Can hair be straightened permanently?

You can chemically straighten your currently grown hair permanently. Once new hairs grow it will go back to normal.

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My mom's hair used to be really curly and volumous until around the 1990s, but it has been straight since I can remember. She said that she chemically straightened it. She doesn't seem to reapply straighteners. I don't think her hair is naturally straight.

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Hair shape (curly or straight or somewhere in between) is determined by the follicle, which is itself determined by genetics. Nothing to be done about that, I'm afraid! At least not currently; I'm sure one day in the future we will be able to alter our genes on-the-fly, but until 2077, we're stuck with our old hair-straighteners.

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Chemotherapy has been known to sometimes change the curliness of a persons hair... when it grows back.

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If you live to see it grow back :(

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I’ve know four people, including myself who suffered hair loss with chemo. All our hair grew back more curly initially but eventually returned to pre chemo curliness.

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From literally my first Google search: https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/permanent-hair-straightening.

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Remove the trailing . to get a functioning link.

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- It must be client-specific as the . isn’t part of the URL for me (Thunder/iOS)
  
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For some reason people lost the ability to look at search results and be able to read them. I don't know how it happened, or why, but the simple basic function of scanning words has been bred out of humanity.

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- The whole original point of NoStupidQuestions was people could ask any question. And replies couldn’t be mean or a joke. it promotes discussion, the community was incredibly kind and helpful.
  
  Not sure if that’s the direction the Lemmy version was heading towards
  
  Let me put it this way. I’ve never in my entire life thought, “hey I wonder if you could permanently straighten your hair” but now that OP posted this I’m very curious, and now I have an answer. This place gives us answers to question that we didn’t even know we wanted.
  
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- it's better to get a summary from a human instead of having to sort through a bunch of SEO-spam sites where you have to wonder if what you're reading is secretly an ad or written by some guy who knows nothing about the topic pumping out 20 of these 500-word articles a day for $100 a day.
  
  it's one of the reasons I think both chatGPT & Kagi are better for "searching" stuff than Google. At least for certain things. I hate those SEO sites. I used to write for them when I was a teen in high school to make beer money. These days I'd imagine a lot of them are just gonna be written by AI going forward
  
  You know those sites. Kagi calls them listicles. "10 reasons why you should straighten your hair" "8 top things to keep in mind" etc etc
  
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- My kids still ask me stuff that they should be capable of searching for themselves.
  
  I mean, it’s nice to still be needed, but they’re mid-teens now and if search engines are too much effort then good luck surviving in the real world. 😂
  
  (Kids, if you’re reading this many years in the future, I do love you, I promise. 😘😄)
  
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Yes, japanese hair straightening techniques achieve this. I learned a lot about hair straightening from reading Curly Hair, Curly Girl reddits etc. Because they aim to avoid straight hair and instead train locks to maintain curls, they actually talk a lot about what will cause hair to remain straight.

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Hair grows from the root. You can get a relaxer that will permanently straighten the hair but the roots will grow in curly. It's pretty hard on your hair though, and generally speaking you still have to blow dry it straight to get it smooth.

(If you are talking about your own hair - learning to take care of it can make curly hair an absolute joy to have, and you can still get it blown straight on occasion. I find that the best approach.)

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Back in the day I would comb a perm solution through my hair. I’de continue to comb throughout the specified time and then rinse/condition per the box instructions. I recall being happy with the results. Not sure if they still sell at home perm kits, though.

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Your hir growslall the time. In order to permnently straighten your hair, u need any newly grown hair to also be straight . since yor hair type is contolled by DNA, you would need to alter DNA of your hair follicles. Its tecnicaly possilebuft would be extremely expensive

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Cosmetic gene therapy when?

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Varnish.

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