Taming Your Gray Hair With A Flat Iron - Long Or Short

Hi, it's Tanya here welcome back to my channel. If you're new to my channel welcome, I am going to show you how to use the Conair Pro infinity straightener to straighten your hair with minimal damage. I do notice that I straighten my hair differently. Then some people do using straighteners and this Conair infinity, as you have. If you follow me on my channel, you know that I use this a lot and I use it to curl my hair. I use it to straighten my hair D frizz, my hair, and I was just about to do it and I realized you know. I should do a video on this and show you how I do it as opposed to how some other people use their Flatiron and what the difference is so my hair is, it looks like I have a lot of hair, but my hair is very fine. The individual strands are pretty fine, they look thicker now, actually that my hair is gray then when they did before, and I think that's because I was coloring and there was damage to my hair shaft. So my hair does look a lot thicker than it did before, but so I'm dealing with when I get done blow-drying I'm dealing with natural curls, which aren't bad actually natural, wavy hair. I would say I have, and so what I like to do is I like to straighten it. I like to straighten out the top section here to get some of the flyaways to lay down, and sometimes I like to wear my hair straighter rather than curlier or wavier. So let me just show you what I do and then see if it works for you. It may or may not work for you, but this is what how I use the straightening iron to straighten my hair, so I just got done blow-drying. So this is what my hair looks like right after the blow-dry. Nothing else done. I do use the Cricut volumizing brush to to dry my hair with I find that I like it, because I can use it to curl like this, but it's so well vented that the air goes through. It really well, and it helps make the drawing speeds of the drawing time, so my hair has actually been behaving a lot better since I stopped using the suave clarifying shampoo for a little while and I'm just using that intermittently. If I use another shampoo, like I talked about on my one of my videos, so it's actually been behaving a lot better, which makes me happy and I'm using the honest Beauty in case you don't follow me on my channel. I'M using the honest, shampoo and body washes as the baby formula, and I have tried Johnson and Johnson, and it's just as good and another one that my sister, who is a professional hairdresser said, is really good. Is the Aveeno. So if you like, the idea of using the baby shampoo, because it's very very gentle and tear free and it's great for thin and fine hair, try the Aveeno baby shampoo and that works good as well, alright, so back to the straightening. So, let's um I'm going to take my glasses off here I have two: I guess you could call these alligator clips. You can use any clips which you have hanging around. So when I straighten my hair, I have the Conair Pro infinity and I have it set at 15. That'S the midway point: it goes to a maximum of 30 and that seems to be enough heat for my type of hair. So if you have my type of hair and if you really want super straight hair, so what I'll do is I'll demonstrate to you what I normally do on this side and on this side I will fully straighten alright. So what I do when I straighten is, I usually use a comb. This happens to be Conair, it's so funny. Everything I have is con air. I must really like con it. Well, their products perform really well their curling irons heat up good. I think con airs, curling, irons and arja and flattening irons are just as good as the $ 80 $ 90 $ 100 ones. I have purchased the more expensive ones and honestly I like the con air so for twenty five dollars, I'll link it down in the description box below alright. So what you want to do is when you're straightening your hair, you wan na now, if you have short hair, no worries. I have something to show you. I have a smaller version to show you for the short hair, okay, so that you can still straighten your short hair. If this one is too big. No, I find this one to be about average. It'S not the most. It'S not the biggest straightening iron, but it's not the most small, it's not the smallest either alright. So I grab a section - and I put it up here close to my scalp and I run it really quick. That'S how I do it and I see I see that other people do it different. I'M gon na put that section up actually start at the bottom and you drop sections as you go now. What I won't say most people, but how I have seen it done by others. Is they put it here and then they slowly go down like this? Now, that's okay, that is okay, and this is just my opinion. If you have really curly hair - and you are looking to take it from very curly to straight, can you do that with this iron? Most likely, I don't have super tight, ringlet hair. If you're born with hair, that's super curly. I would set this on the higher heat setting. I'D probably go with the since it goes. 1. 