In the land of hair styling and in particular hair colouring, there’s a new product in town that everyone is talking about – Olaplex. According to the gabber, Olaplex, it seems, has managed to do what hair stylists have always dreamt about – repair hair. The word is that this is not just a temporary superficial repair of split ends that ends with your next wash – no, an actual, permanent repair of the bonds.
From the website ” this dream team invented a single ingredient chemistry, that is free of silicone or oils, that links broken bonds in the hair during and after chemical services making them stronger than they were before. “
Now why did I mention hair colouring? This product is mainly designed with the intention of being used during hair colouring processes, especially chemical bleaching. The idea is, that you can chemically bleach, re-bleach and re-bleach, as long as Olaplex is used within the bleaching process, there will be no damage to the hair.
After listening to about 4 different hair stylists glorify this product, I wanted to try it out but I don’t bleach my hair. I checked and found out that there’s also an in-salon stand-alone Olaplex treatment, designed to simply repair the hair. After all the hairstyling I had done over the last few months, my hair was looking rather damaged and unhappy – check out pic below – mega split ends. The top most pic is the end result after the treatment.
The standalone treatment is called a Reparative Treatment. First my hair was washed, then Olaplex Bond Multiplier was applied combed through, my hair was wrapped in clingfilm and it was left on for about 15 minutes. Next, the Olaplex Bond Perfector was applied and left on for another 10 minutes, then my hair was washed again. I was quite impressed by the difference in my hair texture after, my hair looked shinier, healthier and the split ends were gone. To finish off, here is the ‘after’ pic again.
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