I thought about blow drying and flat ironing my natural hair on a few occasions. So in preparation for
my trip to my home country, Trinidad and Tobago, I decided to color, blow dry and flat iron my natural hair. I don’t have the confidence to do it myself so I went to my local hair salon, to have it done, on January 6.
The salon is owned by a woman whose native language is Spanish and her knowledge of the English language is not that good. Any way I tried my best to explain to her what I wanted done and seems like she understood my instructions. So the first thing she did was to wash my hair – having my scalp
massaged felt so good. Then I saw her about to apply something that looked like hair dye to my hair.
No problem, but for some reason, I stopped her and asked to see what she was doing. She was mixing a black hair color to apply to my hair which is not what I wanted. She then showed me what I wrote on her service request chart and she thought that I wanted a black dye applied to my hair. But I wrote blow dry and flat iron. I was happy that I had the chance to stop her because my hair is not black, it is dark
brown.
I told her that I wanted a reddish/burgundy color to my hair and I pointed to what I wanted. She applied
the color to my hair and allowed it to set for a few minutes. Next my hair was washed and then we began the blow drying and flat ironing process. This is the first time, I applied this amount of heat to my hair since I started my natural hair growth journey.
After my hair was blow dried, I realized the color of my hair was a bright orange, which was not what I really wanted but it did not look too bad. I the reason I really wanted to color my hair was to cover the grey hair at the edges of my hair line. With this bright orange color, I can still see the lighter color
strands of hairs which are my grey hairs.
When my husband saw the color of my hair, the first thing he said was that he did not like the color of my hair. Then I had to ask him what he thought the texture of my hair because I did not relax my hair and it was looking a bit straight. But he was so focused on my hair color, that he was not able to
comment on the texture of my hair.
When I scratch my scalp, I notice that my finger nails are a bit orange in color which means that a rinse applied to my hair. My hair dresser said that the did not want to apply any peroxide to my natural hair. I appreciate her thoughtfulness.
My hair feels dry and I have to remember to keep it moisturize
(especially the ends of my hair) with a product that does not have water as the first ingredient. Applying any product with water as the first ingredient will cause my hair to kink up quickly.
Last year I purchased a brush straightener and intend to use to maintain the straightness of my hair. I
will let you know how that goes. To be honest I am missing my hair style where I would pull my hair into
one and roll the ends of my hair into a bun. Now my hair is so smooth, the band I would usually use to pull back my hair into one is now just sliding off my hair. I have to use a tighter hair band instead.
my trip to my home country, Trinidad and Tobago, I decided to color, blow dry and flat iron my natural hair. I don’t have the confidence to do it myself so I went to my local hair salon, to have it done, on January 6.
The salon is owned by a woman whose native language is Spanish and her knowledge of the English language is not that good. Any way I tried my best to explain to her what I wanted done and seems like she understood my instructions. So the first thing she did was to wash my hair – having my scalp
massaged felt so good. Then I saw her about to apply something that looked like hair dye to my hair.
No problem, but for some reason, I stopped her and asked to see what she was doing. She was mixing a black hair color to apply to my hair which is not what I wanted. She then showed me what I wrote on her service request chart and she thought that I wanted a black dye applied to my hair. But I wrote blow dry and flat iron. I was happy that I had the chance to stop her because my hair is not black, it is dark
brown.
I told her that I wanted a reddish/burgundy color to my hair and I pointed to what I wanted. She applied
the color to my hair and allowed it to set for a few minutes. Next my hair was washed and then we began the blow drying and flat ironing process. This is the first time, I applied this amount of heat to my hair since I started my natural hair growth journey.
After my hair was blow dried, I realized the color of my hair was a bright orange, which was not what I really wanted but it did not look too bad. I the reason I really wanted to color my hair was to cover the grey hair at the edges of my hair line. With this bright orange color, I can still see the lighter color
strands of hairs which are my grey hairs.
When my husband saw the color of my hair, the first thing he said was that he did not like the color of my hair. Then I had to ask him what he thought the texture of my hair because I did not relax my hair and it was looking a bit straight. But he was so focused on my hair color, that he was not able to
comment on the texture of my hair.
When I scratch my scalp, I notice that my finger nails are a bit orange in color which means that a rinse applied to my hair. My hair dresser said that the did not want to apply any peroxide to my natural hair. I appreciate her thoughtfulness.
My hair feels dry and I have to remember to keep it moisturize
(especially the ends of my hair) with a product that does not have water as the first ingredient. Applying any product with water as the first ingredient will cause my hair to kink up quickly.
Last year I purchased a brush straightener and intend to use to maintain the straightness of my hair. I
will let you know how that goes. To be honest I am missing my hair style where I would pull my hair into
one and roll the ends of my hair into a bun. Now my hair is so smooth, the band I would usually use to pull back my hair into one is now just sliding off my hair. I have to use a tighter hair band instead.
