Many women have the desire to obtain long straight flowing hair. How do we make this happen? With the help of a flat iron, a heated flexible device used for straightening and styling hair. Women get tired of their curly, frizzy hair but since women have found out that the hair they are born with isn’t what they are destined with, the doors opened to a new beauty. In 1872, Erica Feldman used heat rods to straighten her hair. In 1909, Isaac K. Shero patented a hair straightener which was composed of two “flat irons” that are heated and pressed together. Technically this was the first flat iron, but of course with technology it’s the need of making objects better to adapt to today’s lifestyle. Flat irons today can be mostly credited to the Scottish Jennifer Bell Schofield who combined two plated heated iron in 1912.
Flat irons are used now to give people the look they would like. Flat irons have the ability to basically style your hair in any way that you would like. They are used to give celebrities that glamorous look, they are used to style the pretty hairstyles that you see in weddings. Flat irons can turn a bad hair day into a stylish hair day, and feed you with a great look creating great energy. Flat irons do something to your hair, mood, and confidence that you never would have thought a little heat could do.
Here I have the Velocity CHI petite smoothing ceramic hairstyling iron. They are made in P.C.R. I found these at Target for $34.99 which is an excellent price for a good quality that normally is $70.00 and above. This is something that nobody should pass up. I’d never seen these flat irons on sale before and to find them at Target is very surprising. The two one and a half inch green smooth plates on this flat iron a...
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...own tremendously because it not only locks in the moisture but it keeps my hair looking flawless so that after one use I don’t have to use them but at the most once a week.
I am glad for the invention of flat irons and I am glad for technology to make the invention even better which gives you a better fabulous look. The invention of the flat irons are what help women feel good about themselves. This invention helps females catch even more attention and brings more to the woman attitude. I’m glad I found these particular flat irons because for the price of $34.99 the quality is outstanding and do something for my hair that no flat iron has ever done. I would recommend these flat irons to everyone. Not only are there the kind that I have but this brand makes a variety of different kinds that would fit your hair and the hairstyles that you would want to achieve.
It activates your desired hair growth by opening the pores that are clogged by chemical and pollution particles or due to shampoo’s contents and sun’s damaging rays. It moisturizes your scalp, giving each of your hair strand a healthy and safe treat.
It’s hair that has those loose and pretty curls with thickness, volume, and softness. This is the type of hair that it just bounces back perfectly well after any hairstyle. Men love it and women go head over heels to get this whole “good hair” Why can’t women embrace their natural hair and start to realize that their hair will never look like the way women with “good hair” apparently look. They can try their best but ultimately their doing more harm than good to their hair. All these chemicals and heat that women put in their hair is not making it any better. If anything you may actually be turning your perfectly health hair into something
In “Straightening Our Hair”, Bell Hooks articulates her opinion of black women straightening their hair. “Black women straightening their hair seemed more and more to be exclusively a signifier of white supremacist oppression and exploration” (Hooks 337). Hooks illustrates that racial discrimination of African-American women forced them to want to conform to societies unrealistic white supremacist beauty standards. I agree with Bell Hooks arguments because she supported it with historical and surface reasoning’s on why women straighten their hair.
Since the early 1900s, Black women have had a fascination with their hair. More explicitly, they have had a fascination with straightening their hair. The need to be accepted by the majority class has caused them to do so. Though the image of straight hair as being better than coarse hair still hasn’t left the Black community, there has been a surge of non straight hairstyles since the nineteen sixties. Wearing more natural hairstyles, which ironically enough include ‘weaves’ and ‘hair extensions’ has been considered to be more empowered and more enlightened. However, this image comes with a price, and though it appears the ‘natural’ hairstyle movement has advanced Black women, it has actually set them back.
In 1909, Morgan opened a tailoring shop, selling coats, suits and dresses. While working in this shop he came upon a discovery which brought about his first invention. He noticed that the needle of a sewing machine moved with such a high speed that often its friction would scorch the thread of woolen materials. He then set out to develop a liquid that would be a useful polish to the needle, reducing friction. Once, when his wife called him to dinner, he wiped the liquid from his hands onto a piece of pony-fur cloth. When he returned to his workshop, he saw that the fibers on the cloth were now standing straight. He conceived that the fluid had actually straightened the fibers. In order to confirm his theory, he decided to apply some of the fluid to the hair of a neighbor's dog. The fluid straightened the dog's hair so much, that the neighbor, not recognizing his own pet, chased the animal away. Morgan then decided try the fluid on himself, trying small portions of his hair at first, and eventually his entire head. He was successful and had invented the first human-hair straightener. This invention has helped a lot commercially. A lot of today’s media features people with straightened hair. This might not be possible if Garrett Morgan hadn’t made the contributions he did. He marketed the product under the name the G. A. Morgan Hair Refining Cream and sold by his G. A. Morgan Refining Company, which became a very successful business.
