celebrity hairstylist in this free video on African-American hair care.
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- Hi, I'm celebrity hairstylist, Darico Jackson and today I'm going to show you how to flatiron African-American hair. One thing I want you to know about flatironing hair a lot of the times if the hair is really really coarse then you want to go in with a blow dryer first and straighten it out as much as you can before you actually get the flatiron. Make sure that you have a really really good flatiron that's going to be hot, probably a temperature to like 450 but make sure you just kind of test it to see if it's too hot or not hot enough and what you can do is test it on a piece of tissue paper or on a napkin just to see if it's too warm. If the napkin turns beige, then you know it might be a little bit hot. Also look for flatirons that offer tourmaline or ceramic components. These are things that will help you to smooth the hair a little bit better but they also have conditioning components. It will help your hair help stimulate the shine and seal the cuticle and condition it from the inside out when you use it with a good product. So before you go in to flatiron you definitely want to prepare the hair with something that will protect it from the heat. I like to use the Mizani Thermasmooth Smooth Guard Smoothing Serum. It's a good product to use because not only is it going to help to protect the hair from the element and from the humidity, it's also going to help me to smooth out the hair and make it straight. So I'm just going to use a dime size. You don't want to use too much because it will weigh the hair down but you do want to have enough to coat the hair. So what I'm going to do is stretch it out or emulsify it. So you just rub your hands together and heat it up and then you want to start at the ends and work your way in. You start at the ends because the ends are definitely what you want sealed and you want to be straight and then you work it through the rest of the hair because it's not that hard to straighten out. If you run your hands through it, it gets it from the back of the hands as well. So, then we're going to take a small section, I would say start at the bottom but if you're more comfortable with starting at the top, you can. You want to get in there and get as close to the base as you possibly can and in one swipe, one movement, just one, just bring it on out because if you stop what will happen is you will get a crease in there and look at how nice that straightens out. And you want to go in there a second time, just to confirm it and secure it and make sure that it's good and straight. So once you smooth it out, comb it and look at that. So now we're finishing up. You see I got it all nice and straight and it's looking gorgeous, we're going to grab these last few pieces here and finish it on out. When you're at home flatironing it, after you finish, it's always nice to go back in and add a polisher or some type of anti frizz solution just to kind of combat the humidity so that your hair doesn't swell back up and when you have curly hair like this it is subject to happen. So when you're finishing up you might want to take and just bevel it a little bit just to give it a nice little turn and some style so that it's not stick straight when you're flatironing it and you just slide it along and bend it a little bit and you see how it gives you that nice turn, and there you have it. That's how you flatiron African-American hair. I'm Darico Jackson and thanks for watching.
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