Ogx Brazilian Keratin
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3.9 out of 5 stars
600 ratings
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About this item No formaldehyde added For smooth, straight, shiny, healthy looking strands Easy to use, foolproof
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1.75 x 3.5 x 6 inches; 3.3 Ounces Item model number
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91603 UPC
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Vogue International ASIN
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3.9 out of 5 stars
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It looks like this product page displays numerous products but the same batch of reviews, so to be clear: this review is for the 30-day Brazilian Keratin smoothing treatment. So this entire thing was an interesting experience, and I think if I hadn't gotten the idea to use a long-lasting styling product (Gatsby Moving Rubber) on my hair during the final stages of finishing the treatment, I would probably be rating this much lower. A little information: I'm mixed-race with very difficult hair. Half Asian, quarter Caucasian, quarter African-American with some Native American scattered here and there, but my hair is about 80% African-American--the strands are flat, not round. It's thin, soft, fine, easily breakable, and tends to form very easily knotted ripples that don't style very well if I go natural. It's very dry, and frizzes like whoa. I usually keep it short; I'm a guy, and like to do the swept/emo haircuts. Previously I've been paying $300+ for a blowout treatment that lasts a few months, plus the cut, etc. I decided to give this a shot to see if I could maintain my own hair for a while, as I'm growing out a very multi-layered cut for a bit before I go in to have it professionally done with a new style. I abandoned relaxers years ago, as I don't like the way they damage my hair, and I don't like flat-ironing without a keratin treatment in to protect my hair and prevent frizzing and crunching. And it will frizz. And crunch. And turn into a big, crackly, cottony mess. Which is what happened at first with the 30-day smoothing treatment, and why at first I thought this product was not for me. My process: First off, be sure you wear gloves THE ENTIRE TIME YOU ARE HANDLING YOUR HAIR as long as you're doing the initial treatment. I only wore the gloves provided while applying the treatment, and took them off to blowdry and flat-iron, as the gloves didn't fit my fingers well (male, large hands) and I couldn't grip the blowdryer or flatiron properly. I ended up with minor chemical irritation on the palms and fingers of my hands. It faded in a day or so, but it wasn't pleasant. I'd recommend using more flexible surgical gloves--latex or allergy-free plastic--if you have trouble with the pre-shaped, non-flexible gloves in the box. Also, be prepared to wash your hands a lot during the 48 hour setting period, as just tucking your hair aside will leave your fingers greasy with this stuff, and you don't want to touch food and accidentally ingest it, or touch your eyes. Also, as others have mentioned, the smell starts off not too bad, but ends up getting overwhelming. I ended up doing the majority of the application, blow-drying, and flat-ironing in the living room of my apartment, as the windows in my bathroom don't open and I didn't trust just the bathroom fan. Even with the ceiling fan on and all four living room windows open, the smell still made me dizzy sometimes. So please, please follow the instructions about using it in a well-ventilated area. Now, as for actually applying the treatment: my package didn't come with the clarifying shampoo packet it was supposed to have (another reason I knocked off a star rating), but I already had the sulfate-free Brazilian Blowout shampoo from using it to maintain my salon treatments. So I washed my hair, toweled it about half-dry, then let it air-dry without putting any product in. Sprigs of waves and half-hearted spiral curls sticking up everywhere. Once that was done I pulled my hair up in a butterfly clip on top of my head, and started pulling down small two-inch segments using a fine-toothed comb. I used my fingers to apply a gob of the stuff at the base of the section, then smoothed it down to the tip before combing through and starting on the next section. I worked in concentric circles, starting at the edges and working up toward the crown of my head. I didn't start the thirty-minute timer until I'd done the last part. Just in case, I poured a small dollop on my palm, spread it between my fingers, then ran them through my hair to make sure it was fully coated from root to tip. I have frizzy ends, so I made sure those got a nice coating. Overall, it took me about a third of the bottle. My hair, when 100% bone-straight, is a little longer than shoulder-length, and there's a lot of it despite the strands being baby-fine. So that may help you estimate how much you'll need. I felt a little iffy about leaving it in for 48 hours, but I went ahead and blow-dried it, using a stiff boar-bristle brush to brush it straight as I did. I also used the branded anti-breakage serum that goes with this whole line of products, to help protect my hair from the heat. And this was where I started to panic; I've used this method to get my hair smooth before, when washing my hair after salon keratin treatments. Normally when I do it after a salon treatment the result is a little dry, but fairly smooth and straight, and I only need to use the flatiron to smooth it out a bit more. This time what I got was a brittle, crunchy cloud standing straight out everywhere. It was dry as straw, and had some of the same texture, too. It looked like Einstein stuck his finger in an electrical outlet; from a distance it looked relatively straight--if dry and lusterless--but it wouldn't lay down and running my fingers through it, I could feel all these tiny little crinkles and kinks like bent twigs. But I pushed on to the flat-iron stage, once more clipping it up in a butterfly clip and starting to pull down small segments to comb through and flat-iron, using the same concentric circle method