guilt free straightening hair method

**jessie58** · April 29th, 2009, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by GlassEyes

Are the issues people having because of layers, maybe?

I know that's one reason it wouldn't work for me; I'd need bobby pins EVERYWHERE for it to work properly.

I was thinking about layers being an issue too. I would still like to try this method but I forsee a lot of frustration and fighting with my hair, lol.

**Presto** · April 29th, 2009, 10:24 PM

Okay, my lazy butt got up and linked some pictures in here. I didn't have a spectacular success, but I'm quite curly, and put a twist in mine so it looked alright to wear to work for the drying period.

In this one you can see that it fell out and I put it up without taking enough care to recomb. Oops, "permed" in curls!

And the results:

Conclusion in my blog was that I had lost an entire number category and dropped from a 3a to a 2a.
I had no idea what to do with it! It was freaking me out just a little. DH was wowed at first, but then decided it had taken me from his fabulous wife to someone with ordinary hair.

I laughed. He's mentioned liking straight hair, but I think he's gotten used to my wild curliness.

**Starr** · April 30th, 2009, 01:04 AM

I've wrapped my hair before with some fairly decent success in the past but now my hair is much too long and takes entirely too long to dry.

**Nera** · April 30th, 2009, 05:44 AM

Wow. That looks really great! Unfortunately my hair can't be combed that easily.

**SleepySin** · May 2nd, 2009, 11:15 PM

Eek. The first time I tried this a few days ago, it went pretty well. The second and third times I tried it.. just got progressively worse.. lol

I seem to be encountering this problem where I can't comb all the hairs in the right direction to set. The outcome of not combing it 'correctly' (my hair is split a little over from the center but not quite side split) is that one side of the split line will veer towards the wrong direction and not lay as it should. I'll try to take pictures next time.

For tonight, I'm doing a variation where I'm not trying to straighten it. Rather, my hair is being pulled to the side and twisting across the top of my head.

Can't wait to see what weirdness presents itself it the mirror in the morning

**shaybabe8604** · May 4th, 2009, 10:30 PM

Interesting.... I used to wrap my hair every night to keep it straight and protected under a silk scarf when I was using relaxers. I'm interested to see if it will work on my natural hair texture when it's long enough.

**hennaphile** · May 8th, 2009, 08:32 PM

Nice!

I find that after washing out oil, my hair gets straight. *shrug*

**wintersun99** · May 8th, 2009, 08:52 PM

I have read about "wrapping" here, but never had the visual before - thank you so much - that is very cool and to see in photo.

**Tangles** · May 8th, 2009, 08:53 PM

I've tried this a few times. Once, my hair came out 1B straight, the other times it was more 1C, but it does work. An interesting effect of wrapping is that it seems to make my hair stay nice for a few days; with a similar effect to curling overnight.

Also, I get amazing volume with this, as if I'd blow dried.

**enfys** · May 10th, 2009, 11:35 AM

I don't need this technique myself, but I have some friends who may be interested. Best descriptions I've seen.

If it's any help I did an article on how to tie a scarf on your hair like a WWII style turban- it's what I use when sleeping in pincurls to get hair like you're trying to straighten out!

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/...&articleid=126