2, 30 I'd probably go, try it with the 20 or 25 or maybe even 30. And then you do that procedure where you put it in and you just run it down, really super slow and that will straighten like the curliest of hair. Okay. But if you have hair like mine which - and you might and that's why I'm doing this video but I'll talk to you from the viewpoint of having different types of hair. Just in case you, you don't have my hair. So where was I so? I move really quickly like this, because that's all I need to do and if I go, if I don't do a little curl out at the bottom, it spin straight. Let me demonstrate that to you. If you go like this, and you just go straight out - and you don't do anything you're gon na get this pin straight hair, see that see the difference between this piece, which is a lot more grayer, and this piece that's flat and straight when you want straight Hair, you don't want it bone straight, I mean that's, you know not very. It doesn't look as good, let's just put it that way, so you want something that looks more natural and that's why. Another reason why I love the infinity Pro is because it does have those rounded edges here: they're, not squared off, so you so you can do like this and you can and you can do a curl like that. You know there's so much you could do with this. That'S why I love this iron. Alright, so see the difference between that and that this is much better right. I mean, if you want it, stick straight then then you do it that way, but I take it to the end and I go under and just slightly like that and I just do it real quick and then you drop another section like that. So if you really want straight hair and I'll show you the difference between the two sides, as I start to work this down, you'll start to see when I do this side I'll, do it differently, the different looks you can get by straightening, your hair, all right To see it there's a little natural wave in there so yeah. So I go real, quick like this and it's less damaged. You don't need to iron. Your hair, like you're, ironing a shirt unless again, unless you have spiral tight, curls, but really quick works just as well. Now, if I went out in a humid condition, my hair would start to go kind of semi, wavy curly again just FYI, just because you use a straightener and does not mean that it's gon na stay straight. So I just go in and I go down and I'm just running it really super quick. So I'm just running it through like that and same on my bangs, and I was doing this and I you know, I realized wow Tanya, you do it different. Some people don't do it that quick and just like that, so so you have it nice and straight, and then I just worked my way around the hair. Alright, so let's talk about this side now you can see the classic difference, so you want that smooth bob here. It is right here if you have shorter hair and your bob is up to here. You can still do this and I will show you the iron that I used for that now. I don't know if Conair has a mini, but the mini that I have. Let me go get that and I'll show that to you, okay, so here's the mini! This is the ion mini and it comes in a nice covered container see it's got the thermal on the inside, so if it's still warm so if you're traveling, this is a great iron and it has a little pouch on this side with a little pocket for, Like a comb or a brush, I think I think that's what goes in there got hair in my brush anyway, like that it has a little like that. You can put your put your tool in there and then no actually, no, no, that's not how it works. I remember now I haven't done this in a long time because I haven't traveled with this in a long time all right, so here's the mini, but the mini, goes into the pouch into the thermal side of the pouch and has a little velcro there. And then you take the cord, I thought that was for it's been a long time since I've use this, then you you take the cord and you wrap it all up and you tie it up and you stick it here in the pouch. You run it through. This elastic band and stick it in the pouch. So it's all nice one kick so this little ion mini. I got at Sally Beauty Supply and it's called the titania on titanium, platinum and it is mini. Let'S show the size here between the two, so this is great for those of you out there with shorter hair. You can also use it on my length hair. Let'S see the heat settings on this. I do not know if these go up too. Okay. No, there is no, it does have a heat setting control. Oh wait there. It is no. The numbers are on this side, so it goes up to 300 degrees. No. 3. 650. Oh, go it's pretty high 410. It goes from 300 to 4 10. So it doesn't have like a series of numbers - it's just 300, 350 and 410 are your choices there. It does have the on and off switch here and it is travel friendly and we'll go to Europe with you on the dual voltage, so that little baby will do what I'm doing here, and it also has little rounded edges. So there you go all right. So now we're going to be working on this side of my hair, and now I'm going to show you what I normally do. Normally, if I'm straightening my hair, I don't separate it like that. I just run it through, which is what I'm gon na do on this side. Oh, I don't separate it that's right, so I just get done blow-drying a minute or you got to go to work and I just take the top part here, because I I want to tame the top. The frizz - and I just go like this - and I just run this through like super quick, and I run it through my banks - real quick like that and I'm just straightening, I'm just gently straightening, some of these parts out and then I usually put it back in Up in a bun or something Pony clip so - and this is what I do on the daily - this is like five days a week, wind of court not five days a week, because I don't wash my hair five days a week, I wash my hair, like every Other day or every third day, but but after I do wash my hair - and this is what I do - and so that's how I do it when I'm in hurry see the difference. So there's still a little wave down here. So there's some body - and this is of course straight so there's the difference there, but that's what I do. I run it through a really super quick. I don't even look what I'm doing here in the back. I just go like this and I just run it real quick grab and run almost like a almost like a born brush. I guess you could say you know if you have like a warm heated brush just to kind of smooth it out here and that's what I do so. I hope that helps you in some way on on techniques of how to use a flat iron and different looks you can get this one has a little bit more body, this month's, more straight. So, depending on what look you want? I hope that helps you. Thank you so much for watching click subscribe and we'll catch you next time. Bye.