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Limit the use of hair straighteners, curling irons, and hot combs.
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Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 10 July 2025
Over-Styling Over-styling hair with heated tools like curling irons, hot combs, and blow-dryers can cause hair damage, increasing the risk of breakage.
—Patty Weasler, Rn, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025
This could be the classic flat iron, a hot comb, or even a dryer/straightener combo.
—Kat Merck, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
The old rituals of Black hair care can elicit a sense of nostalgia for those of us who grew up with hot combs heated on the stove, our hair being drenched in raw caster oil and experiencing hair relaxers out of the box.
—L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Each image is adorned with personal objects, such as her grandmother’s hot comb and her mother’s photo.
—Akili King, Essence, 9 Sep. 2024
Limit the use of blow dryers, curling irons, flat irons, and hot combs.
—Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
Other types include hot combs, straightening brushes, and blow dryers.
—People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
Chemical perms and hot comb presses have long been (mis)understood as a form of assimilation — as a bowing to Eurocentric beauty standards.
—Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
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Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 10 July 2025
Over-Styling Over-styling hair with heated tools like curling irons, hot combs, and blow-dryers can cause hair damage, increasing the risk of breakage.
—Patty Weasler, Rn, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025
This could be the classic flat iron, a hot comb, or even a dryer/straightener combo.
—Kat Merck, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
The old rituals of Black hair care can elicit a sense of nostalgia for those of us who grew up with hot combs heated on the stove, our hair being drenched in raw caster oil and experiencing hair relaxers out of the box.
—L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Each image is adorned with personal objects, such as her grandmother’s hot comb and her mother’s photo.
—Akili King, Essence, 9 Sep. 2024
Limit the use of blow dryers, curling irons, flat irons, and hot combs.
—Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
Other types include hot combs, straightening brushes, and blow dryers.
—People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
Chemical perms and hot comb presses have long been (mis)understood as a form of assimilation — as a bowing to Eurocentric beauty standards.
—Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
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“Hot comb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20comb. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.
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