‘I Transformed My Brittle, Thinning Hair With This Super-Popular Treatment’
I consistently have hair envy of my past self. As an 8-year-old, I had thick, silky locks that often brought in compliments from of all my aunts and older cousins. Of course, I didn't care much then at all, but once I started heat styling and dying my hair in my teen years, my locks that were once hair commercial-worthy began to thin, filled with coarse split ends and frizz.
Years of detoxing from heat styling, curating a routine of clean haircare products, and weekly hair oiling sessions have helped restore some of the damage to my hair as I near my thirties, but nothing quite worked as effectively as Olaplex's Hair Perfector ($28, Amazon) to repair and strengthen my hair in just a simple 10 minutes.
To be honest, I wasn't totally surprised by the incredible results. The Hair Perfector is Amazon's best-selling hair product, and has over 50,000 five-star reviews with satisfied customers raving about the treatment's ability to seal split ends, reverse years of heat damage, and rescue brittle hair. Several happy users even talk about this being able to transform their hair after years (even decades) of bleaching.
Here's why I recommend this treatment to anyone with dry, coarse hair:
It's easy to use.
While a lot of deep conditioning hair treatments are applied in the shower after you shampoo, asking you to wait and prune underneath the water for 10 to 20 minutes, this treatment is applied pre-shampoo, making it far easier to use. Before hopping in the shower, I simply dampen my hair under the sink or quickly with my hands.
I then massage a quarter-sized amount of the creamy treatment to my hair with focus on my ends, leave it in for ten minutes, and shampoo it out.
It makes my hair look instantly better.
The first time I used this, I was surprised that the first thing I noticed was how much more voluminous my hair was. It's like all of the coarse, dry hair I had in my pre-Olaplex life was weighing me down, so the revival of my brittle strands allowed them to look a bit more lively. After the first use, I didn't see much of a difference in shine or frizz, but it felt just as soft to the touch as it does after I go to the salon for expensive deep-conditioning treatments.
The results keep getting better.
After using this for the past several weeks, I keep noticing more and more benefits. The insufferable frizz I used to have on my head is almost completely gone, and my hair looks shinier than ever. Most importantly, it feels healthier than ever before, which is great since I'm trying to grow out my hair.
While a lot of deep-conditioning, shine-inducing products provide an instant boost of satisfaction that fades within a day, or sometimes even hours, this lasts in between washes. I had already decreased how much I was heat styling my hair, but I do it even less than usual now because I love the way my natural, air-dryed hair looks after using this. As someone with thinning, brittle hair, this will likely become a standby in my haircare routine.
I even recommended it to my best friend who has extremely curly 3B-type natural hair and she has begun to swear by it for her frizz and new wash-and-go style. It's an easy, quick, and versatile product that works on nearly every hair type—if you don't trust me, just read any of the 50,0000 rave reviews.
You Might Also Like
