BRAZILIAN BLOWOUT: before and after

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#736
here's my pics! this took 3 hours today and $480 bucks after tip and buying the BB products. it was def the brand brazillion blowout i got. i'm in love so far!

Before just blow dried with a flat brush:

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After:

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this is obviously right after leaving the salon but all she did was blow dry it and BAM it looks like that!? i'm so happy with my hair right now. i am hoping to get 4-5 months out of this since i bought the shampoo and conditioner.
 
#738
lily25 said:
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?:shrugs:
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See, what happened to your hair is why I keep hesitating (and probably will forever). I'm not willing to suffer through that. I've been thinking about finding a salon who has someone who's really good at styling naturally thick, wavy hair who can just show me how to make the best of what I was born with. (I've been blowdrying and straightening for about 15 years now, so I don't know how to make what I naturally have look decent. Since I live in a hot, humid place with summer coming, though, I think it's time to figure it out. Can't fight nature.)
 
#739
^ My advice is to avoid hairdressers who love layering the hair, they make thick wavy hair look at their worse when left to dry naturally, and leaving you with the only choice of straightening it all the time. Try to find a long (longer than below chin length at least) style with not too much layering. And also find products to help with the frizzing, several oils work well, my favorite is Monoi from Klorane, really depends what is available on your area and what works for your hair.
 
#744
Ugh. This is not good news. I was actually looking forward to it since I wanted my hair to stay wavy/have body, but with no frizz. I didn't want straight hair at all--as I found the Brazillian Blowout did make my hair straight-ish. But if this doesn't even take the frizz away, that sucks.
 
#746
Victoria2 said:
The salon I go to offers it, but my stylist said it really only works for fine hair. I've had no problems with the "original" and have very thick coarse hair, so don't plan to try it.
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Also I'm loving my hair after my 2nd BB. My hair dries just a bit wavy. Woo hoo!
 
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#747
UPDATE:

http://nomoredirtylooks.com/ Breaking: Federal Government Issues Brazilian Blowout and Hair Straightening Warning

Posted by Us on April 12, 2011



If this news is any indication, salons may soon require hazmat suits for its workers… That’s hyperbole, of course, but:
The Department of Labor has issued an official immediate safety warning about formaldehyde-containing hair-smoothing products like the Brazilian Blowout. This is big news—HUGE*—and speaks to how much things really are (slowly) changing when it comes to the wild west of chemicals used in cosmetics and cosmetic procedures.
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Federal OSHA is recommending that salons that carry out the procedure follow the following guidelines:

  • Give workers respirators
  • Give employees appropriate gloves and other personal protective equipment (e.g., face shield, chemical splash goggles, chemical-resistant aprons)
  • Post signs at entryways to any area where formaldehyde is above OSHA’s limit**
  • Tell workers about the health effects of formaldehyde
Writing:
Recent reports from Oregon OSHA, California OSHA, and now Federal OSHA should alert salon owners and stylists to look closely at the hair smoothing products they are using to see if they contain methylene glycol, formalin, methylene oxide, paraform, formic aldehyde, methanal, oxomethane, oxymethylene, or CAS Number 50-00-0. All of these are names for or treated as formaldehyde under OSHA’s Formaldehyde standard. Products containing them can expose workers to formaldehyde; employers who manufacture, import, distribute, or use the products must follow OSHA’s formaldehyde standard.
The Environmental Working Group also has a new report out called Flat Out Risky that is loaded with information we haven’t had a chance to sift through yet (we just wanted to get this information out to you!).
Also, note that the hazard warning cites new lab reports in which “formaldehyde-free” products proved to contain formaldehyde after all. So in case you were still wondering about whether or not you should do it, and whether or not that “greener” Brazilian blowout really is, consider this your answer!
*Big kisses to anyone who gets that reference.
** OSHA’s limit is 0.75 parts of formaldehyde per million parts (or ppm) of air during an 8-hour work shift or 2 ppm during any 15-minute period.
 
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