I'd give her a Dyson dryer and show her how to do it herself after a few werks of that nonsense. Absolutely no damage with a Dyson.

I used to despise my stick straight hair. Grass is always greener

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Anonymous wrote:Dyson airstraight is garbage. 10 passes on each section of hair to straighten it is horrible. A good flat iron does a significantly better job if you want sleek, smooth straight hair. But, it's all damaging to hair. Your DD should learn how to properly care for curly hair. Yeah, her hair is most likely curly.

Just get the Revlon blow dry straightener. Weekly hair appts and/or a $500 hair tool for a 12 yr old is insane. Have you all lost your mind?

Can you link it? There tons on Amazon.

This one

https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Volumizer-Negative-Anti-frizz-Straightener/dp/B09VGXRKN9/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=73OUCDGDPZEV&keywords=revlon+hair+dryer+brush+blow+dryer+brush+in+one&qid=1688330013&sprefix=Revlon+%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

IMO it does a better job than most of the salon blow outs I’ve had. But I would definitely instruct her to use a regular hair dryer first and rough dry her hair (kind just shake hands through hair as you blow dry) until most of the water is gone. The Revlon tool works better, faster, and is less damaging if hair is slightly damp vs very wet. When I was her age I would have died and gone to heaven for one of these.

As a teen I used to shower at night (since I played sports and got sweaty), let my hair dry a little, then sleep with it in a bun. In the morning it was still slightly damp and perfect for blowing straight in a lot less time.

I don't have anything to contribute that hasn't been said (I would recommend the keratin myself; it lasts for a while, at least in my hair the one time I did it)--but I appreciate the dilemma here. Not a major problem of the world, but I can relate!

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Anonymous wrote:Dyson airstraight is garbage. 10 passes on each section of hair to straighten it is horrible. A good flat iron does a significantly better job if you want sleek, smooth straight hair. But, it's all damaging to hair. Your DD should learn how to properly care for curly hair. Yeah, her hair is most likely curly.

Just get the Revlon blow dry straightener. Weekly hair appts and/or a $500 hair tool for a 12 yr old is insane. Have you all lost your mind?

I bought an expensive hair straightener 20 years ago and it’s still like brand new.

I would not add another weekly appoint that I had to drive to for such a trivial reason. She can do that when she can drive herself.

Are all her friends White? My youngest at 11 years old has friends with all types of hair. Braids, curly hair, wavy hair, straight hair. The girls are different races and some have family members who help them with cool styles. Others just brush and comb.

Bone straight hair was popular , now anything goes.

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Anonymous wrote:Dyson airstraight is garbage. 10 passes on each section of hair to straighten it is horrible. A good flat iron does a significantly better job if you want sleek, smooth straight hair. But, it's all damaging to hair. Your DD should learn how to properly care for curly hair. Yeah, her hair is most likely curly.

Just get the Revlon blow dry straightener. Weekly hair appts and/or a $500 hair tool for a 12 yr old is insane. Have you all lost your mind?

Can you link it? There tons on Amazon.

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Anonymous wrote:DD has thick wavy hair. She washes it every 4 days (her hair and scalp are dry so it never looks oily, even with sports). She blow dries her hair about once a week. She uses color wow dreamcoat https://www.sephora.com/product/extra-strength-dream-coat-ultra-moisturizing-anti-frizz-treatment-P506465?skuId=2680817&icid2=products%20grid:p506465:product

Get her a good gentle, hair dryer, and teach her how to blow dry her own hair. This product literally makes my daughters hair waterproof. Water rolls right off her hair. It keeps it super straight until she washes, without an ounce of humidity.

Also, it might be just cheaper for you to get her a keratin treatment. My daughter Has gotten them before, and they last her about six months..

I thought the keratin treatments weren’t pretty terrible for your hair and health. Isn’t there formaldehyde in them?

No the PP, but there are many formaldehyde free keratin treatments now. Call salons and find out what they use. Yes, if you get keratin done four times a year, it can be drying to your hair. But if you get it done once a year, to get you through the summer months, you’ll be fine. That is 4 to 6 months that you don’t have to use a blow dryer or heat tool. I’ve been doing a keratin treatment every summer for years and years, and my hair is super healthy. But then, I don’t expose it too much heat at all. Blow drying your hair and using hot tools on a regular basis is way more damaging.