The book is not just about history of black hair. It contains quotes and information from a huge wealth of black hair resources, as well as political context of black hair styles and textures and why black hair comes in so many different textures. On styling of black hair: In Hair Story (2002), the authors write about some of black hair styles, including the West African manner of wearing their hair in braid or wrap to the current and most popular hair styles: weaves, natural hair and chemical hair straightening by black people- a style considered as imitating "white" hairstyles. Byrd and Tharps (2010) ".. the goal of grooming the hair had morphed from the elaborate and symbolic designs of Africa into an imitation of White styles adapted to Black kinks and curls. Both women and men were interested in straightening their hair because straight European hair was held up as the beauty ideal.
Most women in the 1920s cut their hairs into a bob cut. A bob cut is a short haircut for women “in which the hair is typically cut straight around the head at about jaw-level, often with a fringe (or "bangs") at the front”. Women also curled it in “tiny spit “curls with a new invention called a bobby pin. Some used electric curling irons to create small waves called "marcels,"
I performed a convenient survey of thirty-five women of African American or Caribbean descent ages 16 to 25 on the topic of relaxed hair. Out of the thirty-five I surveyed, 71 percent of the women were relaxed, while 29 percent were all natural. However, through this survey I discovered, 17 percent of those who were natural take 2-3hrs to style their hair, while 31 percent of women who relaxes their hair take 0 to 30 minutes. Yet, 29 percent of those who rela...
As years rolled by, cosmetology and the business of looking good began to pick up a huge amount of customers. Getting hair curled, ironed, or wavy is very popular now. A lot of women today, all over the world, want to look like their favorite star. It was that need and craze to look good, which made cosmetology successful as it is today. Shekinah Jo Anderson is a professional hair stylist with just a few years of professional experience.
This is called a hair dryer, this is a powerful tool that will dry your hair quick and beautifully, and it will leave your hair looking very smooth. This is not a toy and whatever you do, don’t you ever hold the dryer too close to your skin because it can burn you. I love you son with all my heart. Thank you, abuelita (grandma), I love you too. I can barely feel anything; at last the moment has arrived.
Therefore came wigmakers both men and women wore wig. "The men used slightly gray colored and women used all kinds of colors".( Found in the article the barbers history in the wig makers paragraph) "At the end of the 1970's men started to wear their hair long around that time it was only men doing men hair and women doing women". (Found in The Reborn of the barbers profession paragraph) In 1980 to make life easier and their clientele pop unisex barbershops were created and to this day is the profession we know as barbering.
Having long, healthy hair could possibly be one of the envied genes amongst women. Many women take supplements or undergo surgery to provide them with the added confidence of having luxurious hair. Although, those methods have been proven to work, there are many other less invasive methods available for obtaining beautiful hair. The use of hair extensions have become a popular trend in today’s society. Many celebrities, TV personalities and even politicians have owned up to adding a few hair extensions here and there. Hair extensions can be used to add length and volume to thin, short and receding hair. However, finding a beautician to install them can be bit pricy for the average individual. Being able to install them on your own can not only save you thousands of dollars a year in salon costs, it can also be used as a trade to make some additional cash on the side.
Revolutionary fashions made it acceptable to show more skin, develop different styles, and be able for women to express themselves. Women began to liberate themselves from the traditional long hairstyles and turn to the new and shorter masculine hairdos. “The bob appeared in the US shortly. Women with bobs needed more frequent haircuts, and wanted permanent waves” (Monet). Women began to cut their hair shorter, cringing their hair, and finger waving it.
Hooks, Bell. “Straightening Our hair”. Good Reasons. eds, Lester Faigley, Jack Selzer. Boston: Longman Publishers, 2001. 446-452.
Today weaving is a very lucrative business. Over the past 10 years the hair extension market has developed remarkably and there are more weaving techniques than ever. Growing up I can remember my aunt Jeannie, my mothers’ sister adding a hair extension ponytail made out of synthetic hair to me and my cousin Yalena, Marys’ daughters’ hair. Synthetic hair looks similar to human hair but is made out of monofilament fibers, polyfilament fibers, acrylic or polyester. She would brush our hair into a single ponytail with gel, spritz, and using rubber bands secure it. Next she would make a French braid using the synthetic hair and with a rubber band tie it to the ponytail. Then the hair left out from our ponytails was wrapped around the braid and