as applying the treatment. And lo and behold, suddenly my hair was glossy-smooth. It took about two passes with the flat-iron to get it smooth, but I did the recommended 7-10 to seal it in. I could have gone bone-straight, but when my hair is this long what I do is use a sort of spiral twist method with the flat-iron, wrapping the hair around the flat-iron as if it's a curling iron, using a loose spiral. I let it slide through gently as I pull it free and twist my hand slightly as I pull it, so instead of getting a spiral curl I get locks that just look like they naturally tumble, mostly straight but a bit bedheaded and windswept. It also gives it more volume, body, and lift, as when you have fine hair you can look like you have thinning hair if you let it get too flat. I guess I try for that "male supermodel on the beach" look. I think my head's shaped wrong for it, but I do try. ;) Now here's where things got problematic again. I noticed the straightness didn't have a permanent feel to it; anyone who's dealt with similar hair types in high humidity knows what I mean. You know the second you touch your hair that in an hour or less it's going to start poofing and frizzing. Mine started getting a little cloudy and cottony before I even finished flat-ironing; by the time I was done with the hair at the crown of my head, the nape and edges were starting to float a bit. So I ran the flat-iron over those sections again and smoothed it all together to iron in bigger chunks so my hair would be even all over, then tied it back with a do-rag so it would stay loose enough for the treatment to set but would keep it out of my face and off my ears, as I didn't want to get the treatment rubbed into my skin. By then my hands were already irritated, and I didn't want to make it worse anywhere else. Cue two days of sheer hell. Two days that were, of course, more humid than any day in the past few months, making it worse. Two days in which I had to go out and meet people I'd never met before, making a horrible impression with my greasy and increasingly fluffy hair. My hair didn't stay straight; it kind of bunched up in these cloudy poofs that still had nice texture, I guess, but didn't look very nice. The smell was difficult to sleep with the first night, but faded over 48 hours. And the residue was awful. If I tucked back a stray strand, if I patted the poof into place, if I did anything I had to wash my hands, and started carrying antibacterial wipes with me for times when I wouldn't have access to soap and water. Every day I tried to re-flatiron it to get it to stay down. It lasted maybe an hour. At this point, I was thinking there was no bloody way this would work, but at least I'd only wasted $15, and maybe it would at least make my hair easier to comb even if it wasn't straight. But I was finally able to wash it out (thank god). I used the same shampoo as before, the anti-frizz branded stuff from the Brazilian Blowout line, and the same brand conditioner. I let the conditioner set for about half an hour for a good deep condition before washing it out. Blowdry time. Moment of truth. Same results as before. Still crunchy, brittle, scary as hell. But I held out hope, went through the brush and blowdry, and hoped that again the results would come out when flatironing, and would stick this time. Same process as before, no product except the anti-breakage serum. And once again, flatironing gave me glossy straight hair. But once again, it didn't feel like it was sticking; it was floaty and wouldn't lay quite normally, or hold a style, though it was generally straight and soft. The ends were a mess that wouldn't come together right. I was about a quarter done with the flatironing when I decided to whip out one of my styling products. I use Gatsby Moving Rubber; depending on the type you use you can get a really stiff hold, or you can get a lot of mobility while still having a bit of a chunky look to it. I used the Loose Shuffle type (orange tin), which I don't think is available on Amazon at the time of this review, though that's where I initially bought it. I started over from scratch on flat-ironing my hair; for each segment I ran the flat-iron through a few times to get it smooth and straight, then used a tiny pinch of Moving Rubber (just a thin skim between thumb and forefinger is enough). I smoothed it from root to tip, then ran the flatiron a few more times to seal it, and suddenly my hair was laying the way I wanted it to, and holding the straightness and the style. I think without pairing this with the styling product to make it hold, I'd have gotten nothing but cloudy poof again that I could straighten daily, but I'd be heat-damaging my hair after a certain point, and for only about an hour's worth of straightness that couldn't really be styled. So this product does kind of work, but not as your sole straightening treatment with no other products needed. I think it's still good because if you follow the instructions and do everything right, it'll still get you to the point where you can actually style and manage your hair, instead of being stuck with a mess that nothing seems to help. If your hair type is like mine and you have trouble getting this product to really hold for you, pair it with a long-lasting styling product like Moving Rubber. The Moving Rubber will last about a week if you do it right, and if you like the bedheaded, kind of chunky-messy look, it's perfect--though I'd recommend going with whatever styling product works best for you. I've found the Brazilian Blowout sculpting products are pretty nice, but they've worked best for me when my hair was short and I liked to spike it, so depending on your hairstyle and preferences you'll want to go with the styling product that fits your needs. If you have naturally dry hair like mine you probably only wash your hair the recommended once a week anyway, so if you take a couple of hours on the weekend to wash, brush-blowdry, and flatiron with your styling product, the keratin treatment should last the promised thirty days...and you'll have the added benefit of being able to wake up, run your fingers through your hair, and pretty much be done with styling for a week at a time.
