BRAZILIAN BLOWOUT: before and after
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ITA - I'll fly to another country to get it if they stop doing it here in the states LOL...it has really changed my life that much! I'm at week 8 and just starting to notice it fading...still frizz free though!
You also have to be really careful that you are getting the right thing. I went to one place in Lincoln Park and it didn't last AT ALL. These treatments don't usually last very long for me. My hair is very thick and coarse.
Hi guys, i know this BB. Is getting so popular & i dont want to alarm everyone here, but just now, FOX 5 news just mentioned that studies found Brazilian Blowout has high dosage of some dangerous chemical (i don't remember the name but was mentioned) that cause cancer. You can probably see the whole topic @ there website. This is freaking me out, as i was thinking of trying it.
^^^Interesting read, but, I'd say the author is a little over dramatic. I didn't experience any coughing, needing eye goggles, or any side effects other than really pretty, frizz free hair.
My stylist is going to a training soon on the new version of BB, which is supposed to be free of any carcinogens and risk to stylists. (there really was not a risk to the customer)
My stylist is going to a training soon on the new version of BB, which is supposed to be free of any carcinogens and risk to stylists. (there really was not a risk to the customer)
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
The only reason I posted this is that I JUST finished reading this book, and remembered that the whole reason the authors started the research process was because of a BB.
If you've ever read "Skinny *****", it's much like that- only for the personal care/cosmetic industry. The authors have provided footnotes and sources for all of their research and everything is well documented. So I'd say that the things presented in the book are more than opinion, if YKWIM.
I'm not saying that by reading this, everyone should discontinue BB's or throw out all their cosmetics. We're by and large all adults and can make our own decisions based on information that we are presented with. Education is key, though, in my mind.
Not trying to stir the pot
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Yep me too! I've got an appt in 10 days...going to be a loooong ten days lol! Mine lasted 14 weeks though
Very interesting. I never tried BB, but I tried another techique that was widely advertised by L'Oreal, and lost half my hair, not immeadiatelly but in a course of a few weeks after the treatment. Not only it didn't work, my hair was as curly/frizzy etc as ever, it made them even more coarse, and I was really sad about the hair loss. I had to chop them in a bob and had them in a pony tail for almost a year to hide the bald spots.
So having this bad experince from hair straightening treatments, I will never ever try any kind of chemical treatment again, no matter how good it looks on others. I try to make amends with my Mediterranean hair, I try to style them in ways that suit my lifestyle so I will not be scared of rain, pools, the sea etc. If I want tame hair I make an extra effort and blow dry them briefly and then setting them with big velcro curlers. It takes a bit of a time but the result is shiny bouncy healthy hair. Plus who knows what are the long term health issues repeated treatments can cause. I suppose some of the women that try this treatment want to have healthy babies someday, why would they poison their body with chemicals like that?
The good thing is that more salons are doing them and now the price is coming down a bit. I found a place that I know for a fact is using the right stuff because I researched it and they charge $200 instead of the $300 I used to pay at my regular salon.