Intense treatment for badly damaged tresses
Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
LIFE is too short to have a boring hair. In the words of American singer Jill Scott, “Hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It’s an accessory.”
Women experiment on their hair to express a fashion statement --
think of Katy Perry and her rainbow hair color and Miley Cyrus and her
undercut. Often brokenhearted women target their crowning glory.
Alas, a sudden and major hair transformation sometimes backfires.
In the quest for a gorgeous and glossy hair -- this writer has, at one time or another, tried Brazilian blowout, hair color like ash brown, blonde, caramel, dark brown, and copper brown, and a hair relax treatment -- women only damage their tresses. In the end, their hair feels “dead,” burnt with split ends, brittle, and tangled.
DAMAGED HAIR TESTS
There are four DIY tests to know if your hair is damaged. There is the stretch test: Pull a strand of hair and see how elastic it is. If it snaps easily, the hair is damaged. Then there’s the shine test. The shinier the hair, the healthier it is. The comb involves running a hairbrush on one’s locks and if the brush stops at one point, that is where the damaged hair starts. The roots versus ends test distinguishes the two points: a damaged end looks lifeless compared to the root, or the baby hair.
And so the quest for products to save hair from damage commences.
Hair experts and scientists recently discovered two important things about hair. First, that besides the keratin (protein) and ceramides (lipid) which are naturally found in the hair, it turns out that 50% of the hair fiber has keratin-associated proteins (KAPs), which are micro-proteins that link and bond the keratin together.
The second discovery is a “miracle” plant called Myrothamnus flabellifolia, a climbing plant that grows in South Africa. It is dubbed as the “resurrection plant” because studies have shown that the plant comes back to life upon contact with water.
Kerastase, the French company which focuses on hair and scalp products has taken these discoveries and created products based on them.
“Kerastase Paris has always been intervening with science to produce the best product for hair and scalp,” said business unit manager Maureen Abenoja during the launch of the company’s newest line of products on July 14. In celebration of its 50th year in the industry, Kerastase introduces Resistance Therapiste, which is especially made for the deeply damaged hair.
The products contain “fibra-KAPs,” which is made up of gluco-peptides that are supplosed to supply the follicle with energy to activate KAP reproduction, six amino acids that fill in the loss of mass in damaged hair, and a wheat protein derivative to restore smoothness.
Meanwhile, the sap of the resurrection plant, which revives dead hair, is also infused in the newest line of products that include shampoo, balm-in-shampoo (which reduces friction when washing), a serum, and mask.
The success rate of each product depends on how damaged one’s hair is. But then again, it could be but a few shampoo away. -- Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Alas, a sudden and major hair transformation sometimes backfires.
In the quest for a gorgeous and glossy hair -- this writer has, at one time or another, tried Brazilian blowout, hair color like ash brown, blonde, caramel, dark brown, and copper brown, and a hair relax treatment -- women only damage their tresses. In the end, their hair feels “dead,” burnt with split ends, brittle, and tangled.
DAMAGED HAIR TESTS
There are four DIY tests to know if your hair is damaged. There is the stretch test: Pull a strand of hair and see how elastic it is. If it snaps easily, the hair is damaged. Then there’s the shine test. The shinier the hair, the healthier it is. The comb involves running a hairbrush on one’s locks and if the brush stops at one point, that is where the damaged hair starts. The roots versus ends test distinguishes the two points: a damaged end looks lifeless compared to the root, or the baby hair.
And so the quest for products to save hair from damage commences.
Hair experts and scientists recently discovered two important things about hair. First, that besides the keratin (protein) and ceramides (lipid) which are naturally found in the hair, it turns out that 50% of the hair fiber has keratin-associated proteins (KAPs), which are micro-proteins that link and bond the keratin together.
The second discovery is a “miracle” plant called Myrothamnus flabellifolia, a climbing plant that grows in South Africa. It is dubbed as the “resurrection plant” because studies have shown that the plant comes back to life upon contact with water.
Kerastase, the French company which focuses on hair and scalp products has taken these discoveries and created products based on them.
“Kerastase Paris has always been intervening with science to produce the best product for hair and scalp,” said business unit manager Maureen Abenoja during the launch of the company’s newest line of products on July 14. In celebration of its 50th year in the industry, Kerastase introduces Resistance Therapiste, which is especially made for the deeply damaged hair.
The products contain “fibra-KAPs,” which is made up of gluco-peptides that are supplosed to supply the follicle with energy to activate KAP reproduction, six amino acids that fill in the loss of mass in damaged hair, and a wheat protein derivative to restore smoothness.
Meanwhile, the sap of the resurrection plant, which revives dead hair, is also infused in the newest line of products that include shampoo, balm-in-shampoo (which reduces friction when washing), a serum, and mask.
The success rate of each product depends on how damaged one’s hair is. But then again, it could be but a few shampoo away. -- Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
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