Does straightening your hair damage it? I mean I have heard rumors that if you straighten your hair alot, it will go gray in the future and many moreSo tell me?
common myth: straighteners fry your hairyes, they can fry your hair if you use them incorrectly make sure when you straight, you do the following things: 1use the correct tempfor your hair typewarmer for more resistant hair, less warm for porous less resistant hair 2use a thermal protecting spray, and make sure it's a good onemany sprays out there actually cause more damagegood protectors are biosilk by farouk, hotsets by redkin, iron guard by chianother great product is anti-snap by redkinit really helps with damaged hair 3use a ceramic ironCHI is good, another good one is ISO, and yet another is called the fusionthese are all pricey, but totally worth itmany ceramic irons on the market are actually only 60-70% ceramic and 30-40% metal, making it just as damaging as a metal iron.
Wikipedia has a very thorough explaination of the process and materials used.