"Whatever type of hair you're born with, you want the opposite!" Rachael jokes, as Kyan Douglas comes by to show four viewers some of the latest techniques for turning unruly curls into straight, shiny locks!

Blow dry and flat iron. "It's relatively harmless to the hair, if you put in a little bit of serum or a little bit of thermal protectant," Kyan explains. "It's completely safe, that's what I love about it. The drawback is that once you get your hair wet, it goes right back to it's natural texture, or if it's humid outside sometimes you get fly away [hairs] and frizz."

Japanese Straightening. "This is a traditional, chemical straightener, but basically on steroids. It's very strong, it's permanent ... Literally, you're straightening from the inside out. So the great part about it is it's completely permanent," he says. "Once the roots grow out, you have curly roots and then very straight hair, so if you want to go back to curly hair you either have to cut out the straight hair or you just have to maintain it by constantly getting your re-growth done - just like you would if you were coloring your hair." Cost: roughly $400-$600.

Keratin treatment. "It's not technically straightening, it's called a smoothing treatment or a de-frizzing treatment," he says. "What this process does is replaces the keratin in your hair but then it also laminates the exterior of your hair shaft with keratin, and that process of laminating it really causes the hair to be smooth and a little bit straighter." It lasts about two months, Kyan says, depending on how frequently you wash your hair. "The great thing about it though is once it's dissipating it dissipates completely evenly throughout the hair, so you can get out of it very gracefully. And the other thing is, because it's not a chemical straightener it leaves a good amount of body in the hair ... it won't be pin strait." He does note one drawback: "You have three days of downtime. So you go to the salon you have this process done, they flat iron, they put the chemical on it, then you have to wait for three days before you wash your hair." Cost: $250 to $550.

Brazilian. This is also a keratin treatment, but once it's completed you can wash your hair right away. "Now the controversy comes in. Why do you have to leave one on for three days and this is good to go immediately?," Kyan asks. "Apparently their might be more formaldehyde in this treatment, which bonds the keratin to the hair, so it makes it go faster. We don't know that for sure, the FDA is sort of looking into it and we're just really not sure how dangerous this is." Cost: roughly $300.

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