question for those who have had their hair thermally straightened

goldie30

If you have your hair thermally straightened do you still have the option to hot roller it and have it hold a loose curl? If you flip the ends up or under will it hold or are you stuck with only stick straight hair? I want straight/smooth hair but with body.

naturallyfrizzy

I get my hair chemically relaxed and I do the Coppola Keratin Treatment and my hair has GREAT body! It depends how you dry it...I use a big round brush and dry it in sections...I never flat iron...I think it depends on which treatment you get how straight your hair is...I wouldn't want mine any straighter

MissingMyCurls

I'm currently growing out a Thermal Reconditioning and no, you can't curl it at all-even to turn the ends under. It is pin straight and very flat.

I really, really wouldn't recommend doing this to your hair. Growing it out is terrible. The top of my hair frizzes and curls, the bottom is stick straight and won't curl at all. I don't have enough hair yet to cut it off and start from scratch so I have to go through the summer looking ridiculous.

I really, really wouldn't recommend it.

love yourself first

MissingMyCurls wrote: »

I'm currently growing out a Thermal Reconditioning and no, you can't curl it at all-even to turn the ends under. It is pin straight and very flat.

I really, really wouldn't recommend doing this to your hair. Growing it out is terrible. The top of my hair frizzes and curls, the bottom is stick straight and won't curl at all. I don't have enough hair yet to cut it off and start from scratch so I have to go through the summer looking ridiculous.

I really, really wouldn't recommend it.

I have a different view but am still doing TR and not trying to grow it out. Still, I can go 5-6 months and like the way it looks until I need it done again.

If I airdry, I have more body and I also have a bit of wave at the end. Near month 4, my stylist showed me how to scrunch in a light curl product and then make big curls with a flat iron or curling iron (I've seen youtubes on this too). So there is some flexibility with TR, at least as it grows out.

I think a lot of it has to do with your natural hair type and thickness. My 3b/c medium thick does well with TR and there is none of that drowned-rat looking effect that I think more fine hair or looser curl type people may have. But everyone is different.

Beth B

It depends on the processing, IME. I've had TR done 5 times and when it was slightly underprocessed it held a flip/bend on the ends. This last time my hair was slightly overprocessed (grr...) and it won't hold a wave at all.

rockthecurlz

I am currently transitioning back to my curly 3b hair after 5 years of chemical straightening. I would not suggest doing it! My hair would never hold any type of curl/body. Just stick straight. Now my roots are curly and the ends won't do anything. I have also had trouble growing my hair since straighting because of so much breakage. I would think twice about doing it. Good luck in whatever you decide.

onethousandcurls

Rockthecurlz, I definitely agree! I had TR and before that regular chemical straightening, and my hair still managed to stay healthy (nothing beyond normal dryness). But long-term, it could result in serious thinning of your hair, which is why I stopped. The minute my hair grew out long enough to see curls (only four months after my TR), I missed my curls and regretted the stupid TR, which will now take over a year to undo.