These Flat Ironing Mistakes DESTROY your Hair! *and I bet you’re doing them… 

I love this Nathan! Stay fabulous always!

Yes please! Exactly my situation.

I’m so happy to hear that this video was helpful for you ❤️

It has grown SO much!!! I’m going back and forth on whether I want to add some highlights. It’s just so healthy now I don’t want to ruin it. My hair hates lightener.

@Glam Girl Gabi Your hair looks so beautiful dark. That looks the most natural for you. I am dark too, and there is a lot if pressure to lighten, but don't give in because you are perfect the way you are ;)

I watched a couple older videos of Gabi recently and was thinking the same thing... it has grown so much! I have to confess, I love her hair best with a few highlights in the top layers for "movement," but it IS gorgeous without them too!!

@@sufyb6432 There actually is so much pressure to lighten it! It's so crazy right? I constantly get comments saying I should go back to lighter hair. It's almost completely virgin now and the thought of having all that damage again makes me cringe!

@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane I love it with highlights too. It looks more dimensional. I just hate how much my hair hates it LOL. I also lose my natural waves a lot when I add lightener and I want to wear it mostly curly for the summer.

I'm so glad that it was helpful Sue! If you have any questions, you know where to find me! I'm always here in the comments answering as many questions as possible.

I totally get that. You have to do whatever makes you feel beautiful. I’m doing some wavy hair videos for the summer. I’m excited to show you guys how I diffuse my hair. My hair is super wavy. I hardly ever wear it like that but now that it’s healthy, I’m going to start diffusing it more.

You can do it! I believe in you! It’s all about products, smoothing with the blowdryer and then working through the hair in small controlled sections with a high quality flat iron. If you do that, I guarantee you your hair will be glossy straight.

Do you find that it weighs your hair down too much? I am about to make a video all about using coconut oil in the hair.

@@GlamGirlGabi I have heard that coconut oil is great for the hair....bad for your drains,it clogs them up by hardening. Could you do a video of cute, easy upstyles/ braids. I am a nursing assistant and wear my hair up for work.

@@robinluettke8732 Yes I can do that for you. I will add it to my video list!

You can have shiny hair too! I’m doing a whole video on Glazed Donut Hair! I’m working on it right now. Maybe you can get some great tips from that video! Stay tuned!

Yes you have to be careful! It takes ONE SECOND and your hair is RUINED and there is no way to repair that damage!

You're the best! I am so happy to hear that you found it helpful.

I agree with you. Boat hair is SUPER SUPER SUPER sexy. I am going to be working on a wavy hair video very shortly and I am really excited to share it with you guys. My hair is so wavy and wild when I diffuse it and I also absolutely love it.

EXACTLY THE SAME AS ME. My hair is beautiful when it is diffused actually but it is SO MUCH DAMN WORK and only lasts for one day so I would rather just blowdry it and be done with it for four days.

It’s not just you! It’s most people. It usually either air dries lifeless with no movement or shape or like a complete puff ball like me. I’m going to teach puff ball people how to diffuse hair so it’s curly/wavy in a week or two. A lot of people have wavy hair and don’t even know it.

@@GlamGirlGabi Yup, puff ball here as well! I also have a lot of volume, and it's longer than yours, so it looks terrible, haha! Thank you for posting this video with some helpful tips on how to deal with such type of hair! I have a GHD straightener with ceramic plates, but it's old, so I should replace it soon. I looked into the Infrarose styler since it looks cute, but I don't know if they are shipping to the UK. I wrote an email and asked them, so fingers crossed :)

@@Angelys03 They don't ship internationally unfortunately. Another great iron is the Babyliss Pro Nano Titanium! That one is super hot so you have to be careful but as long as you dial the heat down, you will be good to go.

@@GlamGirlGabi Yes, sadly, they don't :( Customer support found a "brilliant" solution for me tho. Ship it to somebody I trust in the US and then have it shipped to me from that person. Slight problem, though; I don't know anybody in the US. Ty, for the second recommendation, I will check it out!

@@Angelys03 UGH what a bummer. I would do it for you but I don't live in the US either. I live in Canada. Sorry to dissapoint!

Yes! I can do shout outs! What’s your name?

@@GlamGirlGabi Really!! 🤗 Feel bad for asking now lol! I'm Demet Evans, I'm Turkish but born and bred in the UK. I do miss those youtube days when people did Holla's, I think it went a long way to creating a great community spirit between us all. Kisses

@@demetevans7249 Don't feel bad for asking. It is a great way to add community and I love the idea of building that up here on my channel.

It really depends on hair texture and needs. My hair is wavy so it’s super frizzy, I have to flat iron my roots or it will look weird. I use heat protection on my roots but very little. If you’re hair is smoother then mine and you’re avoiding it with the iron in order to maintain volume, I would skip the heat protection in that area.

Yes they did!!! I actually went to their head office in LA after that and they showed me what they were doing to correct the problem. After they developed version two, I tested it for over four months to make sure that there weren’t any more issues with it and it’s completely resolved. It’s amazing now.

