How to Curly Hair

Firstly, evaluate the current texture of your hair follicle. Assess its porosity, elasticity and see if there is any damage of shafts or cuticles before considering it for a chemical exposure. It is not difficult to relax curly hair. It is difficult to maintain it. While applying the straightening cream avoid the scalp of your head. Leave half an inch from the scalp and then apply the cream. Start from half an inch from the scalp till the tip of your shaft. Prior to using relaxers, care should be taken not to wash with shampoo as the chemical in them will not allow the relaxing to happen.

Apply the cream by taking few strands after strands and brush them with thin comb with close teeth. It is best to have a straightening expert to do it as she has the technical know how for straightening frizzy shafts. On coarse virgin hair, a strong straightening cream can be used but not on some one who has already got the straightening done before. There fore a prior testing of the strands is required to find out whether to use, strong cream, medium one or light cream. If yours is wavy and not really frizzy or rough then you must use a medium one or a light cream based on the elasticity of your strands. Its texture, elasticity, porosity should be assessed before treating them with a particular level of cream. Virgin strands can tolerate regular strength relaxers which have high alkaline content in them.