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Straight Hair Tips for Sleek Straight Styles

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If your hair is straight, you might need a few good straight hair tips to help you sort through the challenges.

Straight hair is one of the most sought after types of hair to be blessed with. Its one of the many reasons that straight irons are so popular!

Even women who already have straight strands, want it even straighter! If your hair is straight, you should consider yourself lucky indeed!

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Looking for something specific? Be sure to check the information on this page first and then the Q&A section at the bottom of this page!


Hair is generally long and flowing, and has a certain way of creating movement. Longer layers can bring out the best in anyone who has straight hair, but most people born with straight locks don’t feel that way.

Many women imagine long trailing curls and will do anything to change what they have! Perms were specially created for those who can’t get their hair to curl naturally. Perms and body waves changed the way women feel about having their hair bone straight!

Straight hair is typically very fine but easy to take care of. The texture of your hair will have a big impact on the way you can style it. (This is one of the most important straight hair tips you will ever get!)

If you use products that are heavy in nature, these can weigh down hair and make it look even straighter, or worse, oily and dirty when it's not. The biggest problem with curly hair is that it can snarl and tangle very easily. Straight hair, on the other hand, doesn’t knot up easily and can be a breeze to brush through and style very quickly. Consider these straight hair tips.

Long Straight Hair Tips

  • Choosing the right shampoo is the best place to start. Look for gentle shampoos that advertise formulas for fine, limp or straight hair. An important ingredient in good shampoos for fine, straight hair is panthenol, which professional experts believe can penetrate the hair follicle and make each strand thicker in texture. Don't use any hair products that have alcohol listed in the first 3 ingredients.

  • If you want your hair to be sleek and straight, use smoothing or straightening shampoos. Smoothing shampoos and/or straightening shampoos help to lay down the cuticle of your hair and control fly away hair. When your hair cuticle is raised, your hair naturally looks frizzy. When your cuticle lays down, it will look smooth, straight, shiny, and flawless. For the best results, choose straightening shampoos that don’t contain alcohol or sodium laurel or laureth sulfates, which can result in dull, dry hair over time. You might also consider using smoothing conditioners and/or straightening conditioners if you like your hair to look and feel sleek!

  • Hair pomades can also help straighten your hair. For best results, use them on damp hair and finish drying your hair with an Ion blow dryer, which will help cut down on having frizzy hair.

  • If you're looking for curls in hair that’s pin straight, the right shampoo may help get you started. Curling shampoos are [supposedly] specially blended to make your hair more apt to curl or boost the curling power of your hair. If you try curling shampoo, you must use them regularly for them to work at all. Curling shampoos can’t and won't create long luscious curly hair though.

  • If you want to add a little more body, try volumizing or texturizing shampoos. These types of shampoos usually have panthenol, which coats your hair to make it thicker and fuller. If you're into organic hair products, use Lamas Volumizing Shampoo. Lamas products are environmentally friendly, cruelty free. They do no animal testing nor use artificial ingredients. 100% vegan products, and are made in USA. Of course, there are a lot of other organic brands on the market to choose from. Aubrey Organics, Aveda Hair Products, and Jason Organics are other brands that continuously rock the house in popularity!
  • To promote curling, try wrapping your hair in a towel until it dries. This might help create some natural waves. If your hair is already a bit wavy it will help more than if it’s bone straight. Another idea is to put your hair in braids or a bun after you shampoo, and allow your hair to dry naturally. The smaller your braid and the tighter your bun, the more curls you are bound to create. If you naturally have hard to curl hair, remember to add gels or mousse to wet hair before you braid it. That will give more staying power to any curls you do create.

  • Those with straight, fine hair often find that their hair looks greasy the day after shampooing, but it also depends on the products you choose to use. The less you shampoo, the healthier your hair will be. This is true for any hair type! Don’t be fooled into thinking you have to shampoo everyday just because your hair is fine or straight. Find the right products for straight hair, and you should be able to go several days between shampoos. If your hair gets oily fast, try dry shampoos to help cut oils.

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    Straight Hair Tips for Different Hair Textures

    Hair textures can make a big difference in the way you style your hair and the way you take care of it. Know thy own hair texture!

  • Coarse hair - Coarse hair is like horse hair. It has great tensile strength but can be extremely difficult to get it to do anything you want it to do! Coarse straight hair is one of the hardest to style, as it often has a mind of it’s own. Permanent waves might not even work to curl it. Asian type hair is especially well known for it’s coarse and straight traits. African American hair is well known for it’s coarseness and its curliness.

    Both hair types typically need stronger chemicals to change the dynamics of the hair. Asian women strive to have curls and many African American women choose to have their hair straightened. Such is the nature of the world. Few women are satisfied with the type of hair they were born with!

  • Medium Hair - Medium texture hair is in the middle of the road. Not too thick, not too thin! Medium hair can be maintained by simply using a good shampoo and conditioner. Deep conditioner’s should be used from time to time, to help keep hair moisturized and healthy! Medium hair is easy to maintain and easier to style.

  • Fine hair - Fine hair kind is usually soft and smooth and looks graceful in movement. It has a very simple and sleek look. At times, fine hair may look limp and lifeless. Most of the time, a simple trim can bring hair back to life! Because fine hair strands are very small, fine hair is prone to breakage and splitting. A boars bristled hair brush or a paddle brush is a must have for those who want to keep their fine hair healthy!

    Straight Hair Tips for Styling

    Straight Hair Tips To Create Volume

    Apply gel or mousse to your roots a (or root lifter), and throughout your hair. Use a hair dryer diffuser to blow dry your hair. The last couple of minutes in drying time, turn your head upside down and blow dry. Finish drying hair on the coolest cycle of your dryer. Use firm holding hairspray to hold your style.

    Most people think that you have to get a perm to create hair volume. That simply isn't true cause its not the only way! Besides volumizing shampoos, hair color actually helps create volume in your hair. You can increase your hair volume by mixing highlights and lowlights in different shades. This mixture creates depth and texture.

    Find the best hair color shade for your hair!

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    Straight Hair Tips to Create a Sleek Look

    After you shampoo and condition, apply smoothing creams, mousse or gels to slightly wet hair, comb them through your hair, and then blow dry your hair with the nozzle above your head, facing down. This works best if you section your hair and blow dry one section at a time, starting with the hair on the bottom in each section. Be sure to gently comb or brush your hair while you dry it. (Comb it out first with a wide toothed comb to make sure it's free of knots and tangles beforehand!)

    For an even sleeker look, use a ceramic straightening iron to finish your smooth look! Use your iron on your straight hair tips or ends, if that's the the only part of your hair that looks unruly.

    Try one of these haircuts you can do yourself! They are great for straight hair styles!

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    These straight hair tips should help you when you decide which products to use and which styles to try. Straight hair is simply glamorous, so don't think you got short-sheeted in the hair department if your hair is straight. Consider it an advantage to have silken, lustrous hair, that every woman's envies!



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