Attn: alexandra_k

New Remington Wet to Dry straighteners = win.

Also easily used on already dry hair :>

I was VERY lucky that my friend (we do a bit of City Mission work together from time to time, not a close friend, but a very cool chick) has started working for the company - actually, thanks to you, cos you instigated me looking into them and posting a thread on [site] to find out reccs ...

Anyway, I tried them as soon as I got them tonight ... my girl gave them to me at cost and a bottle of wine :> and WOW.

She says she has friends who have GHDs to try them and be honest (she doesn't care, cos if they have them they have them) and the rating is just as good.

Anyway ... I hope you have as much success as I do Just possibly remember to get wide plates cos your hair is thick.

xx

thanks. i'll take a look over the weekend.

my hair isn't thick... it is just that there is a lot of it... i guess i'll think about which size plates to get too...

Ahhhhh a LOT of hair ... I have *quite* a bit of fine hair, but probably not as much as you do.

I just wanted to tell you that I like what I've got - and I have used friends' GHDs plenty of times, and this is a lot better than $350 for what I perceive to be as the same result

I've got one of those. It worked really great when I first got it, would straigthten wet hair like a charm. A lot of steam came off and it sounded like my hair was frying but it wasn't. But now after having it a few months, it doesn't work as well on wet hair. When I read the reviews on it, thats what I had found too, but I just hoped mine would last longer. It also seems to pull at my ends a little, and if you're not careful, the steam can burn you. But they do work GREAT!

Hope its ok that I posted in a thread saying Attn: Alexandra.....cuz I'm not her......LOL!!!!!

I have one of the Remington straighteners too. I love it. I don't use it very often, but when I do, it does a wonderful job. I have a lot of hair, so I don't have the patience to blow-dry and THEN straighten, so I love being able to straighten and dry at the same time. My stylist told me to just make sure I spray my wet hair with a heat protecting styling mist before straightening. I just use a cheap one by Thermasilk.

Isn't it odd how the things that are bad for our hair often are the same things that make our hair look fabulous?

Oh I use the Thermasilk stuff too, gooooood stuff!

Ahh. Rayna. If you don't clean the product off your straighteners, then that is why they don't work so well.

Insider tip

And they're supposed to steam :P

so i'm guessing that pinksoil burned her face with the steam.

are they really meant to steam?

i might get into town today but i might not cause it might rain...

They steam when the hair is wet, because the straigtener is pulling the moisture out of the hair.

I'll try cleaning the plates, they don't like anything is on them, but I'll try it anyway. Thanks for the tip!

hmm...

well...

they didn't have any wet to dry remington straightners so i went with one that straightens dry hair.

thats ok 'cause steam sounds scary...

looks like the same thing, just needs to be used on dry hair. S6001

so...
hurry up and dry already...
c'mon hair, you can do it!

sigh.

i guess this means i'm gonna have to buy a blow dryer as well. aaargh. damn myers for not having the wet to dry variety. damn 'em i say.

ps...

with respect to 'salon quality' styling products there are a couple different dimensions to that. firstly, it can be about getting the finished result. so... you need something that is capable of getting the right heat setting and sticking to it consistently etc etc. the other dimension, however, is durability. 'salon quality' stuff needs to be durable because it is fairly much constantly in use. hair straighteners whose surface starts to bubble / flake after 3 months of constant use are a pain in the but for a salon, for example, even though an average person could probably get something like 5 years worth of use out of the same product.

i've heard that with the remington hair straighteners (in fact with all the dept. store ones) they simply aren't as durable. you can get ones that give you the right finished result, but after some use the surface on the plates starts to bubble / crack etc.

so... my straightener came with a 2 year warrantee and their are authorised repair people who aren't too hard to get to. i'm planning on using the darned thing ALL THE FRIGGING TIME so if it lasts me 2 years thats like, sixty bucks (yay meyers sale) for two years which is like however many dollars a day so thats all cool :-)

again i say it is what you do with it - using product and not cleaning it means bubble and flake..

how are you supposed to clean it? mine says wipe with damp cloth.

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so i'm guessing that pinksoil burned her face with the steam.

are they really meant to steam?

i might get into town today but i might not cause it might rain...

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No, somehow I touched the side of the plate to my face, lol.

I have a Chi straightener. They're amazing. I now straighten my thick- shoulder length hair in about 10 mins. Mine steams when my hair isn't wet. The wet to dry straighteners damage really bad. I don't have patience either, but after I got my hair straightener it doesnt take long at all.

After showering I put Garnier Fruitice Long and Strong Leave in Conditioner in my hair. I then blowdry (if rushing) Then I layer my hair. Bottom to top. Before straightening each layer I put BEDHEAD Headrush onto it then BEADHEAD After-Party. My hair looks amazing then! =]

http://www.folica.com/CHI_Ceramic_Fla_d2457.html

I love this straightener!!!

