Every year, millions of people struggle with dry hair. Often times experiencing brittle hair as well, having dry hair can be a pain. Hair loss can occur, making your hair look natural can be a pain, and managing it throughout the day can be exhausting. Thankfully, there are ways to deal with dry brittle hair.

Are you interested in turning your damaged hair into straight, silk hair? Let’s take a moment to review some of the basics of how you can accomplish this as well as some things you can try to help get rid of dry hair. With any luck, you will have the silky straight hair you always wanted.

A few considerations

A lot of things can cause dry hair. While many will consider dry hair a type of hair, we tend to think of dry hair as a condition that can be fixed. There are many causes of dry hair. From hormones to the weather, understand what may be causing your dry hair allows you to go about a more targeted approach. Turning damaged hair around typically requires a lot of care. It requires you halt any hair treatment regimes you may be doing to style your hair. Keeping heat treatments down to simply straightening is a must. Finding ways to pre-treat and post-treat your hair is critical. Ultimately, finding the right way to go about treating your damaged hair will require several weeks to help your hair regain its strength and to build up the protection it needs.

Pre-Treatment

Turning damaged hair into straight silky hair requires 3 steps, pre-treatment, straightening, and post-treatment. Pre-treatment will involve washing your hair and applying the right shampoo and conditioner. Even before you head to the shower however, you will want to consider a pre-pre-treatment as it were. A popular pre-treatments include olive oil. You will want to warm either up and then apply directly to you scalp and hair. Once either is rubbed in, cover with a plastic shower cap or bag for 45 minutes. After that time has passed, you are ready for the shower!

Consider a shampoo specifically for dry hair and which is sulfate free like Maple Holistics – Hydrate Shampoo. Sulfates can sometimes cause additional damage to hair, especially if you are trying to straighten it later. Prior to washing out your hair, make sure you apply the shampoo first and then wash out everything together. You can also replace butter or olive oil at this point with coconut milk. Go equal parts shampoo and coconut milk to help to both clean your hair follicles and build up a protective layer that will help during the straightening process.

Straightening

There is no way around it. If you do not have naturally straight hair, then you will have to use a straightener. The trouble with straighteners and brittle hair is that it damages your hair even more. The pre-treatment is supposed to help prevent a lot of the damage you would typically experience. Let your hair dry naturally, and do not attempt to brush it out until it is at least mostly dry. If you have a heat protective spray for your hair, then use it now. Turn your hair straightener to medium heat. It is important not to overdue it at this stage with heat, or you will eat through all the protective layers you established earlier. Picking a small bunch of hair at a time, run it from the scalp down to the end, folding against the natural fold of your hair. It should require no more than 2 passes for you to get straight hair. Repeat for the rest of your hair. It may take some time if you are unfamiliar with straightening your hair. It is also important to use high quality hair straightener like HSI Professional Ceramic Tourmaline Ionic Flat Iron.

Post-Treatment

When done, one of the biggest issues people will have is in brittle hair at the ends. There are a few ways to address this. You can consider a very light moisturizer after like Foxbrim Total Hair Repair Oil. Beyond this products, what you will require is time. You can’t turn damaged hair into straight silky hair in a single go. Rather, it requires a few days to weeks of pre-treatment to build up the necessary protective layers. While it may take some time, it is more than possible.

What do you think?

We love providing assistance and suggestion to real hair problems. What we’ve discovered is that no matter how much research we do, our readership has suggestions, tips, and tricks that may be even better. If you have your own technique for turning damaged hair into straight silky hair, then let us know. Leave a comment below and share your experiences. Who knows, what you share may just be exactly what another person needs to get the silky straight hair they always wanted.