Flat Iron Technology For Lustrous, Smooth Hair

by Karen Lynch

Countless girls with naturally curly or wavy hair have tried a million diverse options to get the stick straight and glossy smooth hair that is so popular these days. The old saying about how the curly girls want straight hair and the straight hair girls want the curls is accurate but what would be best is to have the best of both worlds, curly or straight, depending on your mood.

The technology to get sleek, shiny and completely straight hair has enhanced greatly over the past couple of years. Older women will probably recall the struggles to get straight hair, when they attempted everything from using a clothes iron to putting enormous heated rollers in their hair in their attempts to straighten it out. Now there are such good flat irons out there that those days are disappeared forever.

Flat irons run the gamut, from the extremely cheap ones that you can find at any department store to the top of the line irons that can cost a small fortune. Nevertheless, with flat irons you might realize that you get what you pay for. The low-cost irons do not do not use the best technology that will help your hair to look flat and sleek.

Flat irons are as a rule one of three basic kinds. There are the conventional flat irons, which is usually the most inexpensive and then there are the ceramic or tourmaline plate flat irons. The traditional flat irons use a steel or aluminum plate. A ceramic or a tourmaline flat iron uses either a ceramic coating over the plate or a tourmaline coating over the plate.

Ceramic and tourmaline flat irons are far better-quality to the traditional flat irons. A traditional flat iron will often damage your hair and make it look dried out and frizzy. You can get the sleek look that you want from a ceramic or tourmaline flat iron because it offers a negative ionic charge.

This is important because hair naturally has a positive ionic charge. This makes it appear dull and it makes it dry and unhealthy. A negative ionic charge will deactivate the positive charge, which in turn will smooth out the hair shaft and seal the cuticle, which will make your hair appear flat, silky and shiny.

You can also come across hybrid flat irons that utilize both technologies of ceramic and tourmaline coatings on the plates. These are typically the most expensive but they are the top of the line and hopefully they will keep going for a long time.

If you pick out the improved technology of ceramic or tourmaline coatings on the plates, you will end up spending more money on your flat iron than if you decide on the traditional type of just steel or aluminum, however, if sleek, shiny and healthy hair is the look that you covet the further cost will be worth it.

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