Alexandra how'd it go?? Did it straighten?

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how are you supposed to clean it? mine says wipe with damp cloth.

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Yap.

The issue happens with the plates when product like the serums / oils some ppl use stick to it.

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I actually researched this and if you keep your hair in good condition they are fine. No different to blowdrying

They have an extra layer of tourmaline as protection ...

ALEX DO YOU HAVE STRAIGHT HAIR????

hey all. yeah, it straightened. i need to get a bit better with manouvering it (i want to curl the front bits around my face) whereas i kind of made them super-straight or possibly with a slight forwards / outwards flick, but thats all about practice methinks.

i'm not sure that wiping it with a damp cloth would remove serums / oils. using something to get the serums / oils off is likely to damage the surface, though. i did wonder a little whether some shampoo in water might be appropriate to wipe it with... but i dunno... don't want to damage the surface...

i think that heat is what damages your hair. it might damage your hair more if you use it on wet hair because you need to apply it more to dry your hair as well as to straighten it. if you use your blowdryer on a very cool setting then it really is hardly damaging at all. i had one of those brushes that you use to blowdry your hair straight. it was metal so the idea was that you wrap the hair around the brush and put the dryer right up against the hair on the brush so the dryer heats the metal to help pull your hair straight. fine if you are a hairdresser doing OTHER peoples hair, I suppose, but impossible to manouver otherwise methinks.

i used it on the lowest heat setting and put sections of my hair through it a few times (which was fine because some of the strokes were more uncoordinated than others lol).

i'm very happy with it, actually :-)

Yay good to hear!

Yes I understand doing it from wet means more contact with the heat but *shrug* I don't think I'd be doing that heaps. I just used it on dry hair last time anyway.

Like you say practice will make perfect!

yeah.

hairdressers are funny creatures...

they reccomend that you not wash your hair more than you need to. typically they say that once a week is optimal though maybe twice a week if you have an oily scalp.

but they typically wash and heat-style their hair everyday.

i guess thats how come they say 'trims every 4-6 weeks'. if you heat-style your hair frequently i would guess that you should indeed do that to help prevent split ends and the like.

i'll get mine trimmed more regularly now...

i don't mind if it grow a little more slowly, so long as it doesn't look terrible while its growing, however :-)

hmmmm weird. my hairdresser asked me if i wash my hair most days and says it's fine as long as you use a frequent use shampoo.

yea i am going to do 7 weeks as i was recommended for next trim ...

I am usually really lazy with hair stuff, but i am going to be good now ... i am :>

yeah. i think the notion is that your scalp produces oils which are great for smoothing and protecting your hair and making it appear all shiny. if you have a soft brush and you brush your hair you can brush the oils from the scalp down along the length of your hair and that makes it go all nice and shiny and protected. thats kinda why... your scalp makes the oil.

shampoo strips the oil out of your hair. frequent use shampoo is milder, but the point of shampoo is to remove the oil, i guess. if you wash your hair very frequently then your scalp tends to try and compensate by producing more oil and before you know it you need to wash it every day...

a lot of the products that we put in our hair to help smooth our hair and make it shiny and protected basically function (when all goes well and they are good products) to put that oil (that we just removed with the shampoo) back into our hair.

kind of strip it out then replace it with something synthetic lol.

the things we do ;-)

the oil is how come dreds get to be self cleaning. you don't shampoo dreds, you just rinse them with water to get the dust off basically, lol. takes a little time but the scalp oils basically wash / clense the hair without your needing to shampoo.

i guess the basic issue with the scalp oils is that they don't smell as fresh and pleasant as shampoo and other products. i'm not sure that they smell unpleasant, exactly, but it certainly doesn't smell as good as the products we buy...

i don't have the ideal soft bristle brush for brushing my hair, but the brush i do have does work to distribute the oils a bit. when i wash my hair i use just a tiny bit of shampoo and lather it between my hands first and try and massage it into my scalp without getting much of it on the rest of my hair (so as not to remove the oils). then condition the crap out of the ends... it kinda works for me but... who knows...

i haven't done this for a long time... but as a teenager i used to use a little bit of baby oil on my hair after shampooing (because my mother insisted on buying this nasty conditioner that made my hair superfluffy). you need to rinse it out with warm water, though. not sure if that helps or not... dunno... probably in the realm of folk myth...

i did notice, however, that one of the leave in conditioning treatments that i brought made a big claim of having 'sunflower oils' as an ingredient. sunflower oil...

PS... oils make showers VERY slippy