
Hair Dos and Donts During Quarantine
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Read our 5 handy tips on protecting your hair from heat damage. These tips will help you rock straight hairs and other hairdos you have been craving while protecting your hair from heat damage.
We know that sometimes you get bored with the routine heat-free hairdos available to your natural hair and that you want to switch things up a little. We wouldn’t pretend that we don’t know your fears about having your hair damaged by heat. Worry no more!
These tips below will help you rock straight hair and other hairdos you have been craving while protecting your natural hair from heat damage.
Before you get those hot tools working their magic on your hair, you must first wash your hair as you would normally do and deep-condition it, letting it sit for the number of minutes prescribed on the bottle. This will help smoothen and strengthen your hair while making it easier to straighten. Finish up by drying your hair as much as possible with a microfiber towel or a t-shirt before applying a leave-in conditioner.
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Depending on your hair type, allow your hair to get 50 to 70% dry on its own. Damp hair fares very badly with heat. There are some excellent leave-in treatments available which will help your hair to air dry naturally.
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Evenly coat your hair with a heat protectant. This will help to seal in moisture and protect your hair from heat damage. Heat protectants come in serum, spray or creams.
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Blow drying your hair first will straighten your hair. It will also help prevent knotting and tangling of your hair ends, and subsequently, mitigate hair breakage.
Remember to attach a nozzle to your blow dryer to avoid overheating your hair. Point the nozzle downwards and about 15 to 25cm away from your hair, and work in sections to ensure each part is dried fully.
Medium to high setting at the start while finishing with a cool setting is ideal for protecting your cuticles.
Reapplying a heat protectant after blow drying and before heat styling your hair as you desire is the surest way to ensure that your hair doesn’t get damaged by the heat.
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