Thank you so much for that information. I have a Dyson and am just wondering how they compare. Love you and all your videos!!!❤️

@@cynthiahoz3948 I also have the Dyson. They're very different. SRI Dry Q is much smaller and more portable. It is also lighter. Dyson is a VERY HIGH QUALITY blowdryer that is also incredible. You can't go wrong with either one. The SRI Dry Q may be better if you want something more portable like if you travel a lot. If your arms get tired and you want something lighter, SRI Dry Q is also a great option for that issue. If you already have the Dyson and you don't want something smaller or lighter, then I would probably just stick with that.

That’s a great idea Dante! You always have so many awesome ideas. You should start a channel.

@@GlamGirlGabi LOL I will at some point.

I would, yea. You will need a spray heat protector. Do you have one?

@@GlamGirlGabi I do, someone at Ulta recommended Living Proof heat styling spray. It's a fine mist good for using on dry hair

I’m no expert but have you tried purple shampoo? Brightens my grey hair.

Yes that’s very common!! Heat does turn light hair “muddy”. Almost like a dish water color right? The key for that is purple shampoo or purple conditioner. Better not Younger has a great purple butter mask that is also great for dry hair (and wavy/curly curl patterns tend to be porous in general). Heat protector is also very important. ShineShield will be perfect for you since you have textured hair. If your hair is fine, don’t put too much on the roots. Focus on the mids to ends. It’s a great product and I don’t find that it weighs my hair down at all (and my strands are actually extremely fine).

@@GlamGirlGabi I do use purple shampoo and conditioner already. The sun also tens to muddy my gray.

@@kendra3606 I have, yes.

@@annjohnson7682 You may have an issue with your water. Do you have well water or hard water? It could be a mineral deposit from the water that you have in your house too. I've seen that happen a few times with clients.

Henna will not cover gray. You need peroxide to lift gray first before coloring. I've used henna since 2015, every 6 weeks. I'm a natural redhead. Redheads go white, not gray. I use a 25% neutral henna/75% regular henna mix, the neutral henna turns the white hair blonde then red. This is how it works. Henna is great for redheads who are going white but maybe not so great for others, often products that say "henna" have other things in them and are not 100% henna............

One more thing. If you use henna, you will not be able to use color or bleach (peroxide) ever again. I have tested this on a bundle of my hair (from the tub). The color from the henna will not lift. I then just left it on there (for hours). My red color just stayed. Henna coats the hair shaft.

@@SirenaSpades ❤

@@SirenaSpades thank you ❤

LOL! There is a guy on RU-vid called Blowout Professor. I can't take his name! hahaha!

I disagree with air drying. If you air dry, you need a lot more heat on your iron (which leads to more damage) then if you gently blowdry the cuticle smooth. Hair is easily manipulated when wet but more resistant when dry. When you flat iron dry hair, it wants to go back to the position that it dried in. Because my hair is curly, it would never look smooth and shiny like it does without the blowdrying step. I would say it’s even more important than flat ironing. Although, I respect your opinion and you should continue to do whatever works best for you!

I agree with you Gabi, how my hair dries is how it wants to stay (which would be frizzy in the case of air drying!) so I would need MORE damaging heat to get it where I would need it to be... but to each her own. There is actually a research study proving that drying hair with a hairblower using continuous motion at 15cm (or about 6 inches) is LESS damaging than air drying your hair! To give credit, I first heard about this on Justin Hickox's RU-vid channel. If my link to the research study doesn't work, it can be found at NIH National Library of Medicine, Annals of Dermatology, and the study is titled, "Hair Shaft Damage from Heat and Drying Time of Hair Dryer." Basically what it's saying is that the longer your hair is wet, the more it swells, causing damage to the CMC layer of your hair (which I believe is the second deeper layer after the outer, cuticle layer, and the one before you get to the cortex, or most inner layer) and while blowdrying with heat does damage the outer cuticle of hair more than air drying, doing so at a distance of 6 inches with continuous motion causes LESS damage than air drying. They even suggested that having wet hair for long periods such as with air drying is probably as damaging or possibly more damaging to the CMC layer of hair than HIGH HEAT blowdrying. To summerize, doing things like washing your hair too often (more time with wet hair), going to bed with wet hair (leaving hair wet for an even longer time than regular air drying, which the study proved in itself is damaging), or using super high heat and a super short distance between your hair and your blowdryer are all the most damaging, so try to do these things as little as possible. I'm actually going to try to put the link in a separate comment in case this one gets wiped out... I don't want to have to retype all of that, and I'm not great with links, and copying and pasting, etc.! (Edited for spelling error)

Yeah, I just tried to post that link and it wiped out that comment, so unfortunately if people would like to read the study they will have to look it up... sorry, I tried! =(

@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane Thank god we invented the blow dryer. We women have for all of human history been damaging our hair!

@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane Wow that is absolutely fascinating!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this message. I had no idea!

No Way!! Did you email them? I use mine on all my on location clients bc of its size and power and I’ve never had any issues. I bet customer service will send you another one. If you have issues, message me and I’ll reach out on your behalf.

Because straight hair will never go out of style, not everyone has nice natural hair.