The Brazilian blowout treatment takes approximately 90 minutes and leaves your hair silky and frizz-free for 10–12 weeks. Because it doesn’t use any harsh chemicals, only a nutrient-rich polymer system that forms a protective, smoothing layer on each strand, it won’t damage your hair; in fact, the treatment improves the condition of follicles.
9/24
So, it took about 2 hours and 15 minutes. The first thing they do is wash your hair with a clarifying shampoo/conditioner. Then they put the treatment on your hair, much like getting color in that it’s sectioned off and then the each small section-by-section is brushed/covered with the stuff. Then it’s blown dry straight and gone over inch-by-inch with a flat iron. Then–and this is the bizarre part–it’s RINSED and then blown out again. I obviously believe that’s how it’s done but it just seemed SO counterintuitive to spend all that time blowing it dry and straightening it, only to get it wet and have to start over. I mean, it was GORGEOUS when she was done.
That said, it did take her a lot less time to dry/straighten it the second time (30 minutes) and it looked just almost exactly like it did after the probably 70 minutes she took the first time to blow it dry and use the iron.
So, we’ll see how it looks when I wash and style it…if it takes less time and/or if it looks as good. She said that she has it on her hair, and she washes it every day, and it lasts about 10-12 weeks. I told her I wash my hair maybe once a week (in the winter, when I straighten it most of the time) so she said it should definitely last longer. I am really looking forward to seeing if it works as well as it claims to…
Here are the pics I have so far. I will post more once I wash it and let it air dry.
BEFORE: FRONT (with only a smidge of non-frizz stuff in it)
BEFORE: BACK
AFTER (professionally styled):
9/29
Okay, here are the post-shower, air-dried results:
If you notice, it doesn’t really look at much different. It’s certainly not any straighter—but a Brazilian Blowout is NOT a straightener. That said, my hair is much, much softer than it was before. It no longer feels like straw, but rather a lot smoother. And it hasn’t seemed to “puff out” quite like it used to as it dried. Usually by this time in the day I would be going insane with it and it would be in a ponytail or behind my ears or something…but it isn’t.
Tomorrow I will either straighten it from its current condition (i.e. not washing again) or I will get it wet then blow it dry straight then iron it…I haven’t decided yet. 🙂
So, the jury is still out on whether this was worth $125 (plus tip) to me. I think tomorrow will be the REAL test, since the blowing dry/getting it straight is the biggest PITA.
9/30
OH. MY. GAWD.
I am in heaven. This was money VERY WELL spent.
Normally it takes me a minimum of 30-45 minutes and that includes straight-ironing time, and even then it still generally looks like crap when I’m done.
But today, after a mere EIGHT minutes of just general drying (pulling with a flat brush), it looked like this:
After a total of 25 minutes (8 minutes drying then ~17 minutes drying with a round brush—NO ironing!), I had this:
And here is the back–completely amazing to me, since I can NEVER even get it even remotely this straight.
I am a happy, happy girl. :up: