Why And How You Should Add Heat To Your Wash Day!
We have been told over and over again that heat is bad for our natural curls and that we should stay away from it as much as possible. Heat can in fact cause irreversible damage to our strands and can dry out our hair out if overdone.
There are several reasons why you may not incorporate heat into your wash day, but it might actually be the trick you never knew you needed!
In this post, you’ll understand how to add heat to your wash day routine to make your hair healthier without the damage.
Different Heat Tools
Knowing and understanding that all heat for your natural curls is not bad is extremely important. As naturals, we can choose to use blow dryers, flat irons, and diffusers to help our hair in one way or another. Both blow dryers and flat irons can cause damage if we are not properly protecting our curls before the heat and if we are not using proper heating settings.
Blow Drying
A lot of curly naturals experience blow drying of some sort if you choose to get your hair professionally done in a salon. These blow dryers that our stylist use usually are extremely high heat and even burn when our hair is being blow dried.
Because of this, you might find yourself looking for similar hair dryers when you go to buy one yourself, but because you are not a professional, you most likely would damage your hair on those high heat settings.
Hair dryers like our new CurlDefiner Natural Hair Dryer are perfect because it's low heat and made just for naturals to help define your curls and reduce unwanted frizz.
Vs. Flat Iron
Flat ironing your hair is using 2 hot plates on very high heat to straighten your strands. Your hair is taken from your naturally curly state to a straight state. It is recommended that you do not flat iron your hair at all and if you do, no more than 2 times a year.
The risk associated with using a flat iron is not worth the possible irreversible damage that can be done to your curls. If you absolutely have to use heat, the CurlDefiner Natural Hair Dryer is your best option.
How To Incorporate Heat Into Your Wash Day
So we have already told you that using a hair dryer can be beneficial for your wash day and our Wash N' Dry method is the perfect method to help you get it incorporated.
The Wash N' Dry method is similar to your traditional wash and go, but better in a lot of ways.
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Frizzy Strands. Your curls will definitely be less frizzy. Our hair dryer uses ionic technology that is anti-frizz. The traditional wash and go leaves room for a lot of frizz, especially when we touch our hair when it is not completely dry.
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Decreased Breakage. Your strands will break less if set with our hair dryer because it is not wet and in a weak state.
- Faster Drying Time. Your wash day drying time will be significantly reduced using the wash and dry method because of the fast drying nozzle and perfect heating settings. Some curly naturals are able to dry their hair in 30 minutes or less!
- More Definition. Your curls will be more defined because you are locking them in place with minimal heat.
The Wash N' Dry Method: Step by Step
Step 1
The first step is to section your clean, washed hair into twists or section sizes of your choice. This will allow you to work section by section for better definition and hydration.
Step 2
Start to untwist one section at a time and apply our Mango Moringa Moisture Max Styling Cream and then our Mango Moringa Moisture Max Gel. Be sure to re-wet the strand if it did get dry so that the product is applied on wet strands. Go from root to ends.
Step 3
After you have moisturized each section, be sure to re-twist the strands as you go so that you can reduce shrinkage and stretch the hair as much as possible.
Step 4
This step is completely optional, but you can put your hair in little buns in order to make it easier when blow drying in the next step. The little buns create larger sections, but you can keep your hair in the twist and take out a few at a time.
Step 5
The last step is to use our CurlDefiner Natural Hair Dryer to blow dry each section of your hair from root to ends. This will dry and define your curls in 30 minutes or less, add volume, stretch your hair, reduce breakage, and minimize frizz!
Our CurlDefiner Hair Dryer will be available for purchase soon and you can join our list to be notified when you are able to get yours! If we haven't convinced you that a little heat can go a long way by now, our hair dryer has other great features!
The CurlDefiner Natural Hair Dryer is foldable and easy for travel and storage! Who doesn't want a staple product that can also come along with you, easily, wherever you travel!
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