This question gets asked alot and the other day I was asked this question again, so I felt it was just appropriate to respond with a blog post. The question was “What makes a flat iron a good one”.
I can see how this question would come up so much, especially with the amount of hair [...]

If you haven’t been cleaning your flat iron then now is the time to start doing so. Keeping your iron free from buildup will help prevent damage to the iron and to you! Product build up on the flat iron will cause your hair to smell like burnt product and will pull and snag on [...]

When using a blow dryer, curling iron or flat iron; you are exposing your hair to a heat source that is damaging to your hair.
Straightening your hair is probably one of the more harsh methods of heat exposure since generally you blowdry your hair first, followed by exposing your hair to the secondary direct heat [...]