“Your natural hair is shiny & sleek. This may not work for kinky Afro texture hair. Like 4b. Your hair looks great & nice post.”
I thank you for the compliment, but I also wanted to give all you 4b/4c gals out there hope that it is possible for you to attain silky straight results when flat ironing. Let me not forget to mention, although the majority of my hair is 4a, the front portion is 4b and the nape is 3c. I do consider myself to have kinky hair. Kimmay of KimmayTube is my hair twin (her is just much longer
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Below you will find pictures of a friend of mine who has 4b/c hair. I straightened her hair using Aphogee keratin products. This was the very first time her hair had been straightened since she went natural. Her hair looked pretty silky to me and it had SWANG.
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| Photo: I apologize for her nails. lol. |
So ladies, even if your hair texture is not loose, don’t be discouraged. It just takes a lot of patience and practice to achieve the desired results. Look at me! I didn’t have the technique down pat until 2 years after I initially began straightening. Hopefully, if you read this post and my previous post about straightening, you should be ahead of the game
CLICK HERE to read the review of the flat iron used on my friend’s hair.













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I feel the same way as your other reader. The majority of my hair is 4b and I recently tried to flat iron my hair, complete FAIL. Unfortunately, I lack patience so I may try again but not anytime soon. Your friends hair looks good!
I'm with the reader too. I'm so glad you came back and responded to show us it can happen. Can you tell us what you did with her hair?
Did you use the same methods? Moisture, moisture, moisture b4? Also how many times did you pass the flat iron? What kind of flat iron did you use?
mdoe
what step did you take to acheive this wonderful result please reply?
The steps I took to straighten here hair:
1. She washed with black soap
2. Conditioned with Keratin 2 Minutes
3. Rinsed with ACV
4. Blow dried with Keratin Green Tea Spray
5. Flat ironed & trimmed.
5. Curled with flexirods after running a little silicone based serum over her ends.
Your friend's hair looks absolutely beautiful! You definitely did a great job in straightening her hair! Keep up the good work!