Written By: Kriti Saraswat | Updated : January 8, 2015 4:30 PM IST
Indian women love straight hair partly due to the fact that most Indian actresses are showcased with poker straight hair in the media. Thankfully, women who are blessed with not-so-straight hair can now opt for procedures like hair rebonding. keratin treatment and hair smoothening right at their neighbourhood salons. But it often gets confusing when you try to choose the best option for your hair. In the post, we help you do just that.
Keratin treatment
According to Rod Anker, Creative Director of Monsoon Salon and Spa, keratin treatmentrelaxes the curls and frizziness of the hair making it only appear to be straight. It not only promises to make your hair smooth, shiny and frizz-free, it also makes it straight but not in an unnatural-looking, poker-straight strands. It softens your curls and with the help of other chemicals, helps retain the look for a good few months. If you have long hair, know how to manage your hair better.
Hair rebonding
This treatment is quite suited for people who have very curly hair and the end result is poker straight hair. In this process, the bonds of your hair are broken with the help of a chemical formula and then again neutralisers are applied to restructure the bonds. By doing this, the existing bonds that exist in curly hair are broken and once the hair is straightened, new bonds are made to rearrange the physical structure of your hair. This is a more permanent method than keratin or smoothening. However, if you have wavy hair, here is how you can manage it better.
Hair smoothening
This process is similar to keratin but instead of keratin a different cream is used. It is best-suited for people who have wavy hair or even straight hair which is frizzy. It will smoothen out the frizz and make the hair more manageable and straight but not make it look too unnatural. People with very curly hair may not like the results as it won't stay for too long. But if you wish to have natural-looking, straight hair which does not look artificially straightened, opt for this. The results won't last too long unless you have very light waves or straight hair but will save you from having bad hair days. Here are some easy ways to style your hair during bad hair days.
Anker advises to opt for either rebonding or smoothening as the re-growth in rebonding is completely natural and in case of smoothening, while it won t make hair extremely straight, it looks more natural and does not damage hair as much. To know which spa hair treatment works for your hair type best, read here.
With inputs from ANI.
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