What are some ways to straighten my hair WITHOUGHT heat?
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Nov 14, 2015
Eva L.
I always find that hair is important, and to have it however you want.
Nov 14, 2015
Diana T.
You could go to the salon to get it chemically straightened but I heard it's not good for the health of your hair but I've never tried it so I don't know first hand - I think they use keratin and I've been told keratin causes hair fall out - so it might not be the best thing for your hair compared to using heat tools where you can prevent damage with heat protectant spray and use a serum to restore moisture afterwards.
Nov 14, 2015
Diana T.
Thanks for that info reny - I never knew Brazilian blowouts use formaldehyde - yikes! But yes hopefully someone more knowledgable can help you Eva :)
Nov 14, 2015
Kattya M.
That's true Reny! When I went to the Dominican Republic all girls did that. Basically you wrap your hair around your head like it was a bandage. Spoiler alert: You will need a crap ton of Bobby pins. And on the salon treatments, well yeah they are just as damaging as heat I think. The keratin one gave me split ends I can't get rid off so I'm currently looking into those spinning hair brushes/driers instead.
Nov 14, 2015
Kitty K.
Kattya, we call it a 'tubi' and we don't use it to actually straighten our hair.
Our hair (from a very young age, mine at 8) is usually straightened with a relaxer, and to straighten it all the time we do rollers.
We usually do hair masks and wash our hair, after we put our hair in the rollers while its wet so it sets to that style. We sit under a hooded dryer until our hair is done.
The rollers don't usually straighten the roots so after we blow dry our hair and then put it in a tubi. We do it every night to maintain the style as long as possible.
Our hair type... when we sleep with our hair down we wake up the next morning and it already begins to get curls/waves/kinks so it helps prevent that.
In America, I've seen them called as 'Hair wraps' or 'silk hair wraps' and usually done after straightening hair as well.
If your curly hair is coarse, then the tubi for straightening won't work... but if you have silky soft curls, straighter hair and minimal to no frizz it can work and you can probably just touch it up with a blow dryer/flat iron on low heat.
Nov 16, 2015
Kattya M.
Ooh I knew it was called tubi but I figured she would only get results in Spanish if she searched that so I didn't mention it. Yeah I do know all that, I'm half Dominican. As you say it's not a straightening method but rather a way to keep a hairstyle. I do a variation twisting my hair to keep it low volume but wavy.