Tips for Hair Setting

Hair setting is a fashion admired with people cutting across age and society. However, you must remember certain points before going for setting hair. For example, the hair setting must be appropriate for your age, face, ethnicity, features, body structure, make up, etc.

There is a variety of hair setting styles including pressing, curling, chemical relaxing, thermal reconditioning, etc.

Chemical Relaxing

Chemical relaxing is a general method of straightening rigid curly hair. It is largely popular among ethnic groups, especially of African origin. The protection you should take before going through chemical relaxing method include cleansing the hair properly, protecting hair line and ears with the application of petrolatum around them, and applying a neutralizing shampoo or fixing the new straightened shape of the hair and stopping hair swelling or breakage.

Pressing Hair

The procedures of pressing and straightening hair contain shampooing and drying the hair before the pressing, application of a petrolatum-based oil on the dry hair and application of a hot metal comb to pass from roots to ends section by selection until all the hair is straightened.

Thermal Reconditioning

A highly fashionable hair straightening method, thermal reconditioning gives a glossy, smooth, shiny hair texture. One reason why it is so popular is its long lasting effect.

You hair is not appropriate for thermal reconditioning if it is previously lightened or bleached. The hair fiber with greater application of bleaching agents is prone to quicker thermal reconditioning than the other fibers where the bleach application is comparatively less. This early completion of thermal reconditioning in some hair strands makes the overall effect of the hair treatment in the scalp unbalanced.

You must pay special attention to the ends of the hair after thermal reconditioning is over. Roll your hair in a slight curve movement using a round brush.

You should also be careful about the use of shampoos, conditioners and other styling aids after thermal reconditioning. Excess use of chemicals turns the hair dry. So you need to use special cleansing and conditioning system that are effectively formulated for chemically treated hair.