Heat damage on Curls

Heat damage on Curls

Applying heat on curls can cause heat damage, even when you do it for one time only. Your hair loses elasticity and falls out flat.

How can you prevent it?

Well it is very Easy DONT DO IT! It sounds very strict but it is the best advice one can give you. Curls don’t want to be straightened, they want to curl up. Forcing the hair to stay flat is torture to the curl, your curl thrives on moister!

How does this happen?

Curls are really vulnerable when one does apply direct heat to it, the hair can lose it elasticity and break or just falls out flat and your curls will never be the same. A lot of people think that you can only have the risk of heat damage if you use a flatiron or doing it multiple times. It DOES happen with a flatiron, with a brush and a blowdryer.

Heat damage comes in different ways.

Heat damage 1

You have the heat damage that only accure on some strands of hair, leaving the hair uneven and without volume. Advice: eliminate direct heat immediately and try to moister the hair as much possible, cutting the hair will not help because the damage is sporadically.

Heat damage 2

You have heat damage that causes a lot of frizz and leaving the hair unmanageable. The curls don’t want to be one curl and seem to separate from each other creating limp hair. Advice: try to moister the hair as much as possible, stop immediately with applying direct heat.

Heat damage 3

The damage takes place more at the ends, the ends are straight and don’t bounce back. The ends are the most fragile piece, it is the oldest part of the hair. Advice: cut the ends off, they will never be the same as your new hair. These ends will only frustrate you more and will not show the overall beauty of your hair.

Heat damage 4

Your curls are completely lost, everything is flat and will not curl, this is the worst case of heat damage. Meaning you have completely changed the structure of the hair. Advice: wait till you mentally ready to cut everything off.