NanoKeratin

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Anyone had this treatment for straightening their hair?

DD (9) hates her very curly hair and I've been using the John Frieda 'Three Day Straight' system on her hair but it's a bit exhausting straightening her thick hair 3 times a week! It's really thick hair and there's loads of it.

The hair salon she had it cut at yesterday, gave us the Nanokeratin System leaflet and it looks really good (athough it does say children who are 10+ can have it). Not sure if they'll do it if she's only 9?

Anyone had it and how long did it last and was it poker straight?

Thanks.

I've had this type of treatment done twice. My hair is very curly, prone to mad frizz and not growing down only tighter round and round type curls. This will NOT straighten your DD's hair and should not be marketed to you as a straightening product. What it will do is bond keratin, the hair's natural protein back into the hair allowing the hair to sit smoother and if you want to blow dry straight takes a fraction of the time.
Pros- managable gentler curls, with a much shinier finish. I only needed to wash my hair every 5 days
Cons - you must use the shampoo, conditioner and serum that the sylist suggests or you will have no come back if you're not satisfied. Tiny bottles and very expensive. As I have lots of long (when wet) hair I thought these would not last - actually they do if used if proportions advised. Chlorine seems to strip the keratin off, so if she swims lots or you have holiday where lots of pool time involved maybe wait till you come back.

Personally if any of my DDs had inherited my hair I would have tried this treatment for them, there are no harsh chemicals involved. Shop around and look out for Groupon offers. For the treatment and products I would not expect to pay more that £140.

vintage, could you be trying to get her to embrace what nature has given her?

I would be concerned that this is the tip of a very large and expensive iceberg.

And she is very young for this level of grooming.

Gosh - £140 is expensive for a child.
I think we'll just be taming it then.

To be honest, I think it would be a lot easier if she just let me put detangling/serum stuff on it before brushing each morning.

She doesn't like having a frizzy mess, which is what happens when it's brushed dry but she won't let me spray it samp to enable brushing so I either leave it without being brushed and it just matts or I brush it, she screams the place down or she does it but not properly.

Thanks for the info - think we'll leave the straightening/keratin thing then until she can choose it later with her own money .

Vintage please try not brushing it, that sounds like what's going wrong! You shouldn't brush curly hair. Comb it through with a wide-toothed comb when wet, then some serum or similar smoothing product and leave to air dry, scrunching with your fingers.

I know what you're saying but she won't let me wet it/spray it with serum and then comb. she just wants to 'get up and go'!!1

However, having got the hairdresser yesterday to explain about not brushing dry curly hair, think she's coming round to the idea.

Also - is straightening it often bad for it or doesn't it matter as the hair is dead anyway?

Yes, straightening it often will really damage it badly.

IMO you need to teach her a way of managing the hair she has, rather than forcing her hair to behave in a totally different way. Perhaps straighten her hair for special occasions, but for day-to-day, she needs to deal with her hair in a caring and gentle way. All hair can be beautiful, it's just learning how to manage it.

If she's not washing it every morning (which would be fine btw, it's the drying it daily that would cause damage) then applying serum or similar then just running her fingers through it would be better than brushing it. Please throw away the brush!

What you need to try is something called Glatt by Schwarzkopf. I think L'Oreal and Wella do equivalents but I've never tried them. I have really frizzy out of control hair. Glatt is basically a straight perm. Takes about 2 hours to do, and costs £50 at my local salon, including cut and blow-dry. It's permanent, so it grows out, and I have it redone every 5-6 months or so.

WIthout wanting to sound shallow, it is safe to say it has changed my life. It means I can get up and go in the morning. My hair isn't straight now by any means, but it is wavy rather than frizzy, and now takes 10 minutes to straighten with GHDs rather than 40 minutes. I've had this on my hair for well over a year now and I'd say if anything my hair is in better condition than it was before. It doesn't need any fancy lotions or serums, just regular conditioning.

I grew up with my hair at it's most uncontrollable and untameable and I absolutely hated it. If her hair is bothering her as it is, then please try a straight perm. It's all very well for others to say "learn to love the curls" etc, but it can just be endlessly time consuming and you end up hating your hair. I had short hair for 8 years because I hated my frizz so much.