I'm heading to NY tomorrow. I keep hearing about the intense humidity there, so I bought an Ionic hair straightener. It claims that the straightener locks in moisture and that my hair will not frizz in the humidity. Has anybody tried one of these?

HA! I hate to break it to you breathe, using an ionic hair straightener will not keep your hair straight in high humidity. Take it from someone who knows

Hi breathe, what seetheworld has told you is what my beauty salon has told me. So never purchased one. Guess some of us just have to live with frizzy hair. Take care.

I use a flat iron on my hair sometimes and it remains mostly straight, even in the humidity. I also use a product called Fekkai Glossing Cream. You can get some at the Sephora in NYC! Have fun!

why does everyone want straight hair? It looks tortured into flatness.

Because we're womem and we are never satisfied with what we have. I used to get perms so my hair would be curly and when I was in college one of my dorm mates had curly hair and wanted it straight and we used to help her iron her hair before she went out on a date. She's actually get on her knees and lay her hair out on the ironing board and put paper, I think, over her hair and we'd iron it. LOL What can I say...that's the way it's been for centuries. I think it's in our genetic code somehow.

Hi crefloors, I remember young women, friends of mine, getting their hair ironed! Thanks for the memories!! I never had the nerve btw. Hope you have a happy weekend.

To answer the original question, do NOT NOT NOT waste your money. It will look good for 15, maybe even 30 minutes in the humidity if you're lucky. It's not worth the money.

To Sylvia- for some people, using a hair straightener just makes them look better. Like me- my hair has some wave to it that makes it look very unkempt when I leave it undone. So, to look decent, I have to straighten it.

My hair gets pretty frizzy in high humidity, and I do use Infusium 21, a leave in spray that calms it down, followed by smoothing with a ceramic plate straightener. This helps everywhere except Miami. (There's a reason women of a certain age still wear fancy turbans there, LOL)

I've tried numerous things for my very thick, coarse, wavy hair. I don't want straight, just smooth and not "billowing".

This summer is the first I've been happy with my hair and the answer for me is the Frizz-ease line of products. I use the serym & the styling gel. I highly recommend them.

~Liz

I have the ruler-straight hair everyone seems to think they want. It defies all efforts to give it even a wave, from hot curlers to nasty perms -- all it does is break. And guess what: in high humidity the broken hairs curl ever-so-slightly at the very end so it's frizz even for me. Just further evidence that intelligent design isn't.

I love my ionic hair straightener - it gives me a nice polished look but on humid days, I don't spend a lot of time achieving that polished look because I know it won't last. Or at the very least, I'll be touching it up at some point in the day.

I have had wavy hair all my life. There were even times when I was a teen when it wasn't wavy enough, so I would perm it, lol!

I still enjoy my waves, every now and again, but I feel like the straightener (which is a recent discovery on my part), enables me to get the look I have been wanting for a while, but couldn't figure out how to get. Of course a good cut helps. Vain? Perhaps. Do I care? No!

Breathe take along you hair straigtener and enjoy New York!

All ionic flat irons are not created equal. Buy a CHI flat iron. Wash/condition your hair and then spritz with Infusium 23 Frizz Control Leave In Treatment. There are several different Infusiums so make sure you get the right one. Blow dry and then flat iron. It will last.

I remember ironing my hair in high school in the early 70's. I am surprised I didn't permanently scar myself. But then came Farrah Fawcett and big hair and we were all lining up for perms. Ever satisfied? Of course not!!! The grass is most definitely always greener...

I've had a head of thick, coarse, wavy hair all my life. (I've been through crates of Frizz-eeze; it does help.) As I see women of a certain age begin to fret over their looming lock loss, I've become increasing pleased with my own. But again, torturing curly hair straight just seems silly to me (as it did when my friends were hunched over ironing boards, trying not to burn their scalps). Just another thing that no one else cares about or even notices but the person fretting about it!

The old saying "misery loves company" is obviously true, LOL. Thick, course, wavy hair as been my cross to bear since I was a little girl. Reading this thread makes me realize "who cares"!!! Thanks everyone.

I've had hair that was a little bit wavy all my life. I had perms, long hair, short hair, straight hair, curls, you name it. I've tried a lot of different styles.

A couple of years ago, I had surgery and had to be put out for 6+ hours for the first time in my life. As a result, I now am entering my 6th decade with curly hair!!! (no, I did not have chemo or radiation, my tumor was not malignant)

Anyway, I have long curly hair that I'm afraid to cut, because the hair is curlier at the roots, and curlier on one side more than the other! I have nightmares about how it would look if it were much shorter. Very strange!!! Some of my friends laugh and ask me what surgery they have to get so they can have my curly hair!!

If I want my hair to be a straighter style, I curl it on big rollers and let it air dry (takes about 3-4 hours because it's pretty thick). If I want hair that I don't have to mess with, I go curly and pull it up in a ponytail in the back when it's about dry. I'm beginning to really LIKE my curls! But at almost 60, it's quite a different way of looking.

Carol

Carol: I bet you look fantastic! There are no rules for how we are supposed to look or dress or style our hair at any age anymore--and I suspect your hair looks better longer than shorter.

sylvia3
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I've decided I really CAN live with this curly head of hair I'm now blessed with.


Carol

Never satisfied are we? I have very straight thin hair that just goes limp in humidity (and in most weather truth be told.) What I wouldn't give for a little curl...