When hair condition is poor, then treatment offered by either regular drugstore products or homemade cosmetics won’t do much. In this case, it’s better to give a go to popular professional in-salon hair treatments such as hair steaming, infrared light hair treatment, hair botox, keratin hair straightening and Joico K-Pak hair repair system. How do all these hair treatments look like and which one are worth spending money on?
What Is Hair Steaming?
As the name speaks for itself, hair steaming procedure depends on taking advantage of steam. The procedure begins with washing hair and covering it with either a special mask or a nourishing ampule – depending on the hair needs. After that, the client sits down and places their head under an appliance’s hood, which in fact resembles a regular standing hair dryer. However, this device produces steam that has 40 degrees Celsius. Both warmth and humidity enable hair cuticle to rise. This in turn helps all the nourishing substances to penetrate deep in order to reach and affect all hair structures. Moreover, hair steaming displays bacteriogenic properties, cleanses hair and increases blood flow in scalp.
The last stage depends on rinsing hair using cool water in order to help the cuticles close. The entire procedure lasts approximately 40 minutes, a half of which must be spent sitting under the appliance producing steam. After the procedure, hair becomes smooth and shiny due to the mask that penetrates the hair to moisturise and strengthen it. Additionally, hair streaming is recognized for accelerating hair growth. In the case of extremely damaged strands, hair steaming treatment shall be undergone 4-5 times carried out weekly.
What Is Keratin Hair Straightening (Keratin Treatment)?
Keratin hair straightening offers a perfect and speedy solution to all people whose hair is frizzy and damaged that is really hard to tame using regular hair styling products. Keratin hair straightening can be carried out on dyed and bleached hair. The effect of this treatment is smoothed hair, which doesn’t mean that only those whose hair is naturally curly can benefit from this procedure. The truth is, keratin treatment is recommended to everyone who dreams to have flawlessly straight hair. Still, the most often this beauty treatment is performed on people who are tired of their unmanageable hair.
It’s worth mentioning that keratine is a protein naturally constituing hair and nails. During the procedure, a substance with high keratin content is applied to hair. Then, hair is flat ironed (220-230 degrees Celsius). The warmth makes the hair cuticle rise which enables keratine to enter inner hair structures easier and fix them for a really long period of time.
Right after the treatment hair is straight, smooth, shiny and most importantly strengthened in a natural way. It becomes easy to style and is frizz-resistant. Keratin preparation doesn’t weigh hair down and the effects last from 3 to 5 months. Last but not least, the most stunning effects are noticed on thin hair.
What Is Joico K-Pak Hair Repair System?
Joico K-Pak hair repair system depends on cleansing hair structure and reinforcing it due to a few preparations applied in the proper sequence. The treatment is divided into the following stages:
- 1st stage is cleansing. In short, during this stage, hair is washed with a deeply cleaning shampoo.
- 2nd stage is smoothing out hair cuticles (reducing hair porosity). It depends on spreading a special conditioner that restores the right pH to scalp and smooths out hair structure. The conditioner must be left on hair for a few minutes to rinse it afterwards.
- 3rd stage is reconstruction. It requires applying a preparation enriched with 19 amino acids which task is to rebuild and strengthen hair.
- 4th stage is moisturisation. It depends on applying a moisturising conditioner that smooths out, leaves hair glossy and closes hair cuticles. The composition of preparations and conditioners used for the procedure are made from natural moisturising substances such as aloe, guava, jojoba oil and shea butter.
Joico K-Pak hair repair system lasts 30-40 minutes, however, in the case of very damaged hair, each stage might be repeated even a few times so as to obtain the most satisfying effects. The treatment’s aim is to improve hair condition, especially to deal with split ends. It’s worth exposing hair to this treatment prior to scheduled hair colouring or perm because thanks to Joico K-Pak the further stages of hair styling won’t have such a negative impact on strands. Also, the new colour will be more intensive and stays true longer. To sum up, Joico K-Pak hair repair system equals soft, smooth and shiny hair.
What Is Infrared Light Hair Straightening?
Infrared light hair treatment depends on using a straightener that emits infrared light and ultrasounds. This procedure begins with hair washing and treating each strand with a special preparation. Then, the preparation is inserted into hair structures due to an infrared hair styling tool. Infrared light warms the inner structures of hair, without affecting the external hair layer. Thanks to this, hair dehydration is prevented.
Infration’s aim is to stimulate creation of new amino acid bonds in hair structures and facilitate the preparation absorption. As mentioned above, this infrared hair styling tool emits ultrasounds that transform water and nourishing substances molecules into gas which makes them penetrate hair even more effectively.
Infrared light hair treatment lasts approximately 40 minutes. At the end, hair becomes visibly moisturised and smoothed out. This treatment is found useful in prolonging the lifespan of hair colouring. What’s important, the procedure shouldn’t be carried out more often than 3 times a week because the preparations constituents might weigh hair down.
What Is Hair Botox Treatment?
Botox for hair depends on opening hair cuticles through washing it with a special cleansing shampoo and treating strands with a serum. The treatment’s name is owed to the serum application method – an syringe is needed to spread the product evenly on hair. When it comes to the composition of the serum, it doesn’t have anything in common with botox. In short, the serum is composed of molecules creating amino acid bonds inside hair and connecting them with keratin.
During the last stage hair is treated with a mask that closes hair cuticles. Hair botox treatment lasts approximately 40 minutes. The effects it produces have the form of significant improvement in hair structure as well as straightened and smoothed hair. The results last for a few weeks.