Anonymous wrote:DD has thick wavy hair. She washes it every 4 days (her hair and scalp are dry so it never looks oily, even with sports). She blow dries her hair about once a week. She uses color wow dreamcoat https://www.sephora.com/product/extra-strength-dream-coat-ultra-moisturizing-anti-frizz-treatment-P506465?skuId=2680817&icid2=products%20grid:p506465:product

Get her a good gentle, hair dryer, and teach her how to blow dry her own hair. This product literally makes my daughters hair waterproof. Water rolls right off her hair. It keeps it super straight until she washes, without an ounce of humidity.

Also, it might be just cheaper for you to get her a keratin treatment. My daughter Has gotten them before, and they last her about six months..

I thought the keratin treatments weren’t pretty terrible for your hair and health. Isn’t there formaldehyde in them?

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Anonymous wrote:Dyson airstraight is garbage. 10 passes on each section of hair to straighten it is horrible. A good flat iron does a significantly better job if you want sleek, smooth straight hair. But, it's all damaging to hair. Your DD should learn how to properly care for curly hair. Yeah, her hair is most likely curly.

Just get the Revlon blow dry straightener. Weekly hair appts and/or a $500 hair tool for a 12 yr old is insane. Have you all lost your mind?

$500 for a tool that will last year's is nothing. Learning to do it yourself means you don't have to be some tool paying $60 for a weekly blowout.

Any hair appliance will “last years.” I have curling irons that are at over 10 yrs old and my Revlon dryer thing is probably 5 yrs old

DD has thick wavy hair. She washes it every 4 days (her hair and scalp are dry so it never looks oily, even with sports). She blow dries her hair about once a week. She uses color wow dreamcoat https://www.sephora.com/product/extra-strength-dream-coat-ultra-moisturizing-anti-frizz-treatment-P506465?skuId=2680817&icid2=products%20grid:p506465:product

Get her a good gentle, hair dryer, and teach her how to blow dry her own hair. This product literally makes my daughters hair waterproof. Water rolls right off her hair. It keeps it super straight until she washes, without an ounce of humidity.

Also, it might be just cheaper for you to get her a keratin treatment. My daughter Has gotten them before, and they last her about six months..

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Anonymous wrote:Dyson airstraight is garbage. 10 passes on each section of hair to straighten it is horrible. A good flat iron does a significantly better job if you want sleek, smooth straight hair. But, it's all damaging to hair. Your DD should learn how to properly care for curly hair. Yeah, her hair is most likely curly.

Just get the Revlon blow dry straightener. Weekly hair appts and/or a $500 hair tool for a 12 yr old is insane. Have you all lost your mind?

$500 for a tool that will last year's is nothing. Learning to do it yourself means you don't have to be some tool paying $60 for a weekly blowout.

YouTube has tons of tutorials for straightening and styling this hair type. I agree with the others to get a good straightener as well as some moisturizing hair protectant products and a night wrap. Also a shower cap so that she can wash her body every day but only wash her hair a few times a week. Daily washing can make this hair type worse in some people.

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Anonymous wrote:Has she educated herself in the Curly Girl Method? I'd look into that before a blow out because the more you straighten the longer it takes to go back curls

THis. We were in a similar place, and my teen (now 17) is so much happier once she learned how to manage her curls and control the frizz. I don't think she would ever trade it for my boring straight hair now!
But I also feel like maybe let her do it once or twice where she pays for it, and the desire will probably burn out quickly. My kids always have these grand ideas about things that they are going to do with their hard-earned money. At some point, she'll want to buy Starbucks with her friends, and then will regret having wasted it all on a blowout that lasted 2 days.

Please share your daughter’s methods (if you know)…my DD also despairs over her wavy “frizzy” hair…she straightens it 1x a week with a flat iron, and then doesn’t wash it for another 4-5 days, but she’d love to learn how to style it naturally.

Anonymous wrote:Dyson airstraight is garbage. 10 passes on each section of hair to straighten it is horrible. A good flat iron does a significantly better job if you want sleek, smooth straight hair. But, it's all damaging to hair. Your DD should learn how to properly care for curly hair. Yeah, her hair is most likely curly.

Just get the Revlon blow dry straightener. Weekly hair appts and/or a $500 hair tool for a 12 yr old is insane. Have you all lost your mind?