Thermal Styler vs HairSpray
That sizzling, crackling sound that you hear when you apply a hot tool to your hair, immediately after using hairspray, is not a good sign! Your hair is frying like eggs in a skillet.Most hairsprays are alcohol based, and when alcohol comes in contact with heat, it burns. Some hairsprays have more alcohol that others. Read the back of the bottle. Just like a list of ingredients for a salad dressing, the most heavily used ingredient will come first in the list; the second most used, second, and so on. So, pick a hairspray that has alcoholic ingredients as far down in the list as possible.
Also, let any product that you apply, dry before using your curling iron or flat iron. Those white dandruff-like flakes that you see in your hair is wet hairspray that has instantly seared, because it didn't dry before using a hot tool.
Combing through a tress right after a spritz will allow the air to get into the hair strands and dry the product faster. Also, combing through a tress before applying a hot tool will separate the strands allowing more effectiveness of a hot styler, because more strands will be touched by it.
I'm sure you're used to working with hairspray, and it will feel different the first couple times you use a thermal styler instead. Don't dismay! Practice makes perfect. Work with the thermal stylers a couple times to get used to them, before you give up and go back to hairspray. Your hair will thank you! And so will your checkbook, because you won't need to do as many conditioning treatments.
If your hair is so resistant to styling that you absolutely MUST use a hairspray, then also use a heat protecter with it. Plain protectants usually have no styling capabilities and are especially made to compliment the hard hold of hairspray.
One of my favorites is Heat Seal by Paul Mitchell. It surpassed it's competition in a series of trials where a hair dryer was placed inches away from freshly cut hair, for several minutes. The strands covered in Heat Seal outlasted others, in the time that it took to fry and frizzle.
Use the thermal styler for the style and the hairspray for the hold.
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