Thanks ladies for the compliments...You're awesome.
Some tidbits for you ladies:
The gentleman who did my hair has been cutting hair for 30 years. And while he was conditioning my hair, he told me that one thing he's learned is that you don't need a lot of product to properly condition your hair. Hair can only absorb so much product. He then goes up to say that too much product makes the hair harder to straighten and the hair won't have as much body. I guess he was right because he did not use a crazy amount of heat. The room was not smoky like it used to be when I was little and had my hair hard pressed with grease.
It's been 5 days since I got my hair pressed and it's still as straight as it wants to be. I have not hot curled it or anything. All I've done is tied it up at night and sprayed it every other day with Motions Herbal Oil Sheen. But if this press can last a month like it did for my mother then I will be very surprised!!