Ok, well, it’s been about one month since I got the Brazilian Keratin hair smoothing treatment done, and I’m not so sure I’m impressed with it’s ability to moisturize the hair and keep frizz away in the summer heat. I notice that my hair still has tons of little flyaways at the top which look like frizz, and it’s not the healthiest feeling hair. I do notice that it seems softer in the shower when I’m washing it, but when I blow it dry, although it is straighter, I must say, it still sometimes feels like straw and looks like it too. I guess I expected this treatment to have similar effects to thermal reconditioning aka japanese straightening and so far it hasn’t really compared to that.

The only thing that I like better than the thermal reconditioning is the fact that my hair will still have wave and curl to it if I want it to, without as much frizz, but I still have to use a ton of product to not get my hair to expand and kink up in the humidity, which isn’t what I was expecting only a month after paying $350 for a treatment. I understand that it doesn’t last more than a few months, but I guess I was just expecting something a little more impressive out of it for the money I paid.

I will say that the Brazilian Keratin treatment has done the following for my hair : It has softened the texture of my hair and made it more relaxed. It may have reduced some of the frizz, but I still notice that it poofs up in the humidity.

Let me also confess though that on the first night of the treatment, when you are not supposed to sweat, get it wet, or mess with it in any way, I actually sweated a lot in my sleep that night. So much so that I woke up and the nape of my neck was a little moist. Could that have ruined the treatment? I suppose it’s possible, which is why I might give this treatment another shot with the air conditioning on at night next summer. My goal for this treatment was to have maintenance free hair for this summer since my hair becomes unruly in the summer, but so far it really hasn’t worked out ideally.

Another drawback is that I hate the shampoo you have to use for this treatment. I’m using one called Phytenbella which costs $35 for a large salon size bottle, and it seems like it just dries my hair out and doesn’t really clean my scalp. I do wonder if that’s part of the reason my hair isn’t behaving, so I did go out and buy L’Oreal’s Sulfate free moisturizing shampoo, and my hair does seem to look better when I use that. The shampoo you use when you have a Brazilian Keratin treatment can’t have any salts in it, because salt is what takes the treatment out.

More to come on the L’Oreal stuff, which I actually love and will continue to use after this treatment comes out all together.