Im a black guy wanting straight hair style!?

Dont get me wrong, im not a self hater, alot of black men use to conk (straighten) their hair in the past, but i want straight hair because i like how it looks,i have a 3/4 inch afro, what do i have to use to straighen it, and i want to use it something safe that dosent like make my hair fall out or somethin, and after that how do i keep it straight?








heres my hair now:


http://media.photobucket.com/image/afro%20hair/jiggidyjoe1/afro.jpg?o=6








and heres how i want it to look:


http://media.photobucket.com/image/afro%20hair/jiggidyjoe1/afro.jpg?o=6














please help me on this!!!Im a black guy wanting straight hair style!?
go to a salon and get your hair chemically relaxed or straightened.Im a black guy wanting straight hair style!?
You're talking about altering your hair texture, so there isn't a ';safe'; way to do it; your hair will incur some damage and relaxers will completely damage your hair.





Your second link is the same as the first. There are two ways you can get straight hair: chemically or thermally. Chemically is a relaxer and thermally (heat) is a flat iron or hot comb. Either way can cause major breakage and damage to your hair.
My little brother has the same ambitions lol.


*Try washing your hair and braiding it into 1/2 inch pieces. This de-tangles the hair, and makes it a little easier to straighten.


*Take a flat iron or hot comb (comb that you can let sit on top of a fire/stove), and slowly move from the root to the tip of the hair.


*Find a treatmeant product to maintain your hair 'do.





Getting a perm or relaxer would probably be easier, but maybe not as cheap.





Hope that helped!
you are okay that way..
They actually have something that is the reverse of a perm; instead of permanently curling your hair, it straightens it permanently (until it grows out, anyways). I *think* it's called a ';reverse perm'; but don't bet anything too valuable on that.





I'm guessing you don't want to spend an hour a day with a straightening iron, which would probably fry your hair anyways, so chemical treatments are pretty much the only option. You can't make your hair grow any straighter except by wearing it longer (which works on mildly wavy hair, but would most likely just give you a very big afro unless you chemically treat your hair first)





You might want to get it done at a salon, first, at least to know if it looks good if done properly. You can also get hair-care instructions for your newly straightened hair at the salon, rather than relying on sources like Yahoo Answers for that sort of thing; we're notoriously unreliable here.