I've used this product twice in the last six months and it works great. It leaves my hair smooth and soft and even though it's not super straight after I wash, blow drying and straightening usually took me about an hour, now it doesn't take more than twenty minutes and last until I wash it again. I'm Puerto Rican with mixed hair, it is naturally very curly and kinky, if I don't straighten after I wash it it ends up looking like Bozo the Clown's crazy afro but with this product the curls are loose and soft after I wash and I could wear it like that if I wasn't so used to it being straight. Even on days with high humidity, which there have been tons of this summer, my hair looks great. I know I'm gushing but I've always been self-conscious about my hair and this product makes the worry of the evil frizz go away. I've seen some bad reviews for this product and I can't explain it, like I mentioned I've used it twice and had no problem, it's worked both times and I've had no side effects. I don't know if that's because I don't have tons of treatments on my hair, only relaxers at the salon every four months. I haven't had a relaxer in almost eight months and I probably won't again now that I've found this product, the relaxers were very harsh and I almost always ended up with scabs on my scalp. I'm not only avoiding the hassle and pain of a salon relaxer but saving on money too. This product is cheap for all it does and 48 hours of not going out is well worth the results. I also noticed that even though this product says 30 days, the effects lingered for at least at 3 months. I don't know if that's because I use less products on my hair now, so I don't need to wash it as often and that makes it last longer or what but I'm glad. I had a professional Keratin treatment done for my daughter, who luckily did not inherit my kinky hair and even though it looked great at first it didn't last more than a month and cost $350.00. I wasn't about to risk losing that amount again at another salon so when I saw this product at a Walgreens I figured why not. My daughter, already disappointed by one procedure lost interest and instead of returning it I decided to use it on myself and what a great idea that turned out to be, lol. I am not lying when I say this product worked better and lasted longer than my daughter's expensive treatment. I noticed some people complained about their hair being waxy or like glue after blow drying. That, I realized, is over saturation. The first time I used it I put it on like it was conditioner, I figure the more I use the better it works but that's not the case it will be harder to dry and straighten it. The second time I also put in on like it was conditioner but after the 30 minutes I ran a fine tooth comb over my hair and wiped any residue that came off on a towel. I know waste of product but I wanted to make sure it was thoroughly saturated. I blow dried, didn't bother to straighten it with a round brush like it recommends just dried it and then straightened it thoroughly with my CHI flat iron which doesn't have a heat setting but is the only one I've got. I straightened it super flat even flatter than I would normally wear it, running the same fine tooth comb in front of the flat iron to get every kink and curl, have a couple of fine toothed combs handy, they will gunk up but if you soak them it will come right off. I will admit that the fumes that come off smell sweet but if you breathe it in, it burns so please be careful. I noticed that there were much less fumes the second time I used this product than the first time and my hair did not feel as waxy, so removing some of the over saturation definitely worked but I started to worry that I wouldn't get the same results as the first time but there was nothing left to do but see it through now. I straightened eac section 7-10 times like it recommends times and continued to straighten for the next two days very thoroughly especially after waking up in the morning. I wasn't very impressed with the Organix sulfate free shampoo & conditioner so I had begun using the Loreal brand and that's what I used to wash it off though I did have it on for an extra day due to work. It looked great, exactly like the first time. So all and all I am very pleased with this product and will continue to use it every couple of months. I haven't been able to find it at Walgreens where I first purchased it but found it here on Amazon for even cheaper so that's even better. Thanks for reading and good luck.
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