Hair Styling Device Imparting an Updo Hairstyle When Worn and a Different Curled or Straightened Hairstyle When Removed

Abstract

A hair styling device features a headband worn along a hairline of a user's head and spanning around a crown thereof, an ornamental appearance displayed on a front portion of the headband across the forehead along a front hairline, and a flexible hair roller at a rear portion of the headband to create an updo hairstyle at a rear hairline across the back of the user's head. The ornamental appearance of the front portion and the updo hairstyle cooperatively impart a stylistic effect around the crown of the user's head when worn, while a wound state of the hair around the rear portion imparts a styling action that leaves behind a different hairstyle effect when the headband is removed. The styling action may impart a straightening effect on naturally curly hair, or a curling effect on naturally straight hair.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 512,137, filed May 29, 2017, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to hair accessories and hair styling devices, and more particularly to a unique device wearable in social settings to maintain an updo hairstyle, while imparting a styling action on the hair to leave a different hairstyle result in the user's hair once the device is removed.BACKGROUND[0003]Hair extensions are commonly used to add a unique look to a person's natural hair that differs in design, volume and thickness.[0004]In addition, people with straight hair that want to change their hair's texture by forming curls or waves have conventionally relied on a curling iron, flat iron or other hot tool accessory, thereby imparting heat damage from such tools which essentially burn the hair into place...

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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a headband that can be worn to create a stylized hairstyle in the working position and can be easily removed to leave behind a different hairstyle for a different social setting. The headband has heated inserts that can be used to curl the user's hair, making the styling process easier and faster. The technical effects of this invention include improved hair styling efficiency and flexibility in creating different hairstyles for different social settings.

Problems solved by technology

In addition, people with straight hair that want to change their hair's texture by forming curls or waves have conventionally relied on a curling iron, flat iron or other hot tool accessory, thereby imparting heat damage from such tools which essentially burn the hair into place.

Prolonged exposure to hot tools causes hair to break off.

These hot tools are not recommended for daily use as the damage to the person's natural hair is too severe, causing breakage split ends discoloration and, at times, even melting.

Temperatures of hot tool devices can reach 450° F., and are most commonly set at 330-350° F. and up, which is literally destructive to natural human hair.

These hot temperatures, applied to skin, would be instantaneously destructive.

Other methods include changing straight hair into curls by the use of chemical perms, which cause damage by breaking the hair's bonds apart, and reforming the bonds into the shape of the curl.

Both curling methods cause excessive damage, and with exposure cause burnt hair, broken hair, melted hair, split ends and hair discoloration.

The chemical perm method is also limited, as the user must grow their hair out for several months, before undergoing another perm.

Hair already chemically damaged from the prior treatment is impossible to avoid when reapplying the next perm, which often leads to severed, broken hair.

While providing a useful alternative to curling irons and heated rollers whose high-heat metal-to-hair contact can be damaging, these headband products are, unsightly during use, and thus are used as “overnight” hairstyling appliances, whereby the appliance can be left in for a sufficiently long period to achieve the desired styling effect, without the user worrying about embarrassment of wearing the unsightly appliance outside the privacy of their home.

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