straightening hair
Pressing out curls
Straightening hair is using heat, chemicals, or mechanical tension to remove curl or wave from hair, making it lie flat and smooth.
A straightening iron or flat iron clamps heated plates around sections of hair.
Chemical straighteners break and reform the bonds that give hair its natural texture.
She spends an hour straightening her hair every morning.
- flat ironHeated hair-smoothing device
- keratinStructural hair protein
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- heat protectantHair product blocking heat damage
- thermal stylingHair shaping via heat
sleek · smooth · frizz · frizz control · blow dry · ceramic · shine · silky · comb · brush · salon · styling · glossy · pressed · relaxer · silk press · strand · iron
- straighteningunbending, uncoiling, uncurling, unfolding, untwisting
- sprucing upbeautifying, freshening, freshening up, grooming, primping
straightening hairperming
Chemically setting curls
curling hair · texturizing · scrunching · permanent wave · curling
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