When it comes to hair, I've pretty much done it all. I've permed it, straightened it, colored it, highlighted it, teased it, curled it, braided it, and styled it in just about every way imaginable (except I've never gone for real short). So it's not shocking that I decided to do one of the latest fads in hair care - the Brazilian Keratin hair treatment.
What is the Brazilian Keratin treatment, you ask? Well, It is a smoothing and straightening process that you can get to help your hair be virtually maintenance free and frizz free. It's great for those with hair that tends to be frizzy and responds to humidity poorly, such as mine, and it also gives a lot of added shine to your hair, so it makes it look a lot healthier.
This medicine lasts everywhere from 3-5 months, depending on how often you shampoo your hair, since wee by wee the medicine does come out of the hair naturally, so if you are a person who doesn't shampoo very often, you may be in luck. The cost for this procedure, which takes about two to two and a half hours usually, depending on the distance of your hair, runs an midpoint of about 0 per hour.
This means your total bill will fall in the middle of 0 and 0 for the process, and you will also need to buy a special shampoo for it that regularly runs about for a large bottle, so when it's all said and done, with the tip and shampoo, you're probably looking at an practically 0 bill, give or take a little. My bill happened to be about 5, and I have long hair. The process took 2½ hours for me, and it wasn't bad at all.
I've had the thermal reconditioning done before too (also known as Japanese straightening), and that process took about five hours all together and cost a wee more. It also is supposed to last longer though, and your hair is so poker right that it may not be in everyone's taste because it lacks body for a while.
It also has a pretty determined smell while the process, while the Brazilian Keratin medicine I had, which was the Coppola brand (there are several on the market) did not smell at all while the process. I did consideration a dull smell for the three days following the treatment, but it wasn't that bad.
Let's talk about the process and my sense now, and ultimately my recap of what I think about it. I got to the salon at 3:30. The technician talked to me about what to expect, looked at my hair so she could gauge my hair's condition and it's texture, and told me that I would love my hair when she was done with it. She took me back to a shampoo chair where she washed my hair with an very clarifying shampoo, to make it more porous so the stock can get into the hair more deeply.
When my hair was squeaky clean (literally squeaky, I conception what a horror it would be if I had to blow it dry right then and there, I'm sure it would look like a giant bale of hay on my head), she took me back to the styling chair where she blew it dry thoroughly. She went and mixed up the Brazilian concoction and came back, pinning my hair in sections and painting on the blend with a brush until it was completely saturated.
She then set a timer for twenty minutes, and I sat there and read a magazine (and practically fell asleep I might add). She came back after the twenty minutes was up and took me back to the shampoo chair, where she rinsed the stock out. I'm not sure if there was any neutralizer or any other type of clarification added to my hair at that time, I was too relaxed to consideration much of anything since getting my hair done all the time makes me a zombie.
I noticed that I did not smell any strong chemicals while this whole time, which was refreshing to me after I've had so many treatments, the Japanese straightening, cold smoothing, and hair coloring, that has smelled very strongly. It did not make my scalp burn or itch at all either. I'm not sure if that's just because of the brand they used or what, but that gave me a good feeling about the security or it. Now, we were down to the wire.
I was going to see the results of this miraculous medicine finally! She blew my hair out again, then separated it into sections and began to flat iron them one by one, from root to tip. She warned me that my hair would seem very flat over the next three days, practically like it was plastered to my head, but I was already used to that because the same thing had happened with the thermal reconditioning.
She also advised that it was very leading that I not get my hair wet or wash it for the next 72 hours, which is three days. I also was not allowed to sweat, so there would be no working out or heavy cardio for the next three days either. I was advised against putting any kind of hair tie or clips in my hair, and not even tucking my hair behind my ears, since the hair shape would be very moldable while the stock took hold over the next join of days.
When she was done flat ironing, I couldn't believe how shiny my hair looked. Plus it was right - for real straight! practically too straight, but I knew that this was not going to be exactly how right it would look all the time. The hair itself looked great, but I admit I had a hard time looking myself with for real zero body to my hair. The next three days were torture. As it happened, it rained for three days straight, much to my chagrin.
But I made sure I had my handy umbrella with me at all times and I used it quite a bit while those three days! The hardest part was not getting any moisture on it, as you don't realize how hard it is to do that when you're around water. You still have to shower, so I wore a shower cap and just hoped that it would keep every drop of water out. It worked pretty well except I know a few wee droplets got on there when I took it off my head.
My hair for real looked good when I left the salon, however, the flatness was for real hard for me to deal with. And it looked a bit duller and even flatter the next day. However, I knew that as soon as I washed it, it would look much better. So, the third day ultimately came, and I washed my hair with my special sodium laurel sulfate free shampoo. By the way, sodium is what takes the stock out of the hair faster, so you cannot use any products with sodium based ingredients in them either.
I blew it dry. Wow, it did look pretty amazing. It was not totally poker right like when I got the thermal reconditioning done, but it was shiny, no frizz, and it had a for real wholesome look to it and felt silky smooth to the touch. I'd have to say I like the outcome best than the thermal reconditioning, just because I can still have a tiny bit of wave to it with this. I wish it lasted as long, but hey, you can't have everything I suppose!
So that's my recap of the Brazilian Keratin hair treatment. I would recommend it to anything who wants hair that is more manageable with less maintenance, and anything who wants to tame frizz and eliminate some of the curl from the hair, especially while the treacherous summer months we have here in Ohio where humidity reaches ridiculous levels.
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