

Moreover, your relaxed hair is somewhat damaged so you cannot use one inch less than one-inch barrel. As your hair is already curly or kinky with short to the medium length you cannot use the bigger barrel for your natural hair. Bigger barrels mean bigger curls and vice-versa. The barrel size should be of 5/8 for natural hair and 1.5 inches for the relaxed mane.

Curling iron takes 2 to 5 seconds while your flat iron takes longer.Using flat iron you can curl your hair at ends but using the curling iron you can spirals from roots to ends, giving the flexibility of having shape and volume to curly hair.Unlike flat irons which have acute angles on plates, curling irons has bigger angles on barrels which are effective for your African-rooted hair while getting curled.To curl your Afro hair, why do you choose curling iron rather than flat iron for Afros?

You have got your relaxed hair using a relaxer or thermal reconditioning and sometimes you want a bit of wavy or curly look of your hair for a short time. This type of black hair is somewhat similar to 4b but more tightly coiled.
