Beauty Tip: Straightening Long and Thick Hair with a Flat-Iron in Only 5 Minutes

If you have long, thick and even curly hair and want to use the flat-iron to straighten your hair it can be tedious, time-consuming and tiresome day after day. 

One tip for making the process much easier and turning a half-hour to hour procedure into a five-minute procedure, is to have your stylist layer your hair underneath as thin as it can go. A stylist showed me this trick a few years ago and it brought my straightening time from about a half-hour down to five minutes and my hair is usually no longer than my shoulders. If you have really long hair, your straightening time is probably closer to an hour but no more, not if you have your hair layered underneath. For really long hair, you will shorten that hour to ten or fifteen minutes or maybe even five because once you see how fast it can go when the hair is layered underneath, you will buzz right through it.

It is also easy to do this cut yourself if you can get a stylist to do it for you the first time. I had my stylist do it many times but I also began doing it myself with a razor comb. Just be sure to see it done professionally and talk to them about it before you try it yourself so that you don't overdo or take off too much. 

You will love this cut and style because you get the look and feel of long straight hair without all the fuss. If you are like me and have thick, wavy or curly hair, you have probably always wanted straight hair. Of course you can get a relaxer put on it but it's nice to have those waves or fullness when we are in the mood or just want a natural look. Otherwise, layering underneath will give you the perfect start to a quick five-minutes to perfectly straightened hair.