Thank you girl
Yup , that bolded part is true! my hair is a monster to straighten, anything that makes is easier I'm gonna do
but wow I need to do a youtube, on this , because SOOOO many dont know this isnt bad because it sizzles, its like you can take the hottest pan and put water in it and it INSTANTLY cools it off, but it steams while it cools, thats all the noise is
I wonder if I would get reamed like that when these are the end results?
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sizzle sizzle ,but my hair is smooth and full of moisture still. Thats why they make wet to dry flat Irons now-and the maxiglide w/ steam-it works for keeping moisture
she wasnt wrong when she said it locks moisture in
Umm, can we get you to make a wet to dry flatironing tutorial please? lol
Because this came out beautifully!
nah ya'll would be laffin at me going through the torture that is called pressingYour videos are always very informative, so I would definately watch it if you did
I'm prolly gonna do it girlPlease make a video!
It seems like this method would be a good idea for naturals (as evidenced by Nonie and Irresistable), and less of a good idea for relaxed heads. Maybe ladies with the healthiest relaxed hair could try it, but I'm too afraid to ever think of it.
I went and read the site you posted, but it does not actually tell what's causing the bubble hair. It just uses anecdotal evidence and shows what bubble hair actually is, so I went and looked at some other information on bubble hair, so I found this NCBI/NIH experiment which tried to pinpoint a cause of bubble hair:
So from this case study I believe that bubble hair is caused by overheating of the hair.
Now, when flat ironing wet hair, your hair is covered in water that evaporates once the heat of the flat iron is applied. The heat energy from the flat iron goes into evaporating the water on the outside of the hair shaft FIRST. The amount of energy it takes to evaporate that water takes away from the amount of heat your actual hair shaft experiences.
So, unless the heat of your flat iron is MUCH higher than you usually use on dry hair, it shouldn't be more damaging than the use of the flat iron on dry hair. It should actually be a cooler experience for your hair shaft. Iris said herself that her hair never gets really hot while flat ironing wet. And Nonie also showed how the results of the first pass were much like a blow dry (hence, the flat iron evaporated the water).
In conclusion, I believe that if your hair gets bubble hair from wet flat ironing, it is because your flat iron is too hot, NOT because your hair is wet.
Water does not necessarily have to boil to evaporate and even if it does, the boiling point of water is lower than the heat of the flat iron (100 degrees Celsius, 212 degrees Fahrenheit). Once the water's temperature has reached 212, it becomes water vapor and floats away from your hair (this is all assuming you haven't dissolved anything in the water such as salt). So the water that actually touches your hair is never hotter than 212 degrees and the heat from the iron that actually reaches your hair is around 212 degrees COOLER than the heat setting on your iron.
I believe that as long as you are using the flat iron at the same temperature that you would use on DRY hair, your hair SHOULD be fine.
...oh and that's just my opinion, heat is heat. You should always be careful using it anyway.
Exactly ,there is never a chance for the water to boil, its too much of a mixture of air, heat and water, it cools off instantly
This is really alot less stress on the hair than blow drying and 'for me' keeps way more moisture in myhair , again, for me its much easier to work with my wet hair rather than fully dry, the blow dryer can take out so much more moisture than this method. now if she had thicker/longer hair maybe it wouldnt be so scrutinized. But this is definintley not an unhealthy way to straighten
so I will add my pic, to show it truly does no harm
This is just the first layer (Nape)done , freshly wet, I do a first press to dry, then a second press to straighten
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Ive done this for years and although the 'sizzle' sounds scary , well not to me , it really is causing no damage to the hair, bubble hair IMO is a total myth, if it was really 'burning' the hair, it would then burn off, but its just the 'noise' of water hitting heat
eta . I am positive her hair will be healthier in the long run doing any kind of heat straightening this way-in other words, this way she will eventually gain thicker/longer hair than by doing it any other way, provided heat styling in the past caused any breaking/thinning etc. This is the best way to keep moisture in, of course its best to not use heat at all-but thats another thread/another dayLOL
But I flat iron only the very front part of my hair like once every month anyway, so I guess these tutorials aren't for relaxed rollersetters like me anyway 
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