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Back in November, I did a keratin hair treatment at home. This is my review of said treatment.
Keratin Hair Treatment
Keratin hair treatments are smoothing treatments designed to make hair less frizzy and easier to style. They add definition to curls and make straight hair flat and shiny.
Getting a keratin hair treatment done at a hair salon is very expensive. So I bought this one on Amazon for £26.99. I doubted it would make my hair super-straight, but thought it might loosen my curls a little. Really I was just curious to see how it worked.
Before you use the product, you have to use a clarifying shampoo which comes with it. It made my hair feel sticky and not nice. I brushed and combed my hair thoroughly afterwards because otherwise blow-drying my hair would have been impossible.
The next step was to blow-dry hair as straight as possible.
Blow-Drying Hair
I have never blow-dried my hair straight before myself. I’ve straightened it with hair straighteners, and had it blow-dried at the salon. But I’ve not done it myself before. I watched a few YouTube tutorials and thought, how hard can it be? I expected it to be ‘flat’ but frizzy.
This is how it turned out.
So, not exactly what I expected. But I figured that once I applied the keratin product straight after, it would flatten my hair back down.
Burning Eyes
I have dyed my hair many times.
I have bleached my hair several times.
I’m used to the strong smell, but it isn’t that harsh on the eyes. But this keratin hair treatment?
Oh my God. My eyes WERE FUCKING BURNING. I nearly screamed. It DOES say, ‘use in a well-ventilated room.’ That is exactly as vague as it sounds. Clearly, my bedroom is far from well-ventilated.
Perhaps the treatment wouldn’t have nearly burnt my eyes off if I hadn’t used all of it. This was my second rookie mistake. My hair isn’t super long. (It USED to be much longer, before I did a big chop in 2019.) But for its length, I should have only used half of what was in the little tub. It does say on the box, ‘3 treatments for short hair, 2 for medium hair, 1 for long hair.’ Oops.
Straight-ish
After blow-drying my hair as best as I could with the keratin hair treatment making it hard to tell if it was actually drying, I did the final step. Straightening my hair to seal the product in.
This is my hair straightened back in October, a month prior to the keratin hair treatment.
And this was my hair ‘straightened’ after the keratin hair treatment.
Sure, it looks cute. But it certainly wasn’t ‘flat’. It was straight but puffy, and made me look somewhere between Tina Turner and a 60s housewife. It also lightened the colour of my hair. (I do like the brown shade.)
Curls, Defined
Three days later I washed it out. As predicted, the keratin hair treatment did NOT make my hair straight. But my curls did look and feel softer, and slightly looser and more defined. It dried much faster which I enjoyed.
The keratin hair treatment is supposed to be followed-up with shampoo FREE of sodium chloride. I bought the ogx keratin hair shampoo and conditioner. It said sulphate-free on the bottle. Sadly, I didn’t read the fine print (we never do). The shampoo has sodium chloride in it, which mean it ISN’T sulphate free. Sulphates are salts, and I wasn’t great at Chemistry in school but I’m aware sodium chloride means salt.
I straightened my hair a few weeks after doing the keratin hair treatment, and it actually went straight. Felt super smooth too. It took me an hour and a half rather than two hours, but otherwise little difference.
I recently bought this hair straightening brush to neaten my hair while I have it straight without having to run the irons through it. It made my hair really smooth, would recommend!
In future, I wouldn’t do this again at home. Next time I’ll go to a salon so they can blow-dry my hair properly.
Have you ever done a keratin hair treatment? How did it go for you? Let me know below!
