Xcellerate 35 Next, the steps must be properly followed. Let us start from the first one. After washing your hair and toweling it dry, start blow drying the hair. In order not damage the hair, straightening spray must be applied to your hair. While brushing the hair, let the straightener be heating up and to make it easy, make a layer of hair of about an inch using clips to hold it up. When straightening, you must start from close to the head and through to the tips of the hair. When you've finished that particular layer, then it's time to move to the next layer by undoing the next clip. Just continue doing the straightening to all the layers of the hair until it is all done.